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a. JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection

By John Bloomberg-Rissman (UC Riverside ), CDL Resource Liaison

UC now has access to JSTOR’s Biological Sciences Collection.  This collection is growing, and will include at least 100 titles when it is completed in 2007.  This collection brings together the 29 journals available in JSTOR’s existing Ecology & Botany Collection with more than 70 titles new to JSTOR.  Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology.

The Ecology & Botany Collection that this new collection subsumes was founded with the assistance of the Ecological Society of America; it includes this society’s premier research journals alongside a range of titles broadly focused on ecosystems.  Topics covered by the ecology journals are wide-ranging, from biodiversity and climate change to conservation and experimental biology.  The botany titles - including the oldest botanical journal in the Americas - encompass a range of subjects such as plant biology, systematic botany, and taxonomy.  Six of the Ecology & Botany titles are also available in the Arts & Sciences I Collection.

For a detailed list of titles in the Biological Sciences Collection, please see: http://www.jstor.org/about/biosci_content.html.

b. Canadian Journal of Chemistry Backfile

By Christy Caldwell (UC Santa Cruz), CDL Resource Liaison

CDL is pleased to announce UC’s acquisition of the online backfile to the Canadian Journal of Chemistry. With this backfile, we now have full text access to the entire run of this journal under its current title (1951 to present).  This represents an addition of 46 years worth of content.

The publisher, NRC Research Press, expressed thanks to the joint efforts from the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Canadian Council of University Chemistry Chairs, and the University of Western Ontario for making the backfile possible.

The Canadian Journal of Chemistry publishes international articles primarily in analytical, inorganic, organic and physical-theoretical chemistry.

By Adolfo R. Tarango (UC San Diego), Head, Shared Cataloging Program Unit

Shared Cataloging Program staff have posted an “SCP Cataloging Priorities” document.  The document should address many questions campus staff may have regarding SCP cataloging priorities and how they were established.  The document lists the general priorities used and also notes some workload considerations that affect priorities.  Procedures for how staff may request SCP cataloging of online resources are also given as well as other general information about the scope of the SCP.  The document is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/scp/SCPpriorities.doc.

If you have questions regarding this document, please contact Adolfo Tarango at atarango@ucsd.edu.

The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following CDL Resource Liaisons:

American Assoc.  Cancer Research Journals – Penny Coppernoll-Blach, UC San Diego
ATLA Religion Database – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley
CIAO – Jesse Silva, UC Berkeley
Digital Dissertations – Michelle Jacobs, UC Merced
Early American Imprints, Series I and II – Kerry Scott, UC Santa Cruz
Family & Society Studies Worldwide – Ken Firestein, UC Davis
Handbooks in Economics – Harold Colson, UC San Diego
Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Ethnography and Archaeology Collections – Martha Ramirez, UC Santa Cruz
Index Islamicus – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley
MIT Press Journals – Michelle Jacobs, UC Merced
Philosopher’s Index – Jan Carter, UC Berkeley
RILM – Sara Davidson, UC Merced
RIPM – Sara Davidson, UC Merced

Each Resource Liaison serves as UC’s “resident expert” on one or more of our systemwide licensed resources, providing information on vendor performance and resource content to the CDL.  The Resource Liaison is also responsible for sharing information and soliciting opinions from colleagues regarding their assigned resource.

A full list of CDL Resource Liaisons can be found at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/rl/roster.html.

The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of “7train”, an XSLT 2.0-based tool for generating Metadata and Encoding Transmission Standard (METS) files from standardized XML inputs.  Version 1 of the open-source, platform-independent tool is available via Sourceforge at http://seventrain.sourceforge.net.

7train was designed to transform XML documents into METS files conforming to a specific METS profile.  This initial implementation was designed with the goal of transforming exports from the CONTENTdm digital asset management tool (Version 4.0 and higher) into the CDL 7train METS profile, available at http://www.loc.gov/mets/profiles/00000010.xml, which is suitable for inclusion in CDL repositories.  However, the tool can be customized to produce METS files from any kind of standardized XML document (e.g, OAI records).

The tool was developed through the CDL’s work in the “California Local History Digital Resources Project”, a multi-year LSTA grant-funded project that explores a model to aggregate, preserve, and provide permanent public access to digitized local history content via a statewide online access point.

The CDL invites METS implementors and CONTENTdm users to utilize and comment on the toolkit.  The Sourceforge web page contains contact information for feedback.

Calisphere is now available at: http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu.

Calisphere is a free public gateway to thousands of digitized primary sources - including photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, works of art - from UC museums and libraries and other cultural heritage institutions across California.  The site is a significant redesign of the CaliforniaDigitalLibrary.org web site (for background information, see the CDLINFO February 13, 2006 article at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo022306.html#3, and has a special emphasis on serving California teachers and librarians.

Overview of Calisphere’s features

Themed Collections are primary source sets created specifically to help educators easily find images aligned with the California State Board of Education Content Standards. Currently, the Themed Collections include 30 topics organized into six historical eras, from the Gold Rush to the 1970s.

California Cultures organizes Calisphere’s images into subsets related to four historically undocumented ethnic groups (African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans).  This organization gives educators another route to access compelling images that illustrate California’s diversity.  Also included are teacher-created lesson plans, offering complete units or inspiration for educators.  California Cultures was created by 13 University of California repositories in response to H.R. 1905, which made funds available to digitize archival materials relating to the ethnic groups of California.

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives, a separate web site accessible through Calisphere, includes more than 10,000 governmental and personal resources that illustrate the story of Japanese-American internment during World War II.

Browse A-Z is a search option tied to selected key terms in California’s History-Social Science Content Standards.  It allows educators to find even more primary source sets on specific topics for classroom use.

UC Web Sites on Calisphere

In addition to these features, more than 300 UC web sites created or maintained by UC libraries, museums, academic departments, and research units are easily accessible through Calisphere.  These sites cover a wide range of topics and provide thousands of additional primary sources and other resources for educators and students.

The web sites in the original public site were selected and cataloged by the Librarians Internet Index (lii.org) based on criteria that the CDL provided.  We are working again with LII to find new sites.

Go to the UC web sites home page to view, by campus, the sites that are currently in Calisphere: http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/ucsites.html.

If you would like to suggest additional sites of interest, please send an email to LII at: cdlreccs@lii.org.

a. ATLA Religion Database, Index Islamicus, Philosopher’s Index

By Jan Carter, UC Berkeley

The CDL is pleased to announce access to three new databases in philosophy and religious studies available from CSA.

The ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Religion Database indexes journal articles, book reviews and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religious studies.  All of the major faiths are represented including a wide selection of Christian traditions (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal), Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism and Confucianism.  Subject coverage is broad, making this a useful resource not only for those interested in religious studies but also for those doing historical, cultural, and area studies research.  Over 600 journals are currently indexed.Coverage extends back to 1949.  The database is updated quarterly.

Index Islamicus is an extensive bibliography of materials written in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.  Included are works about the Middle East, the Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere.  Subject coverage ranges broadly over the history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures of the Muslim world.  Journal articles, books, reviews, and essays are indexed. Over 3000 journals are monitored for inclusion.  Coverage is 1906-present.  The index is updated annually.

The Philosopher’s Index offers extensive indexing and author-written abstracts for scholarly research appearing in journal articles, books, book contributions, and reviews in all areas of philosophy, including aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, political and social philosophy, and the philosophy of disciplines such as anthropology, education, history and science.  550 journals from more than 40 countries are indexed.  Coverage begins with 1940.  The database is updated quarterly.

b. Bentham Science Journals

By Mary Ann Mahoney, UC Berkeley

Six UC campuses (UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCSD, and UCSF) recently signed a Tier 2 license for online access to eight journals published by Bentham Science:

• Current Organic Chemistry (Volume 10, Issues 1-18, 2006-)
• Current Medicinal Chemistry (Volume 13, Issues 1 - 30, 2006-)
• Current Pharmaceutical Design (Volume 12, Issues 1-36, 2006-)
• Current Protein and Peptide Science (Volume 7, Issues 1-6, 2006-)
• Current Molecular Medicine (Volume 6, Issues 1-8, 2006-)
• Drug Targets CNS & Neurological Disorders: (Volume 5, Issues 1-6, 2006-)
• Current HIV Research (Volume 4, Issues 1-4, 2006-)
• Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening (Volume 9, Issues 1-10, 2006-)

More information about Bentham is at http://www.bentham.org/.  UCB’s Mary Ann Mahoney led the negotiation process for this Tier 2 license.