Year: 2011
UC Libraries Statement on E-Book Access in Libraries
By Ivy Anderson, Director, Collection Development & Management As the UC Libraries explore options for the increased acquisition of e-books, we reaffirm the importance of fair use and equitable access to information, the principles on which all libraries stand. As […]
DataCite Metadata Scheme update
The DataCite Metadata Scheme has been updated, and the schema and accompanying documentation are now available in Version 2.1. The Schema is accessible at this location: http://datacite.org/schema/datacite-metadata-v2.1.xsd (http://datacite.org/schema/datacite-metadata-v2.1.xsd). The documentation is here: http://datacite.org/schema/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.1.pdf Several early adopters and other careful readers […]
GBS at the Crossroads: What Now, What Next?
One year ago last February just days before the Google Books Settlement Fairness Hearing, I wrote a blogpost fancifully titled Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Book Settlement Be Approved? In the ensuing weeks and months as we […]
Web Archiving Service Maintenance, Monday March 28
On Monday, March 28th the Web Archiving Service servers will undergo a scheduled maintenance. This maintenance will require a downtime for the service between 8 am and noon on Monday. During that time, public archives will remain accessible, but login […]
Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement Decision: UC and HathiTrust Responses
The UC libraries have issued a statement on the March 22, 2011 federal court decision regarding the proposed Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement. The statement is available on UC’s Reshaping Scholarly Communication website: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/google/settlement_decision.html HathiTrust’s response is available at http://www.hathitrust.org/hathitrust_asa_response
CDL Technical Requirements for Vendors – Revised and Improved!
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst An updated version of the Technical Requirements for Licensed Resources document has been posted to http://www.cdlib.org/gateways/vendors/guidelines_technical.html. The Technical Requirements document is primarily intended for new and continuing vendors of CDL’s licensed electronic resources, but […]
Materials Research Society Publications – Platform transition
The Materials Research Society (MRS) has migrated its publishing content to the Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) platform. This migration affects local campus subscriptions to the Journals of Materials Research and the MRS Bulletin, as well as CDL licensed access to […]
World Banking Abstracts Transition
UC’s access to the licensed content (from 2006 to the present) of World Banking Abstracts (ISSN 0265-9484) was previously available via the Wiley Online Library platform. Wiley has now made World Banking Abstracts available on a new platform. As before, […]
Amazing times, social media
I work with web archiving full-time so you think that I’d be used to the web by now – but sometimes it can still strike me as strange. These have been amazing times in recent months, with revolutions and uprisings […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – February 2011
There is one item that improves the user experience in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, February 13, 2011 install. Other enhancements have a positive impact on Local Holdings Record (LHR) displays and links […]