Author: CDL
Digital Dissertation Platform Change in Process
ProQuest is performing a phased migration of the Digital Dissertations database to the ProQuest interface. This move should be completed with ProQuest’s summer 2006 release. As part of this process, the ProQuest database menu now offers a link to the […]
Revised Image Displays in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire Web Sites
The CDL recently completed an upgrade to its instance of the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), which serves as the search and display system for the OAC. As part of this process, we launched updated versions of our displays for image […]
Library Staff News
a. Joan Starr Joins CDL as Project Planning Manager Joan Starr will be joining CDL as the Manager for Project Planning and Resource Allocation on April 7. Reporting to Deputy University Librarian Laine Farley, Joan will work with the CDL’s […]
Changes to the PubMed Limits Screen
By Cheryl A. Bartel (UCLA), PubMed Resource Liaison PubMed has made changes to the limits screen. The majority of the limits are functionally the same. The presentation, however, is dramatically different. Instead of the single short screen with drop-down menus, the […]
Users Council Annual Meeting
The Users Council met for its annual meeting on April 28 at Preservation Park in Oakland. Topics discussed during the morning session included a welcome by Daniel Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost, Scholarly Information and University Librarian, Systemwide Library Planning and […]
Metasearch Infrastructure Project: Current Status
The Metasearch Infrastructure Project seeks to develop a robust set of tools for crafting tailored search interfaces to diverse information resources for specific audiences and/or purposes. For additional background information, see the project web site at [http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/metasearch/]. Significant progress has […]
Calisphere Web Site: Release Date Scheduled for June
The CDL is undertaking work to redesign the “CaliforniaDigitalLibrary.org” web site. The new site will be called Calisphere and is scheduled for release in June. Redesign decisions have been based on a variety of user assessment findings, including user studies […]
Global Books-in-Print Expands with Fiction Connection, Title Reviews, Chapter Excerpts.
Global Books-In-Print now comes with a readers’ advisory tool called Fiction Connection. You can use Fiction Connection to find book reviews, authors, or topics of interest. Fiction Connection draws its reviews from Library Journal, Choice, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, […]
New Resources Available
a. American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Journals AACR is the oldest and largest scientific organization in the world focused on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research. AACR publishes five peer-reviewed scientific journals: Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer […]
The CDL Common Framework: Why It Matters
The CDL Common Framework is an open, services-oriented technical architecture that provides an integrating framework for services related to digital libraries. As a layered architecture, it aims to separate front-end tools from back-end services and from underlying data storage so […]