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By Toshie Marra (UCLA) and Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of Tier 2 licenses.  (Some campuses may have already had access to these titles, or a portion of them, through previous local campus subscriptions):

Asahi Kikuzo II (Tier 2 with UCB, UCLA, UCM, UCSB, UCSC, UCSD.  On the Asahi Shimbun Co. platform from Japan)
http://uclibs.org/PID/136018

As a newspaper and magazine article database, Kikuzo II Visual contains over 5.8 million articles in full text from the following Japanese sources:
1. Asahi shinbun newspaper (1945-present): one of the most prestigious newspapers of general scope in Japan since 1879

2. AERA weekly magazine (May 1988-present): a popular weekly magazine with many graphic images since 1988

3. Shūkan Asahi weekly magazine (April 2000-present; news section only): a well-established weekly magazine since 1922

In addition, to commemorate the company’s 130th Anniversary, the Asahi Shimbun has launched the Historical Photo Archive on the web on January 26th, which offers approximately 10,000 valuable historical photographs of the period between the 1930s and 1945.  The Archive is currently accessible within Kikuzo II Visual free of charge until the end of March 2010.  The Archive contains photographs taken in Asia (Manchuria, Vietnam, Pacific Ocean Islands, etc.) and Europe (Germany, England, etc.) from the 1930s and throughout the Second World War period, and can be searched by keywords, bibliographic data, names of the places where photographs were taken, and also from a timeline.

The number of simultaneous users who can access Kikuzo II Visual is limited to 2 with this license.  If you have any questions, please contact Toshie Marra (tmarra@library.ucla.edu) who serves as Resource Liaison for Kikuzo II Visual.

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 (All campuses except Davis and UCSF; one time perpetual access from UCSC.  On the Alexander Street platform)
http://uclibs.org/PID/136017

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America.  Alongside 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, there are more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare audio and video materials.  The collection is further enhanced by dozens of scholarly document projects, featuring richly annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by leading historians.

Freedom rides, sit-ins, the draft, the Equal Rights Amendment, Earth Day, the Free Speech Movement, the Stonewall riots, Woodstock, the Summer of Love, the Space Race…The events of the Sixties tested and defined the core values of America.  But despite our familiarity with names, dates, and basic facts, there has been no single, comprehensive resource for study in this area.  With The Sixties, researchers will now have personal accounts by the people who experienced events firsthand, searchable together with important and rare audio, video, and historical documents.

Jane Faulkner (faulkner@library.ucsb.edu) is the Resource Liaison for The Sixties.

By Jacqueline Wilson, CDL Senior Associate for Shared Content

A task force appointed by the Scholarly Communications Officers (SCO) worked with the California Digital Library (CDL) to prepare information on the UC/Springer Open Access Journal Publishing Pilot, originally announced in January, for distribution to UC authors on each campus.  The information can be found on the Reshaping Scholarly Communication site at http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/alternatives/springer_faq.html.  This site includes a FAQ, a link to the Springer journals covered by the pilot as well as a short list of titles excluded from the program.  It is expected that campuses will customize the information to suit their local audience.

As was noted in the original message about this arrangement, it will be important to the success of the pilot that as many UC authors as possible know about this open access opportunity.  Scholarly Communications Officers and others will distribute information about this agreement to appropriate faculty and other authors on their campus as part of the local publicity plans that they have developed.

Final versions of the Springer journal articles published during the pilot will be available in the eScholarship Repository beginning in the fall.

CDL is pleased to have made this ground-breaking arrangement with Springer on behalf of UC authors and the Task Force is looking forward to assessing the results of this experiment as it unfolds over the next two years.

UC/Springer Open Access Journal Publishing Pilot Task Group:

Ivy Anderson (CDL)
Catherine Mitchell (CDL)
Margaret Phillips (Berkeley)
Jacqueline Wilson (CDL, Chair)

By Rosalie Lack, CDL Digital Special Collections Director

Do you have a web site you’d like to share that has been created by a UC campus faculty member, librarian, or researcher?  Would you like to raise the visibility of a web site you’ve created?  Is it an online exhibit, curated collection, or thematically-based grouping of materials?  Does the web site feature resources such as photographs, maps, historical documents, current articles and research, multimedia, electronic books, or other online resources?

Let us know!  We’d like to add it to Calisphere.

Context
Calisphere, managed by the California Digital Library (CDL), provides public access to primary source materials and freely available UC-created web sites. Calisphere offers more than 150,000 digitized items—including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts—selected from the libraries, archives and museums of the UC campuses, and from cultural heritage organizations across California.  Calisphere is also a gateway to UC-created web sites that reflect the diverse interests and scholarship of UC, including the humanities, social sciences, math, and science resources.  To date, we have published citations to over 500 websites—and we’d like your help to expand our registry.

Who uses Calisphere?
Calisphere is freely available to the public and is used by a broad range of users including UC students, K-12 educators and the general public.  By including UC sites in Calisphere, we increase their visibility and make them more broadly available.

Send Us Your URLs
Here’s how.

Library colleagues, please share this request for URLs with campus colleagues and with faculty and graduate students, who have content to share.

By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, Information Services

We continue our partnership with OCLC to implement NGM.  The current Melvyl and Next Generation Melvyl will run in parallel until such time as OCLC has met UC’s critical needs for the Melvyl Catalog.  The decision to move completely to NGM supported by WCL will not be finalized until UC is confident that UC’s service needs are met.

There were a number of enhancements brought into Next Generation Melvyl supported by WorldCat Local (WCL) on Sunday, March 15.  They include the following (and are described in greater detail as a PDF below this posting): 

• Saving a search from a search results page
• More display options for lists
• Larger list sizes
• View counts on lists and profiles
• Library affiliation privacy setting
• Cover art on search results and editions pages
• WorldCat Keyword Search Widget
• Searching 776 OCLC number from associated eSerial or eBook number

This last item affects UC’s users in a positive way.  For serials, with UC’s policy of single-record technique, our e-access is very frequently associated with the print version record.  If a user has limited a search to e-versions through faceting, this feature is likely to be a very big help.  This also means our libraries need not switch the UC cataloging policy for serials to separate record technique, which would be extremely costly.

UC’s cataloging policy for e-monographs is separate record technique.  From now until Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) reclamation is completed for e-monographs, this change will result in some payoff.  After reclamation is completed, OCLC’s change would be moot.

You can find detailed information on these enhancements at http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/oclc_docs/20090315_InstallUpdate_Notice4.pdf.

By Rosalie Lack, CDL Digital Special Collections Director

CDL is pleased to welcome Sherri Berger to the Digital Special Collections (DSC) group.  As DSC Program Coordinator, Sherri will be responsible for planning, project management, marketing and communications support for all DSC programs (Calisphere, OAC, and the UC Image Service).

Sherri comes to us from Champaign, IL, where she earned her Masters in Library Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Sherri worked on digital archives projects at the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art at the University of Illinois.  Her archival experience includes processing collections at Champaign County Historical Archives, assisting the rare book room with disaster relief at the UIUC Conservation Lab, and interning at the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Sherri has marketing and fundraising experience at Campbell & Company, consultants in advancement planning, fundraising, marketing and communications for nonprofit organizations.

By Lisa Schiff, eScholarship Publishing Program Technical Lead

The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the availability of an extensive self-guided tutorial for its eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) application.  XTF is an open source, highly customizable piece of software supporting the search, browse, and display of heterogeneous digital content and offering efficient and practical methods for creating customized end-user interfaces for distinct digital collections.  The tutorial provides guidance for implementing and customizing XTF, from core functionality to overall look and feel.Downloads for the Mac and Windows operating systems are available from the XTF Project page on SourceForge, along with the complete distribution and documentation.

The tutorial comes with a complete XTF package that is ready to run when uncompressed; no other installation is required.  It contains nine modules spanning the most powerful and popular features, including how to:

• Add new content
• Change metadata
• Change logo and colors
• Increase significance of titles in ranking hits
• Customize and enable default status of advanced search
• Change fields displayed in search results
• Enable structural searching
• Create a hierarchical facet
• Change footnote behavior

XTF Background and Overview
Since first developing and deploying this indexing and display technology in 2005, the CDL has worked to build and maintain XTF as a highly customizable application built upon tested components already in use by the digital library and search communities - in particular the Lucene text search engine, Java, XML, and XSLT.  By coordinating these pieces in a single platform that can be used to create multiple unique applications, the CDL has succeeded in dramatically reducing the investment in infrastructure, staff training, and development for new digital content projects.

XTF offers the following core features out of the box:

• Easy to deploy: Drops directly in to a Java application server such as Tomcat or Resin; has been tested on Solaris, Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems
• Easy to configure: Can create indexes on any XML element or attribute; entire presentation layer is customizable via XSLT
• Robust: Optimized to perform well on large documents (e.g., text that exceeds 10MB of encoded text); scales to perform well on collections of millions of documents; provides full Unicode support
• Extensible:
• Works well with a variety of authentication systems (e.g., IP address lists, LDAP, Shibboleth)
• Provides an interface for external data lookups to support thesaurus-based term expansion, recommender systems, etc.
• Can power other digital library services (e.g., XTF contains an OAI-PMH data provider that allows others to harvest metadata, and an SRU interface that exposes searches to federated search engines)
• Can be deployed as separate, modular pieces of a third-party system
• Powerful for the end user:
• Spell checking of queries
• Faceted displays for browsing
• Dynamically updated browse lists
• Session-based bookbags

A sampling of XTF-based applications include:

• Mark Twain Project Online (http://www.marktwainproject.org), developed by the Mark Twain Papers Project, the CDL and the University of California Press.
• Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.org/), developed by the CDL.
• The Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/)
• The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/) and The Swinburne Project (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/swinburne/www/swinburne/)
• Finding Aids at the New York Public Library (http://labs.nypl.org/2007/10/30/extensible-text-framework-xtf/)
• EECS Technical Reports (http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu:8088/xtf/servlet/org.cdlib.xtf.crossQuery.CrossQuery?rmode=btr)

For more information, visit http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/xtf/.

By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, Information Services

NISC USA resources have been purchased by EBSCO and will be transitioning to the EBSCOhost Research platform on April 17, 2009.  CDL has created interim screens from the links to these databases in the Melvyl Catalog.  The interim screens link to both platforms, which will run in parallel through April 16.  If campuses are currently using a direct URL to the NISC database, they may wish to change to the persistent identifiers (PIDs) in their lists of databases, guides, etc.  On April 17th, the PIDs will change automatically to the new EBSCOhost URLs for each database.

The databases involved include:

• Africawide NiPAD – PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/105678
• Black Studies Database* – PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/16679
• Family & Society Studies Worldwide – PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/16680
• Left Index – PID:  http://uclibs.org/PID/20838
• RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature – PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/16255
• RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals – PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/16694
• RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources – PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/32967
• Women’s Studies International – PID:  http://uclibs.org/PID/16677

* Note:  The Black Studies Database was not purchased by EBSCO and will not continue on the NISC platform beyond April 17.  The suggested replacement for NISC’s Black Studies Database is the Black Studies Center via ProQuest.

Campuses may have other locally licensed NISC databases, and should contact their NISC representatives for further information.

By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, Information Services

CDL’s Director of eScholarship Publishing, Catherine Mitchell, has been re-envisioning scholarly publishing, a topic that’s of broad interest right now.   Mitchell insists in a Library Journal interview, “There are a lot of publishing needs across the UC system that are going unmet, and we can bring better service to those individuals, departments, units, and centers, really compelling services.”  Read more in Institutional Repositories: Thinking Beyond the Box.

Clifford Lynch commented on the final report of ARL’s Digital Repository Issues Task Force, The Research Library’s Role in Digital Repository Services, in which Mitchell is also cited, “There’s a new report from the Association of Research Libraries that looks carefully and thoughtfully at what we have learned about the role of research libraries in Digital Repository Services, and provides an up-to-date perspective of the area in the broader context of developments in areas such as e-research.”

Want to learn more?  You can see and hear Mitchell, one of several “experts and advocates examin[ing] the state of the art in digital repositories in a new series of videos now freely available online from SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition).”

Mitchell and UC’s Press’s Laura Cerruti have an upcoming article in Against the Grain on the collaboration between CDL and the University of California Press:
Mitchell, Catherine and Laura Cerruti.  2009.  Local, Sustainable, and Organic Publishing:  A Library-Press Collaboration at the University of California.  Against the Grain 20(6): 22-28.

We are proud of Catherine’s leadership and contributions to the field of scholarly publishing on behalf of the University of California libraries.