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By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager

Effective November 18th, the HathiTrust Digital Library is now providing full-text searching capabilities across the entire library of 4.6 million volumes (1.6 billion pages) in the collection. Researchers can now search public domain and in-copyright works by keyword or phrase.

Based on open source Solr/Lucene technology, the service expands on an experimental search of public domain volumes introduced in November 2008. The CDL Discovery & Delivery team participated in testing the full-text search ahead of this release.

Full-text search will continue to be supported across the repository as it grows at a rate of hundreds of thousands of volumes every month. The UC Libraries currently have over 750,000 digital volumes in the HathiTrust, and the number continues to grow.

UC is a founding member of the HathiTrust, a collaborative enterprise of 25 leading research libraries. UC participation is coordinated by the California Digital Library (CDL), which brings its extensive experience in digital curation and shared online services to the HathiTrust.

The HathiTrust large scale search is available at: http://catalog.hathitrust.org.

For more information, please see the official press release: http://www.hathitrust.org/press.

Emily Stambaugh, CDL Manager of Shared Print

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of California Libraries a nine month planning grant to organize the “Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)” — a shared print repository service, focused initially on retrospective journal archives. UC Libraries in collaboration with regional library partners will band together to prepare service models for consolidating print journal holdings in responsible ways to provide efficiencies throughout the libraries. WEST is envisioned as a robust partnership that will allow libraries to build and manage a cooperative regional archive at the network level.  The proposal calls for library leaders in the Western Region of the United States to convene in Oakland, CA to (1) design operating, governance, and business models to support cooperative print archives among diverse partners; (2) establish standards for low-level validation and disclosure; and (3) develop selection criteria incorporating risk-management principles to ensure persistence within the broader context of similarly intentioned national and international efforts.

Library leaders from UC, Orbis-Cascade, GWLA, SCELC, Stanford, CalTech, Occidental College and more will band together to design the Western Regional Storage Trust incorporating sustainable models for participation amongst a wide variety of partners.  We are pleased to announce that Lizanne Payne, Director of the Washington Research Library Consortium, will serve as the consultant for this process.

For more information, please contact Emily Stambaugh, CDL Shared Print Manager.

By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager

In 2005, the UC Libraries entered into a ground-breaking partnership with the Internet Archive to digitize public domain book collections from the University of California Libraries. With the generous support of external partners such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, our collaboration grew to encompass two major on-site scanning centers at NRLF and SRLF and scores of dedicated staff at the UC Regional Library Facilities and elsewhere throughout UC, producing an impressive corpus of close to 200,000 public domain books that are now available worldwide to students, scholars, and the general public. Today, five years and over 64 million pages later, we announce the conclusion of this phase of our Internet Archive collaboration and celebrate the work we have accomplished together.

UC’s book digitization partnership with Internet Archive began in 2005 as a founding member of the Open Content Alliance. In February 2006, the first on-site digitization center comprising ten Scribe scanning machines was installed at NRLF; a second 10-station scanning center was opened at SRLF later that year.  In August 2008, UC’s on-site Internet Archive digitization center at NRLF was de-commissioned and relocated to an Internet Archive facility in San Francisco, leaving the SRLF scanning center as our only remaining on-site facility. One year later in August 2009, the UC-hosted Internet Archive scanning center housed at SRLF was closed and relocated to a new off-site facility in the Los Angeles area, marking the conclusion of a digitization project that has made available to the world an unparalleled digital corpus of public domain books drawn from the renowned collections of the University of California Libraries.

Although the closing of the SRLF facility is an ending of sorts, it also marks an impressive milestone in the work that we have achieved in digitizing public domain materials from UC library collections. UC books comprise the second-largest public domain corpus digitized by the Internet Archive. These books come from the collections of all ten UC campuses housed at our two RLFs, as well as selected collections from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, The Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA and its Department of Special Collections, and the UC Davis Libraries. Notable collections include Italian Comedies, the Center for Oral History Research, the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale Collection, the Maurice N. Beigelman Collection of Ophthalmology, Robert E. Gross Collection of Rare Books in Business and Economics, The Bulletin of the California Division of Mines and Geology, and the Bulletin of the California Department of Water Resources, among many others. UC Libraries can be particularly proud to have completed the digitization of a major corpus of English language books published prior to 1923 housed at our two regional library facilities (excluding items rejected due to condition or other technical reasons). We were fortunate to be able to continue digitizing additional pre-1923 roman language content at SRLF in recent months with remaining funding from Microsoft, CDL, and the Internet Archive.

While this phase of our work with Internet Archive is coming to an end, we look forward to continuing our collaboration for many years to come as opportunity and resources permit.

CDL is honored to acknowledge the outstanding dedication and efforts of the many individuals involved in this project, including: Internet Archive managers Julie Lefevre, Kris Brix and their teams; Scott Miller, Jutta Wiemhoff, Shondell Beck, Jeanette Kalchik, Tom Hudgens, and Sarah Schrader at NRLF; Colleen Carlton, Matthew Smith, Carlos Mendiola, and Ryan Tanaka at SRLF; Mary Elings and David Zuckerman at UC Berkeley; and Karen Andrews and Sylvia Villa at UC Davis.

The collections created by this project will be included in the HathiTrust Digital Library for preservation and access, along with UC’s Google books. CDL is currently working with the University of Michigan to develop the process needed to add our Internet Archive-digitized books to the HathiTrust in the coming months.

Digitized collections from the University of California Libraries can currently be viewed on the Internet Archive site at the following location:
http://www.archive.org/details/university_of_california_libraries

More information on the UC Libraries’ mass digitization projects can be found on the InsideCDL web site: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/massdig/ .

By Lena Zentall, Project Manager, Bibliographic Services

In November 2008, CDL convened a team to implement an Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS) to manage CDL’s shared licensing activities for Tier 1 and CDL-supported Tier 2 resources.  The ERMS is hosted on the Serials Solutions 360 platform.  For more information about CDL’s selection of Serials Solutions ERMS, see the CDLINFO article “Serials Solutions Chosen as Electronic Resources Management System (ERMS)” from September 22, 2008.

The ERMS implementation team (iTeam) achieved a major milestone on July 31, 2009 when they finished the initial phase of loading CDL data into Serials Solutions.  During August and September, the iTeam will complete remaining data entry, review the data, and ensure holdings and titles are in sync with the various CDL tracking systems including shared cataloging data and UC-eLinks data.  At the same time, CDL staff will begin adapting their workflow routines to adjust to the new system.

CDL staff have already started using the system to support licensing activities.  CDL Helpline staff are consulting the ERMS on a daily basis and have been pleased with the accuracy of the data loaded by the team. In the coming months, the iTeam will consult with the Collection Development Committee (CDC) to determine the best way to make relevant data available to campuses.

We’ll provide further updates as implementation progresses.  Campuses should feel free to contact Lena (lena.zentall@ucop.edu) with any questions about CDL’s implementation plans.

By Lisa Ngo (UCB), NTRL Resource Liaison

The new National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) indexes over 2 million technical reports produced from government-sponsored research, with over 500,000 of those reports in full-text and more to be added as they are digitized.  Reports cover a wide range of subjects including health care, energy, transportation, civil engineering, and more, and are published by agencies like the Departments of Energy and Defense, among others.  More information about NTRL can be found at http://www.ntis.gov/products/ntrl.aspx.

UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Irvine, UC Merced, and UC Davis willbe participating in the Tier 2 agreement, with UC Berkeley as the leading campus.  Lisa Ngo, at UC Berkeley’s Engineering Library, is the Resource Liaison.

By Wendy Parfrey, Shared Content Coordinator

CDL currently manages almost 400 online resources acquired on behalf of the UC campuses during the last ten years.  The majority of these resources are of broad, systemwide multidisciplinary interest for scholarly research and undergraduate curriculum.  In the last few years, more specialized resources have been acquired in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, including new content areas such as music, images and East Asian languages.

As the information available in electronic form penetrates ever more deeply into specialized subject areas, need has emerged for new tools to support the increasing diversity of collection development objectives across the UC system.  Often a single campus, or a small group of campuses, is interested in acquiring specialized e-resources to support local research and curriculum goals.

As a way to facilitate individual campus licenses as well as potential Tier 2 efforts, CDL has begun to negotiate predetermined campus discounts with the most requested aggregators where UC already has established licenses.  The objective is to give campuses flexibility to choose to locally license or consult with other campuses to license on a multi-site basis during the year, benefiting in each case from a negotiated discount.  Such e-resources may also evolve into formal Tier 2 arrangements depending on the level of collective interest.

In order to facilitate and streamline this process and offer the benefit of pre-determined discounts for single and multiple campuses, CDL has set up the Campus Discount Program.

For more information, including the vendors that are participating in 2009, go to http://www.cdlib.org/inside/collect/protected/discounts/campus_discounts.html.

If you need the Inside CDL password, go here:  http://www.cdlib.org/inside/errors/password.html.

By Holly Eggleston, CDL Resource Liaison Coordinator and Electronic Resource Analyst

CDL is pleased to announce the following resource liaison assignments within the CDL Resource Liaisons (RL) program.  Resource Liaisons provide a crucial link between the UC system and our licensed resource vendors, as well as providing a link between CDL and the campuses.  Resource Liaisons serve as the primary conduit to communicate resource issues to vendors and CDL, as well as offering expertise and assistance for activities during the resource’s lifecycle.  Some Resource Liaisons are responsible for several databases on the same platform.

Anthropology Plus - Martha Ramirez (mram@ucsc.edu)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text - Bruce Abbott (babbott@lib.ucdavis.edu)
Declassified Documents Reference System - Juri Stratford (juris@lib.ucdavis.edu)
Digital National Security Archive - Juri Stratford (juris@lib.ucdavis.edu)
Historical Statistics of the United States - Joseph Yue (josephyue@library.ucla.edu)
Patrologia Latina Database - Sheila Smyth (smyths@uci.edu)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Sheila Smyth (smyths@uci.edu)
Stat!Ref - Judy Bube (jlbube@uci.edu)

We thank the Resource Liaisons themselves, as well as the campus libraries that are contributing staff to this important program.

To learn more about the Resource Liaisons program, please see http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/rl/.

By Wendy Parfrey, Shared Content Coordinator

As part of its collaborative mission and if one-time funds are available, CDL acquires digital rights in perpetuity to important scholarly resources.  CDL was able to purchase perpetual rights to eight new resources with end-of-year funds in June 2009.

The resources purchased by CDL were all top priorities requested by UC bibliographer groups, particularly African Studies, Califa, English and American Literature, GILS, News, and Performing Arts.  Because such decisions must be made within a short period of time, preference is generally given to resources that can be accommodated under an existing license or whose licensing terms are expected to be straightforward.  All UC campuses will have access to the new resources at no additional cost in FY 2009/2010.

Following is a brief summary of the new consortial acquisitions.

CDL End-of-Year Acquisitions in FY 2008/2009

Archivision Digital Research Library   [http://uclibs.org/PID/44518] – 28,000 images of art, architecture, gardens, parks and historic or contemporary sites from all over the world.  The Visual Resources group has requested Archivision as their #1 priority for a number of years.  Archivision is hosted on the ARTstor platform and is now available to all UC users.

LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection Part A (1824-1979) – [Note:  This resource has not yet been activated.  The PID will be distributed as soon as the licensing process has been completed.]  Public policy starts and ends with Congressional committee hearings.  In these hearings, Congressional committees assess, amend, approve or kill legislation, as well as oversee the implementation and effectiveness of previously enacted legislation falling under their jurisdiction.  The LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection forms an unparalleled documentary record of events and public policy issues faced by America, as well as the objectives and actions of Congress in dealing with these events and issues.  In addition to responding to long-standing selector recommendations, this acquisition will also facilitate shared collection management initiatives for government documents.

San Francisco Chronicle , 1865-1922 (ProQuest)  [http://uclibs.org/PID/131928]  – Founded by two brothers in 1865 when the West was still wild, the San Francisco Chronicle covers the completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Klondike gold rush, the S.F. earthquake and fire of 1906, America’s entry into World War I, and the many events that shaped the San Francisco Bay region.  The Historic S.F. Chronicle can be cross searched with the Historical Los Angeles Times (an earlier CDL purchase) for complete historical coverage of the State of California.

African Writers Series (ProQuest) [http://uclibs.org/PID/115824] –The Heinemann’s African Writers Series includes seminal works from the canon of African literature of the 20th century: influential stories, drama, poetry, author biographies and literary works from notable authors such as Nelson Mandela and Nadine Gordimer.

The next four resources were purchased from Alexander Street Press, an independent publisher of highly acclaimed and unique digital collections.

Latin American Women Writers  [http://uclibs.org/PID/142275]  – A collection of over 100,000 pages of literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century forward to the present.  Latin America and its literary culture encompass twenty diverse countries, each with its unique voice and struggle for independence after the end of colonization.  The collection includes memoirs, essays and literature in the original language of the writers.

North American Theatre Online  [http://uclibs.org/PID/142278]  – More than 40,000 pages of critical, in-copyright reference works about authors, plays, theatres, productions, production companies, casts and related information covering the world of theatre from colonial times to the present.  This reference collection includes upgrades to CDL’s previously purchased Black Drama (Vol. 2 upgrade) and Twentieth Century North American Drama as well as a new resource, North American Indian Drama.

Theatre in Video  [http://uclibs.org/PID/142276]  – Theatre in Video contains over 250 of the world’s most important 20th century plays together with over 100 video documentaries, including the BBC Shakespeare Series, delivered in streaming video.  When using Theatre in Video together with North American Theatre Online, students will be able to find the complete performance of a play in streaming video, its full text, production background, reference materials and related ephemera.

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000  [http://uclibs.org/PID/142277]  – CDL originally purchased this award-winning collection in 2005 and we are now upgrading to the Scholar’s Edition, featuring 75,000 additional pages of scholarly material about women’s activism in public life since 1963.

Lastly, the remainder of CDL end-of-year funds have been used to extend the SCOPUS pilot through the end of December 2010.  This will allow the CDC Scopus evaluation task force as well as individual UC libraries and research departments more time to complete their evaluation and analysis of this tool.

By Joan Starr, Manager, Strategic and Project Planning and Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager

Ingest of University of California’s Google books has begun
Through the diligent efforts of a CDL and University of Michigan team, UC’s Google-digitized books are now flowing into the HathiTrust repository, and ingest is progressing well.  At the time of this writing, the number of volumes available via the HathiTrust beta catalog is 136,125 and this number grows weekly.  Now that the UC Google ingest is underway, the first stage of planning for the ingest of UC’s Internet Archive-digitized books has begun.  For a look at the full range of public domain volumes available from all participating HathiTrust institutions, please see the “visualization” by LC classification and by language.

Formation of Working Groups on Research Center and Development ’sandbox’
HathiTrust issued calls last month for names of participants in two new working groups: one to develop a proposal for a Research Center to be created under the terms of the Google Settlement, and one to create a development environment for HathiTrust partners to build and test repository applications and services. It is expected that membership of these two groups will be finalized in June.  The UC development representatives are: Stephen Abrams, Lynne Cameron, Stephanie Collett, Paul Fogel, Erik Hetzner, John Kunze, David Loy, Andy Mardesich (all of CDL), and David Minor (UCSD).

HathiTrust-OCLC Catalog Project
In May, the HathiTrust-OCLC Catalog Implementation team developed a detailed communication plan for collaboration on the project.  This plan includes biweekly meetings of the newly formed metadata subgroup, which will focus on metadata questions including display of access rights, faceting, and sorting of volume information.  The UC representative on the team is Adam Brin (CDL).  To read more, visit the new project blog at http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/hathitrust-oclc.

“Page Turner” upgrade
UC and Michigan are collaborating in the creation of an updated Page Turner application for viewing volumes in HathiTrust.  Staff at CDL took a close look at the open source book reader GnuBook and outlined the steps for integration into the current HathiTrust Page Turner.  Staff from both institutions discussed implementation possibilities in a conference call in May, and development is expected to begin in June.

New Blogs for Large-scale Search and the HathiTrust-OCLC Catalog Project
Two new blogs have been launched on the HathiTrust website (http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs).  One will provide up-to-date information on HathiTrust’s efforts to enable full-text searching across the entire repository (http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/large-scale-search), and the other will track the development of the permanent HathiTrust catalog, proceeding in collaboration with OCLC (http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/hathitrust-oclc).  RSS feeds for the blogs are available at http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/large-scale-search/feed and http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/hathitrust-oclc/feed.

HathiTrust Strategic Advisory Board
The HathiTrust Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) has been established.  This group, which consists of 4 representatives from the CIC, and 3 from UC, will review and consider implications of the HathiTrust development agenda, convene task forces to address specific issues, and develop policies for HathiTrust and its partners.  Our UC representatives on the SAB are Patricia Cruse (CDL), Robin Dale (UCSC), and Bruce Miller (UCM).  A description of the governance structure and full listing of representatives from all participating institutions is available via the HathiTrust website.

HathiTrust official Development Updates are now issued on a regular basis.  We also plan to present UC highlights on a regular basis here in the CDLINFO newsletter.

More information about the UC Libraries’ mass digitization projects may be found on the Inside CDL web site.

By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, Information Services

EconLit, a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world’s economic literature, and FIAF, which contains the International Index to Film Periodicals and International Index to Television Periodicals, will move from the SilverPlatter to the OvidSP platform on Monday, June 29, 2009.  On Tuesday, June 30, 2009, the SilverPlatter platform will be completely shut down and the only access to these databases (along with some other campus licensed SilverPlatter databases) will be on the OvidSP platform.

On June 29, the persistent identifiers (PIDs) for these databases will change to the URL for the OvidSP version of the database.  On the SilverPlatter platform, each campus required a specific URL for access.  On the new OvidSP version, all campuses will use the same URL; campus-specific statistics will be based on IP address recognition.

Campuses using a direct URL to the SilverPlatter version of these databases in their lists of databases, guides, etc. should change to the URLs below on June 29th.

EconLit (all campuses): http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=main&D=econ

FIAF (all except SF): http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=main&D=iifp,bfmp,idft,lopi,iitp