Users Council

Recap of Activities May 8, 2007 – April 30, 2008

New Members Melissa Browne, UC Davis

Michael Oppenheim, UCLA

Sara Davidson, UC Merced

Marcus Banks, UCSF

The Melvyl Catalog/Other Catalogs

Google Book Search Beta Live in the Melvyl Catalog (4/24/08)

Google Books Now in Melvyl Test Version (3/13/08)

Melvyl Catalog Successfully Upgraded (12/4/07)

Melvyl Catalog Upgrade Information – Changes (11/26/07)

Melvyl Catalog: Info about User Updates (11/16/08)

Melvyl Catalog Proxy Information (11/13/07)

Melvyl Record Loading Freeze Ended ((10/11/07)

Telnet Melvyl Ceased (8/31/07)

Melvyl Catalog Freeze Begins (8/13/07)

Telnet Melvyl to be Discontinued (5/30/07)

Database Issues

UC Access to Additional EBSCO Databases (4/29/08)

Transition to EBSCO Academic Search Complete from Gale Expanded Academic ASAP (3/19/08)

New feature In OCLC FirstSearch (2/26/08)

Sage e-journals: Change in Platform (1/17/08)

UC Access to newly licensed resources (1/14/08)

·  Global Financial Data

·  Source OECD

Important Database Information (ISI & ABC Clio) 12/4/07

New Ovid/SP (SilverPlatter) Interface - Oct 25 (10/22/07)

Historical Abstracts, America: History Life on Two Platforms through 2007 910/1/07)

RLG Databases Cease September 30 (9/27/07)

Undergraduate/Multidisciplinary Database Evaluation Required [EBSCO-Gale Database Evaluation] (8/22/07)

UC Access to newly licensed resources (8/9/07)

·  Alternative Press Index and Archive

·  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Backfile

·  ARTstor

·  Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: ICSD

·  JSTOR Arts & Sciences V

·  JSTOR Business II

·  Oxford African American Studies Center

RLG Databases to Transition in September (7/26/07)

Inside Information Plus Discontinued (7/2/07)

All UC Libraries added to Scirus Library Partners (6/28/07)

UC access to newly licensed resources (6/4/07)

·  American Film Institute Catalog

·  L' Anée Philologique

·  Black Studies Center

·  China Academic Journals (CAJ) [Century Journal Project]

·  Encyclopedia of Taiwan (Taiwan Wenxian Congkan)

·  Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China)

UC access to newly licensed content (5/21/07)

·  Alloy Phase Diagram Center Online

·  Empire Online

·  Encyclopedia of the Quran

·  Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures

·  Everyday Life and Women in America,

·  Latin American Data Base

·  Play Index

·  Rand California

Digital Special Collections

Counting California will be Decommissioned June 1, 2008 (3/18/08)

Calisphere Year in Review (2/21/08)

UC Image Service: ARTSTOR & CDL visit UC Campuses, October 2007 (10/2/07)

California Cultures Site Redesigned (8/8/07)

Digital Publishing

eScholarship Repository milestones (1/15/08)

ILL

Request Service Now Running Under Https (12/12/07)

UC-eLinks

UC-eLinks User Guide revised (8/12/07)

Improvements to the UC-eLinks Window (5/18/07)

·  Bolding of title and source

·  Removal of date coverage in fill-in boxes that allowed editing of the citation. These were found to be more confusing to end users than edifying

·  Groupings of services instead of all choices being displayed in a continuous list; groupings were found to be easier to scan and understand

·  Clearer, more user-friendly and action-oriented labeling

·  An actionable “Go” button added to all entries

Tools

CDL Survey Software [WebSurveyor] License to Expire (8/7/07)

News

A Fond Farewell to Robin Chandler (11/13/07)

Users Council Recap of activities May 9, 2008