CONTENTS
- Kluwer Online is Now Available
- Links Now Available to ACS Full Text from CDL-Hosted Databases
- PIR Update: Article Request
- CDL/LOC Environmental Information Project Ends September 30
- OAC Documentation
- Thanks to Andrea Sevetson - Government Information Report and Recommended Strategic Options available
- Assistant Director for Business Development Appointed
- Welcome Trisha Cruse
- For More Information
- CDL News
- Contacts for Questions or Problems
- Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
1. Kluwer Online is Now Available
Kluwer Online is an electronic journal service from Kluwer Academic Publishers that gives licensed institutions electronic access to the full-text of their journals. Currently Kluwer Online comprises articles from January 1997 onwards. Subjects include science and technology, biology, agricultural and environmental sciences, medicine, business and economics, humanities, and social sciences, and law.The Directory includes records for Kluwer titles with full-text -- this number currently stands at 253. The titles in the contract can be viewed on the Shared Collections Web page [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/protected/publisher_info/]. Full-text articles are available in PDF and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The full-text of each article is exactly the same as that in the printed version of the journal, and will be available up to 8 weeks before the printed issue arrives at subscribers' addresses.
Authorized users may download and print single copies of a reasonable number of individual articles for personal use. Users at subscribing institutions will be automatically offered full-text buttons to journal articles to which access is available. Technical details at Kluwer, however, will delay citation-level links until early 2000.
Users may discover Kluwer titles by searching "Kluwer" in the Directory.
2. Links Now Available to ACS Full Text from CDL-Hosted Databases
ACS (American Chemical Society) links are now available in all of the CDL-hosted databases and will take the user to the full text of the journal article record.3. PIR Update: Article Request
Following favorable comments from SOPAG and the University Librarians on the timeline for article Request -- implementation by January 2000 -- the PIR Project Team continues to progress towards that goal. Library staff testing of article Request and of the policy changes in book Request will begin November 3.To highlight some of the policy changes: The book limit will be raised to 20 per day; if an item is in circulation locally, it can be borrowed from another UC library; daily load-leveling will be implemented. Article Request will be implemented in the CDL-hosted journal databases for faculty, graduate students, and staff. More details on the policies specific to articles can be reviewed on the Shared Collections Web page [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/projects/pir/].
4. CDL/LOC Environmental Information Project Ends September 30
The CDL/Library of California Environmental Information demonstration projects ends on September 30. The Project, which involved creating a selective topical Web site designed to meet the information query needs of multi-type libraries, digitizing UC collections, and licensing a commercial database, provided many valuable lessons for both the CDL and the Library of California. The Project's accomplishments will be summarized and will form the basis for recommending long-term relationships through which the CDL may deliver digital content to multi-type libraries in California.The Environmental Information Project (EIP), a collaboration between the Library of California (LOC) and the CDL, began in 1997. It has explored the economic and intellectual benefits of collaboration between the libraries, as well as the infrastructure issues involved in delivering electronic content through the CDL to participants in the LOC.
In its first year of the EIP, an Environmental Information Project Web site was developed [http://www.eip.cdlib.org/] to provide access to environmental information contained in a licensed database (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts), University of California collections, and selected sites on the Internet. The CDL made the environmental Web site available to 33 California libraries of various types, including public, special, and academic libraries, and provided training to staff at those sites.
UC campus librarians Barbara Schader, UCLA (environmental librarian on the project, year 1) and Dawn Talbot, UCSD (evaluation consultant) were instrumental in the completion of this project.
5. OAC Documentation
A section on the Online Archive of California (OAC) has been added to the Shared Collections Web page at [www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac] and contains background information, working documents, and meeting notes of the OAC Working Group:
Online Archive of California (OAC) [PDF]
Description: Online Archive of California
Overview: SOPAG/ULs Joint Meeting, April 29, 1999 [RTF]
History of OAC Development, 1993-1999 [RTF]
OAC Working Group [PDF]
Charge [RTF]
Roster [RTF]
April 1999 meeting notes [RTF]
December 1998 meeting notes [RTF]
Thematic Taxonomy, Iteration 4 (May 1999) [RTF]
Content Survey: Arts & Entertainment and Ethnic Groups in California, May 1999 [RTF]
Summary of Potential Content, 14 April 1999 [RTF]
6. Thanks to Andrea Sevetson - Government Information Report and Recommended Strategic Options Available
Andrea Sevetson's appointment as CDL Special Assistant for Government Information is coming to a close. CDL is fortunate to have had someone of Andrea's caliber and experience to devote concentrated time to digital government information over the past six months. With the contributions of many, she was able to build on the work of EGIIG (Electronic Government Information Initiatives Group) and on the energy of the UC/Stanford Government Information Librarians, to develop these five action plans. The plans have benefited additionally by her consultation with SOPAG and the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections.Andrea's report and recommended strategic actions for "CDL's Role in Developing a Systemwide Strategy for Providing Access to Digital Government Information" is posted on the Shared Collections Web site at [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/gii/]. Some of the sections require passwords during this period of internal review. Contact your collection development officer or the CDL for the password.
Because the actions will require significant investment, with the expected return of enhanced resources for the UC community and economies in delivering these resources, CDL encourages the broadest possible discussion of these initiatives. The CDL invites comments directly to Andrea Sevetson (andrea.sevetson@ucop.edu) through September 30. CDL will then forward the report to the University Librarians Steering Committee for possible discussion and comment.
7. Assistant Director for Business Development Appointed
The CDL is very pleased to announce that Cate Hutton, currently the assistant director for UCOP's Institutional Advocacy Programs, has accepted a position as the CDL's assistant director for Business Development. We want to welcome Cate, whose background, in addition to her external and governmental relations work at UCOP, includes an MLIS from Berkeley and positions as a research associate with Andersen Consulting and as an American Library Association Book Fellow on assignment in Tibet.As assistant director, Cate will focus on establishing, extending, and overseeing the CDL's relationships with parties outside of the University. This will include ensuring the complete and correct execution of licenses and other agreements with content providers, as well as analyzing options for mutually beneficial service arrangements with a variety of educational and private sector partners. Cate's experience and expertise is well-matched for these essential activities. Please join us in welcoming Cate to the CDL.
8. Welcome Trisha Cruse
CDL is pleased to introduce Patricia (Trisha) Cruse from the San Diego campus who joins the CDL in Oakland as CDL Senior Associate for a year, beginning September 7, 1999. Trisha will assume responsibilities in both Shared Content and Digital Library Services. She will build on the work that Andrea Sevetson has completed in response to the charge to develop a systemwide strategy for providing access to digital government information and will coordinate the CDL's role in government information initiatives that may follow from review of Andrea's proposed actions. In Digital Library Services, she will address technical, collaborative, and vendor aspects of a number of activities and projects, such as enhancing the CDL database interface, developing Z39.50 clients, and developing linking mechanisms amongst CDL content. She will also assist in coordinating CDL Resource Liaison communication and activities.Trisha has extensive background in library digital services and as a government information specialist. She holds B.A. (Slavic Languages and Literature) and M.L.I.S. degrees from UC Berkeley. She served as Social Sciences Reference Librarian, Information Technologies Specialist, and Electronic Services Librarian at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She has been Coordinator of Government Information at UC San Diego since 1994 and was instrumental in the creation of GPOGate. Recently Trisha added political science, maps, and geographic information systems to her responsibilities.
Please join us in welcoming Trisha Cruse to the CDL.
9. For More Information
a. CDL News
Several items of interest, including "Milestones," "Highlights 1997-1998," "What's New," and previous issues of CDLINFO are posted on the CDL web site (http://www.cdlib.org/) under News and Developments. Please share news of this resource with your colleagues!Remember also that reports, working documents, and status information of particular interest to library staff, are all available at [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/].
b. Contacts for Questions or Problems
If you have problems accessing or using the system or have questions, including questions about the status of electronic journal collections and Internet resources, you can contact CDL staff in one of the following ways:- For immediate assistance, call the CDL Helpline at (510) 987-0555. Callers with TDD equipment, please call 1-800-735-2929 in California for the telephone relay operator.
- Send an e-mail message to cdl@www.cdlib.org.
- Click on "News" at http://www.dbs.cdlib.org/ (also known as http://www.melvyl.ucop.edu) for information about system outages, problems with particular databases, the status of a resource, etc.
For information about whether your UC campus has access to a particular electronic journal or Internet resource, contact your local collection development officer.
c. Information about the CDLINFO-L Listserv
The CDLINFO-L Listserv is designed to inform UC Librarians, and the UC community, about the progress of the CDL, policy issues under discussion, and newly available electronic resources. We hope that subscribers from the UC libraries will pass on selected information from the Listserv to faculty, staff, and students on their campuses, as appropriate. More complete information about the CDL, as well as the Directory of Collections and Services which leads to digital resources, is available at the CDL website at http://www.cdlib.org.Eligible subscribers: UC library employees
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Frequency of publication: Biweekly, or as new information warrants.
Communicating with the Listserv: While the CDL Listserv does not accept submissions, subscribers are encouraged to send suggestions, thoughts, and comments on material in the Listserv or on related issues to the CDL at cdl@ucop.edu.