Year: 2012
DataUp Service Update — August 2012
� Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities For the last month we have been preparing for the release of the DataUp tool, scheduled for 2 October. We are coordinating our launch with the outreach and communication efforts of Microsoft Research, […]
EZID Service Update — August 2012
August Activities Service Manager Joan Starr held a webinar on August 15th attended by more than 100 participants from organizations all over the country. The webinar was recorded, and the audio and slides are both available on the EZID […]
WAS Service Update – August 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS User’s Group meeting On Friday, August 10 in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists meeting in San Diego, the first WAS User’s Group was held. There were 16 attendees from 10 different […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — September 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Serial distributions highlights for August were Open Access (58 titles) and EBSCO Academic Search Complete (26 titles). Monograph record distributions were much more substantial and included Springer (892 titles), ACM Digital Library (639 […]
DataUp Webinar Oct 3
By Carly Strasser, DataUp Project Manager Mark your calendars for the 2012 DataUp webinar on October 3rd at 2:00 PM! In brief: In the last year, the DataUp (formerly DCXL) project has built a tool to facilitate data management, sharing, and […]
Oxford Reference Online: Updated Interface & Functionality
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Oxford Reference Online (ORO) has updated its platform interface and functionality beginning immediately. The new platform is now available at the current URL: www.oxfordreference.com. A link to the old interface is […]
HathiTrust August 2012 Update
HathiTrust had a busy summer, as described in its August update. Reported in this issue is an array of new and ongoing activities. For example, later this year HathiTrust will begin accepting the “library walk-in” Shibboleth attribute from partner institutions […]
California Digital Library Joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing The California Digital Library is pleased to announce its new membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Founded in 2008 to “represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally […]
ECS Journals Transition to New Platform
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals are now available on the HighWire Press platform. They have transitioned from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Scitation platform, which is discontinuing its hosting services for ECS and selected other society publishers.
SPIE Digital Library moves to a new platform
By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley Engineering Library, Resource Liaison for SPIE The SPIE Digital Library (SPIEDL) moved to Silverchair Information Systems platform SCM6 on August 22, 2012. SPIEDL has an updated look, improved functionality, and more content. 40,000 additional articles […]