Year: 2015
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV Collection. http://uclibs.org/PID/1980 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the JSTOR platform) The Arts & Sciences XIV Collection brings together more than […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2015
The holiday season is fast approaching and upcoming December campus closures will be affecting SCP operations. The UCSD campus will be officially closed December 24 through January 3. Additionally, it is probable that several staff will be taking off December […]
Presidential Open Access Policy webinar for library staff
Join Katie Fortney and Catherine Mitchell for a conversation about the new UC Presidential Open Access Policy. We’ll talk about who the policy covers, how it compares to the previous Senate OA Policies, and what some of the implications are […]
UCLDC Project Wrap-Up and Ongoing Collaboration
The launch of the new Calisphere site in September of this year represented the culmination of the UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) Project. We are pleased to say that the project achieved the goal of establishing a full pipeline for […]
WAS to Archive-It Migration Update
The Web Archiving Service (WAS) migration to Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service reached two major milestones last week when the WAS crawlers crawled their last crawl and the last of the UC institutions moved their collections to Archive-It. (See previous CDLINFO […]
EZID Service Update: October 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataCite, CrossRef and ORCID made a joint announcement of a new development: auto-updates to your ORCID profile. What this means: ORCIDs are unique persistent identifiers for researchers. Until now, researchers with ORCID profiles have had […]
John Chodacki Named Director of the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library
The California Digital Library is delighted to announce the appointment of John Chodacki as the new Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) effective October 19th, 2015. John comes to the CDL from the Public Library of Science […]
Groundbreaking University of California policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees
On October 26, 2015, the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: October 2015
The first set of records for two new journals packages, Reveal Digital’s Independent Voices and for SAE, went out this past month. You may have seen some press already regarding Independent Voices. This collection consists of alternative press newspapers and […]
DMPTool Service Update: September 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New Template. In response to updated guidelines, we added a drop-down menu for the US Department of Energy (DOE) with a new “DOE: Generic” template. Check out the DMPTool blog for the full story. […]