Springer Online Journal Archives include approximately 1,200 journal titles in eleven subject area packages, which are being released from May 2005 to October 2005. Springer has told CDL that by October 95% of all archival content will be available in SpringerLink and the remaining 5% will be online in early 2006. The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) will not update the holdings statements for the individual Springer journals with content in the Online Springer Archive until all of the archived content for a title has been added.
Be aware that while content is being added users may find that although a volume is noted as being complete, some issues or articles in that volume may not yet be available online. Later this year Springer will give the CDL a full overview of available archives.
CDL’s SearchLight, a cross-database, cross-vendor search tool, has allowed users to simultaneously search online catalogs, indexes, electronic journals, electronic texts, reference resources, and more. It was among the first of its kind anywhere when it debuted in January 2000, but it will be retired in mid-September 2005, the date recommended by the UC campus libraries.
SearchLight is based on outdated programming that does not integrate well with the current online environment and is not robust enough to handle the breadth of resources licensed by the UC system. The CDL has not added any new resources to SearchLight since 2002, and we have had to remove some of the databases that were initially included in SearchLight. In the past two years, SearchLight’s usage statistics have significantly declined. During this time, an increasing number of our core database vendors (such as CSA, ProQuest, and NISC) have begun to offer cross-database searching.
Recognizing the limitations of this search tool, the CDL began looking in 2002 for a vendor product that could replace SearchLight. MetaLib from Ex Libris was selected in 2004.
The CDL has been working with campus groups to build a robust metasearching infrastructure, rather than further developing SearchLight. The Metasearch Infrastructure Project is not creating a “new” SearchLight, but rather is building tools to allow libraries to offer search portals tailored for particular audiences, purposes, or formats. Users will then be able to search a more targeted group of licensed databases, crawled web sites, and harvested metadata, and to gather, create, and share resources.
To learn more about this project, see: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/. The first prototypes are expected to be available in late fall 2005 or early winter 2006 for evaluation and refinement.
Effective immediately, there are no simultaneous user limits for UC licensed Web of Knowledge databases, BIOSIS Previews, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, or Science Citation Index. Many people at UC have worked hard to get ISI to remove user limits. The WOK Resource Liaison, Beth Weil, was key in convincing ISI to take this step.
UC-eLinks now offers the ability for users to copy and paste a citation and full text link into a course reading list, bibliography, web page, or other application. Five campuses (UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and UC San Diego) have activated “Copy and paste citation and full text link to your document” in the UC-eLinks window. Five citation styles are available: APA, CBE, Chicago, MLA, and NLM.
Extensive help is provided for both Windows and Macintosh users by selecting the “More Info” link on the UC-eLinks screen. To see this feature, go to the UC-eLinks test site http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/uc-elinks/uc-elinks_test.html and do a search in any CSA database, then click on the UC-eLinks icon.
For help in activating this service on your campus, UC-eLinks Campus Liaisons should contact Margery Tibbetts, margery.tibbetts@ucop.edu.
CDL is pleased to announce that Women and Social Movements has been licensed systemwide. This new database of full text materials serves as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women’s history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S., it contains the following:
59 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 1,600 documents, 600 images, and over 600 links to other web sites.
20,000 pages of documents pertaining to Women and Social Movements. These materials have been selected by the Editors for their relevance.
A dictionary of social movements and organizations.
A chronology of U.S. Women’s History.
Teaching Tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the document projects.
Women and Social Movements is a welcome addition to UC’s collection of resources from Alexander Street Press. It can be accessed at:
Beginning August 15th the Expanded Academic ASAP database licensed by CDL, will have a new interface. The Thomson Gale PowerSearch interface provides a number of new features and services that UC users will welcome. Enhanced search screens will allow users to move quickly and easily from general keyword searches to more precise, targeted searches. Improved search display results include numbered citations, tabbed source displays (e.g. “Magazine & Journal Articles, Newspapers, etc.”), highlighted subject terms and the ability to quickly expand or limit searches from the results page. New tools include a Citation Generator which allows users to save citations in MLA or APA style formats, or export them to third party software like EndNote, ProCite and ReferenceWorks.
A Powerpoint tour of the new interface is available at:
CDL will be distributing new links to EAI shortly. While existing links to both the database and the InfoMarks will continue to work, Thomson Gale and CDL strongly recommend switching to the new links and updating all InfoMarks.
If you have questions or comments about the new interface please feel free to contact me.
Frank Gravier, Expanded Academic ASAP Resource Liaison gravier@ucsc.edu
