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a. Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online [http://uclibs.org/PID/9817] is a Tier 2 resource licensed by Irvine, Santa Barbara, San Diego and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Core Collection, the first database to be available as part of Oxford Reference Online, brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.  It contains over 1.5 million dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, dates, and quotations across 20 broad subjects from the humanities and social sciences to science and medicine.

a. MLA Via SilverPlatter to Retire

Rob Melton, Resource Liaison for MLA International Bibliography, has consulted with the UC Literature Bibliographers regarding the retirement of MLA via SilverPlatter.  They have advised the CDL to retire the SilverPlatter version at the end of August. We will be making the change on August 29, at which time the Z39.50 CDL hosted version of the database also will retire.

As of August 30, the Ovid (native) version will be the sole interface for the MLA International Bibliography.  Please share this information with all staff who will be affected by this change.

b. UC-eLinks in ABI/INFORM Global Via Proquest

ProQuest has informed the CDL that in its upcoming launch of ProQuest version 6.0 scheduled for July 28, 2002, in which several enhancements will be made, ProQuest will also implement UC-eLinks in ABI/INFORM Global.

a. Annita Auyang - New Database Administrator for the CDL

Annita Auyang joined the CDL on July 1, 2002 to assume responsibilities fordatabase administration, which were last covered by Fathilah Kamaluddin before she left the CDL.

Annita most recently worked for Charles Schwabb, responsible for all aspects of database administration and assisting in that role on software development. She has worked extensively with 3rd party applications, notably PeopleSoft software. She has particular expertise in Oracle but has worked also with IMS, INGRES, and SQL Server.

Members of the CDL Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Steering Committee [Pat French (UCD), Lai-Ying Hsiung (UCSC) and Becky Culbertson (UCSD)] have authored a recently published article describing the SCP program.   he article describes the formation, ongoing practices and future developments of the SCP Program.

The full citation is: French, Patricia Sheldahl; Culbertson, Rebecca; Hsiung, Lai-Ying.  “One for Nine; The Shared Cataloging Program of the California Digital Library.” Serials Review, Spring 2002, Volume 28, Issue 1, Pg. 4-12. Available online at: http://uclibs.org/PID/2216

As of Wednesday, July 24, 2002, the Melvyl Catalog includes the circulation status information for items held by UC Santa Barbara.  In the web version of the Melvyl Catalog, you can see the circulation status of a particular item by clicking the (UCSB+circ status) link in your record display, or by selecting “UC Santa Barbara (+circ status)” from the Display Options menu.  In the telnet version of the Melvyl Catalog, type D CIRC UCSB to see the circulation status information.

With the implementation of “circ” for UCSB items, the circulation status of 8 of the 10 UC campuses is now available online.  After July 24th, only UCLA and UC Merced will not have circulation status available in the Melvyl Catalog.

Circ links for UCLA should be available in the new Melvyl (Melvyl-T) when it becomes a production system in fall 2002.

Please note: circulation links are a critical component of the Request service by allowing for the borrowing of items from other campuses if that item has been checked out locally.

CSA has just completed reloading the PsycINFO database with new 2002 data from the American Psychological Association (APA).  This reload provides several new features and enhancements:

Cited References — Cited references are now displayed in the References (RE=) field.  There are more than 4 million cited references, with most of the individual references displayed in accordance with the APA style manual.  This implementation allows users to actively link to any cited reference present in PsycINFO and other records in PsycINFO that also cite the record.  Furthermore, any data occurring in the references can be searched using the RE= field tag.  A new Number of References (NR=) field precedes the References field, giving a summary count of the references that are displayed.

Consolidated Data — All PsycINFO files have been consolidated into one complete database within IDS.  It is now no longer necessary for users to mark multiple sections in order to search the complete range of years.  Increased Coverage - The PsycINFO database now features increased coverage, beginning from 1872 and continuing through to the present.  Previous coverage began from 1887.

Additionally, APA has added new records with older publication years from the Harvard Book List, Psychological Index, and other chapter records not previously released.  Most of these older records range from 1929 to 1983.

Other changes include:
–Addition of a browsable and therefore searchable Journal Name field, JN=;
–Addition of the Contact Individual (CI=) field that displays the postal address and e-mail address of the author who is taking inquiries about the article;
–An expanded Author Affiliation (AF=) field that now contains the affiliation information of most of the authors indexed (previously, this field only contained the affiliation information of the first author)
–A new Information Provider (IP=) field containing the web address of the publication where the record appeared, but not necessarily the full text of the record;
–Reformatted full text linking data, which allows for more successful links to the full text service providers.

More information about PsycINFO on IDS is available at: http://www.csa.com/csa/factsheets/psycinfo.shtml

(Adapted from: CSA News List)

Lorna Lueck, UCSB (lueck@library.ucsb.edu) is the Resource Liaison for PsycINFO

On July 15, 2002, a new version of the Online Archive of California (OAC) was released to the public at www.oac.cdlib.org.  The Online Archive of California (OAC) describes and provides access to over 6000 collections of primary source materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California.  The OAC and this latest enhancement could not have been accomplished without the hard work of many UC staff serving on the OAC working groups and producing and contributing finding aids.  The resource truly is a product of extensive collaboration, back to its origins at Berkeley.

The new OAC homepage simplifies browsing and searching the finding aids of the collections and, in many cases, digital versions of the photographs, manuscripts and other objects themselves.  The new interface is based upon software from the University of Michgan’s Library’s Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) for the provision of EAD encoded finding aids.

The OAC has finding aids for collections as diverse as the Japanese American Relocation photograph collection from the University of Southern California and the Keystone-Mast stereoscopic collection from the California Museum of Photography, among the thousands of collections from over 60 libraries, museums, and historical societies.

What’s the impact?
Compared to the already widely used interface for OAC, the new presentation of finding aids features improved searching, better access to finding aids that have online images, enhanced display options and faster delivery of content with the DLXS software.  For those familiar with the content or with the structure of finding aids, advanced search functions allow targeting a search to the title of finding aid, its full-text, including overview notes, or only the specific descriptions of collection contents.  While browsing finding aids or reviewing search results, icons indicate when digital versions of the source materials are available.  Users will have the ability to limit a search to finding aids that include online images.

In order to provide time for current OAC users to explore the new interface, the old interface (via Dynaweb) will continue to be available until December 31st, 2002. Since the OAC’s 1993 origins as the Berkeley Finding Aid Project (BFAP), a form of the SGML-based publishing system known as Dynaweb has been the software foundation for the OAC finding aids.

Future enhancements
In future releases, the OAC team plans to offer users more direct searching for the digitized source materials and increase the ability to search across multiple formats (finding aids, online texts, online images, online multimedia) at once.  These enhancements to the discovery and use of these unique materials are meant to complement the growth of the OAC itself, with many new collections being prepared for addition.

The OAC is hosted by the California Digital Library and draws its support from the University of California, the California State Library, and dozens of partner universities, museums, and archives.

On behalf of the UC community, the CDL purchased netLibrary files for almost 1500 University of California Press titles. The books will join other UC Press titles available in XML through the eScholarship program (http://texts.cdlib.org/ucpress/).  Titles will be released in stages, beginning with 500 books in October 2002.

All faculty, staff, and students at UC will have access to the titles, with the exception of a few that UC Press is temporarily withholding from the program.  Three hundred of the titles, which are out of print, will be available to the general public, along with the 66 titles currently available.

These titles represent about one-third of the UC Press backlist and cover a range of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  The URL for each title will appear in Melvyl along with the rest of the cataloging information for that book.  All text will be fully searchable.

The release of these electronic titles represents another element of the continuing partnership between the CDL and UC Press.

a. 10 Proquest Databases

The databases included in this package from ProQuest have long been high priorities for UC campus subject selectors. EEBO, in particular, was repeatedly requested by English literature, Women’s Studies, and Performing Arts librarians. The Joint Steering Committee (JSC) has recommended this rich, full-image collection as a systemwide resource for several years, but the cost to make it available system-wide was prohibitive.  After considerable negotiation, the CDL was able to arrive at acceptable license fees and improved terms.  The CDL purchased the EEBO images and the campuses will co-invest in the annual web access fees beginning in 2005.  UC campuses will also co-invest in one complete archival copy of the microfilm.

The JSC received many requests for the other resources in this package, which were equally desired.  Some, like the Gerritsen Women’s Collection, the APS, and PCI full text, were previously negotiated by campus selectors or the CDL, but when price negotiations reached an impasse, the UC Collection Development Committee and the JSC recommended negotiating them all as a package to achieve the best value for the University. The CDL is pleased to announce that it has purchased all the content and that they are all now accessible via the web.

EEBO (John Novak, UCI)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) [http://uclibs.org/PID/9282] is a database that provides access to over 125,000 volumes of early works printed in England or in English between 1473 and 1700. These works constitute a significant portion of items included in the English Short Title Catalogue.  More specifically, EEBO contains most of the works indexed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.  Each work in EEBO is the full-text page facsimile of the original.  No longer will patrons be required to read these historical documents on microfiche; instead, they will be able to read, print, or download high quality page images from their computers.

Researchers of English history (particularly the English Civil War), literature, philosophy, linguistics, the fine arts, theater and drama from 1473-1600 will find EEBO an invaluable research tool.  Patrons will also use EEBO to obtain primary source material from this period.  As a special feature, EEBO offers an illustration search that enables users to find printed portraits, maps, printer’s marks, coat of arms, and much more.  This database also allows one to search under author, title, subject, and current physical location of the original work.

American Periodicals Series Online
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900 [http://uclibs.org/PID/16610 ] includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Published between 1741 and 1900, the more than 1,000 titles include Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper’s, and Ladies’ Home Journal.  Users can trace America’s transition from colony to world power, or conduct in-depth research. Topics include: Revolution and independence; Slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow; Opening and settling the frontier; The changing role of women; The short story as an emerging genre; Advances in medicine and technology; Trends in politics, science, and religion.

Gerritsen Collection, Women’s History Online
Gerritsen Collection, Women’s History Online, 1543-1945 [ http://uclibs.org/PID/9286 ] contains women’s history in the world from 1543 to 1945. 4,700 publications from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, tracing the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country’s movement on those of the others.

Acta Sanctorum
Acta Sanctorum [ http://acta.chadwyck.com ] is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint’s feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940.

Patrologia Latina Database
Patrologia Latina Database [http://pld.chadwyck.com ] is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865.  The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.  The Patrologia Latina Database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne’s column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.

PCI Full Text
PCI Full Text [http://pcift.chadwyck.com ] contains full images of articles for 200 complete journal runs in the humanities and social sciences from 1770 to 1995.

20th Century English Poetry
20th Century English Poetry [ http://collections.chadwyck.com/20enpo/htxview?template=basic.htx&content=frameset.htx ] is a collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

African-American Poetry, 1750-1900
African-American Poetry, 1750-1900 [http://collections.chadwyck.com/daap/htxview?template=basic.htx&content=frameset.htx ] contains approximately 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

American Poetry, 1600-1900
American Poetry, 1600-1900 [http://collections.chadwyck.com/ampo/htxview?template=basic.htx&content=frameset.htx ] contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century

b. MLA Directory of Periodicals on OVID (Rob Melton, UCSD)

The MLA Directory of Periodicals [http://uclibs.org/PID/9818 ] is available to all UC campuses.  The companion to the MLA International Bibliography, the Directory contains detailed bibliographical data on over 3,700 serials—journals and monographic series—in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, folklore, composition and rhetoric, with more selective listings in the fields of theater and film and the rather amorphous field of cultural studies.

Detailed Description of Functionality

For each serial title in the directory, the following pieces of information are available (if applicable): title, acronym, publication type, accession number, ISSN, publisher, country of publication, editor(s), editorial address/phone/fax/e-mail, year first published, frequency, media type, electronic comment, subscription address, price, scope, descriptors, language(s), circulation, types of articles included (i.e., short notes, book reviews, etc.), whether advertising is accepted and rates, sponsoring organization, submission restrictions, submission fee, page charges, suggested article length, style manual preferred, microform distributor, copyright ownership, number of manuscript readers, number of articles submitted/published per year, processing time, disposition of rejected manuscripts, and the date the information was last verified.  Each piece of information has a two-letter code that can be used in search statements.

As users of the print version of the Directory know, the vast majority of searches for this database are made in order to obtain information about particular serials—researchers to learn submission policies and editorial contacts, librarians to ascertain subscription prices and addresses.  Online searching capability, however, will more easily allow users to make new queries, i.e. to compile lists of titles that meet certain criteria.  Scholars with a very succinct research discovery, for example, may get a list of journals that focus on the Renaissance, that do publish short notes, and that don’t have a submission fee. Librarians who are weak in the medieval period can determine which English-language journals in that field publish book reviews.   When limiting by subject, I recommend searching both the Descriptor [.de] and Scope [.sc] fields.) Making a potential serial cancellation list targeting a particular expensive or unfriendly publisher is also possible.

Some other potentially useful searches are problematic due to inconsistent terminology used within the data fields. For example, it is not easy to limit to journals that allow authors to maintain their copyrights because other words besides “author” and “publisher” are sometimes used; for example, the use of the phrase “author assigns to publisher” means the title will show up whether you search the copyright field by either author or publisher.  It is also not possible to get lists of journals that cost more than, or less than, a particular amount; you can get a list of titles that cost 100 (although it may be dollars, pounds, marks, yen, and francs), but not one of titles that cost $100 or more.  Trying to limit a search to journals published in California, for example, won’t be precise because “CA,” “Calif.,” and California are all used in the publisher address field and because CA is also used for Canada. As with the MLAIB itself, a more rigorous thesaurus and consistent usage by the publisher could improve search results considerably.

The default search—i.e., typing in words without following them with a specific two-letter field code— in either the Basic or Advanced mode—searches for terms in only the descriptor field.  This is logical in most A&I databases, in which users are likely to be searching by subject, but it is perhaps counterintuitive in a ready-reference source such as a directory, in which one is usually seeking data on a specific, known item.  For example, in either the Basic or Advanced mode, you can’t type in just “PMLA” in the search box to get the bibliographic and subscription information for that journal.  Instead, you must either specify the two-letter code for the title field or (if it has one) title acronym (e.g., Shakespeare Quarterly.tp or PMLA.ta) or use the “Search Fields” icon on the Advanced search screen.  The default search is best used to identify periodicals that publish on a particular topic, e.g. “modern language” or “Shakespeare,” although (as noted above) such a search should also include the Scope (.sc) field for best results.

Finally, in the initial results page, periodical titles are always preceded by the editors’ names.  Since this piece of information is one of the most likely to be out of date and is not usually one of the key pieces of information desired, a different display format would be more useful.

Despite these caveats, it is exciting to have this resource in an electronic format, particularly for the benefit of researchers and librarians who need to identify humanities serials that match certain criteria.

c. ASM International Journals

Five journals published by ASM International, the society for materials engineers and scientists, have been activated for access on the ScienceDirect platform.  The ASM journals provide the latest research in metals and materials and offer practical solutions for engineering problems.  ASM International is one of the “third-party publishers” who use the ScienceDirect platform and supplemental licensing is required.

The ASM journals are available to all campuses:

Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10599495

Journal of Phase Equilibria
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10549714

Journal of Thermal Spray Technology
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10599630

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. A, Physical metallurgy and materials science
(Co-published with TMS, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10735623

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. B, Process metallurgy and materials processing science
(Co-published with TMS, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10735615

a. Melvyl-T Prototype Catalog Now Available!

The Melvyl-T prototype catalog, a small prototype catalog database of ~630,000 records, or about 3% of the current Melvyl catalog, is now available for review and testing by library staff and selected public.  (An earlier version of the same database has been available and used for usability testing since March.).

The URL for the prototype catalog is

A telnet version of the catalog, based on the same small database is available at

Links to feedback forms are available from both the telnet and web versions of the prototype.  Please use the feedback instruments.  We want to hear from you!

Note: Because it is running on a small server, users may occasionally get a “system is busy” message from the prototype.

For information about how the new catalog came to be, take a look at El Mel(Ex Libris Melvyl) Tells:

We want to acknowledge the help of the campus representatives to the Melvyl Transition Teams, the campus Evaluation Liaisons, and others beyond the CDL, on the campuses, who have either advised us in the creation of the catalog, or contributed in some other way.

The new, full (production) catalog will be released to faculty and students in fall 2002.  The old version of the Melvyl Catalog will continue to be available for the entire academic year, 2002-03.  The overlap period is meant to assure the reliability and functionality of the new catalog, and to allow librarians and faculty a period in which they can learn to use the new catalog efficiently and create necessary training materials and guides.  A third round of usability testing on Melvyl-T will be conducted in late fall, 2002, after library staff and selected users have had some experience in using the catalog, and after some feedback has been gathered.

(The A & I journal database transitions-in which the CDL-hosted versions of 25-plus databases are being replaced by vendor-supplied versions-will proceed on their existing timetables, with the CDL-hosted versions retiring at the end of December 2002.)

Initially, the Melvyl-T database will consist of UC monograph (CAT) and serials (PE) records only, including those from affiliated libraries.  Therefore, users will have access to UC holdings as early as possible.  The CDL and the campus libraries will continue evaluating technical and policy issues regarding the inclusion of several sources for non-UC book and periodical records.

Several enhancements are being implemented especially for the Melvyl database above and beyond what is provided in the current “Aleph” software from the catalog software vendor, Ex Libris.  Some of these developments are a result of staff input to the Melvyl Library Staff Survey (”hidden uses” of Melvyl) conducted in summer, 2001.  Examples include the ability to maneuver among different display formats (including a review format), and the ability to view campus specific cataloging for each item in a set of equivalent records.

The new system will also allow users to do the following, which CDL is unable to provide with current (legacy) Melvyl’s technology:

• General keyword search: Currently, users can search keyword(s) within an index (e.g., keyword(s) in title). Keyword searching in the new database will be primarily subject-oriented, including titles, subject headings, notes, and genre fields.  Other examples of searchable indexes include notes, publisher, conference and others, some listed below.
• Limit search to electronic resources only: This would return only bibliographic records that have a link (URL) to electronic format.
• Phrase and proximity searching: The ability to search for words adjacent or near to each other (e.g., searching for the phrase “online catalog”).
• Sorting results: Ex Libris allows users to select and change the order in which their search results are sorted and displayed, for example, sorting by title or by date.
• Call number searching: A call number search will return an ordered display of call numbers and titles · Combine UC books and periodicals (CAT & PE) in one database: Currently, users must search for books in the CAT databases separately from periodical titles in the PE databases.  For example, over the years, many long-standing conference series have been catalogued by some campuses as monographs, and by others as serials, resulting in holdings being divided between CAT and PE.  Merging these files together will better integrate the holdings of these important campus resources and address this frequent complaint.
• Multilingual character set support: The ability to sort and display using characters from languages (e.g., Chinese) used in UC catalogs.  Later enhancements will add a search capability on the vernacular fields.
• Music searching and display: It will be possible to provide better access to music materials by creating special indexes and displays that account for uniform titles, music publisher numbers, and other aspects of retrieving music scores and recordings.
• Browsing (heading searches): A heading search (e.g., author, series, subject) will return a list of headings. The user can then move forward or backward through this list, and scan and select the most appropriate heading, which will then return a list of bibliographic records that used that particular heading.
• Name and subject cross references: We will load cross references so these will be displayed in browse displays to aid in the selection of the most appropriate name or subject term.

b. A&I Update
Beginning July 1
–BIOSIS Previews was released in its Ovid interface
–The MLA Directory of Periodicals was released in the Ovid version.  We will now begin investigating with the Resource Liaison for MLA, Rob Melton, when to bring down the SilverPlatter and CDL-hosted versions.
–UC-eLinks on the RLG/Eureka databases was released with all three services activated.  RLG/Eureka databases are: RLG Union Catalog, RLG Serials File, Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute, Anthropological Literature, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Bibliography of the History of Art, Chicano Database, CURL Union Catalogue, Deutsche Bibliothek Database, English Short Title Catalogue, FRANCIS (Humanities & Social Sciences), Hand Press Book, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals, Inside Information PLUS, National Library of Australia Catalogue, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs

On July 10
– SearchLight was moved over to searching the vendor versions of the transitioning databases.
–All three services of UC-eLinks were activated on all of the Ovid databases: BIOSIS, Current Contents, Ei Compendex*Plus, Inspec, and MLA.  Sometime in July we expect Ovid to start using the UC-eLinks icon.
–The UC-eLinks icon was released in the Gale databases: Computer Database, Expanded Academic ASAP, National Newspaper Index.