SSH Cluster Bibliographers Group
11 April 2007
Room 276, 1-2 p.m.
Meeting Summary
Present: Ken Calkins, Jim Cheng, Harold Colson, Kathy Creely, Sam Dunlap (convenor), Holly Eggleston, Ryan Finnerty, Catherine Friedman, Martha Hruska, Rebecca Hyde, Sanae Isozumi, Elliot Kanter, Karen Lindvall-Larson, Rob Melton, Alanna Aiko Moore, Stacy Nelson, Annelise Sklar, Mike Smith
Announcements:
New database trials, upgrades, and other electronic acquisitions and news:
Sam brought requests for three new electronic resources to Catherine for CMG to consider:
CDL announced the acquisition of the London Times Digital.
Rebecca announced that the Federal Depository Library Program and NTIS are sponsoring a trial program which allows depository libraries to receive some NTIS reports free online. Currently free public access is limited to indexing from 1980-present. This trial program allows us to have online access to select reports as early as the 1920s, although more generally from the 1964-2000. These reports can be accessed using a username and password NOT to be given out to patrons. Primary mode of access will be the Science & Engineering Library, although it may be used at any interested Public Service Desk. More details and guidelines for use will be forthcoming.
Rob announced a trail to Caribbean Literature , an Alexander Street Press product that, when complete, will comprise 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, interviews, photographs and audio files by the most important writers of the Caribbean. The trial runs through May 31.
Sanae announced the CDL acquisition of CiNii, Citation Information by National Institute of Informatics NII Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator (Systemwide access via National Institute of Informatics (NII) [Japan] ) Japanese-language database service that enables searching of information in academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database. The National Institute of Informatics has incorporated approximately 2.8 million full text articles (PDF) in NII-ELS, from 1,000 published academic journals. Currently NII has obtained permission of 271 academic societies. NII-ELS also provides full text (PDF) of Research Bulletins of Japanese universities. All of the full text articles incorporated in NII-ELS are available through CiNii along with bibliographical information on other academic papers.
Jim announced a trial to KISS (Korean Studies Information Service System)
KISS offers 1 million full text articles by 300,000 authors, who relate to 1,200 academic societies in Korea. It is increased annually about 100,000 articles. The subject areas include Social Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Law, Business, Technology, Medical Sciences, and Agricultures. The database can be searched by Title, Author, Issue date, Publisher, Content Keywords. The IR/PS School and Library will jointly cover the first 2-year subscription fee ($4,000/per year) and the library will cover the whole cost after the first 2 years under the condition that we have the sufficient usage of the database. KISS is the first Korean Database subscribed by UCSD, while UCB and UCLA have subscribed it three years ago.
Harold, Rob, and Holly are SSH Cluster members of the UCSD EBook Task Force that is investigating options and will make recommendations for how we should proceed at the package level or title-by-title.
Harold announced that he is a member of the EBSCO-Gale Database Evaluation Task Force that is reviewing Gale’s Expanded Academic ASAP, their newer Academic OneFile (which offers significantly more content at a significantly higher price), and EBSCO’s similar products: Academic Search Premier (which has been offered as a trial for UC libraries until December, 2007) and Academic Search Complete. A recommendation to upgrade to either Gale Academic OneFile or EBSCO Academic Search Complete will require campus co-investment.
Elliot announced the one-year trial to the SHOAH Visual History Archive, a web-based software tool that allows researchers to search nearly 52,000 digitized video testimonies of Holocaust survivors using over 50,000 experiential and geographic index terms. Because of the size, bandwidth and registration issues involved, we will work with select faculty during an initial soft-rollout phase.
Martha asked if we needed a local assessment of Lexis/Nexis, Factiva, WestLaw and other news resources to determine if we need to continue them all into next year. After discussion, we decided to take the issue to the Collection Coordinators Group to confirm that we should continue our current subscriptions.
Sam reminded the Group that SSH Tower weeding should be an ongoing activity.
Sam also reminded the Group that the SSH Reference collection weeding is in the works and that all Collection Managers should review their subject call number areas. Everyone should also review the SSH Ref Standing Orders list (previously distributed) to identify potential titles for cancellation. Please also identify any titles that have migrated to online formats so we can convert our standing orders to digital subscriptions. One recent example was Kathy’s discovery of the online International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951-present) that combines four of our print subscriptions, International Bibliography of Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology into one database with access provided via Ovid or CSA.
Updates:
Highlights of the March 12 Collection Coordinators Group meeting included discussion of revising our gift policy, the Spring call for special purchase proposals, and the formation of the Ebook Task Force.
Highlights of the April 6 CDC Conference Call (Sam sat in on Martha’s behalf):
CDL/JSC update on backfiles
CDL is looking at Blackwell backfile funding with the possibility of campus co-investment. Ivy is planning to begin discussion with Blackwell in the first week of May, when they will be more fully integrated with their Wiley parent company.
[SSH Cluster Bibs discussion continued on related backfile issues:
Stacy noted that there are three social science titles in the Elsevier Reference Works package that we bought for a one-time fee. We get “little updates,” but the price does not include new editions. There may be cases where paying an annual subscription fee is preferable to paying a one-time fee for content that is not systematically updated.
Martha noted that Peter Brueggeman has identified titles in the Web of Science backfile that we do not own.
Stacy noted a startling fact: Although we have purchased the Oxford backfile, titles acquired subsequently are for current access only. The backfile purchase should be considered “a snapshot” of the Oxford package at a particular point in time. New Oxford titles do not include backfile access. Similarly, Former Academic Press titles, now in the Elsevier package, do not include backfiles.]
2007 WorkPlan
Work is proceeding nicely and most of the items are in good shape
Images Task Force/ArtSTOR follow-up
Campus feedback so far indicates much support for moving to ArtSTOR.
JSTOR
JSTOR performed an audit at SRLF and “we passed with flying colors” with a 99.8% accuracy rate. We are validating volumes at a rate of 1000 pages an hour.
Adding Taylor & Francis titles locally
If campus selectors identify new titles that are needed, these can add titles to the package. We can add the first year as a trial, pay 50% of the cost for years 2-3, and pay full price from year 4 onwards. Details are being worked out as to how titles should be requested and cataloged.
Journal Use Reports (JUR) trial
Some campuses are participating in a trial that is set to begin in mid-May. This ISI tool also includes access to the Journal Citation Reports during the trial period.
Mass digitization & identifying collections
Sam mentioned our interest in identifying “ California” within subject headings and also considering California documents as candidates for digitization. Spanish-language materials are also vital to the history of California and should be included. Robin Chandler is talking with the vendors to try to convince them of how important this is.
Shared Print
Requests for items in the shared print archive are “vanishingly low,” with 69 issue requests over a 3-year period. There was discussion on the conditions under which we could consider eliminating a print archive.
Discussion:
WorldCat Collection Analysis Tool
Sam reminded the Group that we may want to set up comparison groups. It takes up to a week to establish these and the groups’ holdings need to be refreshed periodically because OCLC holdings are updated quarterly. Groups will disappear after three months if they are not used. We need to get permission for a one-to-one comparison, unless it is a UC library. Talk with Sam if anyone wants to set up comparison groups. Sam also distributed a copy of Tony’s instructions that include the following:
Access: http://firstsearch.oclc.org
Login authorization: 100099397 Password: analyze
Harold also noted that OCLC also includes ILL borrowing and lending data from 2003 to the present and this is a good way for us to build collections in areas of need.
Sam demonstrated some advanced search features in GOBI and OttoEditions