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In continuing support of innovations in scholarly publishing, the CDL has developed a written policy for cataloging open access resources ( http://www.cdlib.org/inside/collect/openaccess.html ) and has implemented an online request form ( http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/scp/SCPcatalog_request.html ).  For several years the Shared Catalog Program (SCP) has cataloged freely available ejournal content as recommended by the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC).  The journal records are distributed to all the campuses, entered into the CDL Directory and SFX tables (for UC-eLinks), and monitored in the same way as other resources.

Although the resources may be open access, these actions represent considerable investments that are designed to reduce similar kinds of actions that each campus might have to make individually on these resources.  Even though a license will not be signed for these resources and there is no formal negotiation process with a vendor, these open access resources will follow existing procedures for licensed packages.  For each open access journal, the catalogers have inserted the following title added entry: “Open access resource freely available; selected by the UC libraries.”

All UC bibliographers are encouraged to now use this form to recommend cataloging of freely available titles whose scholarly qualities are affirmed by indexing in a major, disciplinary index.  Once resources have been selected, the SCP will catalog them, UC-eLinks will be implemented, where possible, the titles will be added to the CDL Directory and announced via CDLINFO.

a. Additions to JSTOR

We are pleased to announce the licensing of JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences IV, and Arts & Sciences Complement collections.  The Arts & Sciences collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over 600 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each of the four core Arts & Sciences collections introduces new academic disciplines into the archive.  The Arts & Sciences Complement enables institutions to build upon these core collections, adding new journals in existing disciplines and cross-disciplinary fields over time.  There are no overlaps (titles included in more than one collection) among the Arts & Sciences collections.

Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection will contain a minimum of 120 titles at completion.  Currently 72 journals covering language and literature, music and the history and study of art and architecture are available.  Additional titles in these fields as well as journals in cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, and religion will follow.  Arts & Sciences III is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2005.

The Arts & Sciences IV Collection will include a minimum of 100 titles and will be released beginning in early 2004 and concluding in 2006.  Law, psychology, and public policy and administration are the new areas introduced with this collection.  The collection will also include business and education titles.

The Arts & Sciences Complement is intended to offer participants a method to seamlessly add journals related to the core Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV collections.  For the Arts & Sciences Complement, journals may be focused in any of the more than 30 arts, humanities, and social sciences disciplines covered by JSTOR. Our aim is to introduce important titles that we were unable to include in earlier collections and to capture journals that cross discipline boundaries.  A minimum of 150 titles will be added over five years, beginning in early 2004 and concluding by the end of 2008.

Title lists for these collections are available on JSTOR’s site:
http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

John Bloomberg-Rissman (UCR) is the CDL Resource Liaison for JSTOR.

b. American Geophysical Union Journals

By Peter Brueggerman (UCSD), Resource Liaison nominee

Access to the ejournals of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)is now available to all campuses through a CDL license.  AGU is a major publisher in earth sciences, with a high level of user interest in licensed access.

As part of its collaborative mission, CDL fully funded this purchase, supported by co-investment from participating campuses to cover an annual Web access fee for each database.

The AGU titles available are:
Journal of Geophysical Research, all sections (aka JGR)
Geophysical Research Letters (aka GRL)
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (aka G-cubed)
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
Paleoceanography
Radio Science
Reviews of Geophysics
Tectonics
Water Resources Research

AGU ejournals are available back to 1994. Articles are available in HTML or PDF versions.  The AGU ejournal system has several search options: author/year back to 1988; full text back to 2002; fielded bibliographic records with abstracts back to 1988.  AGU journals are indexed by abstracting and indexing databases, such as Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA), and the CDL-licensed Georef.  AGU ejournals are compatible with UC-eLinking to full text.

AGU ejournal access has simultaneous user restrictions that are campus-specific and not pooled systemwide, so campuses should be attentive to reports of user turnaway, in addition to monitoring AGU turnaway statistics.  Additional simultaneous users can be purchased at the campus level.

CDL wishes to thank Peter Brueggerman (UCSD) and Tony Harvell (UCSD) for their efforts in bringing this resource to UC.

a. Jill Woolums Joins the CDL

Jill Woolums has joined the CDL to manage the Resource Liaison program for approximately six months while Heather Christenson is on maternity leave.

Heather’s last day will be May 25th, and at that time Jill be the primary contact for the Resource Liaisons.  Jill will be in the office part-time, primarily on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  She is currently a reference and web services librarian at UC Berkeley, working half time in the Education Psychology Library.  Jill has previous experience in licensing, with UC Berkeley committee work, and as a CDL Resource Liaison.

Jill can be reached at the same phone number Heather has used: (510) 987-0525.  Her email address is: jwoolums@ucop.edu

Programming to update the UC Irvine journal records in Melvyl was implemented Thursday, May 6.  (These records have not been updated since 11/13/02 because of a change in Irvine’s output method for serials to meet CDL’s revised standard.  The necessary work was recently completed on Irvine’s part, and by CDL staff who wrote a new conversion program so that the records could be added.)  The UC Irvine files began being processed on Tuesday, May 11.  The CDL anticipates the UCI journal records should be loaded into Melvyl by approximately May 17th, at which time we will place a note in the periwinkle box on the Basic Melvyl screen noting the change.

UC Hastings College of the Law journal records, which had not yet been present in this version of Melvyl, are also being added this month (May 2004).  Hastings monographs are currently in Melvyl.

CDL has completed an agreement with Ex Libris to purchase its MetaLib software for use in the Metasearch Infrastructure Project (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/).

The process for selecting the software began in 2002 with a market survey conducted by Christy Hightower and Catherine Soehner at UCSC.  The CDL project team then focused on evaluating the most promising products through indepth discussions with vendors, interviews with customers, and assessment against a set of criteria which included functional specifications as well as specific features to support the goals of the project.  The ability to support consortial management of target resources as well as the flexibility to create many different metasearch “portals” were key considerations.

The Metasearch project team will be working with Ex Libris over the coming months to install version 3 of the MetaLib software.  It will be used first in support of a prototype version aimed at undergraduates for finding “a few good things” with consultation from UCSC and UCLA. UCLA will also participate in developing a version oriented to research use within a specific discipline.  Other versions will be used in support of the American West and NSDL grant projects (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/nsdl/).  For more information, contact Roy Tennant (roy.tennant@ucop.edu).

Details about the upcoming CDL one-day workshops in May and June, Digital Library Services for UC’s Libraries, can now be found at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/news/events/digital_library_service_workshop.html

The page includes the agenda and information about locations, scheduling, meals, and attendees.

a. APA PsycARTICLES

The CDL is pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA) to license PsycARTICLES, a database of full-text articles from 51 journals published by the APA, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.  The URL is: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/psycarticles.html

Systemwide licensing of APA journals has been a priority for the CDL almost since its inception, with UC psychology selectors naming the APA as their most important publisher for systemwide ejournal licensing.  In order to meet user needs and facilitate transitions in our campus libraries from print to digital resources, completeness of content (i.e. digital content of journals that is at least equivalent to the print) was a critical licensing requirement.

Because the APA launched PsycARTICLES as a database of articles only, the CDL had been in continual negotiation with the APA over this point.  The APA situation was included in CDL’s “Barriers to Licensing” web page for several years. Fortunately, APA listened and recently changed its policy to include all content such as errata, table of contents, notes, and commentary.

PsycARTICLES has been mounted on the CSA platform and is displayed directly above its companion resource, PsycINFO.  All journals covered in PsycARTICLES are indexed in the PsycINFO database, which includes all materials from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists.

The license with the APA is a three-year agreement for unlimited simultaneous users and access for all 10 campuses.  The annual subscription includes access to all years that are available online. Dates of coverage vary somewhat by title, but generally APA publications start with 1987.

In order to facilitate campus transitions from print to a larger electronic investment, the CDL will contribute 100 percent of the annual subscription cost in 2004 and 75 percent in 2005.  In 2006 and beyond, the annual subscription will be shared equally between the CDL and the campuses.  Also beginning in 2006, the campuses have agreed to co-invest in a shared print archive of the APA journals.

You can search PsycARTICLES by specifying keywords that may occur in the article title, abstract, or the full-text, or by author names and journal titles.  Or, you can browse directly through the journal titles and click on the tables of contents for the respective volumes and issues.

UC e-Links is available in PsycINFO, which provides a link to the corresponding full-text article.  An alerting function is available that sends an email notification to users when a new issue has been added to the database.

The CDL would like to particularly thank Barbara Glendenning (UC Berkeley) and Lorna Lueck (UC Santa Barbara), along with Alice Perez (UC San Diego), Julia Gelfand (UC Irving), Joan Kaplowitz (UCLA), Christina Woo (UC Irving), David Michalski (UC Davis), Karen M. Mokrzycki (UC Santa Cruz), Michael Yonezawa (UC Riverside), and Min-Lin Fang (UC San Francisco) who tested vendor platforms and linking capabilities, verified the online coverage vs. print, and provided valuable input to the systemwide decision process.  Barbara Glendenning has graciously agreed to be Resource Liaison.

b. Wilson’s Education Full Text
By Diane Childs (UCLA), who has been nominated to be the Resource Liaison for Wilson Education Full Text

UC now has access to Wilson’s Education Full Text, a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts education literature from an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks.  The URL is: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml

Indexing of periodicals extends as far back as 1983.  Full text extends as far back as 1996.  Although Wilson does not index as many journals as ERIC, it does provide full text access to 87 journals not covered by ERIC.  Additional journal titles are covered with abstracts only.  Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents.

With the hiatus of ERIC’s coverage of journal literature, Wilson’s Education Full Text is especially important.  The database covers a wide range of education topics, including athletics, government funding, literacy standards, school administration, and teaching methods.