Tag: digital collections
SCP monthly update – April 2012
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP), based at UC San Diego, provides catalog records for the UC campus libraries. SCP provides regular updates which we have been posting on the Collection Services blog:
Here’s an except of the message that came out of SCP this month:
“Last month we distributed the first set of records for the Alexander Street Press collection Theatre in Video (350 titles). This is also the first time SCP has distributed bibliographic records for videos. Theatre in Video contains performances of plays and film documentaries. Included are live television broadcasts of New York productions from the 1950s, experimental performances from the 1960s and 70s, and revivals of classical works. The collection contains performances from as early as the 1930s.
Other major monograph distributions for the month were for Open access (801 titles, of which 782 were National Academy Press titles), Springer (486 titles), Wiley (136 titles), ACM (124 titles), IEEE (121 titles), and Apabi (52 titles). The only significant serial distributions were for Open access (147 titles), most of which were DOAJ titles.”
Quarterly package cataloging statistics are now available and indicate if a package’s title count showed a net increase or net decrease from the previous quarter. The first quarter statistics are posted at http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/scp/docs/2012q1.pdf.
SCP monthly update – March 2012
The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP), based at UC San Diego, provides catalog records for the UC campus libraries. SCP provides regular updates which we will now be posting on the Collection Services blog:
From SCP’s Adolfo Tarango
Our highest record distributions for serials in February were Open Access (201 titles), DragonSource (104 titles), Sage (46), Taylor & Francis (28), and LexisNexis (24 titles). The DragonSource distributions are the first for that package. This is a Chinese language Tier 2 resource for which titles are individually selected by the subscribing campuses’ bibliographers. DragonSource is a full-text database of popular Chinese-language magazines and journals published in China after 1997. The journals included cover a wide scope of subject areas: politics, economics, literature, arts, philosophy, history, society, popular science, military science, education, family, recreation, health, and fashion. Both text and audio versions are provided.
The primary monographic record distributions were for Springer (454 titles), ACM (385 titles), CRC Press (356 titles), Apabi (234 titles), Knovel (179 titles), IEEE (137 titles), CIAO (102 titles), Alexander Street Press (95 titles), and CalDocs (39 titles). Almost all the Alexander Street Press titles are for the collection Women and Social Movements in the United States, the first distribution for that collection. Items in this collection cover the span of years from 1600 to 2000.
SCP continues consulting with III and UCSD staff on transitioning to Unicode. At this point we appear to have the problems identified and a solution is in the works. We are hoping III will implement its solution soon. Once that is done, we will announce a new timetable for our transition which will include time for sending another test file.
Until next month …
Reminder: Vendor visit
Gale: The Gale team (Roger Strong, Ted Birch and Walter Bremer) visit us on Tuesday, March 27 from 10:00-11:30 in 251 Doe (Librarian’s Office conference room). Some of the items on their agenda are: Nineteenth-Century Collections Online Overview, GVRL Interface Update (Gale Virtual Reference Library) – Chinese Language EBooks, National Geographic Archive, and more.
No need to RSVP. Just show up if you’d like to talk with these vendors about existing subscriptions or future offerings.
Wiley ebooks – title list 2012
You may remember a couple posts from last year (Wiley ebooks – title lists and more Wiley ebooks) in which we described how to find the title list for Wiley ebooks. CDL has updated the list with the 2012 books that have been added to the collection so far. When the 2012 collection is complete at the end of the year, we can expect to have access to approximately 1,100 ebooks for Wiley.
As a reminder, here’s how to see the list: Go to the CDL Resource Information page, then click on Wiley ebook title list, 2011-2012. And, remember, you’ll need a password to get in.
Upcoming vendor visits: ProQuest and Gale
It’s vendor season.
- ProQuest: Kristine Qiu will be visiting on Friday, February 24 from 10:30-11:30. We’ll be meeting in the conference area of 212/218 Doe offices. (This room is key-code access only so if you come, just knock on the door and someone will let you in.)
- Gale: The Gale team (Roger Strong, Ted Birch and Walter Bremer) visit us on Tuesday, March 27 from 10:00-11:30 in 251 Doe (Librarian’s Office conference room). Some of the items on their agenda are: Nineteenth-Century Collections Online Overview, GVRL Interface Update (Gale Virtual Reference Library) – Chinese Language EBooks, National Geographic Archive, and more.
No need to RSVP. Just show up if you’d like to talk with these vendors about existing subscriptions or future offerings.
UC Participation in HathiTrust
I posted a blog on November 9, 2011 to highlight selected results from the HathiTrust Constitutional Convention. The statement below from the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) puts my post into perspective and explains why we are participating in the HathiTrust. I trust you will find the CoUL statement interesting and useful.
Best regards, Bernie
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To: Diane Bisom, Chair, SOPAG, for distribution to the ACGs and campus libraries
From: Ginny Steel, Chair, CoUL
Re: UC Participation in HathiTrust
As you may know, the University of California Libraries, a founding member of the HathiTrust Digital Library, recently participated as a delegation to the HathiTrust Constitutional Convention in Washington DC, along with 63 other partner institutions. The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to formalize the governance structure for HathiTrust now that it has a sizeable membership and has established itself as a trusted digital repository. A review of the Constitutional Convention and the outcomes of the ballot initiatives presented and deliberated are available at:
and the official notes from the Constitutional Convention are at:
http://www.hathitrust.org/documents/HathiTrust-ConCon-Notes.pdf
The HathiTrust Digital Library is an inter-institutional digital preservation repository of primarily mass-digitized books made accessible through a highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and, as appropriate, access services for public domain and in- copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. The Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has identified participation in the HathiTrust Digital Library as a major collaborative strategic initiative of the ten University of California Libraries and the California Digital Library (CDL). Through membership in HathiTrust, the UC libraries will be able to maximize long-term access to digital content, a key element in our quest to capitalize on technological opportunities to accelerate the transition to a primarily digital environment. CDL and UC Libraries staff are participating in the strategic development, technology architecture development, and governance of the HathiTrust.
Membership in the HathiTrust provides the following significant benefits to the UC Libraries:
· Unification of our UC content digitized by Google and the Internet Archive (IA). Books digitized by Google (including more than 1.4 million volumes from UC) form the backbone of the repository, but Internet Archive-digitized volumes and locally-digitized books from the University of Michigan are also included. UC will contribute all of its mass digitization materials (currently almost 3 million volumes). The HathiTrust is also committed to including public domain content from non-Google partners.
• Greater service to users through combined content and access to materials digitized by other institutions. This includes content from partner libraries found nowhere else on the web or specifically opened (in the case of copyright-restricted materials) by copyright holders for access to users in HathiTrust.
• Opportunity to provide deeper support for scholarly access to mass digitized materials, including the abilities to retrieve content in different formats (e.g. plain text, PDF, and page image), browse and facet search results, define full-text searches across selected bodies of content, and save items to targeted collections.
· Reduced costs resulting from sharing access and preservation services with multiple partners.
The Council of University Librarians views the HathiTrust Digital Library as a significant tool in the development and support of the UC Libraries’ digital collections and as a resource for expanding access to and delivery of UC’s remarkable collections.
Additional information about the HathiTrust is available at: http://www.hathitrust.org/home and at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/hathi/faq.html
HathiTrust Constitutional Convention
HathiTrust recently held a Constitutional Convention to determine the governance model for the partnership and to set directions for its next phase. Tom Leonard was UC Berkeley’s convention delegate.
Members submitted 7 proposals for discussion and vote at the convention (see the bottom of this post for comprehensive list.) Two of the proposals that were passed are of considerable interest to selectors:
Proposal 1 – Distributed Print Monographs Archive (Collections Committee) – PASSED
Libraries everywhere are feeling the need to reduce the amount of print material that they have to shelve locally, with the hopes of having an option to de-dupe across collections. Hathi members agreed that Hathi would be a good institution to organize a distributed print collection to parallel what Hathi has digitized. [For material that is still under copyright, this print collection would be protection against all copies going missing of a title; for material that is no longer under copyright, the print counterpart would act as an archival backup copy.]
The print archive would be held by various member institutions who agree to commit to long-term stewardship of the print.
HathiTrust will provide financial support to institutions who act as repositories.
Next step: HathiTrust will initiate a formal planning process to develop the necessary policies, operational plans, and business model required to establish and sustain a distributed print archive.
Proposal 4 – U.S. Government Documents (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) – PASSED
UC Berkeley shares an ongoing concern that U.S. government documents need to be preserved and accessible, that there is a lot of unnecessary duplication of print across institutions on the one hand, and that on the other, born digital government publications are not necessarily being collected and preserved in the most efficient manner. Member libraries voted to have HathiTrust facilitate collective action to create a comprehensive digital corpus of U.S. federal publications including those issued by GPO and other federal agencies. The project will include 1) developing a planning process to coordinate operational plans and a business model to coordinate digitization, ingest, and display of U.S. federal publications including those issued by GPO and other federal agencies and 2) begin consideration of born-digital publications of GPO and other federal agencies
The seven proposals are:
- Proposal 1 – Distributed Print Monographs Archive (Collections Committee) – PASSED
- Proposal 2 – Approval Process for Development Initiatives (California, Cornell, Columbia) – PASSED
- Proposal 3 – Governance Structure (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) – PASSED
- Proposal 4 – U.S. Government Documents (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) – PASSED
- Proposal 5 – Mission and Goals (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) – NOT PASSED, But Referred to Board of Governors for additional discussion
- Proposal 6 – HathiTrust Implementation Review Committee (Cornell, Columbia, California) – NOT PASSED
- Proposal 7 – Fee-for-service Content Deposit – PASSED
Best, Bernie
Investigating the use of SFX to display electronic resource holdings in OskiCat
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In September, Sciences Council and Social Sciences Council developed a “Proposal to investigate SFX OpenURL for e-journal holdings” that was discussed and endorsed by both Collections Services Council and the Public Services Council.
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I’m happy to report that the following people have agreed to undertake this investigation:
Lynne Grigsby, Systems Office, Chair
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Nga Ong, Acquisitions Department
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Trina Pundurs, Catalog Department
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Brian Quigley, Mathematics Statistics Library
The group will be meeting weekly and reporting to me monthly, so watch future CSC minutes for regular updates.
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Best, Bernie
More Wiley ebooks
Remember the announcement about the Wiley ebook title lists? CDL has now posted the September title list. Go to CDL Resource Information, then go to the link that says Wiley ebook title list, August 2011. (Despite the name of the link and the description, the spreadsheet does include titles added in September.) (Remember, you’ll need a password to get in.)
Springer Usage/Cost Analysis Report
CDL recently released an internal report on UC Springer e-Book Pilot Usage/Cost Analysis 2009-2010 (Confidential) [CDL password-protected]. Prepared by Chan Li and Jacqueline Wilson, the report describes a number of key findings based on their analysis of system-wide usage of Springer e-books. Selective highlights include:
- Springer e-book usage increased proportionately with Springer e-book collection growth from 2009 to 2010.
- Shared cataloging made Springer e-books more discoverable to UC users. E-book usage increased significantly after SCP records were added to Melvyl and local catalogs in March 2009.
- Based on average use-per-title, the three most used collections were “Professional and Applied Computing,” “Mathematics and Statistics,” and “Chemistry and Materials Science.” The three least used collections were “Humanities, Social Science and Law,” “Business and Economics,” and “Computer Science.”
- Based on overall use, the three most used collections were “Mathematics and Statistics,” “Computer Science,” and “Biomedical and Life Sciences.”
- Springer e-books continue to be used over time. Books from 2009 and 2010 were used more often, but books from 2005-2008 were still used.
Selectors are encouraged to read the Executive Summary, or full report, for more information.
-Brian Quigley