Month: March 2003
Change to PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping (Janice Contini, UCLA; PubMed Resource Liaison)
Change to PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping will affect phrase searching. NLM plans to improve the ability of PubMed to find appropriate Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) by removing the phrase list table from the Automatic Term Mapping. What is MeSH […]
And while We're on the Subject of Browsers
In some browsers (e.g., Netscape 4.x versions, Opera, and Mozilla) when the font size is much larger than the default settings, the entire Web page is not visible on the screen. In the case of Melvyl-T, this means that horizontal […]
It is Time to Update your Browsers
Vendors are removing support for older browser versions, e.g., Netscape 4.x. The removal of support for older browser versions may cause problems for UC library users in locales that have not yet moved to the most recent browser versions in […]
Library Staff News
a. The CDL Welcomes Peter Brantley; Thanks John Ober (Dan Greenstein) I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Brantley to the position of Director of Technologies for the CDL. The Director of Technologies has lead responsibility for […]
Using Citation Management Software Web Page
As promised earlier this year, the CDL now has an updated information page, “Using Citation Management Software with Vendor Databases” (previously titled, “The A&I Transition and Citation Management Software”). We have revised it with input from UC library staff and […]
eScholarship Repository Reaches Major Milestones
The eScholarship Repository <http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/> has reached several major milestones since its launch in April 2002. The Repository offers University of California faculty a central online location for depositing working papers, technical reports, research results, datasets with commentary, and peer-reviewed series. […]
Open Access Resources
The CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) recommended, and SOPAG concurred, that selected freely available ejournal content be linked (via UC-eLinks), cataloged by Shared Cataloging, entered into the CDL Directory, and monitored as other resources are (see http://www.cdlib.org/groups/jsc/ […]
New Resources Available
NOTE: New resources listed below are not yet in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided. A list of recently added content […]