CDLINFO

Terry Vrable, CDL Acquisitions Coordinator

As part of the 2008 renewal process for the Oxford University Press online journals, 21 recommended titles have been added to the CDL’s license with OUP:

1. Applied Mathematics Research eXpress
2. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
3. Cardiovascular Research
4. Christian Bioethics
5. Contemporary Women’s Writing
6. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM)
7. German History
8. International Journal of Transitional Justice
9. International Mathematics Research Notices
10. International Mathematics Research Papers
11. International Mathematics Research Surveys
12. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
13. Literary Imagination
14. Public Health Ethics
15. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
16. Review of Finance
17. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
18. Early Music
19. Essays in Criticism
20. Journal of the American Academy of Religion
21. Past and Present

UC-eLinks will be enabled and the titles cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program as they become available online at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/.  The full list of licensed titles is posted online at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/publisher_info/OUPLicensedTitles2008.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 new titles can be directed to CDL Acquisitions, cdl-acquisitions@ucop.edu.

By Terry Vrable, CDL Acquisitions Coordinator

As part of the 2008 renewal process for Cambridge University Press online journals, the following recommended titles have been added to the CDL’s license with CUP:

1. ANZIAM Journal
2. Austrian History Yearbook
3. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
4. Church History
5. International and Comparative Law Quarterly
6. Journal of Politics
7. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
8. Journal of the History of Economic Thought   

UC-eLinks will be enabled and the titles cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program as they become available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/browseJournalsAlphabetically.

The full list of CDL-licensed titles for CUP is posted online at http://www.cdlib.org/inside/resources/publisher_info/CUPLicensedTitles2008.xls.

Five new start-ups are openly available during 2008 and will be offered for inclusion in the 2009 renewal: Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, Journal of K-Theory, Marine and Freshwater Biodiversity, Politics and Religion, and the Review of Symbolic Logic.

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 new titles can be directed to CDL Acquisitions, cdl-acquisitions@ucop.edu.

By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial licenses.  (Some campuses may have already had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions.)

Physics Today Archive (Systemwide Access via Scitation [American Institute of Physics])
http://ptonline.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=PHTOAD
Full text access from 1985 to all but the most recent 12 months of the magazine; current contents remain a benefit to member subscribers. AIP plans to digitize all issues back to the magazine’s launch in 1948, eventually creating a complete archive.

University of Chicago Press Online Journals (Systemwide access via University of Chicago Press)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/
Chicago Journals Online is a fully searchable online portal including nearly fifty scholarly journals and annuals - from the latest research in a wide range of subjects to historical content dating from the founding of the University of Chicago Press in 1892 when it began publishing the Journal of Political Economy.  The website has features such as free e-TOC alerts by e-mail or RSS and publish-when-ready articles before print publication.

By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial licenses.  (Some campuses may have already had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions):

Global Financial Data (Systemwide access [minus UCSF] via Global Financial Data)
http://uclibs.org/PID/106641

Contains long runs of historical data (over 6,000 series) on security markets and macroeconomic trends for more than 200 countries.  Includes Long-term Financial, Interest Rate, United States Daily Stock Market, Global Stock Market, Total Return, Annual Data, and Dow Jones Industrial Average Intraday.  Includes online encyclopedia that describes the database.

Source OECD (Tier 2 resource does not include Berkeley, Santa Cruz and SF.  Berkeley and Santa Cruz receive through other vendors; Santa Cruz will join this license next year.  An optional add-on product, IEA Statistics, has been selected by 3 campuses:  Irvine, Riverside, and San Diego)
http://uclibs.org/PID/21193

Full-text publications and statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including country studies, forecasting publications, reports, and socioeconomic datasets.  The statistics section includes data in the areas of international trade, telecommunications, foreign aid, migration, and many other categories.

By Lena Zentall, CDL UC Image Service Manager

ARTstor and CDL representatives met with faculty and stakeholders at all 9 campuses participating in the ARTstor systemwide license, beginning with Berkeley on September 13 and concluding with a whirlwind tour of the final 8 campuses in 8 days from October 15-24, 2007.

The joint CDL/ARTstor campus visits attracted large numbers of faculty, staff, administrators and other stakeholders who were enthusiastic about using ARTstor and welcomed the collaborative opportunities and efficiencies of participating in UC Shared Images. We held two 90-minute sessions at each campus — a demonstration of ARTstor, and a meeting with stakeholders to discuss integration with ARTstor and UC Shared Images.

We were elated with the tremendous diversity of faculty, staff, administrators, and other stakeholders and with the many compelling questions and comments we received. We were pleased to see the large number of disciplines interested in using ARTstor and it was gratifying to hear the plans of instructional technology staff at the new ARTstor campuses for promoting ARTstor and installing the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) for faculty and students.

Upcoming will be a summary of issues raised and next steps in implementing UC Shared Images.

For more information, contact Lena Zentall, Image Service Manager (lena.zentall@ucop.edu; 510.987.9233).

By Ivy Anderson, Director of CDL Collection Development & Management

It is with much regret that we announce that Robin Chandler will be leaving the California Digital Library on November 30th to accept an appointment as Digital Library Program Manager at UC San Diego.

Robin has been a creative force at the CDL since her arrival in 2000.  Under her leadership as Director of Built Content, CDL cemented its reputation as a nexus of cultural heritage digital archives for the state of California.  Projects that owe their existence and/or development to Robin include the Online Archive of California, CalCultures, the Local History Digital Resources Project, and the American West virtual collection.  Most recently as Director of Data Acquisitions, Robin’s work at CDL has been synonymous with mass digitization.  Due to the efforts of Robin and her team working in close collaboration with campus libraries across UC, a robust infrastructure has been put into place through which more than half a million volumes from University of California collections have been digitized in partnership with the Open Content Alliance, Google, and Microsoft.

The CDL wishes Robin well as she explores new challenges as a valued colleague and collaborative partner in digital library development at UC.

Organization of CDL Data Acquisitions Activities Effective December 1st

In preparing for Robin’s departure, we have given considerable thought to how best to organize the diverse responsibilities currently performed by Robin’s unit within the CDL.  These activities generally fall into two areas:

• Data consultancy and ingest for CDL digital collections, including OAC, Calisphere, and the Local History Digital Resources Project (LHDRP)
• Mass digitization project coordination and partner relations

Staff contacts for these activities will continue unchanged, ensuring a high level of continuity for UC colleagues and other institutional partners.  Beginning December 1st , overall responsibility for these areas will be organized as follows:

• The Data Consultancy unit, including OAC and LHDRP, will report to the CDL’s Digital Special Collections Program, directed by Rosalie Lack.  Staff within this unit include:
• Adrian Turner, Data Consultant, LHDRP
• Gabriela Montoya, Built Content Operations Technician
• Data Consultant (currently vacant)

• Mass Digitization will reside within the CDL Collections Program, directed by Ivy Anderson.  Staff within this unit include:
• Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager
• Ann Jensen, Projects Liaison
• Paul Fogel, Technical Lead

Colleagues both within and outside of UC should continue to interact with the staff in these units as you do currently.  As we approach Robin’s departure date, some leadership roles and responsibilities will shift to accommodate changes in reporting.  Beginning December 1st, questions and concerns relating to overall policy and program management can be directed respectively to Rosalie Lack for data consultancy and Ivy Anderson for mass digitization activities.

We are confident that this alignment will enable the CDL to maintain a high level of service and momentum in these strategically vital activities.  Please contact Ivy Anderson (ivy.anderson@ucop.edu) or Rosalie Lack (rosalie.lack@ucop.edu) with any questions.

By Lena Zentall, CDL UC Image Service Manager

Did you know that over half a million high quality digital images are currently available to UC students, faculty and staff in a searchable database?

Every UC campus (except UCSF) now has access to ARTstor, a digital library containing nearly 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities and social sciences.  Thousands of additional images are added each month covering a wide range of cultures and time periods.

Demonstrations for faculty and library staff – 90 minutes

A demonstration highlighting the major features of ARTstor collections, tools, and services for a mixed audience of faculty and library staff is planned for all UC campuses.  This is an ideal time to get faculty and library staff from across campus and across disciplines together to talk about image use on campus.  The demonstration starts with a question period to discuss how image use is being supported currently on campus so there is some context for the ARTstor discussion. Megan Marler of ARTstor will lead the demonstration.  Lena Zentall from CDL will be available to discuss the Image Service and UC Shared Images.

Who Should Attend?

The ARTstor Digital Library is useful for librarians, educators, scholars and students in a wide variety of disciplines.  While ARTstor is an essential companion for historians of art and architecture and others engaged with the visual arts, individuals in fields as diverse as African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Architecture & Architectural History, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Design & Decorative Studies, History, Language & Literature, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Native American Studies, Photography, Religious Studies, Renaissance Studies,  Theater & Dance and Women’s Studies are also finding the digital images ARTstor offers to be relevant to their teaching and research.

Campus Visit Schedule

For more information, contact Lena Zentall, Image Service Manager (lena.zentall@ucop.edu; 510.987.9233).

By Ivy Anderson, Director of CDL Collection Development & Management

The CDL is delighted to announce that Emily Stambaugh has accepted an appointment as Manager of Shared Print beginning November 1st, 2007.  Emily comes to the CDL from the University of California at Riverside, where she has served as the Social Sciences Bibliographer and Collection Analyst since March of 2005.  At UC Riverside, Emily has overseen the development of the libraries’ collections in the Social Sciences, chaired the Electronic Resources Committee, licensed electronic resources, and provided leadership for the libraries’ collections in all formats.  Prior to coming to UC, Emily served as the Collection Development Librarian at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and prior to that, as Assistant to the Latin American and Iberian Resources Bibliographer at UNC Chapel Hill.

Emily has been active in various library organizations and consortia including ALA, the Western European Studies Section of ACRL, the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, and the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) system.  At UC, Emily has served with distinction on a number of systemwide committees, including the Collection Development Committee and the Scholarly Communication Officers Group (while serving as temporary Head of Collection Development at UC Riverside) and the Mass Digitization Collections Advisory Group.

Emily holds a Master’s Degree in Library Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley.  She speaks Spanish and Catalan and brings international publishing and business administration experience to her work in libraries, as well as a strong interest in collaborative collection development, resource sharing, area studies collections, synergies between print and electronic collections, long-term preservation and collection assessment.

Please join the CDL in welcoming Emily to this important leadership post on behalf of the UC Libraries’ shared print collections program.

By Ivy Anderson, Director of CDL Collection Development & Management

Bob Heyer-Gray (UCD) recently undertook a part-time appointment as Interim Resource Liaisons Coordinator at the CDL through August 2007.  Bob did a wonderful job in this temporary assignment organizing the April 2007 Resource Liaisons meeting, gathering and organizing the annual vendor evaluations from the RLs for the 2006/2007 resource work plan, working on the recruitment of new Resource Liaisons, and serving as a general point person for Resource Liaison issues.  The CDL has had to release Bob to take up his new role as LAUC President.  Bob, many thanks for your months of service to the CDL and your UC colleagues.

Beginning immediately, please contact Wendy Parfrey for questions and assistance with Resource Liaison-related matters.  Wendy can be reached at wendy.parfrey@ucop.edu.

CDL hopes to launch the recruitment for a reconfigured position incorporating Resource Liaisons coordination responsibilities in the next few months.

By Lena Zentall, CDL UC Image Service Manager

The ARTstor license is now systemwide

Beginning August 1, 2007, five additional campuses - Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, and Santa Barbara are joining the existing ARTstor subscribers (Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Cruz) in a systemwide ARTstor license negotiated by CDL; San Francisco is not participating at this time.  CDL paid the one-time archive capital fee and the annual access fee until January 1, 2008 for the new campuses.

ARTstor is an ever-growing digital library of over 500,000 images of art, architecture and archeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods to support teaching and learning in the humanities and social sciences. Learn more about ARTstor’s collections.

Multi-disciplinary

ARTstor publishes handouts by discipline on their web site highlighting the relevance and value of the ARTstor Digital Library across a wide range of disciplines: African-American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Architecture & Architectural History, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Design & Decorative Studies, History, Language &Literature, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music History, Photography, Religious Studies, Renaissance Studies, and Theater & Dance.

How can I access ARTstor?
Go to http://www.artstor.org and click "Search and Browse for Images" in the lower right to enter the ARTstor Library.

What are the technical requirements?
ARTstor is an online, web-based resource that runs on a Mac or PC and requires a high-speed Internet connection.  Please see the technical requirements for supported browsers and operating systems.

How can I get training on ARTstor?
ARTstor offers daily, one-hour online training sessions via WebEx for individuals.  Topics covered include 1) Introduction to ARTstor, 2) Registered User Features, 3) Instructor-Level Features, and 4) Creating presentations with Offline Image Viewer. A computer (Mac or PC), high-speed Internet connection and telephone are required.

ARTstor quickstart guides and online help documentation may also be helpful.  Learn more about ARTstor training options.

How can I get support?
ARTstor User Services
888-278-0079 (USA only) / 212-500-2400
userservices@artstor.org

How can I stay informed?
ARTstor sends email newsletters every two weeks with important updates on topics such as newly added content and features, tips and tricks, notices about system outages, etc.  To subscribe, send a blank email to join-artstor-announce@lists.artstor.org.

Campus Visits in Fall 2007

ARTstor, along with CDL, is planning campus visits in early fall 2007 to demonstrate ARTstor to faculty and to meet with campus stakeholders for training and to discuss implementation options such as integrating campus courseware with ARTstor.

Coming Soon – University of California Shared Images
ARTstor will be hosting the University of California Shared Image Collection, individual collections managed by UC visual resources curators, which will be accessible to faculty and students across all campuses that subscribe to ARTstor.  While initially focused on providing images for teaching within the Arts and Humanities, the UC Shared Images will be useful campus-wide. UC Santa Cruz, in making their collection available to other UC campuses in ARTstor, is the first to participate in the University of California Shared Image Collection. Other campuses will add collections to ARTstor, contributing an estimated 100,000 images over the next year.  CDL will add the CDL-licensed collections to ARTstor this fall, which include Saskia and Hartill.  All of these collections, developed individually in ARTstor over the next year, will comprise the larger University of California Shared Image Collection.

UC faculty and students will be able to seamlessly search across UC Shared Images and the ARTstor collections.