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Year: 2010

Digital library’s global, local services

The California Digital Library’s (CDL) success in elevating the digital library to be expansively global and deeply local has been demonstrated this fall in its launching of an array of pioneering resources that support activities in all corners of research […]

Launch Your Project With A Brief Energizing Goal

Have you ever worked on a project team and found you weren’t really sure what the goal of the project was? Leslie and I recently attended a University of California Extension project management class. The instructor, Cheryl Allen, shared an […]

eScholarship Integrates PubMed LinkOut Feature

By Elise Proulx Publishing Group Outreach & Marketing Coordinator Follow eScholarship on Facebook and Twitter. The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library (CDL) announces the implementation of the PubMed LinkOut feature for material published by eScholarship, the University of […]

OCLC webinar on Merritt, Thursday Nov. 18

OCLC Research is hosting a webinar on Merritt as part of their Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) series on Thursday, Nov 18 at 11am PT (2pm ET). The webinar will be led by Stephen Abrams […]

Licensed Resource Change: Alternative Press Index & Archive

Alternative Press Index and Archive are moving to a new vendor. Alternative Press Index http://uclibs.org/PID/7399 Alternative Press Index Archive http://uclibs.org/PID/49179 As announced last spring (http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/questions/), EBSCO has acquired the rights to license several OCLC FirstSearch databases, including Alternative Press Index […]

Uncommonly In Common

Colleagues from JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Rachel Bruce and Neil Jacobs visited CDL on October 29. We have often met with various representatives from JISC who have been engaged in many of the initiatives, services and issues that are […]

Publishing Group Director Catherine Mitchell on the University as Publisher

By Elise Proulx Publishing Group Outreach & Marketing Coordinator California Digital Library Publishing Group Director Catherine Mitchell sees local publishing services as key for universities to reclaim their primary intellectual asset – the scholarly output of faculty. By getting involved […]

HathiTrust Search Widget

By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager CDL has developed a search box that can be placed on any web page to search the HathiTrust Digital Library directly from websites, learning management systems, library guides and more. There are a […]

Nov 8th and 16th: Introduction to the Web Archiving Service

Introduction to the Web Archiving Service Two sessions offered: November 8th and November 16th, 10:00 – 11:30 am Learn how to use the Web Archiving Service to capture critical websites and publications and build searchable archives.  If you are a […]

Reducing the Cost of Change

Two of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith and Alistair Cockburn, have said here that the strategy behind Agile methods “is to reduce the cost of change.” To me this is a provocative phrase, “reduce the cost of […]