CDL Alert January 14, 2001 MLA Bibliography and COMPENDEX are now available via Ovid! Access is via the "More databases" menu on the home page for CDL-hosted databases (http://www.dbs.cdlib.org), the "Article databases" menu on the CDL Collections and Services page (http://www.cdlib.org/collections/), and the CDL Directory. Information for creating specific URLs has been sent to the Users Council member at each campus. These two databases are being announced now because access from other vendors is going away soon. Linking services via UC-eLinks (SFX) are not yet complete, but since these services were not previously available, the Transition Steering Committee recommended that we go ahead and make the databases available. [see item 1 c at http://www.cdlib.org/news/cdlinfo/cdlinfo121301.html ] The other three databases from Ovid, BIOSIS, Current Contents, and INSPEC, will not be released until UC-eLinks is in place so as not to lose these services. We expect this to occur by the end of January. BIOSIS may be delayed until February pending a reload of the database. Test access to all five Ovid databases remains available at the UC-eLinks (SFX) test site: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/a-i-trans/sfxtest.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Laine Farley Director, Digital Library Services California Digital Library http://www.cdlib.org University of California 415 20th Street, Oakland, CA 94612-2901 [log in to unmask] tel: (510) 987-0552 fax: (510) 763-2471 -------------------------------------------------------------------