Year: 2015
New Licensed Resource – RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature
Eight UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz) now have access to RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature RILM; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions: http://uclibs.org/PID/272440 (B, D, I, […]
The Elephant Weighs In: Updates from HathiTrust and UC Libraries
It’s been a busy year for HathiTrust Digital Library. In April, the five millionth volume was opened for public reading and partner downloading. That’s a weighty accomplishment and it couldn’t have happened without the vast contributions made by UC libraries, librarians, and staff. […]
What’s happening with WorldCat Local, FirstSearch & WorldCat Discovery?
The WorldCat Discovery beta launched in April 30, 2014 and is currently slated to conclude at the end of July 2015. WorldCat Discovery merges WorldCat Local and FirstSearch on a new platform with major functional design improvements. While OCLC considers […]
CDL Welcomes Stephanie Simms!
Meet Stephanie Simms, CDL’s new DMPTool service manager and UC3 Research Data Specialist. Stephanie spent the past ten months at the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library as a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow where she worked on a range of digital […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – Modern Language Open collection temporarily removed
Liverpool University Press has sent OCLC the incorrect data for this collection, and OCLC is working with them to correct and reload the data. In the meantime, OCLC is removing the data from the central index; consequently, CDL has […]
EZID Service Update: May 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month, we made the move to the “cloud-based infrastructure” mentioned in last month’s update. EZID is now hosted on Amazon Web Services. As mentioned previously, we made this change because we expect the […]
CDL Staff in Print – Joan Starr and John Kratz in PeerJ
Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, and John Kratz, a CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellow, along with a number of collaborators, published an article entitled “Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications” in the inaugural issue of PeerJ’s […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911~1949)
Four campuses (Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911~1949) Series 1-9. I, LA, SB, SD; on the National Index to Chinese Newspapers & […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2015
The major monograph distributions were for Naxos (902 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (284 titles), Wiley (249 titles), IEEE (178 titles), Harvard University Press (134 titles), Open Access (67 titles), and CRC Press (45 titles). For serials our major distributions were for […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Linked Author Names & Subject Facet
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on May 7, 2015 included the following new features & enhancements. 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 […]