By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

As mentioned in an earlier announcement about the move to EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete (3/19 to Users Council), the UC libraries have received free access to several additional EBSCO databases.  Some of these are aimed at a K-12 audience, and those campuses with education programs requested that we acquire them.

(As a reminder, users can currently use Academic Source Complete, and Gale’s Expanded Academic ASAP will be retired June 30.)

The new titles (in addition to Academic Search Complete) are available now, and can be accessed from the EBSCO dropdown menu.

Business Source® Complete
On the Business Searching Interface
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=bsi  
On the EBSCOhost Interface 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bth  
Business Source Complete is “the world’s definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content.  As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included.  In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.  Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.  Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.”

EBSCO Animals 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ani 
EBSCO’s Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.  The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client.  Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=funk 
The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.  Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display.  The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.  This database is updated annually.

GreenFILE 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=8gh 
GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.  Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.  Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.  GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=lxh
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings.  Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.  Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

MasterFILE Premier 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=f5h 
MasterFILE Premier is designed specifically for public libraries; MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 titles.   This database features: 5,000full textMagill Book Reviews;nearly 500 full text reference books including theWorld Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 85,827 biographies; 105,789 full text primary source documents;American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition;and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags.  MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journaland National Review.

Middle Search Plus 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=mih 
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines.  All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).  Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.  Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary,4th Editionfrom Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags.

Military & Government Collection 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=mth 
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.  The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals.  The database also offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.  Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more.  Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.

Newspaper Source 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=nfh 
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 28 U.S. and international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc.  The database also contains selected full text for more than 260 U.S. newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc.  In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

Primary Search 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=prh 
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).  In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines.  Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys’ Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more.  This database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags.  Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.  Full text backfiles go as far back as 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1985.

Regional Business News 
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bwh 
Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.  Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain’s New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

As part of the 2008 renewal process for the LWW online journals, Journal of Investigative Medicine has been added to the CDL’s agreement with Ovid.

UC-eLinks will be enabled and the title cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program.  The full list of licensed titles is posted online at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/publisher_info/LWWLicensedTitles2008.xls .

Details of the title selection process are described in the document “Managing Changes to Journal Packages” available at Inside CDL (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/collect/ejournal_guidelines.html ).  Questions regarding these new titles can be directed to CDL Acquisitions, cdl-acquisitions@ucop.edu.

CDL/CDC Shared Print has a new website.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/

The new site is integrated into Inside CDL and can be accessed through the Collection Development Process and Collections pages.  The site consists of two parts:

1. Main Shared Print page
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/

2. Agreements and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) pages
One of the goals for Shared Print is to bring greater visibility to current cooperative print agreements. These pages index the active cooperative print agreements made by UC Bibliographer groups, individual UC Libraries, extramural partners and the California Digital Library (on behalf of the UC Libraries).

The pages include active agreements that have been formalized and publicly posted.  Agreements that are managed by CDL/CDC Shared Print are identified with a special icon for Shared Print.

Agreements are grouped by Broad Discipline (Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, Area Studies, Government Publications and Maps) and further identified as prospective or retrospective projects.

• CDL/CDC Shared Print and Other Cooperative Agreements (combined list) [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/agreements_combined.html]
• CDL/CDC Shared Print Agreements [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/agreements_sp.html]
• Other Cooperative Agreements [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/sharedprint/agreements_other.html]

• 2007 UC systemwide and campus-by-campus aggregated usage statistics for selective major Tier 1 and Tier 2 journals and database are now available on the Inside CDL website at  http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/usage_statistics.html#2007

Two types of reports are included:  Ejournal articles viewed by campus and Database searches & sessions by campus.  The aggregated annual reports represent a better consortial view of all the campuses’ data with two years trends.  Some resources included here are not covered by ScholarlyStats service at present.  The CDL reports are selective and not every publisher or vendor provides usage statistics.  CDL will monitor usage for newly licensed resources.

Usage statistics are an important metric for collection analysis.  Combined with other metrics, usage statistics have been applied in the title adjustment process and in publisher negotiations.  Usage data may be misinterpreted due to a variety of reasons.  Web crawlers and harvesters are increasingly common in the academic environment and are already causing usage data anomalies in CDL licensed resources.  One example discovered in the 2007 statistics was that data mining at one of the campuses in the Linguistics department inflated the usage for the journal Science.

• Beginning in 2008, two new accounts will be added to UC statistics: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory library and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory library.  There will be 13 user accounts total.  ScholarlyStats is continuing to expand its list of platforms.  More about ScholarlyStats service: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/scholarlystats.html
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]]> By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager

The UC Libraries are in the process of scanning millions of books from our print collections so that ultimately users will be able to discover and access these books in digital form.  Our libraries have embraced this enterprise with both diligence and enthusiasm.  We’ve had a very dynamic couple of months in mass digitization activities across UC, with contributions from a broad representation of UC campuses.

On campus
The following UC Libraries’ locations have been contributing directly to our mass digitization projects: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, NRLF and SRLF.  Staff members at these locations mobilize consistently and impressively on a daily basis to provide an enormous number of UC books for digitization.  Because of our efforts at NRLF and SRLF, books from almost every UC campus have entered the digitization flow.

In the news!
NRLF, UCSC, and UCSD have all recently been featured in news stories about the Google Book Search library project.  This is a testament to keen public interest in digital books, and to UC’s role in the worldwide wave of mass digitization.  It’s wonderful to see UC Librarians in the spotlight!

Behind the scenes at CDL
With the expansion of our Google projects to multiple locations, there has been a need to centralize some of the technical aspects of the operations (metadata transfer, sharing of files).  CDL has set up a shared server for automated deposit and transfer of files between CDL, campuses and digitization partners.  Work also continues on the CDL Mass Digitization Inventory Database (MDID), which will enable us to track the digitization workflow and make information available to the campuses for collection management purposes.  MDID is on schedule to be operational this summer.

CDL and UC Berkeley Library staff have been actively engaged in deliberations with technical staff at Google, Microsoft and the Internet Archive regarding quality standards, metadata, and other technical standards for our scanning projects.  CDL continues to download the book files made available to us by Google.  The Digital Preservation Group has been assessing cost models and options for storage and preservation of the tidal wave of files coming from mass digitization.

In March, Google asked CDL to test their new Google Book Search Book Availability API (application programming interface), and the CDL Bibliographic Services team rose to the occasion.  They used the API to create a “hook” within a test version of the Melvyl catalog, which extends the ability for UC students, faculty and staff to find the mass digitized content.  With this API, the UC community will be able to find not only what UC has digitized, but they will also have access to content digitized by any other Google partner.  CDL is planning on moving this into production Melvyl, after we complete our UC consultation process.  More information can be found within the official UC press release.

Inside CDL web site
We’ve just rolled out the mass digitization pages on Inside CDL.  You can now read about our projects, view the contracts with our digitization partners, take a look at media coverage, and most importantly get links to all the locations where you can access the digitized UC books.  Of particular interest is the extensive FAQ section.

Seeking testimonials
As we think ahead to effective ways for UC to collaboratively capitalize on this growing digital collection, CDL is interested to hear of positive experiences you’ve had in utilizing UC’s digitized books.  Please feel free to send them my way:
–Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager (heather.christenson@ucop.edu).

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]]> By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

The UC campuses will have systemwide access to a new multidisciplinary database with full text content in the arts, social sciences, humanities and sciences beginning immediately via EBSCO Academic Search Complete.  Access to Gale’s Expanded Academic ASAP will continue to run in parallel with this new database through June 30, 2008.  After that time, the CDL license for Expanded Academic will not be renewed.

Recently, the “choose a campus” screen for Gale’s Expanded Academic ASAP database (http://uclibs.org/PID/16600) was updated with information about EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete, including links to both the EBSCO database and Gale’s Expanded Academic ASAP database.

If your campus links directly to Gale’s Expanded Academic ASAP database via a campus-specific PID or URL, your users may be unaware that this transition is coming.  Please be sure to advertise locally about the new service, EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete, and about the retirement of Gale’s Expanded Academic ASAP database at the end of June.

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]]> By Terry Vrable, CDL Acquisitions Coordinator

As part of the 2008 renewal process for the Wiley InterScience online journals, 7 recommended titles have been added to the CDL’s site license with Wiley:

1. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
2. ChemMedChem
3. IUBMB Life
4. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
5. Journal of Hospital Medicine
6. Project Management Journal
7. Scanning - The Journal of Scanning Microscopies

UC-eLinks will be enabled and the titles cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program as they become available online at Wiley InterScience (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/browse/?type=JOURNAL).

The full list of CDL-licensed titles is posted online at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/publisher_info/WileyLicensedTitles2008.xls.

Details of the title selection process are described in the document “Managing Changes to Journal Packages” available at Inside CDL (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/collect/ejournal_guidelines.html).  Questions regarding these new titles can be directed to CDL Acquisitions, cdl-acquisitions@ucop.edu.

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]]> By Terry Vrable, CDL Acquisitions Coordinator

As part of the 2008 renewal process for the Taylor & Francis online journals, 191 recommended titles, including former Lawrence Earlbaum journals, have been added to the CDL’s site license with T&F. The full list of CDL-licensed titles is posted online at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/publisher_info/TaylorFrancisLicensedTitles2008.xls.  The newly added titles are identified in the column “License Status”.

UC-eLinks will be enabled and the titles cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program as they become available online at T&F’s informaworld platform (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/browse~db=jour~thing=title~by=title).

Details of the title selection process are described in the document “Managing Changes to Journal Packages” available at Inside CDL (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/collect/ejournal_guidelines.html).  Questions regarding these new titles can be directed to CDL Acquisitions, cdl-acquisitions@ucop.edu.

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]]> By Terry Vrable, CDL Acquisitions Coordinator

As part of the 2008 title adjustment process for Elsevier’s ScienceDirect journals, the following recommended titles have been added to the CDL’s site license with Elsevier:

1. American Journal of Human Genetics
2. Cell Host & Microbe 
3. Cell Stem Cell 
4. Chemical Engineering Research and Design
5. Cortex
6. Education for Chemical Engineers
7. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
8. Metamaterials
9. South African Journal of Botany

UC-eLinks will be enabled and the titles cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program as they become available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/.

As part of the title adjustment process, a similarly priced group of titles was removed from the CDL’s 2008 license. Access to current volumes will no longer be available for the following journals:

1. Computer Standards and Interfaces
2. Homo: journal of comparative human biology
3. Metal Powder Report
4. International Journal Of Approximate Reasoning
5. Resources Policy
6. Topology and Its Applications

The 2008 list of licensed titles is posted online at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/publisher_info/ElsevierLicensedTitles2008.xls.
Questions regarding these new titles can be directed to CDL Acquisitions, cdl-acquisitions@ucop.edu.

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]]> By Terry Vrable, CDL Acquisitions Coordinator

As part of the 2008 contract renewal for the Sage online journals, 27 titles have been added to the CDL’s site license with Sage.  The list of licensed titles with the 27 new-for-2008 titles highlighted is posted online at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/publisher_info/SageLicensedTitles2008.xls.  

The titles can be accessed at http://online.sagepub.com/browsejournals.dtl.  UC-eLinks will be enabled and the new titles cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program as they become available online.

Questions regarding new titles, including the new Sage titles, can be directed to CDL Acquisitions, cdl-acquisitions@ucop.edu.

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