Year: 2014
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2014
Our past month’s distributions for monographs included titles for Open Access (1195 titles), SuperStar (640 titles), Springer (345 titles), CRC Press (288 titles), Apabi (113 titles), IEEE (76 titles), Wiley (65 titles), and Elsevier (51 titles). The majority of the […]
Request from eBook records, yes you can
Melvyl includes millions of eBook records, and it is often difficult to find the parallel print record in order to request the item. However, you don’t need to find the parallel record – you can submit a Request from the […]
New Licensed Resource: TAIR
TAIR http://uclibs.org/PID/262407 Nine UC Campuses (all except UCSF) entered a Tier 2 agreement to become among the first institutional subscribers to The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR). Arabidopsis thaliana is a flowering plant that is widely used as model organism for […]
UC Special Collections Highlighted
In a news article on the University of California website, UC archival collections are highlighted across the campuses. States the article, “While there’s no other band like the Grateful Dead, UC Santa Cruz is in good company insofar as housing […]
HathiTrust – April Update
Highlights from April’s HathiTrust Update: HathiTrust is seeking nominations for the User Support Working Group. The group is looking to add up to two new members who have expertise in providing general user support with expertise in cataloging in particular. To submit nominations […]
UCSF Mt. Zion Library Records Now in Melvyl
Mt. Zion Library records now appear in Melvyl as part of the UC San Francisco Library collection (Level 1) for UCSF. Mt. Zion is an affiliated UCSF library located off-campus. Records appear as part of the University of California Libraries […]
DataUp Service Update: March – April 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataUp Version 2 phase of the project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and in partnership with the DataONE organization (http://www.dataone.org), is underway! The project developer (housed at Microsoft Research […]
DMPTool Service Update: April 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We’re very close to launching the new version of the DMPTool – May 19 for administrators and May 29 for all users! A schedule of the upcoming releases and changes to the DMPTool are […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: April 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We are working closely with UC Berkeley to get the first instance of CDL-hosted Dash up and running. Stay tuned for more updates! Github Wiki. The Github repository’s wiki will be used in lieu […]
WEST Strategic Planning Meeting June 3rd
The WEST Executive Committee and Operations & Collections Council will meet on June 3 in Oakland, California to plan for subsequent WEST phases. The goals of WEST’s strategic planning this year are to explore options for change to the existing […]