Author: Ellen Meltzer
Upcoming transition of former RLG resources from OCLC to EBSCOhost
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Following is an update on the status of the migration of many former RLG resources from the OCLC FirstSearch platform to the EBSCOhost platform scheduled for late 2012. As the databases […]
UC Librarians in Print
Five UC librarians have coauthored an article in the Journal of eScience Librarianship, “A Collaborative Framework for Data Management Services: The Experience of the University of California”. The abstract describes the article’s content as follows: The National Science Foundation and […]
Invitation to Data Curation Workshop — North and South
By Patricia Cruse, Director, UC3 Researchers now must manage and share their data as part of research grants, and are looking for assistance in meeting these requirements for data curation. Libraries, data centers, offices of research and other organizations within […]
ProQuest Congressional Migration Completed September 21, 2012
ProQuest discontinued its legacy platform and switched over to the new platform exclusively on Friday, 9/21, at which point users were automatically redirected from the old platform URLs to the new platform. Systemwide resources affected included: ProQuest Congressional LexisNexis Congressional […]
California Digital Library and partners launch DataUp
The University of California’s Digital Library (CDL) and its partners today (Oct. 2) launched DataUp, a free data management tool. Researchers struggling to meet new data management requirements from funders, journals and their own institutions now can use the DataUp […]
Licensed Resource Cancellation: Multidata Online
The consortial subscription to Multidata Online, an archive of Arabic periodicals, was cancelled by a UC systemwide decision.
Selected AccessEngineering E-books on CDL-Hosted Licensed Content Platform
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Thanks to a new hosting service released by CDL in June 2012, an important set of engineering e-books from publisher McGraw-Hill, formerly available to selected UC campuses at the McGraw-Hill AccessEngineering(TM) […]
UC-only OCLC webinar now available
The streamed UC-only OCLC webinar, “Transforming Discovery and Resource Sharing with OCLC: FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing and More” is now available for viewing from the CDL website. The September 20, 2012 session was presented by Mindy Pozenel, Director, OCLC WorldCat Discovery […]
DataUp Webinar Oct 3
By Carly Strasser, DataUp Project Manager Mark your calendars for the 2012 DataUp webinar on October 3rd at 2:00 PM! In brief: In the last year, the DataUp (formerly DCXL) project has built a tool to facilitate data management, sharing, and […]
Oxford Reference Online: Updated Interface & Functionality
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Oxford Reference Online (ORO) has updated its platform interface and functionality beginning immediately. The new platform is now available at the current URL: www.oxfordreference.com. A link to the old interface is […]