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a. Springer Online Journal Archive

By Terry Vrable (UC San Diego), Acquisitions Coordinator, CDL

The former Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Academic Publishers are now combined in a single license under the Springer name.  Newly available in 2005 is the Springer Online Journal Archive.  Purchased by the CDL and funded in full with CDL funds, the archive contains subject collections.  Included are the former Springer-Verlag and Kluwer journals in the areas of Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry and Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Astronomy.  Each packaged collection will contain 50-180 journals.  The archive, when completed, is estimated to contain 1,200 journals with coverage spanning from volume 1 up through 1996.  The archive also includes some of the Springer Book Series.

Archive content is scheduled to be available in 2005 with the complete set of archived subject areas to be ready by the end of the year.  Most journals now offer two entries on their homepage, one for volumes published from 1997 to 2005, and one for the “Historical Archive.”   Journal pages are scheduled to be redesigned later this year to provide more information and allow more intuitive navigation through the complete content of each journal.

Additional details can be found at the Springer web site: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-117-2-126299-0,00.html

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) has dissolved as an organization.  Our AMICO collection vendor, Cartography Associates has negotiated with the contributing museums to continue to make available most of the original museum collections.  The name of the collection will change from AMICO to Art Museum Images from Cartography Associates (AMICA) on July 1, 2005.  This is now a Tier 2 for UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Merced, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara.  The campuses that have licensed ARTstor are no longer participating (UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz) and UC San Francisco is no longer included.

Access to java client and web version:

• Interim page: http://www.cdlib.org/hlp/directory/amico.html (suggested URL)

Direct links to the web version:

• Persistent URL (PID): http://uclibs.org/PID/32961.html
• URL: http://www.davidrumsey.com/amico/rdr/rdrN.asp?cid=1000&iia=0.html

The CDL is pleased to announce that after three years of active negotiation the UC community finally has access to the award-winning SAGE journals. Until recently, SAGE was not willing to license to consortia.

Sage journals cover a diverse range of subject areas including aging and gerontology, area and ethnic studies, cultural studies, counseling, geography, political science, sociology, research methods, arts, communication studies, materials science, engineering, theology, economics, criminology, and health sciences across the disciplines of social sciences, area and ethnic studies, humanities, and life sciences.

More than 220 of the journals are available on CSA in 10 subject-based Full-Text Collections, which provide access to backfiles as far back as 36 years. Sage Full Text Collections include Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Nursing & Health, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning.

The CSA full text collections include more than 80,000 articles, book reviews, and editorials, with all the original graphics, tables, and page numbers.

The Sage Full-Text Collections are integrated into CSA’s Illumina interface, which allows users to search across all of the Sage full-text content and citations as well as the CSA abstract indexes such as Communication Abstracts, ERIC, PAIS International, PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

An additional 140 titles in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences not included in the CSA collections are available on Highwire as SAGE Journals Online (PLUS titles). A total of 343 Sage journals from 1999 to date are available on Highwire. The SAGE license also includes all new titles published during the three-year contract period, a shared print archive beginning with January 2005 issues and perpetual rights beginning in 1999 and continuing forward.

• Database searches by campus: Report for January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004. Includes consortium-level data for calendar year 2003 as well. [password-protected]
• Ejournal articles viewed by campus: Report for January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004. Includes consortium-level data for calendar year 2003 as well. Revised. [password-protected]

Available at

http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/usage_statistics.html .

If you have any questions, please contact Jacqueline Wilson at jacqueline.wilson@ucop.edu.

a. Optics Infobase

By Karen Andrews (UC Davis), Resource Liaison

Optics InfoBase, the digital version of the Optical Society of America’s publications, is now available to all UC campuses at www.opticsinfobase.org .

Optics InfoBase contains OSA’s seven signature journals as well as two co-published titles.  The digital archive backfile is included, and is fully searchable by author, title, or keyword.  Other features include automatic reference linking between articles, a personal library service, and a tailored alerting service. OSA is also contributing one print copy for the UC Shared Print Archive.

Beginning 2005, Optics InfoBase includes proceedings papers from TOPS, the ” Trends in Optics & Photonics series “.  OSA’s signature journal, JOSA, is digitized from 1917-1940, and soon its successor, ” JOSA A,” will be available back to 1950.  ”Applied Optics” has feature issues devoted to optical technology and biomedical optics, information processing, and lasers, photonics and environmental optics.  Recent discoveries quickly appear in “Optics Letters,” and OSA pioneered a free, all-electronic, peer-reviewed journal, “Optics Express” as another rapid delivery journal. Non-scientists can enjoy ”Optics & Photonics News”, which covers optics research applications in areas such as art and medicine without the scientific jargon.

In 2004, the CDL formed a new internal team called the Resource Wranglers to proactively handle issues and tackle problems related to CDL-licensed article databases and ejournals.  The team communicates UC’s needs to vendors, tracks vendor issues, and follows up on these issues to ensure that they are resolved.

The group meets monthly and is comprised of CDL staff responsible for Resource Liaisons issues; CDL Helpline and user feedback; outreach, instruction, and education; business and licensing issues; linking technology and IP authentication; and database and ejournal issues as reported by the Resource Liaisons.

Some examples of activities include:

• Surveying to determine whether vendors offer campus-level “branding,” and to determine preferred “official” campus library names.
• Working with vendors to improve the user interface and functionality of databases.
• A critical review of information presented on the Inside CDL web site, such as sections for Resource Liaisons and Collection Development.
• Creation of guidelines and principles documents such as the User Interface Principles for Vendors

More information about the Resource Wranglers can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/resource-wranglers/index.html