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Author: Jayne Dickson

FRANCIS Database moves from EBSCOhost to free version

FRANCIS is produced by Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS). In addition to journal articles, the database indexes books, dissertations, reports and conferences related to humanities and social sciences topics. According […]

CDL office closure Dec. 22, 2016 PM – Jan. 2, 2017

This year, UC’s Office of the President (UCOP), including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 2:00 PM PST through Monday, January 2, 2017.  The […]

A New Look for All Journals on Scitation

All American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIP) journals and Member Society publications transitioned in December 2016 to a newly redesigned Scitation platform. Member Societies include: AVS (American Vacuum Society) Acoustical Society of America American Association of Physics Teachers American Crystallographic […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: Cover art for every item

  This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on December 8, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]

Berg Fashion Library moves to Bloomsbury platform

For the 6 participating UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz) access to the Berg Fashion Library, which was previously provided by Oxford University Press has transitioned to the Bloomsbury Academic platform. http://uclibs.org/PID/240961 (B, D, I, […]

Cambridge University Press content moves to new platform: Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core is the new academic platform from Cambridge University Press. It consolidates all Cambridge content, and Cambridge hosted content (Materials Research Society Proceedings Online) onto the single Cambridge Core platform (https://www.cambridge.org/core). The switch to Cambridge Core happened on September […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: CJK Author Field Order

  This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on October 27, 2016 included the following bug fix. The running list of release notes can be found at (http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html). (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) Bug Fixes […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: MARC Record Refinements

  This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on September 29, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]

New resources in Melvyl’s Central Index

    Eight resources have been added to Melvyl’s Central Index. They are: American Society of Civil Engineers eJournals (American Society of Civil Engineers) American Society of Civil Engineers eBooks (American Society of Civil Engineers) JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV Collection […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: User Experience Enhancements

  This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on August 29, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]