Year: 2015
Announcing the Clinics of North America on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect
In December 2014, Elsevier discontinued the MD Consult (MDC) platform. MDC provided access to medical textbooks and some Elsevier journals, among them many Clinics of North America titles. As an alternative, Elsevier released a product called ClinicalKey, a new platform […]
EZID Service Update: June 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities At the beginning of the month, DataCite DOI services were interrupted on an intermittent basis for two days. Subsequent research by the DataCite technical team identified the cause as a runaway process that acted […]
DMPTool Service Update: June 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New Service Manager. We’ve hired a new DMPTool service manager: Stephanie Simms. She is already busy connecting with our partners to create a road map for future development. Stay tuned as we ramp up efforts […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: June 2015
The major monograph distributions were for Springer (2209 titles), NBER working papers (1027 titles), Naxos (323 titles), Elsevier (348 titles), Loeb Classical Library (211), OECD (163 titles), IEEE (147 titles), SPIE (146 titles), Wiley (83 titles), Apabi (77 titles), and […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Improved display for facets
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on June 11, 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 an impact on Melvyl.) […]
UC-eLinks user interface simplified: Go button is going, going, gone
CDL made a modification to the UC-eLinks menu window and the direct linking banner that affects the user interface but does not change any functionality. Under the hood, we switched the SFX template that controls the user interface from a […]
New Licensed Resource – Scientific American Archive (1845-2005), Supplement & Builders Archive Collection
All UC campuses now have access to Scientific American Archive (1845-2005) and Scientific American Supplement & Builders Archive Collection; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive/index.html (All campuses; on the Nature platform) CDL fully funded the Archive […]
SNAC wins C.F.W. Coker Award from Society of American Archivists
If you’re researching the life of Gertrude Stein and want to see all of the primary source materials created by her and documenting her life and work, you’d likely spend years trying to locate those items. From finding her manuscripts, […]
Morgan & Claypool Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences – Collection 3 is available
Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers has two full-text series of short books acquired as a Tier 2 purchase: Synthesis and Colloquium. The Colloquium Digital Library of the Life Sciences is now in its third series and continues to span biological, […]
Jing Jiang joins D2D
CDL welcomes Jing Jiang, the newest application developer on the Discovery & Delivery (D2D) team. She comes to us by way of IT Infrastructure Services at the UC Davis library, where she was a member of the technical team supporting the […]