Year: 2014
WEST Update Delivered at Member Meeting at ALA Annual 2014
The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting took place on Sunday, June 29, 2014 in LVCC-N120. Following a presentation from the WEST Project Team, we had an excellent Q&A session. Thank you to everyone who joined us! If you were unable to attend, please […]
EZID Service Update: July 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities On the EZID documentation page (http://ezid.cdlib.org/home/documentation) we’ve recently added a link under Technical Documentation to a wiki page that lists open source software for EZID. As the new page states, we do not support […]
Emily Stambaugh speaks on “Moving Shared Print to the Network Level” at ALA Annual 2014
The ALA Annual 2014 Print Archive Network (PAN) meeting on June 27 was followed by a session titled, “Looking to the Future of Shared Print,” co-sponsored by the Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). […]
New Licensed Resource – Nature Reviews
UC campuses now have access to the six Nature Reviews journals listed below. [All UC campuses; on the Nature Publishing platform. SCP has distributed the catalog records.] Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology http://www.nature.com/nrclinonc/index.html Nature Reviews Endocrinology http://www.nature.com/nrendo/index.html Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & […]
Melvyl Central Index Update
It’s July 2014, and time for the biannual addition of new databases released by OCLC to Melvyl’s Central Index. Currently, CDL adds databases to the all instances of the Melvyl Central Index for resources managed by CDL and licensed by […]
New Licensed Resource – Scientific American
All UC campuses now have access to Scientific American; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. [All campuses; on the Nature Publishing platform. SCP has distributed the catalog records.] Scientific American is the world’s premier magazine of […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – JSTOR Global Plants
Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to JSTOR Global Plants. http://uclibs.org/PID/264382 [B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD; on the JSTOR platform. SCP has distributed […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2014
The major distributions for serials last month were for Open Access (488 titles), ScienceDirect (52 titles), JSTOR (50 titles), and ASME (49 titles) with those from ASME being the first distributions for that package. For monographs, our major distributions included […]
Big Strides for the Elephant – HathiTrust Mid-Year Update 2014
2014 has been a great year for the HathiTrust Digital Library, and the year is only half over! Milestones In February, HathiTrust surpassed 11 million volumes in its collection. Close to 4 million of these are in the public […]
The DAMS is live! UC Libraries Digital Collection Project reaches major milestone
The UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) Project has just reached the halfway point, and with it, a major milestone: the shared digital asset management system (DAMS) is now in production and ready for use by campus library staff! Watch our […]