By John Bloomberg-Rissman (UCR), JSTOR Resource Liaison
Two new JSTOR collections are now available; these collections augment the JSTOR collections already licensed by UC.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences V
The Arts & Sciences Collections represent the building blocks of JSTOR’s interdisciplinary archive. The Arts & Sciences V Collection will comprise a minimum of 120 titles when it is completed in 2009. Building on disciplines introduced in previous collections, Arts & Sciences V will include a number of important literary reviews and state historical journals. It will also widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature. For title information please see http://www.jstor.org/about/asV.list.html .
Business II
The Business II Collection will feature at least fifty titles, twenty-five of which will be drawn from Arts & Sciences IV and the Arts & Sciences Complement. We are especially pleased to broaden the number of core international business titles in this collection. Business II also includes a number of journals that explore the intersections between economics and law, policy, and psychology. Please note that Business II overlaps with Arts & Sciences IV and Complement. For title information please see http://www.jstor.org/about/busii.list.html.
By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager
Many librarians and staff systemwide are busy this summer working on the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot, supported by the WorldCat Local service. A number of UC task groups, feeding into joint UC/OCLC working groups, are grappling with the complex issues involved in understanding what it would take to make WorldCat Local become UC’s Next Generation Melvyl Catalog.
These are some of the task groups in place, with more to come:
Records Missing from WorldCat Task Group
Local ILSs Task Group (formerly called Z39.50 Task Group)
Local Bibliographic Data Task Group
OCLC Holdings Symbols Task Group
Holdings Information Task Group
UC-eLinks Task Group
Request/Resource Sharing Task Group
Searching Government Information/Maps/GIS Task Group
Searching Non-Roman Alphabet Languages
Browse Search Task Group
The web site for this fascinating and challenging project is updated on a regular basis, as task groups are appointed and report on their work. You can see the members, charges, and reports at the web site.
Charges for the Joint UC-OCLC Workgroups are now also beginning to appear on the web site.
And, coming soon….the Next Generation Melvyl pilot project will have an open discussion forum where registered users (that means you!) can exchange ideas, post and answer questions, and discuss the pilot. Stay tuned for more details.
(Check here for an earlier CDLINFO article on this project, or the June 22, 2007 press release.)
By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager
Users will begin seeing interface improvements to the UC-eLinks menu windows as of July 28, 2007. These changes are being made based on the results of usability tests conducted with UCSD undergraduate students, by the CDL in coordination with UCSD library staff. Changes are also being implemented after consultation with UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) and review by the UC Resource Sharing Committee (RSC). The main changes include:
Bolding of the title and source
Removal of date input boxes; these were found to be more confusing to users than edifying
Groupings of services instead of all choices being displayed in a continuous list; groupings were found to be easier to scan and understand
Clearer, more user-friendly and action-oriented labeling including an actionable “Go” button added to all entries
The UC-eLinks menu window presents different options depending on how the user arrives at the menu window. In addition to coming to the UC-eLinks menu window from article databases, one can also arrive from:
A-Z lists for journal discovery
Online public catalogs
Citation Linker forms
The input boxes that allowed the user to change the citation year and volume, issue and start page information are now omitted in all cases. Other page elements in this area of the screen will retain the same behavior in the new version as they did previously:
Resource notes (e.g., simultaneous user limits, announcements of resource downtime) will display, if applicable
Authentication notes (e.g., links to campus remote access pages) will display, if applicable
Availability notes (e.g., subscription coverage dates, moving walls or embargo periods) will appear when coming from A-Z lists, online public catalogs, and versions of the Citation Linker form used by Interlibrary Loan (ILL) staff. The availability notes will not display when coming from public versions of the Citation Linker form or from article databases.
Below are images of the existing and new UC-eLinks menu windows:
By Rosalie Lack, CDL Digital Special Collections Director
The UC Merced Library and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collaborated to make more than a millennium of Japanese art available online. When complete there will be over 1,000 objects available online from the Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art collection (housed at the Clark Center). Currently, 655 digital images are available. These images are available in Calisphere [ view here] and the Online Archive of California (OAC) [view here].
The content covers a broad range of Japanese art, in diverse media and from multiple periods; among the highlights of the collection are Buddhist paintings and sculptures from the 13th and 14th centuries. QuickTime VR versions were created for some of the items which allow users to get a 360 degree view of three-dimensional objects.
The digitization was funded with a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The project was managed by Emily Lin, Merced’s Digital Assets Librarian.
The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture houses one of the more significant collections of Japanese art and the largest collection of Nanga (Southern-style) paintings, calligraphy and related research materials in the United States. The collection includes screen and scroll paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, textiles, metalwork and woven bamboo art, with works dating from the tenth century to the present day. For more information on the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, visit http://ccjac.org or call (559) 582-4915.
By Adrian Turner, CDL Data Acquisitions consultant
The "CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects, Version 2.0" (CDL GDO) has been updated to reflect modified requirements for METS unique identifiers. You can find the updated version at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/guidelines/ .
The revision applies to Section 3.1 only, and pertains to objects submitted for the CDL’s "Enhanced Service Level”. This service level encompasses the presentation of digital assets via CDL websites. It is also sufficient for increased preservation services in the UC Libraries Digital Preservation Repository.
The METS top-level <mets> tag must contain an OBJID attribute containing an ARK identifier for the digital object. Previously, the CDL GDO indicated that the OBJID attribute could contain a unique local identifier in lieu of an ARK identifier. CDL systems do not support this scenario, however, for objects submitted for the Enhanced Service Level only.
