Author: Ellen Meltzer
HathiTrust August 2012 Update
HathiTrust had a busy summer, as described in its August update. Reported in this issue is an array of new and ongoing activities. For example, later this year HathiTrust will begin accepting the “library walk-in” Shibboleth attribute from partner institutions […]
California Digital Library Joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing The California Digital Library is pleased to announce its new membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Founded in 2008 to “represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally […]
ECS Journals Transition to New Platform
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals are now available on the HighWire Press platform. They have transitioned from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Scitation platform, which is discontinuing its hosting services for ECS and selected other society publishers.
SPIE Digital Library moves to a new platform
By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley Engineering Library, Resource Liaison for SPIE The SPIE Digital Library (SPIEDL) moved to Silverchair Information Systems platform SCM6 on August 22, 2012. SPIEDL has an updated look, improved functionality, and more content. 40,000 additional articles […]
Momentum Press 2011 Digital Library
All UC campus libraries now have access to this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license. Momentum Press 2011 Digital Library (All campuses including LBL; on the ebrary platform.)http://uclibs.org/PID/241136 Digital Library (45 books): Comprised of five Topical Engineering […]
Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) Announces Print Archiving Milestone
The press release below can also be seen at the UC Newsoom. The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a partnership to create a distributed retrospective print journal repository in the western United States, has completed its first round of print […]
Upcoming UC-only OCLC Webinar: 9/20/2012
Are you curious about what the future looks like for Melvyl, resource sharing (ILL), and FirstSearch WorldCat? Join us for a UC- only OCLC webinar, “Transforming Discovery and Resource Sharing with OCLC: FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing and More.” The webinar […]
CDL Welcomes Kurt Ewoldsen
CDL has hired a new Infrastructure and Application Support Manager—Kurt Ewoldsen—following John Ober’s retirement in May. Kurt impressed the interview groups with his deep and practical technical knowledge, including experience with disaster recovery and virtualization. Most recently he was AVP […]
View Now and Central Index Implementation in Melvyl
In April 2012, CDL and the campuses conducted usability testing on two features in Melvyl – View Now and Central Index. The recommendations and full report are available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/uxdesign/reports/index.html. As a result of the assessment and further follow-up, investigation, […]
New and Upgraded Licensed Content: AGU Digital Library Books; Congressional Hearings; NNCO; Times Digital Archive
AGU Digital Library Books (All campuses; on the AGU platform) (http://uclibs.org/PID/240973) This is a one-time CDL purchase. Perpetual rights for 400 titles, pre-2008 through 2012 of more than 50 years of Earth and space sciences research from AGU’s preeminent books. […]