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By Myrtis Cochran (Resource Liaison), UC Berkeley

Changes have been made to enhance the interface and functionality of the Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) and Periodicals Contents Index—Full Text (PCI-FT) databases.  Each database has a new name.  PCI is now called Periodicals Index Online, and PCI Full Text is now Periodicals Archive Online.

Users who want only full text can go straight to Periodicals Archive Online, where every hit is linked to text. Users who prefer to conduct comprehensive, in-depth research can study the 16 million citations in Periodicals Index Online.  Users can still link directly from citations in Periodicals Index Online to the full text in Periodicals Archive Online; in JSTOR, via dedicated links; or in other sources, via UC-eLinks.

Transition to the new versions should be smooth and transparent.  Names in your OPACs, guides and other internal records should be changed.

The content already included in Periodicals Archive Online is being enhanced by the addition of more non-article content such as ads, and more searchable full text from the older collections.

Users can see results by journal ranking (most hits), language of journal, and dates, with refinements for any combination of those filters.  Sort options include ranking by relevancy, journal, earliest dates, and most current dates.  A new Quick Search capability lets users conduct simple queries from any page.

To choose among these options — regular email updates, downloadable brochures for both products, and a PowerPoint presentation showing the new search capabilities.

Free web training is available from the Web Training Center at < http://inter.viewcentral.com/events/cust/calendar.aspx?cid=proquest&pid=1&p_event_category3=main >.

As of 2006, ISI will be the sole source for UC subscriptions to the BIOSIS Previews database.  This database is available at < http://isiknowledge.com/BIOSIS >.  The overlap period with Ovid for BIOSIS Previews ends on December 30, 2005.  BIOSIS is the most comprehensive database in the Biological Sciences.

Access to BIOSIS via the ISI Web of Knowledge interface offers the following advantages:

• user friendly interface
• easy access to cited references and related articles in WoS from BIOSIS
• access to Web of Knowledge’s analyze feature

Many campuses have already made the switch to ISI as their major source of access.  Please be sure remove all links to the Ovid BIOSIS Previews database and previous documentation.  Adaptable documentation is available at < http://cdldir.ucop.edu/inside/instruct/ - b >.

UC users can use the “Alerts” feature in ISI’s BIOSIS Previews in place of the AutoAlerts which had been available in Ovid’s BIOSIS Previews database.  For instructions on setting up Alerts in the new BIOSIS Previews database, see < http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/wok_alerts.pdf >.

a. GLBT Life (EBSCO)

By Gary Colmenar (Resource Liaison), UC Santa Barbara

The CDL is pleased to announce access to GLBT Life, a comprehensive online index to the literature related to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender issues.  The database contains citations and abstracts to more than 120 periodicals and over 200 books and reference works on GLBT.  In addition, the database contains newsletters, case studies, speeches and other types of sources, which altogether represents a definitive online resource for GLBT Studies and related fields such as Gender and Women’s Studies.

URL for access: < http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?profile=ehost&defaultdb=qrh>

b. Access World News

By Kay Collins (Resource Liaison), UC Irvine

The CDL is pleased to announce the expansion of UC’s newspaper collection, via a new Tier 1 contract with Readex/Newsbank.  The new version of America’s Newspapers now includes many newspapers and newswires from around the world, and has a new name, Access World News.  Also of note is the addition of more California papers, and a collection of Spanish-language newspapers (Noticias).

All newspapers and newswires can be cross-searched if desired, or users can select an area of the country, area of the world, or an individual title.  As before, users can also pick a paper by title, pick a date, and search the full paper.  The Los Angeles Times will be a significant omission from this new collection. However, the full LA Times will still be available via ProQuest.

Shared Cataloging will be making records for each title, and also setting PIDs for America’s Newspapers, Access World News, and Noticias.  Each campus is being contacted on how they want to set up their individual web pages.

Thanks to the many librarians across UC who participated in the content selection process, to Becky Culbertson in Shared Cataloging, and especially to Kay Collins, our CDL Resource Liaison.

Access World News: < http://uclibs.org/PID/98452>
ProQuest Los Angeles Times (1985 - Present): < http://uclibs.org/PID/11379 >
ProQuest Los Angeles Times (1881-1985): < http://uclibs.org/PID/10355 >

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The CDL and Digital Library Services Advisory Group (DLSAG) are pleased to announce the release of the draft CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0 (CDL GDO), available online in HTML and PDF format at <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/>.

We welcome your feedback on the guidelines.  To assist with the release, the Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) is also soliciting feedback from SOPAG All-Campus Groups and campus specialists.  The CDL will assess comments received by January 15, 2006 for incorporation into the final version of the guidelines, slated for release in early 2006.  Please send comments to the CDL via the online form at <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/feedback/>.

Digital materials of ever-increasing variety and complexity are seen to be worth collecting and preserving by memory organizations such as libraries, archives, and museums. Materials include objects converted into digital form from existing collections such as manuscripts, maps, visual images, and sound files, as well as “born digital” materials such as web sites.

In order for the CDL to provide effective preservation and access services, these materials need to be represented in a uniform manner.  The CDL GDO provides specifications for all new digital objects prepared by institutions for submission to the CDL.  It is based upon and supersedes the “CDL Digital Object Standard, Version 1.0” (May 2001) and the “OAC Best Practice Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 1.1” (January 2004).

The CDL GDO includes the following primary changes:

• Establishes “sliding scale” requirements: the more points at which a digital object can be made to conform, the more preservation and access services can be provided for it.
• Provides specifications for preparing digital objects, comprising metadata and content files (e.g., digital images, text) packaged using the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) format.
• Includes updated recommendations for digital image files.

a. Factiva

By Michael Oppenheim (Resource Liaison), UCLA

Factiva, from Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive LLC, is a new Tier 2 acquisition negotiated on behalf of seven participating campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Merced, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego. Previously, Factiva has been available to the business school communities at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UCLA; the combined purchasing power of the additional campuses now makes the database available campuswide at those institutions (Factiva has been available campuswide at UC Irvine for some years).

Factiva is a “mega” news and business information service, covering nearly 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages.  The search interface is available in nine languages: English (the default), traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Russian.  Content ranges from trade and industry publications to general and financial newspapers, newswires, media transcripts, web sites, photographs, and more.

Factiva is updated continuously, with more than 900 sources available on or before the date of publication. Coverage dates vary; some titles extend back more than 25 years.  The majority of sources are available full-text, and are searchable by title, publication type, industry, geographic location, and language.

Factiva also provides stock performance data, company-to-industry comparative reports, market index reports, and business press releases. Close to 25,000 public and private company profiles are available; public companies may be screened by such criteria as industry, stock exchange, location, employees, price and share data, corporate performance, dividend and growth rate, valuation and liquidity ratios, and efficiency ratios.

The Celex database for the European Union is available via the Factiva “News Pages” tab; Celex includes EU directives, treaties, legislation, case law, and other documents.

Among the major domestic and international news and business publications available in Factiva are Barron’s, BusinessWeek, the Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Forbes, Fortune, Le Monde, El Mundo, the New York Times, Newsweek, Nikkei, El Pais, the South China Morning Post, Time, the London Times, the Straits Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Die Welt.

Factiva is working with SFX to provide article-level linking via UC e-Links.  Implementation of this enhancement is projected for 2006. Currently, Factiva is best used on Windows operating systems with Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; as of December 12, 2005, use of IE 5.5 or higher will be mandatory (and no version of IE will be supported for Macintosh).  Netscape 8.0 may be used, but it is not fully supported.  The Safari browser is recommended for Macintosh users.  Factiva will not operate with the Mozilla browser.

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