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Author: Ellen Meltzer

Heather Christenson In Print

CDL’s Heather Christenson has published an article in Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) entitled, “HathiTrust; A Research Library at Web Scale.”  The article,  in vol. 52 (2), pages 93-102, discusses the challenges digitized collections present to research libraries. Congratulations, Heather!

Five UC Campuses now Shibboleth Enabled, Making Downloading of HathiTrust Materials Easier

Five University of California campuses, UC Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced and San Diego, are now Shibboleth enabled for access to HathiTrust advanced services.   Shibboleth is open source software for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows […]

Moving Forward with Next Generation Melvyl

The Next Generation Melvyl Executive Team (Karen Butter, UCSF [Chair]; Luc Declerck, UCSD [Implementation Team], Laine Farley, CDL; Patricia Martin, CDL [Chair, Implementation Team] and Gary Strong, UCLA) and Implementation Team (Sara Davidson, UCM; Luc Declerck, UCSD [Member of the Executive Team]; […]

Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Records now more prominent in NGM

From the inception of the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot, the University of California libraries have wanted to display Center for Research Libraries (CRL) records as part of the UC collection.  CDL, CRL, and OCLC have worked together to do […]

bX Recommender Trial for UC Libraries 4/11/-6/10/11

We are testing a potential new recommender service for UC-eLinks The University of California Libraries will be experimenting with a 2-month trial of bX Recommender (http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/bXOverview), an academic library recommender service that points users to relevant scholarly articles on the […]

UC Libraries Statement on E-Book Access in Libraries

By Ivy Anderson, Director, Collection Development & Management As the UC Libraries explore options for the increased acquisition of e-books, we reaffirm the importance of fair use and equitable access to information, the principles on which all libraries stand. As […]

Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement Decision: UC and HathiTrust Responses

The UC libraries have issued a statement on the March 22, 2011 federal court decision regarding the proposed Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement.  The statement is available on UC’s Reshaping Scholarly Communication website:   http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/google/settlement_decision.html HathiTrust’s response is available at http://www.hathitrust.org/hathitrust_asa_response

Materials Research Society Publications – Platform transition

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has migrated its publishing content to the Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) platform. This migration affects local campus subscriptions to the Journals of Materials Research and the MRS Bulletin, as well as CDL licensed access to […]

Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – February 2011

There is one item that improves the user experience in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, February 13, 2011 install.  Other enhancements have a positive impact on Local Holdings Record (LHR) displays and links […]

Online data management planning tool tames data and meets researchers’ funding requirements

A group of major research institutions is partnering to develop a flexible online tool to help researchers generate data management plans.  This effort is in response to demands from funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the […]