Year: 2014
HathiTrust A Gold Mine for Researchers
Heist from the San Francisco Mint? An inside job? Whatever the solution to this mystery, a crafty researcher used the HathiTrust Digital Library to try to track down the answer. A couple in California’s Mother Lode country in the Sierra […]
EZID Service Update: February 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities In late January, 2014, the URL for EZID’s home page changed from http://n2t.net/ezid to http://ezid.cdlib.org. The URL for the application programming interface (API) also changed to http://ezid.cdlib.org. This change provides a more natural branding […]
WEST collects statistics from members and Archive Holders
WEST recently collected statistics about deselection, archiving and lending and borrowing from our members and Archive Holders. These statistics are important parts of our reporting to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and for assessment of the WEST program. WEST is […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: February 2014
We had only three major e-book package distributions in January, for Springer (1,121 titles), SuperStar (211 titles), and IEEE (53 titles). There was an overall decrease (117 titles) in the number of CRC Press titles available since we removed 224 […]
The University of California awards contract to Symplectic for the implementation of a publication harvesting system to support UC’s Open Access Policy
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July […]
CRL Webinar: PAPR’s New Public Features
The Center for Research Libraries will present new features added to the Print Archives Preservation Registry in an online webinar. A significant amount of holdings data has been added to the registry. Come see the extent of shared print commitments […]
Licensed Resources: New Content Added to Web of Knowledge Subscription
The following new content has been added to UC’s World of Knowledge subscription for all campuses, on the Thomson Reuters platform (http://uclibs.org/PID/119925): Book Citation Index (2005-present) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990-present) Current Contents Connect (1998-present) Current Chemical Reactions (1985-present) Data […]
Melvyl Enhancements – February 2014: Data from MARC fields/subfields added to display
OCLC brought in one enhancement to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on February 13, 2014, described below. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) Data […]
New Licensed Resource: PsychiatryOnline Premium
Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 agreement for PsychiatryOnline Premium (http://uclibs.org/PID/163456); on the American Psychiatric Publishing platform. This collection features the DSM Library (http://uclibs.org/PID/261169) which includes the […]
CDL purchases Elsevier eBooks, 2014
On behalf of all UC campuses, CDL made a one-time purchase of the frontlist of Elsevier’s ebook collection with over 850 titles to be published in 2014. This collection spans 24 subject collections published under well-known imprints within science, technology, […]