Author: CDL
CDL Receives $2.4 Million Library of Congress Grant
The CDL has been awarded a three-year, $2.4 million grant from the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The award is for a project to develop web archiving tools that will […]
New Resources Available
a. EBSCO Business Source Premier By Adam Siegel (Interim Resource Liaison), UC Davis EBSCO’s Business Source Premier is now available to all 10 campuses. For more information about the transition to EBSCO from ProQuest ABI Inform, see the previous issue […]
Successful Negotiation for SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service)
to increase UC access to SciFinder Scholar. The negotiation success with ACS was unique: it resulted from a convergence of similar financial concerns expressed by both UC faculty who are ACS members and UC librarians who offer SciFinder Scholar as […]
Library Staff News
a. Felicia Poe Moves Into New Assessment Coordinator Position Felicia Poe will assume the role of CDL Assessment Coordinator beginning October 1. As a Service Design Analyst at the CDL for the past three years, Felicia has made significant contributions […]
CDL Joins Project COUNTER
The CDL has recently become a member of Project COUNTER (http://www.projectcounter.org/), which is working to improve the quality and consistence of usage reporting in libraries. Producers and purchasers of online information products have parallel interests in measuring and reporting the […]
Transition to EBSCO Business Source Premier from ProQuest ABI Inform
The UC campuses will have systemwide access to a new business resource on October 1, 2004: EBSCO Business Source Premier. At the same time, there will be continued systemwide access to ProQuest ABI Inform through August 1, 2005. After that, […]
New Resources Available
a. Early-American Imprints Series II By Sheila O’Hare (UC Santa Cruz), Resource Liaison The CDL has reached an agreement with Shaw-Shoemaker to license the Early-American Imprints Series II. Each campus has the following options for linking to this resource: An […]
Reshaping Scholarly Communication Web Site Launched
The Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) is happy to report that a new web site, “Reshaping Scholarly Communication,” is now live at: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/ The site has already received notice in SPARC’s Open Access Forum news and elsewhere. Aimed primarily at […]
Library Staff News
a. Jacqueline Wilson Named Librarian Emerita at UC San Francisco Jacqueline Wilson, Senior Associate for Shared Content at the CDL, has been named Librarian Emerita at UC San Francisco. This honor is granted by the Chancellor of each campus to […]
Melvyl Catalog: First Issue of the Melvyl Matters Newsletter
By popular demand, the online newsletter El Mel Tells, a newsletter about the Melvyl Catalog, has had a name change. Its new name is Melvyl Matters. Check out the first issue at: http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl/melvylmatters/