Month: November 2001
CDL Database Transitions
a. MLA’s Retirement from SilverPlatter It was announced in the October 25, 2001 issue of CDLINFO that Ovid was the new vendor selected for the MLA Bibliography. There will be an overlap period running from January 1 through February 28, […]
Library Staff News
a. Jason Newborn and Margaret Tapper Join the CDL Request Team Jason Newborn and Margaret Tapper will join the CDL Request Team working 25% time for one year. Jason is on loan from UC Davis where he is a member […]
IEEE adds Alert feature (aka Update) (Camille Wanat, Resource Liaison)
There is a new release of IEEE Xplore. The new feature that will be most useful to our users is the capability for email alerts. Other highlights from this release are: articles accepted for future publication extended objects with some […]
New Resource Liaisons Appointed
Below is a list of recent Resource Liaison appointees. Resource Liaisons are responsible for researching, reviewing, and monitoring their assigned resource(s) in order to maintain quality service to users. More information about the Resource Liaison program is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/liaisons/. […]
Usability Testing Workshops Held
Sixty UC Library staff, including campus Evaluation Liaisons, members of the Melvyl Education/Usability and Services Transition Teams, some SOPAG and Associate University Librarians for Public Service attended two Usability testing workshops hosted by the CDL at UC Berkeley on November […]
New Resources Available
a. Nature CDL is now providing access to Nature, the Nature Research journals, and the Nature Reviews journals for all UC users. For over 130 years Nature has been one of the pre-eminent scientific journals; the CDL is especially pleased […]
CDL Database Transitions
The Transition Steering Committee, Users Council, and associated Resource Liaisons have been notified of the availability of the following databases and asked to begin testing. Other library staff may also try the databases, but public access is scheduled to begin […]
Request Update
Lately, there has been a lot of behind-the-scenes activity in the Request project. The RFP for consortial borrowing system (CBS) software, issued late in 2000, has culminated in a contract with Fretwell-Downing for their VDX application. Implementation is planned to […]
New Resources Available
a. Cambridge University Press [Note: The Cambridge University Press (CUP) web site has been experiencing technical difficulties; CUP is working to resolve the issue] Full-text access for all campuses to the full collection of Cambridge University Press online journals is […]