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Winter 2000
In This Issue:
California Digital Library Adds New FeaturesThe California Digital Library (CDL), the virtual tenth library of the UC system, has added a new search tool, reference resource, and online books from UC Press to its growing list of features. SearchLight GeoRef Thesaurus Online Books All CDL resources can be accessed through the UCLA Library home page at <http://www2.library.ucla.edu> or directly at <http://www.cdlib.org>. Access to some resources 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. For assistance with using any CDL resource, consult staff at the reference desk in any library or through e-mail at <url-ref@library.ucla.edu> (Young Research Library), <biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu> (Biomedical Library), or <sel-ref@library.ucla.edu> (Science & Engineering Library). Document Delivery Options AvailableThe UCLA Library provides several document delivery options to help faculty and staff obtain library materials quickly. CDL Request ORION Express MD Consult Now Available OnlineThe UCLA Library has added MD Consult to its growing list of online resources. This comprehensive clinical information service is designed to assist health care professionals with finding answers to clinical questions and staying up-to-date with the latest medical practices. The content of MD Consult includes 48 full-text medical journals, more than 35 reference books, some 600 clinical practice guidelines, and drug information for more than 30,000 medications. MD Consult can be accessed from public workstations in any of the campus libraries; UCLA faculty, staff, and students with domain names of ucla.edu or connecting through Bruin OnLine can also consult the database from outside of the libraries. To access MD Consult, click on the link under "Electronic Journals" on the UCLA Library Digital Resources Web page at <http://www.library.ucla.library.edu/cird/index.htm#etext> or open it directly <http://home.mdconsult.com/groups/ucla0433.html>. Currently, two versions of MD Consult are available. The generic version can be accessed by clicking on the "Open Generic Edition" link on the MD Consult home page. The personal version allows access to the full content of the database, but users must first set up a personal account. To set up an account, click on the "Get a Personal Account" link on the MD Consult home page, enter the information requested, and choose a user name and password. For assistance with MD Consult, consult with staff at the Biomedical Library reference desk or through e-mail at <biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu>. Digital Dissertations Now OnlineUMI's Dissertation Abstracts database is now available online as Digital Dissertations, providing electronic access to information about some 1.5 million dissertations and master's theses published from 1861 to the present. UCLA faculty, staff, and students can download the full text of all UC dissertations from 1998 to the present as PDF files at no charge. UCLA users can place online orders for copies of UC dissertations accepted prior to 1998 and of dissertations and theses from other institutions for a fee. They can also use the information in the citation to request items through the UCLA Library's interlibrary loan service at no charge. The database contains citations from more than 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Approximately 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses are added each year, and the database includes citations for materials accepted as recently as last semester/quarter. Digital Dissertations can be accessed through the "Electronic Texts" category on the UCLA Library Digital Resources page at <http://www.library.ucla.library.edu/cird/index.htm#et>. 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. For assistance with Digital Dissertations or other digital resources, consult with public service staff in any library unit. JSTOR Expands into SciencesJSTOR has grown into one of the most valuable electronic resources providing access to digital versions of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. And now it has announced plans to expand its areas of collection to encompass general science. With coverage going back as far as the 17th century, JSTOR becomes a valuable research tool for the history of science. When completed, JSTOR's General Science Collection will include nine titles. The first release of content will take place in mid-February, and JSTOR plans to complete the collection by December 31, 2000. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London will be available from 1665 to 1886. In 1886 the title changed and split into Philosophical Transactions, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences and Philosophical Transactions, Series B: Biological Sciences; JSTOR will provide issues from 1887 to five years ago. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London will be available from 1830 to 1904. In 1904 the title changed and split into Proceedings, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences and Proceedings, Series B: Biological Sciences; these titles will be available from 1905 to five years ago. Science will be available from 1880 to five years ago. Scientific Monthly, which was absorbed by Science, will be available from 1915 to 1957. And PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) will be available from 1915 to two years ago. JSTOR stores individual articles as image files, so users see a virtual replica of the original journal pages. Yet a text file of the article also exists, which allows for full-text searching. When the UCLA Library first added JSTOR to its digital resources in 1998, the database contained 47 journals in disciplines including economics, history, mathematics, philosophy, political science, and sociology. The database now encompasses 117 journals, with titles added in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, education, finance, literature, population studies, and statistics. One important feature to note regarding JSTOR is that it does not contain current issues of journals. In most cases there is a three- to five-year gap between the most recently published issue of a journal and the most recently available JSTOR issue. However, the access JSTOR provides to lengthy backruns makes it unique among the electronic journal packages available to libraries and thus valuable to researchers, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR can be accessed through the "Electronic Journals" category on the UCLA Library Digital Resources page at <http://www.library.ucla.library.edu/cird/index.htm#etext<. 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. For assistance with JSTOR or other digital resources, consult with public service staff in any library unit. Access to Compendex Plus ChangedBeginning January 1, 2000, UC users will access the Compendex Plus database directly from Engineering Information's (Ei) own Web site at <http://www.ei.org/eivillage/plsql/switch.main>. By accessing Compendex Plus through Ei's Web site, UC users will also have access to abstracting and indexing for hundreds of additional titles through Ei Page One, Ei's other engineering database, which has been merged with the Compendex Web database. Ei Page One contains approximately 2,800 additional titles indexed cover-to-cover. Compendex Web is now the world's largest multidisciplinary engineering database with 5,000,000 records, and it is growing by 500,000 new records each year. Access to Compendex Plus 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. For assistance with Compendex Plus or other digital resources, consult with staff at the reference desk in the Science & Engineering Library or through e-mail at <sel-ref@library.ucla.edu>. Project Muse Adds New JournalsProject Muse, an initiative of Johns Hopkins University Press to provide electronic access to the full text of its scholarly journals in the humanities, mathematics, and social sciences, is expanding to include journals from a number of other university presses. A total of 64 titles from nine university presses – Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, Indiana University, MIT, Oxford University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Hawaii, University of Texas, and the University of Wisconsin – have committed, and it is expected that this list will continue to grow. The new titles are in the areas of African-American literature, Asian culture and history, gender studies, higher education, health policy, medieval studies, and political science. Over the next year, medical, science, and technical periodicals will be added to the collection, and managers plan to add additional titles from other university presses, scholarly societies, and non-profit institutions. These join the list of 46 journals currently available through Project Muse, which can be accessed through the "Electronic Journals" category on the UCLA Library Digital Resources Web page at <http://www.library.ucla.library.edu/cird/index.htm#etext>. 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. For assistance with Project Muse or other digital resources, consult with staff at the reference desk in any campus library. New Endowed Special Collections FundThe Ahmanson Foundation has endowed a new fund in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. This $1 million endowment will provide income for the head of the department to use on a variety of pressing needs, such as acquisitions, digitization, and staff support. The Ahmanson Foundation has been a long-time supporter of the UCLA Library and, in particular, its special collections units. It has provided funding for the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, the largest collection in the world of works by the seminal Italian printer Aldo Manuzio and his circle, and also funds the Ahmanson-Murphy Early Italian Printing Collection, an extensive collection of works by other Italian printers active during the same period. It also supports short-term fellowships and undergraduate scholarships for researchers and students utilizing the holdings of the Department of Special Collections. Alert Your Students: Campbell Book Collection Competition DeadlinesAll undergraduate and graduate students are invited to enter the 2000 Robert B. and Blanche Campbell Student Book Collection Competition, with a total of $1600 in prizes available. First and second prizes are awarded in the categories of undergraduate and graduate collections; prizes are also awarded for children's book collection and honorable mention. The deadline for entries is Wednesday, April 5, 2000. Entry forms are available at the reference desks in the Arts, Biomedical, College, SEL/Engineering and Mathematical Science, and Young Research libraries and can also be printed from the World Wide Web at the URL listed below. The awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday, April 19, 2000. Interested students are invited to attend a workshop on book collecting on Wednesday, February 23, at 4 p.m. Led by Rare Books Librarian Daniel J. Slive, the workshop will suggest ways to focus collections and write an effective annotated bibliography. It will take place in the YRL Department of Special Collections (room A1713). Further information is available on the Campbell Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.library.edu/committees/campbell/index.htm>. Powell Music in the RotundaThis popular series continues during the Winter Quarter 2000, with afternoon and evening concerts scheduled.On Friday, January 28, the UCLA Early Music Collective will present "Music from the Enlightenment," featuring a program of vocal and instrumental music from the 17th and 18th centuries. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, but tickets are required; they can be obtained at the reference desks in the College and Music libraries. On Wednesday, February 16, students of ethnomusicology department faculty Shujaat Khan and Abhiman Kaushal will perform North Indian classical music featuring sitar, tabla, and voice. Also known as Hindustani music, this traditional musical form dates back thousands of years. The concert will begin at 4 p.m., and admission is free. For more information, consult the College Library Web site at <http://www.library.ucla.library.edu/libraries/college/nwsevnts/powmusic/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.
Forums are also scheduled for April 28 and June 2; further information will be published in future issues of Library News for the Faculty. For additional information on previous and upcoming forums, 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. |
