Author: Ellen Meltzer
Got a question about Melvyl?
Technical questions Where do you inquire about Melvyl technical questions, configuration or customization requests? Send a message to MelvylOps@cdlib.org. Your question will be directed to CDL’s WorldCat Local operating team ticketing system and be viewed by the whole technical team. […]
Do You Use Calisphere? Tell Your Story!
CDL’s Calisphere Website is a finalist for an IMLS National Medal Award. Calisphere will be featured on the IMLS Facebook page on February 22. If you’ve used Calisphere in your teaching, reference work, or research and found value in it, […]
California Digital Library Named National Medal for Museum and Library Service Finalist
We are honored to share that the California Digital Library has been named as a finalist for the 19th annual National Medal for Museum and Library Service for our work on Calisphere. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor […]
UC Libraries Announce Open Access Publishing Fund Pilot
By Joanne Miller, Senior Analyst, Strategic and Project Planning The UC Libraries are pleased to announce new campus-based open access fund pilots to support UC faculty members who wish to make their research findings immediately and freely available to the […]
CDL’s Lisa Schiff Named as Co-Chair of ORCID Business Steering Group
Lisa Schiff, a Technical Lead in CDL’s Access & Publishing Group, has been named as co-chair of the ORCID Business Steering Group (BSG). ORCID ( Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry […]
Dacheng Old Journal Full-text Database
By Susan Xue, UC Berkeley, Resource Liaison for Dacheng Journals All UC campuses; on the Dacheng platform http://uclibs.org/PID/241770 This collection of old journals contains more than 7,000 journal titles and 130,000 issues published in China from the late Qing Dynasty to 1949. […]
eScholarship Quarterly Reports – A Fascinating Snapshot
By Justin Gonder, eScholarship Operations Coordinator Each quarter, the CDL sends a report to each campus Scholarly Communication Officer (SCO) with information about that campus’s use of eScholarship as well as total usage systemwide. Instead of sending the reports out […]
DataUp, End of Term Web Archive Cited Among Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments of 2012
Two CDL projects are among a list of top ten digital preservation developments of 2012, according to Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Library of Congress, DataUp and the End of Term Web Archive (http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2012.html) are included in this […]
CDL and Partners Receive Sloan Funding to Enhance DMPTool Features; Reach Out to Community
By Carly Strasser, Data Curation Specialist The California Digital Library and its partners were awarded a $590,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund further development of the popular Data Management Planning Tool (DMPTool) in 2013. The bulk […]
UC Irvine Presents "Just Get It: The Search for Value-Based Delivery"
Several of our UC Irvine colleagues presented a session at the recent Charleston Conference with the title, Just Get It: The Search for Value-Based Delivery (Interlibrary Loan). CDL staffers attending the meeting suggested that additional staff would be interested in […]