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By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, Information Services

Over the weekend of April 19th, a number of changes were brought into Next Generation Melvyl, supported by WorldCat Local (WCL).  These changes are especially noticeable on the detailed record display.  Many of these improvements were created based on the feedback, comments, and teamwork of UC librarians, users and staff, and the work of the Assessment and the Implementation Teams.  Below is a very detailed description (in PDF format) of these improvements (30 pages long), along with a second PDF with later changes to the original document from OCLC.

Among the changes implemented on Monday, April 20th were the following:

• Email opens a window that allows the user to send an email with item details, including the call number
• Print opens the print dialog box
• Access to electronic content (“Get this item” service) has been improved
• Smooth scrolling
• Layered opening and closing of windows
• Global views (header, global menus, toolbar and footer) displayed at all times on the detailed record
• Links in the upper portion of the screen will change a bit from those now listed; users will see two possible sign-ins: one for their campus library (My library), if possible, and one for WorldCat
• The Toolbar will now allow users to export to RefWorks and EndNote via the “Cite” option; an array of citation styles is still included
• There are additional improvements for adding ratings, reviews, adding to lists, adding tags
• The bibliographic data is laid out more clearly
• More like this” links are clearer

Please note that OCLC made the following emendations to the information above, and these are described in fuller detail [PDF]:

1. OCLC has made some changes to the My WorldCat menu in the Global Menus (referenced in section 2.1.2).  (Screen shots are in the attached PDF.)

2. Sending an item via e-mail.  In Section 2.2.1, OCLC described the ability to send local item information via email which included editing the message before sending.  At the present time, users will not be able to edit the subject or notes section of the email form.  With these fields being editable there is an increased risk for spamming to occur.  Within the next month or two OCLC will be adding CAPTCHA functionality (a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer) to mitigate this risk.  At that time, OCLC will add back the ability to edit these fields.

3. An author search box has been added to author area of the details section (referenced in the attached document in section 3.1.4.)  This will conduct an au: search for the author name selected.

4. For May, OCLC will be adding an "Ask a Librarian" link to the toolbar (section 2.2) if the institution has configured a custom web link.  This link should open in a new window.

By Jacqueline Wilson, Senior Associate, Collections

The University of California Libraries will be evaluating Scopus <http://www.scopus.com>, a large interdisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and selected web sites developed by the publisher Elsevier.  The arrangement is part of the journals license for ScienceDirect negotiated by the California Digital Library on behalf of the ten campuses.  The Scopus database will be available for evaluation until February 28, 2010.  During the Scopus evaluation period members of the UC community will be invited to consider its coverage and functionalities in comparison with similar databases.  Scopus will also be evaluated to determine if its unique qualities and capabilities are of interest and strategic value to UC.

Scopus currently selectively indexes abstracts and provides citation analysis since 1996 for approximately 16,000+ peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers as well as open access journals, published sets of conference proceedings, trade publications and selected web pages.  It provides searching tools that allow users to see an overview of desired search results and refine them to the most relevant hits.  It also allows users to create alerts of new citations and provides tools designed to support research collaboration and assess journal quality.  Citations in Scopus are linked to available full-text articles on each campus via UC eLinks.  Although most comprehensive in the sciences, Scopus is currently expanding its coverage of the social sciences and humanities literature.

The Collection Development Committee has charged a Scopus Rollout and Evaluation Task Force to publicize and to lead a formal evaluation of Scopus.  The Task Force members are:  Myra Appel (Davis), Janet Carter (Los Angeles), Rob Melton (San Diego), Barbara Schader (Riverside), Jeff Williams (San Diego), Ivy Anderson (CDL), and Jacqueline Wilson (CDL, Chair).  The Scopus Task Force is developing an informative web site which will include a model campus publicity document, model speaking points for UC training librarians, a model PowerPoint presentation, and other documents.  This web site will be announced in the next week or two.

In addition, each campus library has designed a rollout liaison who will coordinate librarian training and local campus publicity.  The Scopus rollout liaisons are:  Myra Appel Davis), Marcus Banks (San Francisco), Janet Carter (Los Angeles), Andrea Duda (Santa Barbara), Susan Mikkelsen (Merced), Barbara Schader (Riverside), John Sisson (Irvine), Beth Weil (Berkeley), Jeff Williams (San Diego), and a soon to be announced liaison for Santa Cruz.  Hands-on training sessions will be held in Northern California in April and in Southern California in May.

Please contact your local campus rollout liaison or Jacqueline Wilson (Jacqueline.Wilson@ucop.edu) Scopus Task Force Chair for more information.

By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, Information Services

Attendees at this year’s lively Users Council meeting in Oakland (April 10, 2009) learned about an array of CDL programs and services and how they interact with our campuses, partners, and other national and international initiatives.  Participants also had the opportunity to chat and interact with the speakers and each other.

You can see the presentations, too, on these topics:

eScholarship Publishing Services: New & Enhanced – Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, eScholarship Publishing Program

Bibliographic Services: What we do for you: Next Generation Melvyl, Melvyl, Request, UC-eLinks – Leslie Wolf & Lena Zentall, Project Managers, Bibliographic Services

Re-envisioning Digital Preservation: Micro-Curation and Web Archiving Services – Perry Willett, Digital Preservation Services Manager and Tracy Seneca, Web Archiving Coordinator

Digital Special Collections: OAC Redesign; UC Image Service Update – Rosalie Lack, Director, Digital Special Collections

Re-envisioning (and Re-purposing) Collections: including Mass Digitization, Google, and the HathiTrust – Ivy Anderson, Director, Collection Development & Management

What does it all mean? CDL Overview – Laine Farley, Executive Director

Full notes, including questions and answers, and slides are available at
http://cdlib-s10.cdlib.org/inside/groups/users_council/this_years_ucnotes.html

By Karen Andrews (UCD), INSPEC Resource Liaison

INSPEC, the premier database for computer science, information technology, physics and electronics engineering, will move from Ovid to the ISI Web of Knowledge platform.  Beginning April 20, 2009, INSPEC will run in parallel on both sites.  Special features are the ability to obtain review articles, limit topic by experimental, theoretical, or applications approach.  Moving to the ISI Web of Knowledge platform allows powerful numerical range searching for properties of materials, searching for astronomical objects by acronym or location, and searching for inorganic chemical substances.

The INSPEC database will continue to be available via the current Ovid interface through June 30, 2009.  Beginning July 1, 2009, INSPEC will only be available through the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge search interface, where INSPEC will have its own site and unique URL link.

CDL has created an interim screen from the links to INSPEC and the INSPEC Archive in the Melvyl Catalog.  The interim screen links to both platforms (Ovid and WoK), which will run in parallel through June 30.  If campuses are currently using a direct URL to the INSPEC database, they may wish to change to the persistent identifiers (PIDs) in their lists of databases, guides, etc. On July 1, the PIDs will change automatically to the new ISI Web of Knowledge URL.  Note that in the ISI WoK platform, the INSPEC Archive is no longer a separate file and thus it will not have a unique PID.  After July 1, the Archive PID will point to the single, complete INSPEC file.

The PIDs for the databases are:

 INSPEC PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/22771

 INSPEC Archive PID: http://uclibs.org/PID/56834

By Adrian Turner, Data Consultant for Digital Special Collections

The UC Shared Images program recently revised and published its guidelines for shareable metadata.  Version 2.0 of the "Metadata Submission Guidelines" (MSG) is now available at:
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/image/msg_ucsi.pdf.

The MSG provides image-based metadata specifications for campus visual resource centers and libraries participating in the UC Shared Images program, available through the ARTstor hosting platform.  Through the program, campuses can collaboratively develop image collections and share them across the UC system — reducing redundant effort and costs, and providing a convenient and single point of access to the essential images faculty need for teaching.

Metadata that is consistent with other collection records across UC institutions as well as with other ARTstor collections will improve the integration and discoverability of records within ARTstor.  The specifications are based on the ARTstor Core metadata scheme (and indirectly, the VRA Core schema), and also draws on the Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) data content standard.

The guidelines were prepared by the Shared Metadata Working Group (SMWG) from December 2008 through March 2009.  A special thanks to all of the SMWG members for their time, effort, and expertise that went into preparing this document:

* Maureen Burns, Humanities, Visual Resources Curator (UCI)
* Jan Eklund, History of Art, Visual Resources Curator (UCB)
* Kathleen Hardin, Library, Visual Resources Curator (UCSC)
* Trish Rose-Sandler, Library, Metadata Analyst (UCSD)
* Susan Stone, Information Services and Technology, Data Services, Museum Informatics Specialist (UCB)

By Julia Gelfand (UCI), Resource Liaison for Earthscape

Columbia University Libraries and Columbia University Press have announced that Columbia Earthscape: An Online Resource on the global environment will cease on June 30, 2009.  The site will no longer be supported. 

This resource began in 2000 exploring the intersection of the earth and environmental sciences.  There were many resources on this site that supported teaching, learning, research and public policy in the ever changing global interests of environmental studies.  Unfortunately, subscriptions alone could not longer sustain the rising costs of operations to maintain the site.  Please contact your librarians on each campus for information about related resources that will support your learning in these subject areas.  Columbia CIAO and the Columbia Gazetteer will be continued products accessible to the University of California Libraries.