Fliers describing CDL programs, projects, and services are now available in PDF format on the instructional materials web page under “CDL”: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/instruct/#c
Links to the fliers are also on project web pages. The fliers were distributed to attendees at the recent CDL workshops on digital library services for UC’s libraries.
Flier topics:
CDL Overview
American West
Counting California
Digital Preservation
eScholarship Repository
eScholarship Editions
Image Services
Interface Customization Tools: The CDL METS Repository
All UC campuses now have access to the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Archive of journals published from 1841-1996. Online access to the RSC journals is available at: http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/j1.htm
Previously, only recent years were available online, and each campus relied on its own print subscriptions to various RSC journals.
The archive features full-text searching and includes approximately 200,000 articles (1.2 million pages). A complete list of journals included in the RSC archive (including title changes and years of coverage) is available at: http://www.rsc.org/pdf/journals/archive/journals.pdf
The one-time purchase cost for the archive was paid by the CDL; campuses will pay a modest annual access fee.
b. Wiley Backfile Collections
By Jeff Williams (UC San Diego), Resource Liaison
The CDL has recently acquired three significant journal backfile collections from Wiley InterScience in the areas of biotechnology, chemistry, and polymer science. The collections were acquired based on the recommendation of the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) and the approval of the Collection Development Committee (CDC).
The three backfiles encompass more than 1.5 million pages.
The Angewandte Chemie International Edition backfiles from 1962-1997. More information is available at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/collectionhome/AGCOL/HOME
The Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics backfiles. More information is available at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/collectionhome/BTCOL/HOME
The CDL purchased perpetual rights to the Wiley backfiles with one-time funding on behalf of all UC libraries and future students. Another backfile, General Chemistry, is due to be acquired latter this year and will become part of the UC collection.
Catalog records for individual titles in the wiley backfile will be distributed by shared cataloging to all campuses.
The CDL systemwide digital subscriptions to the Gale/Infotrac Computer Database and the National Newspaper Index were cancelled as of July 1.
Shared Cataloging has sent the cancelled title changes to the campuses. Records will remain in the Melvyl Catalog until the campuses update their records. The CDL Directory has been updated to reflect these changes.
Current Contents via Ovid is slated to be cancelled on January 1, 2005.
