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Spring 2000
In This Issue:
Chemical Abstracts & CAS REACT: Via SciFinder Scholar Now AvailableUCLA faculty, staff, and students can now search Chemical Abstracts (1967- ), Registry (chemical structure searching), and CASREACT (chemical reactions) from workstations on- and off-campus using Chemical Abstracts Service's (CAS) SciFinder Scholar. SciFinder Scholar's client software provides simple point-and-click access to CAS databases. No special training or knowledge of search command languages are required. Users can search more than 19 million citations to chemistry literature by topic, author, CAS Registry Number®, patent number, and CAS abstract number. More than 22 million chemical substances can be searched by chemical name, chemical structure, CAS Registry Number®, and formula. Information for organic and organometallic reactions from the CASREACT database is also included. Users can click on a computer icon to link from retrieved references to publishers' Web sites for viewing electronic articles from some 700 journals. Recent enhancements to SciFinder Scholar include CHEMCATS, an electronic catalog that lists 300 chemical suppliers for nearly 400,000 commercially available chemicals; and CHEMLIST, which contains key domestic and international regulatory information from five national inventories as well as certain state and local lists. SciFinder Scholar requires a downloaded client, available for either MS Windows or Apple Macintosh. The client needs to be installed only once, until CAS releases a new version. UCLA's Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is providing a Web site for access to SciFinder Scholar's client software as well as links to documentation at <http://dirac.chem.ucla.edu/scifind>. This electronic resource is a new feature of the California Digital Library (CDL). SciFinder Scholar is accessible nearly 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to users on the campus network or dialing in through Bruin OnLine accounts; the system is unavailable from 3 p.m. (PST) on Saturdays to 5 a.m. (PST) Sundays for maintenance. Users are asked to logout after completing their searches because UCLA shares a limited number of ports with other UC campuses. SciFinder Scholar complements other CDL-hosted databases such as BIOSIS, Current Contents, INSPEC, Medline, and Web of Science, available through CDL's Web site at <http://www.dbs.cdlib.org>. Future enhancements include linking retrieved references to the California Periodicals database holdings. If you have questions regarding SciFinder Scholar, contact Marion Peters in the Science & Engineering Library by e-mail at <mpeters@library.ucla.edu> or by phone at extension 50190. Back-Year Availability on The Web of ScienceThe California Digital Library has added back-year availability to 1975 to The Institute for Scientific Information's Web of Science. This database provides online access to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. Previously, the database indexed journals published from 1994 to the present. Collectively, these databases index more than 8,000 high-quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts when available in the science and social sciences source material, and cited references from the world's most influential journals. The Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers more than 1,140 arts and humanities journals and also selectively covers arts and humanities items from the leading science and technical journals. It is updated weekly with some 2,200 new records, and back-year availability to 1975 has added approximately 16,000 new citations. The Science Citation Index Expanded indexes more than 5,600 science and technical journals. It is updated with approximately 17,000 new records per week, and back-year availability to 1970 has added some 334,000 new citations. Author abstracts are currently available for articles dating back to 1991. The Social Sciences Citation Index covers more than 1,700 social sciences journals and also selectively covers relevant items from more than 5,600 leading science and technical journals. It is updated with some 4,500 new records weekly, and approximately 88,000 new references dating to 1970 are contained in the new back-years. Author abstracts are available for articles indexed back to 1992. The Web of Science is available on public workstations in all campus libraries and to users with domain names of ucla.edu or dialing in on Bruin OnLine accounts. It can be accessed through the "Digital Resources" link on the UCLA Library home page or directly at <http://www.webofscience.com>. For help with using the Web of Science, contact staff at the reference desk in any campus library. UCLA Receives IAIMS Planning GrantThe UCLA Academic Health Science Center (AHSC) – which includes the hospital; schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, and public health; and the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library – has been awarded a planning grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) through its Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) program. Since 1984 the NLM has provided grant assistance to medical centers and health science institutions and organizations for IAIMS projects. The NLM describes IAIMS as institution-wide computer networks that link and relate library systems with individual and institutional databases and information files, within and external to the institution, for patient care, research education, and administration. The goal is to create an organizational mechanism within health institutions to more effectively manage the knowledge of medicine and to provide for a system of comprehensive and convenient information access. The two-year grant will support planning that will guide information systems investment on South Campus as the university's East of Westwood Master Plan is implemented. The master plan will replace or repair earthquake-damaged portions of UCLA's health sciences campus, including a new biomedical library. Leading the executive planning committee for the grant are principal investigator Alan Robinson, M.D., vice provost/medical sciences executive associate dean at the School of Medicine; and co-directors Alison Bunting, associate university librarian for sciences and head of the Biomedical Library, and J. Michael McCoy, M.D., chief information officer for the School of Medicine and the UCLA Medical Center. The committee has established four goals. First, they intend to disseminate, discuss, and refine the vision of the role of integrated information management resources and systems in education, research, and patient care for the AHSC in the 21st century. Communication vehicles will include presentations, publications (existing or new), Web pages, and e-mail. Second, they will assess and document the information needs of AHSC members and the existing and planned AHSC information management resources, systems, and networks. The assessment will take place through focus groups with faculty, staff, students, and patients and through an information needs assessment survey. Third, the committee will create a plan to develop information management and use policies that will ensure data integrity, data ownership, and data security and the ethical use of information resources and systems. Finally, the committee will develop a flexible, sustainable, and prioritized information systems implementation plan. This plan must be in line with the institutional master plan, leverage both internal and external resources, and build systems according to standards and as open source so that others can share them. At the end of the two-year planning process, the committee will apply for an IAIMS implementation grant. Although that grant will represent only a small portion of AHSC's overall information systems expenditure, it and the planning efforts will be crucial to making sure that all funds are spent wisely. CollegeSource Online Now AvailableThe UCLA Library has added CollegeSource Online at <http://www.collegesource.org> to its growing list of online resources. This comprehensive Web site provides access to more than 12,400 U.S. college catalogs, including two-year, four-year, graduate, and professional schools, in complete cover-to-cover, original-page format. The catalogs are in PDF format and require the use of Adobe Acrobat to download. Tables of contents and indexes are fully hyperlinked to make it easier to find information. For many institutions the database includes catalogs dating back to 1994, and CollegeSource hopes to begin adding international catalogs in June. The CollegeSource Online Web site also includes links to Web resources in the following areas: assessment testing, career information, college application services, college planning, and financial aid information. Access is restricted to users at public workstations within the libraries or to UCLA faculty, staff, and students with domain names of ucla.edu or dialing in on Bruin OnLine accounts. This product replaces the college catalogs on microfiche, which will no longer be produced. However, the College Library will maintain its microfiche backfiles for the foreseeable future. Korea Foundation Gift to Support CollectionsThe Korea Foundation recently approved a multi-year grant submitted collectively by the Korean Collections Consortium of North America, of which the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/> is a member. The grant will provide annual support of $20,000 for each member of the consortium over a five-year period (2000 through 2004), amounting to total assistance of $100,000 per member. This funding will be devoted to the library's Korean book fund and will be used to enhance its holdings of Korean vernacular-language materials. The library's Korean collection, developed since 1985, currently has strengths in the areas of history, literature, and religion. The Powell Library Music Seriesconcludes with five unique, vibrant performances scheduled for April and May. On Wednesday, April 12, the UCLA Gluck String Quartet will perform at 4 p.m. in the Powell Library Building Rotunda. The quartet is comprised of the principal players from the UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra and has performed throughout Los Angeles and Southern California. On Friday, April 21, Katharina Olivia Brand will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart on a replica of a classical 1780 fortepiano, the instruments the compositions were created for. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Powell Library Building Rotunda. Admission is free, but tickets are required; they can be obtained at the reference desks in the College and Music libraries. On Wednesday, April 26, SuperDevoiche, the UCLA's Women's Bulgarian Singing Ensemble from the Department of Ethnomusicology, will perform at 4 p.m. in the Powell Library Building Rotunda. This a cappella singing group performs repertoire from Bulgaria and the Balkan region of Eastern Europe in a unique vocal style of close harmonies, unusual meters, and open-throated singing timbre. The ensemble is led by graduate student Angela Rodel under the supervision of Professor Timothy Rice. On Wednesday, May 3, classical guitarists Larijani & Salvado will perform music by J.S. Bach, Francis Poulenc, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Luys de Narvaez, Alonso Mudarra, and others at 4 p.m. in the Powell Library Building Rotunda. The grand finale of the series will be Korean music and dance on Wednesday, May 10, at 4 p.m. in the Powell Library Building South Courtyard. This program presents the stunning sound of an 80-member drum group performing traditional Samulnori and new Korean drum music and professional dancers in vivid costumes performing traditional Korean dances. For more information, consult the College Library Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/nwsevnts/powmusic/index.htm>. Digital Library Coordinator NamedHoward Batchelor has been named to the newly created position of digital library coordinator for the UCLA Library. This new position takes the lead in making the UCLA Library's collections digitally accessible. Working with library staff and campus faculty, the digital library coordinator will identify, plan, and develop digital library collections and projects that support UCLA's many research and instructional objectives and will coordinate local projects with broader initiatives of the California Digital Library. Batchelor has worked for major publishing companies and the Getty Information Institute on digital publication projects. He has extensive experience with the digitization of material and project management, including familiarity with digital library technologies, standards, issues, and trends. He also has a Ph.D. in English and has taught at the university level. Future issues of Library News for the Faculty will contain updates on digital library projects as they are initiated and status reports on their implementation. If you have a project you would like to discuss, contact Batchelor by e-mail at <howardb@library.ucla.edu> or by phone at extension 57657. Call for 2000 Librarian of the Year NominationsThe Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC), Los Angeles is inviting nominations from UCLA faculty, staff, and students for its 2000 Librarian of the Year award. The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 14, at 5 p.m. This award recognizes excellence in librarianship, particularly as it enhances library service and furthers the teaching and research mission of UCLA. Candidates should be nominated for a specific contribution they made while employed at the UCLA Library, rather than for their overall career at UCLA. All UCLA librarians employed 50% time or more are eligible to be nominated. The winner will be judged on his/her contributions to assisting the UCLA Library in more effectively meeting the cultural and information needs of the UCLA community and on his/her embodiment of one of the following qualities: creativity, innovation, intellectual or moral courage, leadership, and scholarship. To nominate a librarian, please e-mail Alan Carr at <acarr@library.ucla.edu> and indicate "Confidential" in the subject line. Include in the letter the nominee's name, the library where he/she works, and a description of how your nominee meets the criteria listed above. All nominations and supporting materials will be kept strictly confidential. If you have questions, please call Alan at extension 68016. LAUC is the University of California's primary organization for professional librarian and goverance affairs. Aimee Liu to Speak at Campbell Contest Award Ceremony April 19Noted local author Aimee Liu, who has earned critical acclaim for her two novels exploring issues of Chinese-American identity and history, will speak at the awards ceremony for the 2000 Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition on Wednesday, April 19. Liu is judging the contest, together with Debe Costa, reference/instruction librarian at the College Library, and Philip Rech, resource use supervisor at the Rosenfeld Management Library. The awards ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections (room A1713). The finalists' collections will be on view prior to the ceremony from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Research Library's administrative conference room (room 11348). The competition, which recognizes undergraduate and graduate students who have assembled and organized book collections, offers a total of $1600 in prizes in six categories: undergraduate collection, first and second place; graduate collection, first and second place; children's book collection; and honorable mention. For further information, visit the competition Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.library.edu/committees/campbell/index.htm>. Scholarship in a New Media Environment: ForumsJoin other UCLA faculty for several stimulating discussions about various issues related to teaching with technology. The forums are sponsored by the Office of Instructional Development, the UCLA Library, Humanities Computing, and Social Sciences Computing.
For further information, visit the SIANME Web site at <http://www.oid.ucla.edu/sianme>. Links to live Internet broadcasts of upcoming events and stored Web-casts of past events are also accessible through the site. The Melvyl Catalog's FutureThe UC Libraries and the California Digital Library (CDL) staff have started a review process for identifying a system that will ensure the continuing quality of the Melvyl Union Catalog and other CDL-hosted databases. This effort involves an analysis and prioritization of the necessary and desirable features for a new system. Your input is necessary to enable the staff to determine which features and services are important to retain, as well as new functions you would like to have. There is a link to an online survey at <http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/cdlhosted.htm> from the UCLA Library's home page at as well as from the CDL search screen at <http://www.dbs.cdlib.org>, and print versions of the survey are available at the reference desks in all campus libraries. Responses are being collected through April 30, 2000. |
