Collection Services
Vendor visit: ProQuest (pastry is involved)
Representatives from ProQuest will be paying a visit on Tuesday, March 11 from 9:30-11 in 212/218 Doe Library. Here’s how they describe their visit:
Drop in for Coffee/Pastry and a chance to find out what?s new at ProQuest.
Account Manager Karen Bosserman and Western Regional Sales Director Brad Roades will have literature and will provide individual demos for those interested in exploring some of the new Products PQ has to offer in the Humanities and Social Sciences and discuss some of spring promotions!
Come take a look at:
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: We are offering a special limited-time spring promotion on ProQuest Historical Newspapers for academic libraries worldwide! Come and see some of the great Newspapers we have to offer. Including the newest Collections ?Historic Chinese Newspapers & South China Morning News?
Art & Architecture Archive: Country Life Now Added, Exclusive to ProQuest: We are proud to announce Country Life magazine is now available in Art & Architecture Archive (AAA). This UK title, selected as the keystone of AAA based on student and researcher demand, adds primary source research material useful for late 19th and early 20th century British history and social studies.
Trench Journals and Unit Magazines: The Real History of the People?s War. Through the digitized pages of more than 1,500 magazines written and published by service personnel involved in the Great War, Trench Journals provides scholars with unique perspectives to contract official histories of the conflict. For libraries this rare and unique collection is a pertinent and high profile acquisition at a time of intense research interest in the 100th anniversary of the First World War.
This is just a sample of what is new!
Trial: al-Manhal e-books (redux)
A second trial of al-Manhal, a full-text database in Arabic is available through the end of December 2013. al-Manhal uses ebrary as its platform.
Send feedback to Shayee.
ERF Update – January 2014
Current number of records in the ERF: 1109
ADDED since last update
- Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society: fully searchable collection of over 130 18th- and 19th-century newspapers from 22 Caribbean islands
- Education Source (formerly Education Full Text): one-stop shop for English-language education resources published in the US and globally
- Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1896: Part of the the Oxford African American Studies Center, this resource covers African American history from colonial times through the age of Frederick Douglass
- Scopus: a multi-disciplinary citation database from Elsevier. UC currently has a one-year paid trial (courtesy of CDL); after 2014, each UC campus must decide whether it wishes to contribute to funding this resource
- Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915: primary source research materials drawn primarily from records of plantations in the American South
DELETED since last update
- Grant Forward (cancelled by campus)
- ISI Emerging Markets (cancelled)
- AGU Digital Library Books (cancelled)
- Webster’s Unabridged (no longer available)
CHANGES since last update
- World Telecommunication Indicators (now only available on CD-ROM in Data Lab)
Vendor visit: Adam Matthew
Our Adam Matthew rep will be visiting on Thursday, January 23 at 4pm. The meeting will be in 225 Doe. No need to RSVP.
Vendor Visit: Harrassowitz
Berkeley’s Harrassowitz representative Kasia Stasik will be visiting campus on Thursday November 14th. A presentation on Harrassowitz’s online selection tool OttoEditions will take place from 1pm to 3pm in 303 Doe. Time will also be reserved for selector questions related to their current profiles and other services Harrasssowitz offers.
For more information, contact Jason Schultz.
SCP Monthly Update
SCP monthly update
October 2013
Last month there were only a couple of significant serial distributions, for Open Access serials (121 titles) and SuperStar (77 titles). The major monograph distributions were for the Alexander Street Press Classical music library (2385 titles), SuperStar (289 titles), Wiley (163 titles) and IEEE (109 titles).For our two DDA pilots, the CRC Press ENGnetBASE DDA selections now total 184 titles and the Airiti DDA offerings comprise 520 titles. Note there have already been 14 Airiti titles purchased. The vendor records for these purchased titles will be replaced with OCLC records.
Until next month ?
Vendor visit: Gale (more info)
Additional info about the visit from Gale representatives on Tuesday, October 29 at 4pm in 251 Doe (Librarian’s Office conference room):
“Rob Hoyer and Vince Vessalo of the Gale Digital Collections team of Cengage Learning will be presenting an overview of and update on their newest and most popular historical archives, including both new and flagship products such as NCCO (parts 5-12), Sabin Americana, The Associated Press Archives, Indigenous Peoples – North America, Chatham House, Liberty/Listener/Punch Magazines, Slavery/Anti-Slavery (parts 2-4), and many more. Come hear how these valuable resources relate directly to your subject areas, how they benefit the entire UC community from researchers to staff to students to faculty, and how they can be used in the library, the classroom, and the home environments.”
Vendor visit: Gale
Representatives from Gale will be visiting on Tuesday, October 29 from 4-5 in 251 Doe (Librarian’s Office conference room). They will be talking about their “many diverse archival collections (i.e. Smithsonian, an STM component of NCCO, etc.).”
New Elsevier Records Loaded to OskiCat/Millennium
New collections for Elsevier ScienceDirect Physics and Astronomy (Legacy 1 – 385 records) and for Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Legacy 1 – 707 records) have been loaded to OskiCat/Millennium.
These will interfile with other records in the Physics and Astronomy and Agricultural and Biological Sciences collections.
Please let me know should you have questions,
Dana
Elsevier, Palgrave, ACS Titles Loaded to Millennium/OskiCat
Newly added titles to the following WorldCat Collection Set packages, have been loaded:
American Chemical Society – 9 new titles
Palgrave Connect Economics and Finance – 29 new titles
Palgrave Connect Business and Management – 30 new titles
Elsevier ScienceDirect Physics and Astronomy – 2 new titles
Elsevier ScienceDirect Environmental Science – 2 new titles
Elsevier ScienceDirect Agricultural and Biological Sciences – 4 new titles
Elsevier ScienceDirect Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology – 7 new titles
Elsevier ScienceDirect Chemical Engineering – 12 new titles
Elsevier ScienceDirect Chemistry – 3 new titles
Elsevier ScienceDirect Earth and Planetary Sciences – 1 new title
Elsevier ScienceDirect Energy – 3 new titles
Elsevier ScienceDirect Mathematics – 6 new titles
These titles will interfile with each package.
Next quarterly updates for WorldCat Collection sets will be in January