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The Central Discovery Index and You!

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We are all still learning 🦉

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What is the CDI?

The Central Discovery Index (CDI) is a searchable database of citations collected from scholarly e-resources including journal articles, e-books, legal documents and more. They are harvested from thousands of primary and secondary commercial publishers and aggregators, and from open-access repositories. (CARLI)

The CDI is available only in the Articles, books, and more profile along with all of the discoverable materials for the UC system, what we call the “Network Zone.”

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What does the CDI include?

published and aggregator content
digital repositories
research outputs and data
open access content
activated electronic resources and ebooks available for both Berkeley all UCs
special collections

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How does the CDI work?

Discovery vs Delivery
Discovery → citation included in index, will surface in searches
Delivery → full text is available
Lots of resources indexed automatically through EasyActive, but that does not mean all are activated automatically
CDI citations are relational → discovery via contextual relationships

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Configurations which impact CDI

We are not limiting for availability in Articles, books, and more

We see everything which is indexed, not just what has full text per the SILS Phase 4 decision

We have a setting which prefers the electronic record in Primo VE

based on UC-wide guidance; some CDL resources were not displaying

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EasyActive setting

In the EasyActive setting, most collections are automatically searchable.

This CDI Collection List (July 10, 2022) – contains all collections that are marked in Alma as In CDI. Collections in Alma are marked as In CDI if at least 80% of the content is indexed, either from the provider directly, or via alternative data sources

For those collections that are not searchable automatically for EasyActive customers, they are listed in the EasyActive Collections List