Year: 2014
Call for WEST Cycle 3 (2013/14) statistics underway
WEST cycle 3 statistics gathering is well underway! Thank you to everyone who has responded to our call – we greatly appreciate it. Following each cycle, WEST collects deselection, archiving and lending/borrowing statistics from our members and Archive Holders. These […]
Announcing University of California Libraries’ Shared Print RoadMap 2014-2018
The University of California Libraries recently adopted a roadmap for UC shared print activities for the next few years. Key projects and policies that our libraries will pursue and explore include: Coordinated print serials archiving to UCs two Regional Library […]
EZID Service Update: October 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataCite Metadata Working Group released Version 3.1 of the DataCite Schema. This version adds: New affiliation attributes for Creator and Contributor A new contributorType: DataCurator Two new relatedIdentifierTypes (arXiv and bibcode) Two new […]
Announcing The Dash Tool: Data Sharing Made Easy
We are pleased to announce the launch of Dash – a new self-service tool from the UC Curation Center (UC3) and partners that allows researchers to describe, upload, and share their research data. Dash helps researchers perform the following […]
Staff in Print: New article in PLOS Biology
CDL’s Carly Strasser, UC3, and Jennifer Lin, PLOS, just published an article in PLOS Biology titled, Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data. Read the article here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001975. Abstract: As appeals for public access of research data continue […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Jewish Studies
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to JSTOR Jewish Studies. [B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the JSTOR platform] The Jewish Studies Archive Collection features journals that cover a unique range of historical […]
Merritt Service Update: September 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Dash Meeting. A meeting to discuss Dash was held at UCLA on Sept. 25, with participants from all UC campuses. (Merritt is the storage service behind Dash.) More information about the meeting, with slides […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: September 2014
UC3 Dash is a systemwide service we are developing in partnership with UC campus libraries. It will allow UC campuses to provide an easy-to-use solution for the effective curation of and access to campus research data. Dash is a centralized […]
DMPTool Service Update: August – September 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Usage. We continue to get new users — over 300 (approximately) new users each month — as well as new partner institutions (those who configure their ‘single sign-on’ or add customizations). There are […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: October 2014
For monographs, our major distributions included titles for Naxos (4,686 titles), SuperStar Chinamaxx (385 titles), EBSCO Japanese DDA (315 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (144 titles), ASME (127 titles), Apabi (118 titles), Elsevier (103 titles), IEEE (84 titles), CalDocs (80 titles), Wiley […]