Year: 2010
Project citizenship
In the fall of 2008, as CDL was gearing up to become deeply involved in HathiTrust, I was part of the team managing our efforts. We anticipated a long-term initiative encompassing many projects, committees, and workgroups, and that was just […]
Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Books Settlement Be Approved?
Ivy Anderson, Director of Collections California Digital Library Late last week, Google and the plaintiffs filed their final briefs in defense of the Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) that is before the New York Southern Federal District Court. As […]
IEEE’s Xplore interface changing on February 13th
By Jean McKenzie (UCB), IEEE Resource Liaison After much development and testing, IEEE is switching to its new version of the Xplore Digital Library on Saturday, February 13th. This database gives the UC Campuses access to: IEEE journals, transactions, letters, […]
HathiTrust Update
By Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager and CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust has released a January 2010 update. The following are highlights of UC contributions to the HathiTrust, as well as items of special interest to our UC […]
Resource Liaison Assignment Update: February 2010
By Holly Eggleston, Resource Liaison Coordinator and Electronic Resource Analyst CDL is pleased to announce the following resource liaison assignments within the Resource Liaisons (RL) program. Resource Liaisons provide a crucial link between the UC system and our licensed resource […]
What a difference time makes!
I mentioned in my first post that I’m heading up a Task Force on Project Management Skills here in the UC Library system, and we’re in the middle of our survey of people with project management experience. The first big batch […]
Web Archive Discovery: Memento Implementation Meeting
On February 2-3, members of the California Digital Library Web archiving team took part in a working meeting of the Memento Project, hosted by the Internet Archive. Led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Old Dominion University (ODU), […]
CDL welcomes Greg Janée
By John Kunze, CDL Preservation Technologies Architect Please join me in welcoming a new half-time developer, Greg Janée to the UC Curation Center. Greg will be working remotely from Santa Barbara, where the other half of his time goes to […]
CDL ERMS Portal gives UC library staff access to license terms for CDL resources
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst, Collections CDL is pleased to announce the launch of the CDL ERMS Portal, an interface for campus library staff to find licensing-related information about CDL managed electronic resources. The CDL ERMS Portal is part […]
New Name for CDL’s Digital Collection of UC Press Titles
by Elise Proulx Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing GroupThe digital scholarly monograph collection formerly known as eScholarship Editions has been renamed “UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2008” (www.escholarship.org/editions). A joint project of UC Press and the California Digital Library’s Publishing Group, […]