Month: July 2001
New Resources Available
a. Springer LINK Books/Book Series The recently signed Springer LINK journals contract was expanded to include the LINK Books/Book Series. The full list of Springer LINK Books/Book Series is available at http://link.springer-ny.com/ol/bookser.htm. To access the full content, click on the […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. Database Vendors Chosen The Transition Steering Committee has made the following recommendations regarding new vendors. These are in addition to the database transitions already in process, which include PubMed (access with UC links to holdings, content and Request as […]
July 2001 Release of Content and Services
a. Counting California Release Counting California [http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org] provides UC users and the public with “one-stop-shopping” for government data and statistics about California. In this first release of the service, researchers and the public can discover and interact with current Census […]
Company of Biologists (COB) Now Available on Highwire Press (Barbara Schader, UCLA
As of June 15th, the three Company of Biologists (COB) titles are now available on Highwire Press. The new URLs for the 3 titles published by Company of Biologists are: DEVELOPMENT [http://dev.biologists.org/ ] JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE [http://jcs.biologists.org/] JOURNAL OF […]
Evolving User Instruction – CDL-Hosted Workshop Coming
The CDL, with the endorsement and assistance of SOPAG, is sponsoring a workshop this September aimed at instruction and reference practitioners responsible for teaching new and new versions of Abstracting and Indexing databases and other digital information discovery resources. Randy […]
New Resources Available
a. The Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) (Julia Gelfand, UCI) Coordinated by Julia Gelfand, five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego) have licensed the Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD) [http://uclibs.org/PID/7547] as a Tier 2 resource. […]
CDL Database Transitions
a. ERIC (Telnet) via Stanford No Longer Available Stanford is in the process of restructuring its locally loaded databases. As part of this process, Stanford staff decided to discontinue the local load of the ERIC database as of July 1, […]
Library Staff News
a. CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections The CDL is pleased to announce that Lorelei Tanji, Head of Collection Development at UC Irvine, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) […]
Statistics Summary Report Available
The second annual statistical profile of the CDL is now available from the “About the CDL” publications web site <[http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/>, entitled The California Digital Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use (January – December 2000). As explained in the report’s […]
Nature Licensing Update
Some of the major concerns regarding Nature’s institutional model have been addressed, so the CDL has begun licensing negotiations. There are still several outstanding issues that need to be resolved. See the complete update at: (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/historical/index.html)