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The CDL is happy to announce that the majority of the campus instances of UC-eLinks are in production (UCR should be ready to go live in the next few weeks.)  The campus instances are managed by the UC-eLinks Liaisons on each campus <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/uc-elinks/roster.html>

What is the benefit for patrons?
Patrons will now be able to seamlessly access both CDL and campus-licensed journal titles.  Depending on the campus, this will mean an additional 200 to 1,500 electronic journal titles.  Previously, patrons were only able to access CDL-licensed resources via UC-eLinks.

The extension of UC-eLinks to support campus-based resources that integrate with systemwide resources originated with and was endorsed by SOPAG.  CDL negotiated the license for adding campus versions and worked with Ex Libris, the product vendor, on the technical enhancements to present combined services to users.  The CDL will be hosting the SFX servers for most of the campuses.

How are the lists of titles for the CDL and campus versions of UC-eLinks maintained?

1. Ex Libris discovers the new titles and title changes in a variety of ways, such as through periodic tape loads from full text producers, data feed from the ISSN registry, the CONSER database (the set of serial records input/created or otherwise introduced to the OCLC database authenticated by CONSER members), and from user feedback.
2. Every month, Ex Libris sends Margery Tibbetts, the CDL UC-eLinks Project Manager, a KnowledgeBase (KB) Update, which includes software updates and database updates.  (The KnowledgeBase is the behind-the-scenes database of journal titles and databases used for University of California linking.)
3. The KB Update is applied by CDL to all of the campus instances or versions generally during the second week of the month.  The update process adds new portfolios (journal titles), new targets (full text vendors) and new sources (database vendors), but does not activate them.  The update process also deletes titles and modifies coverage information.
4. For aggregator databases in which we license all of the titles, such as Expanded Academic ASAP, ABI/INFORM Global and Literature Online (LION), CDL has instructed the update process to automatically activate any new titles.
5. CDL activates/deactivates portfolios when we receive the information from the UCSD Shared Cataloging Program. The SCP stream is also used to update the Directory of CDL-licensed Content.  If a new provider is added, CDL generally does not wait for SCP, but instead uses the title list from the vendor to activate the new target and list of titles, after the coverage is verified at UCSD. CDL also makes changes to the database based on feedback from the campus librarians and end users.
6. At the campus level, the UC-eLinks liaisons activate/deactivate portfolios in their own campus instances. They do this for the titles licensed by the campus that are not part of a 10-campus agreement.  Each campus may have a different workflow from acquisitions/cataloging to UC-eLinks.
7. Occasionally the UC-eLinks liaisons and CDL staff have to wait to activate a title until Ex Libris has added it to the global database (KnowledgeBase).  CDL cannot add titles to the global database; however, if a title is already in the database, CDL can add it to a target where it previously did not exist.  For example, if the journal title Pediatrics was activated in HighWire Press but was also available (and perhaps sooner) via Expanded Academic ASAP, CDL can add and activate the title in the Expanded Academic ASAP target.
8. The original data load for UC-eLinks came from the Melvyl Catalog links database, which had a loose relationship with SCP.  UC-eLinks and SCP are not synchronized at the moment.  The CDL is in the process of updating all of the targets (except the aggregators) in the CDL instance of UC-eLinks, using title lists provided by SCP staff.

A new web site featuring the collective challenges, strategies, plans, and systemwide operations of the UC libraries has been launched at http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu.  Hosted by the CDL and the Office of Systemwide Library Planning, the site was designed and structured under the guidance of the University Librarians and SOPAG.

The entire site was developed to facilitate the evolving partnership for mutual communication and exploration of library and scholarly communication issues between UC faculty, the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC), the University Librarians, the office of Systemwide Library Planning and others, as requested by SLASIAC.  A section especially for faculty titled “Reshaping Scholarly Communication” currently highlights economic and other challenges to maintaining great UC library collections and encourages active exploration of new approaches to scholarly communication.

Additional sections summarize systemwide challenges and strategic plans, and the effect of the state and UC fiscal crisis on libraries.  Another aggregates information from SOPAG and the all-campus advisory groups, each of which will have a presence on the site.

Comments and feedback are welcome through the link at the bottom of each page on the site.

a. Safari Tech Books Online

Safari Tech Books Online negotiations were completed by Julia Gelfand at UCI. Six participating campuses will pay an annual subscription fee and share 15 simultaneous user ports for the IT collection: Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Cruz.

Safari Tech Books Online offers an exclusive collection of highly acclaimed reference content from a premier IT publisher, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc.  New titles are available in Safari Tech Books Online even before they appear in print.  There are 119 books in the initial UC collection.  New O’Reilly books will be added automatically as they are published during the contract year, September 2003 through August 2004.

The URL for participating campuses is:
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/ <ENTER ISBN>

b. NewsBank
On the recommendation of the Joint Steering Committee and several bibliographer groups, CDL signed a license agreement for annual access to NewsBank’s WebNews for all campuses except UC San Francisco and UC Riverside.

WebNews <http://www.uclibs.org/PID/23120> is an online resource that provides full-text access to 269 individual newspaper titles, including 47 California titles.  WebNews includes the full text of all staff-written news features (excluding Tasini copyright related articles), special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, and letters to the editor, sports reports, community events, and more.  WebNews is ideal for tracking information at the state, national and international levels.  Each title includes what is considered as the “electronic edition of record”.  Updates are available the next day after publication (24 hrs.).

CDL would like to thank Elliot Kanter at UC San Diego for his research and input during the trial review stage.

The latest issue of El Mel Tells http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl/elmeltells/emtv2v5.html> covers all of the functionality available in “Previous Searches”. It also describes how to create a durable link for a search or an item in Melvyl.

After discussions with H.W. Wilson, UC librarians, and CDL, some very useful changes were made to ArtFull Text and Art Index Retrospective.

• Default for Basic search is now Boolean not Natural Language. Though the Advanced search is the default, there are occasions for using the Basic search.  For example, if one did a search on “monet and haystacks” the search results under Natural language would include records which had either ‘Monet’ or ‘haystacks’ or both.  Often the number of results were too numerous.  Under Boolean searching there is an implied ‘and’ requiring that both terms appear somewhere in the record.
• Automatic stemming has been turned off.  When automatic stemming is ‘on,’ the search engine takes the stem of a word being searched and uses it in its search, so the search is powerful but often overwhelming and unexpected.
• Truncation Users can now use * (asterisk) for truncation, i.e., search the stem or partial phrase and use * to find the search term and its variations. Example:
  modern architecture: result 7,418
  modernist architecture: result 1,834
  modern* architecture: result 9,341 (includes modernist, modernism & modern)
• Wildcard Users can now use ? (question mark) for a wildcard. Example
  wom?n: result 34,574 (eek!)
  women: result 18,777
  woman: result 20,736

Additional remarks

• Art Abstracts has been subsumed by Art Full Text; that is why it no longer appears in the list of databases to be checked off when first logging into the Wilson site.  Art Index Retrospective and Art Full Text should both appear and both (depending upon the search) can be checked.  Bibliographic guides need only point to Art Retro or Full Text
• When a search is done in Art Full Text and the user looks at the citations, it is sometimes unclear why a particular citation was part of the result. H.W. Wilson clarified this by saying that the search term would appear in the full text of the citation (html or pdf).  I have found this to be true in the searches I tried out, but it is confusing for a patron not to see the term they searched appear anywhere in the citation.

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. American Physiological Society (APS) Legacy Project now available (Jo Anne Boorkman, UCD)

CDL has completed licensing for the American Physiological Society (APS) Legacy Project that provides access to the backfiles of the Society’s journals, many of which are parts of the American Journal of Physiology, <http://www.the-aps.org/publications/legacy/index.htm>.  The titles include:

* AJP - Cell Physiology 1977+
* AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism 1980+
* AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 1980+
* AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology 1977+
* AJP - Lung, Cellular and Molecular Physiology 1989+
* AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 1977+
* AJP - Renal Physiology 1977+
* Advances in Physiology Education 1989+
* Journal of Applied Physiology 1966+
* Journal of Neurophysiology 1966+
* Physiological Genomics 1999+
* Physiological Reviews 1966+
* News in Physiological Sciences (NIPS) 1986+

The PIDs for UC-eLinks are now in place; however, issue level information may not be available for the most recent year for access to full-text from the A&I databases.  In these cases the full-text will be available from the website listed above.  Catalog records for local campus use will be forthcoming from the Shared Cataloging unit.

This legacy content is being delivered in three stages between now and the end of 2004 when the earliest years will become available.  Journal issues published after the concluding dates of the legacy package now become available free 12 months after publication.  To obtain articles within the 12 months after original publication, a campus subscription to the title will still be required.  All UC campuses are included in this CDL-funded agreement that was negotiated by Karl Kocher and Jo Anne Boorkman at UC Davis on behalf of the UC Health and Life Sciences Selectors Group. Karl Kocher (kakocher@ucdavis.edu) will serve as Resource Liaison.

b. Thieme Science Journals
Current access to four Thieme journals is now available for all campuses at Thieme Connect <http://www.thieme-connect.com>.  Thieme is an international scientific and medical publisher for physicians, scientists, technologists, students, and residents.

The UC Chemistry Librarians, under the leadership of Christina Keil (UC San Diego), have negotiated a second agreement with Thieme publishers.  In addition to the previously licensed journal archives of Synthesis and Synlett, all UC campuses now have access to the current volumes.  Current access to the journals Plant Biology and Planta Medica is also available.  Campuses have agreed to maintain their existing print subscriptions and the CDL has funded the online cost.

Syntheses & Synlett are core journals for organic chemistry that consistently rank in ISI’s top twenty high impact organic chemistry journals.  Planta Medica, the official publication of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research, focuses on the whole spectrum of medicinal plants and natural products.  Plant Biology is the International Journal of the German Botanical Society and of the Royal Botanical Society of the Netherlands

Synthesis: http://uclibs.org/PID/11377
Synlett: http://uclibs.org/PID/11378
Planta Medica: http://uclibs.org/PID/21881
Plant Biology: http://uclibs.org/PID/21882

a. CDL Web Site and “Inside CDL” Sites Released

The CDL is very pleased to announce the release of two new revised web sites as of Friday, September 5, 2003. The first is the “brochure” CDL web site, located at http://www.cdlib.org.  This site is aimed at those wishing to know more about the CDL itself, its programs, partners and services.  This is also the place for vendors to come to find out details of CDL technical requirements, metadata requirements, linking, etc.

The second site is Inside CDL and replaces CDL Libstaff.  The site is located at http://www.cdlib.org/inside.  Its audience is UC library staff, as well as users of CDL resources.  The web site is divided into ten sections.

Both sites provide links to one another.  From the brochure site, every page has a link to Inside CDL; from Inside CDL, a user must return to the home page to access the brochure site.

For password-protected documents, CDL has a new password.  You can obtain the password by going to < http://www.cdlib.org/inside/errors/password.html >
and entering your UC email address.  The password will be sent to you immediately via email.

The revision process of the sites was enormously enhanced by the results of two staff surveys.  Appreciation goes to those who participated in the surveys and informed the decisions made about the language, format, and arrangement of the sites.

The document “Suggestions for Linking into CDL Web-based Services” is located at <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/suggestions4linking.html>.

Multiple redirects from the old to the new site were in place beginning at midnight Friday, September 5, and continuing for a substantial period of time.

Many thanks to the Redesign Team for its work in creating what we hope will be much improved and easier to navigate CDL websites.

We welcome your responses to the new sites via the Questions? Comments? link at the bottom of every page.

b. Where did the CDL Directory Go?

To access the CDL Directory from the home page <http://www.cdlib.org/ >, select Collections & Services from the left sidebar.  Scroll down to Directory of CDL-Licensed Content <http://www.cdlib.org/directory>.

With the redesign of the CDL web pages which de-emphasizes the Directory, the CDL is following through on its attempt to encourage campus libraries to present their more complete lists of campus library digital resources directly to end users, rather than to identify the CDL as an end location.

The CDL has undergone a conscious shift in service orientation.  We are now focusing on enhancing and enabling services such as the Melvyl catalog, Request, SFX (UC-eLinks), and preservation of digital content programs to libraries and librarians, rather than directly to end users.

The move to making the Directory less important as a destination for end users has been a gradual one that began with the journal article and index (A&I) database transition and continued with the Melvyl transition and release of the new CDL website.  The CDL continues to assess the internal process for tracking our electronic systems.  We will be revisiting the Directory after continuing to evaluate campus needs with their input, as part of this review.

UC-eLinks has now been activated for articles ONLY in two ABC-Clio products: America: History & Life (AHL) and Historical Abstracts (HA).  Resource Liaison Ellen Broidy (UCLA) tested the service before its release.  We are negotiating with ABC-Clio to have the UC-eLinks icon appear on all of the records in the database, rather than just for articles, since UC is supporting more than linking to full text through UC-eLinks, e.g., links to catalog holdings, Request, and Ask-a-Librarian.

In order to have the UC-eLinks icon appear on all of the records, ABC-Clio needs to create an OpenURL for all of the records. ABC-Clio informs us that it will take them several months to work with the underlying data structure to make this function the way we need.

In America: History & Life we hope to add links to book and media reviews and dissertations.  In Historical Abstracts we would like to add these links as well as links to books.