CDLINFO

a. Mary Engle’s Retirement Party

As reported in a previous CDLINFO issue (http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo072403.html#2) after over 24 years working on UC systemwide library automation, Mary Engle is retiring.

Mary’s retirement party will be held Friday, September 12th, 3 PM in downtown Oakland.  If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Juanita Jones at 510.987.0425.

CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following new Resource Liaisons:

Paul Machlis, UCSC — RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources)
Sheila O’Hare, UCSC — Early American Imprints (Evans Digital Edition)
Jenny Reiswig, UCSD — Blackwell Science Journals
Jim Ronningen, UCB — EconLit

CDL Resource Liaisons continue to be essential to our success in ensuring that our licensed resources meet the highest standards for quality.  Please welcome the new Resource Liaisons.

Beth Weil, the BIOSIS Previews Resource Liaison, recently uncovered a problem with access to Ovid’s BIOSIS Previews database.

In reviewing the statistics from Ovid for this database, it became clear that all UC campuses have a significant number of sessions going to the wrong Biosis file.  Back in January 2003 it was necessary to switch from a URL which included “bioz” as part of the URL construction to one with “b3oz” included in order to access the 2003 data.  At that time CDL created a PID with the correct URL for the Ovid ‘jumpstart’ to this database.  It now appears that all UC campuses still have sessions that use the previous URL and consequently these end-users aren’t seeing any data beyond 2002.

In May 2003, UCB had 193 sessions, UCD 346, UCSB 136, UCSC 121, UCSD 85, UCLA 128, UCSF 254, UCI 1007, UCR 167 using the previous URL rather than the new one, which includes the current data. Since all of the CDL and campus library web sites use the PID (”Persistent ID” for the new URL), the most likely answer for this high number of sessions is that end-users have bookmarked our earlier jumpstarts (URLs).  For most campuses the number of sessions using the incorrect URL are slowly decreasing.

Correct PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/10348 (actual URL: http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=main&NEWS=n&DBC=y&D=biopcdl –in case you need it for troubleshooting purposes)

This would be a good time to review all of your campus’ BIOSIS Previews links to make sure that they are using the PID mentioned above.  For those who bookmark web sites, the best solution is to bookmark the PID; this will prevent any future version issues–if/when there are changes, the PID will be updated automatically to go to the new version.

Below are instructions on how to bookmark a PID:

PC Users: Internet Explorer:
1. Open BIOIS using the PID
2. Click on Favorites (to display bookmarks)
3. Right-click on the bookmark and choose “Properties”
4. Under the “Web Document” tab, change the URL to the PID in the URL box
5. Click OK

PC Users: Netscape 7:
1. Open BIOIS using the PID
2. Under Bookmarks, choose “Manage bookmarks”
3. Right-click on the bookmark and choose “Properties”
4. Under the “Info” tab, change the URL to the PID in the Location box
5. Click OK

MAC Users: Internet Explorer:
1. Open BIOIS using the PID
2. Select Windows / Favorites (to display bookmarks)
3. Select bookmark
4. Click and hold mouse until menu displays
5. Select “Edit Address”, then change the URL to the PID
6. Click Enter

MAC Users: Netscape 7
1. Open BIOIS using the PID
2. Under Bookmarks, choose “Manage bookmarks”
3. Highlight the bookmark and click the “Properties” button
4. Change the URL to the PID
5. click OK

Special thank you to Renee Chin in UCSD Acquisitions department for providing information on bookmarking PIDs.

a. Wilson Art Fulltext

Wilson Art Fulltext (http://uclibs.org/PID/33002), is an upgrade to Art Index, a systemwide centrally-funded database (SCAP fund).

Art Fulltext was a high priority for UC art selectors.  CDL wishes to thank Susan Malkoff Moon of the Arts Library at UCSB for her valuable time and insights during the evaluation period.

Art Fulltext offers full text of 111 publications back to 1997 plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of 378 peer-selected publications back to 1984, now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.  Features include: subject thesaurus, indexing of art reproductions, and links to websites.  The list of titles can be found at http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/artindex.htm.  However, as an aggregator, Wilson does not have perpetual rights for the material.

Art Fulltext recently added an additional 51 journals that significantly broaden its coverage.  Emerging areas of art research are also expanded, including non-western art, contemporary art, feminist art criticism, crafts, costume, and textiles.  Traditional areas of art research–archaeology, architecture, and art history–will receive broader coverage through the addition of these important new titles.

NOTE: New resources listed below may not yet be 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. EconLit

EconLit, originally included in a multi-campus SilverPlatter agreement that predated the CDL, is now a UC-wide resource licensed via OVID for all campuses through co-investments by campuses and the CDL.

EconLit, the fundamental research tool in economics, provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, to the international literature on economics since 1969.  This resource contains 581,000 records, with 27,000 added annually.

EconLit covers a broad range of document types published worldwide, including journal articles, books, and dissertations, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings and collected essay volumes.  The database also includes Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics from the Cambridge University Press database, Index of Economic Articles in Journals & Collective Volumes and the full text of the Journal of Economic Literature book reviews.

EconLit topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal theory; monetary theory and financial institutions; business finance; public finance; and international, labor, health care, managerial, demographic, regional, agricultural, and urban economics; country studies, and government regulations.

Each campus has its own URL:

UCB: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucb&databases=ECON

UCD: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucd&databases=ECON

UCI: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=uci&databases=ECON

UCLA: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucla&databases=ECON

UCR: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucr&databases=(ECON)

UCSD: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsd&databases=ECON

UCSF: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsf&databases=ECON

UCSB: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsb&databases=ECON

UCSC: http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsc&databases=ECON

b. JSTOR Music Collection Coming Fall 2003

JSTOR Music Collection has been approved for co-investments by CDL and all campuses except Riverside and San Francisco.  CDL will pay the perpetual rights fee, and participating campuses will pay an annual subscription rate.

The Music Collection contains the complete back runs of 31 new JSTOR titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music.  This collection contains a vast selection of international titles, including journals published in the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Germany and France.  The title list can be found at http://www.jstor.org/about/music.list.html There is no overlap of content with any other JSTOR collection.

It addresses musical issues that span diverse musical genres such as World Music in television ads and “Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music.”  One can find articles published as early as 1844, as well as articles about musicology in the contemporary era; subjects from the study of musical instruments to the “Construction of Albanian National Subjectivity” through poetry and songs.

Manuscript studies, criticism and book reviews from respected scholars, musicians and composers such as Aaron Copland, Allen Forte and Jean-Jacques Nattiez are included in this collection.

The Music Collection includes such features of interest as:

The full back runs of four journals that began publication in the 19th century: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (1899); Journal of the Royal Musical Association (1874); The Musical Times (1844); and Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (1869).

The historical volumes of The Musical Times, which has, since 1884, published obituaries of all of the major 19th and 20th century European composers including Brahms, Chopin, Ravel, Liszt and Verdi.

Musical Quarterly, which contains articles written by important composers and musicologists such as Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, and Camille Saint-Saens.

Latin American Music Review, which explores the historical, ethnographic, and sociocultural dimensions of Latin American music around the world, and is one of a number of journals in the collection focusing on international music and ethnomusicology.

c. International Inventory of Musical Sources (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales) (RISM)

International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) (http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?BiblioLine&dbname=QRISM ) is now available to all campuses, except UCR. RISM was the #1 priority for UC music selectors in 2003-2004. Participating campuses will pay an annual subscription fee.

Complementing two SCAP-funded databases, RILM and RIPM, and funded by the campuses, RISM is an anthology of four linked databases that include more than 412,000 records with at least 20,000 new records added each year.

RISM series A/II: “Music manuscripts after 1600″ is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600.  It contains more than 380,000 works by over 18,000 composers.  The manuscripts are found in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and USA.  The Music manuscript database is linked to three other databases providing additional information to specific content: Composer, Library Sigla and Bibliographic Citations.

The latest issue of El Mel Tells bids a fond goodbye to legacy Melvyl, highlighting some of its history (http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/elmeltells/emtv2v4.html)

The following changes have been made to the MOAC collection via Luna Insight (http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/moac.html) with the goals of providing simpler search options and easier to understand search and display labels, making search and display options more consistent with other collections, and providing thumbnail labels more useful to users for selecting items.  The Image Demonstrator Project Team analyzed the MOAC data and consulted with MOAC representatives prior to having the changes implemented.  A similar review is in progress for the Saskia collection.

Search options are now:
-keyword
-data field (equivalent of advanced search with all possible search fields)
-show all (the equivalent of the starting page)

The data fields have been simplified to include the following:

-creator name (was creator/maker)
-group creator name (was corporation name)
-title (was object name/title)
-collection title
-object type (was type of object)
-materials (was medium/materials)
-date (was creation date)
-current location (was repository corporation name)
-provenance (was creditline/provenance)
-object ID (was current object ID number)
-METS ID (was METS ID number)

The collection description has been enhanced to list the contributing museums with a link to the MOAC web site. Currently, the description is only available in the Java client–go to File/Open Collection to view the description.

FirstSearch recently made some changes to their databases. Essentially, they are cosmetic, but it does make navigating the various databases much easier and search functions which are available are much more apparent.  Most changes are the same for all the databases in FirstSearch, but there are slight variations.

Databases included: PapersFirst, ArticleFirst, ECO, ERIC, GPO, Proceedings, UnionLists, World Almanac and World Cat.  I found using all the different databases very instructive and find I use them more than before.

Navigation Bars and Icons: The old navigation bar in the left margin has been replaced with a series of easily read navigation buttons or tabs across the top of the page.  While some of these navigation tabs and buttons change at different stages of a search, it does make various options fairly obvious.  “Home”, “Databases” and “Searching” are always present across the top.  The tabs in the line below will change in relation to a current search.

Help: Help buttons are prominent.  Clicking on them brings up a help window related to that point in a search–beginning a search, search results, etc.

Searching: The ability to search across up to 3 databases at once is now more evident.  By clicking on “Databases” tab, or if one selects the list of databases from the “GO TO” drop down menu, the user is informed they can select up to 3 databases.

Searching by Topic: Databases can be selected by topic from either the “Databases” tab or using the GO TO box and clicking on “Databases by Topic”.  I found the topics sometimes did not include all the databases that might apply to that subject.  However, a student working on a paper might find them useful to get started.  Topics are very broad, e.g., General; Education; Life Sciences, etc.  Whether using the database list or the list by topics, the list provided has a checkbox to the left.  Click the box of the one(s) desired, then click Select.  A search box then appears for searching across those databases.  Results for each database are posted at the top in large type and boxes which should look very familiar to anyone used to the old system.

Also part of the new look are the much more visible icon buttons.  Most of these are self evident as to meaning, for example, an envelope for email.  For most of them, there is also a label just below the icon.  Depending on the database, some are not as obvious and a mouse over usually brings up the meaning.  Those buttons change, depending on whether one is in basic, advanced or expert search mode. Often with Keyword searches, a box appears to the right which supports browsing topics.  Since truncation is limited in FirstSearch, this browse feature helps the user select a term to search and thereby avoid the problem with truncation limitations.

Some features unique to a database: Hot Topics in WorldCat; Thesaurus (Subjects button) in ERIC; Browse Journals in ArticleFirst; and, the 4 additional titles available for search in WorldAlmanac.

The Basic Search screen, the usual default, is much better for simple searches.  Instead of clicking on Author or Title or Keyword, there is a labeled box to fill in for each of those.  No Boolean searching in Basic Search.

The Advanced Search is set up for Boolean searches using drop down menus for “And”, “Or”, “Not”.  Advanced also offers choices in the drop down menus of the search boxes. Of course, these choices vary with each database.

Expert searching is like command searching and also allows proximity searching.  A series of help boxes is at the bottom of the search page to help an expert with usual commands.

The option of limiting to full text is a nice feature students will use.  This appears at the bottom of the search boxes, whether Basic, Advanced or Expert.  A quirk of the database list is that this does not apply to all databases even when a lot of full-text is available. Right now it applies to ArticleFirst, ECO and ERIC.

Results usually also prominently include links to “Articles like this”.  Or, there is prominently displayed at the top the offer of help with refining a search.

Appearance: Colors are different and not as bright as the previous version.  Each library or individual can reset the colors if they do not like the default.  Just click on Options and a choice of four-color palettes is available.

Print size is very good. Easy on the eyes and big enough for students to read from a classroom projection.  Compare ERIC type here to other versions available on other databases.

Prominent on all screens is the branding with the campus name and at UC Irvine it has a link to the Ask A Librarian feature.  UC-eLinks are obvious after a search is completed and a full record displayed.  The listing of titles located through a search does not display the URL for free resources in the short form of the list.  It is only in the full record display that this becomes visible, usually far down in the record.

Let your UC FirstSearch database liaisons know what you think about these changes and anymore that might be possible to help library users.  My review has already prompted me to make suggestions and I got back a reply within 24 hours.  The UC CDL FirstSearch liaisons are:

WorldCat: Laura Galvan-Estrada, UCSD lestrada@ucsd.edu
GPO: Kay Collins, UCI kcollins@lib.uci.edu
PapersFirst: Bob Heyer-Gray, UCD rheyer@ucdavis.edu
ProceedingsFirst: Bob Heyer-Gray, UCD rheyer@ucdavis.edu

On June 28, 2003, Proquest released the first segment of the Historical Los Angeles Times, 1881-1923.  Because of unexpected production difficulties with the layout and design of the early newspapers, about 30 percent (between 1904 and 1914) was left out initially; this was filled in by the end of July.

The remaining Historical segment, 1924 through 1984, will be added steadily during 2003 and 2004.  This process is ongoing; as of early August about 6 months of 1924 were already online.  The plan is to move forward in time until the Historical newspaper meets the “Current” file of the L.A. Times: 1985-present.

The schedule is as follows:

• 1924 through the mid 1940s by the end of 2003
• complete through 1984 by the end of 2004

When the Los Angeles Times digitization has been completed, the UC libraries will have access to the content of three Proquest newspapers, with the historical files complemented by the current.

Although there appears to be overlap, remember that there are a number of differences between the historical and current segments for each newspaper.

• The historical and current newspapers are on different platforms and cannot be searched together.
• The historical newspapers display article and full page images; the current newspapers display only text
• The historical newspapers include cover-to-cover content; the current newspapers exclude the text of a variety of copyrighted and syndicated articles, as well as advertising and graphics

One more caution–later decades of the historical newspapers also include material under copyright.  In such cases, individual articles, photographs or other works may not be displayed separately.  But they will still be viewable as part of the full page image, which will always be displayed.  It is then possible to mark the article with the Acrobat graphics selection tool, and printed separately.

Proquest has developed a very useful 7-page guide to searching, viewing and printing results from all three Historical Newspapers, available at
http://proquest.umi.com/i-std/en/help/qkguide/historicalnewspapers.pdf

Proquest Next Interface

The just-released Proquest Next interface (being used by the current and historical newspapers, as well as ABI/INFORM and American Periodicals Series Online) includes a number of improvements especially helpful for newspapers, including simplified date searching/limiting, easier selection of article types, and the option to sort by chronological or reverse chronological order, especially useful for a newspaper.  Searchers can even change the language used in the interface and the help screens: French, German, Spanish; Chinese, Japanese and Korean (sorry, no translations of the actual text!).  Watch future issues of CDLINFO for more information on the new Proquest interface.