Author: Jayne Dickson
New Licensed Resource – Scientific American
All UC campuses now have access to Scientific American; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. [All campuses; on the Nature Publishing platform. SCP has distributed the catalog records.] Scientific American is the world’s premier magazine of […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – JSTOR Global Plants
Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to JSTOR Global Plants. http://uclibs.org/PID/264382 [B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD; on the JSTOR platform. SCP has distributed […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – IOP ebooks
Four campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the IOP ebooks. http://uclibs.org/PID/263234 (B, I, LA, SD; on the IOP Science platform) This license will provide perpetual access to 35 […]
Melvyl Enhancements – May 2014
OCLC brought in two enhancements to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on May 22, 2014, described below. 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.) Enhancement: […]
WorldCat Discovery Services beta is launched
On April 30, 2014 OCLC released the WorldCat Discovery Services beta to existing WorldCat Local customers. OCLC has provided campus-specific preview URLs for the WorldCat Discovery Services (Beta) interface. Links to the beta are available on the CDL Melvyl website. […]
Newsletter Spotlight: CDL's Mass Digitization projects
Recently, UCOP’s link newsletter included an article, Digitization project breathes new life into UC Libraries’ collections, focusing on the University of California Reprints website and CDL’s Mass Digitization projects. Check it out!
CDL office closure Dec. 20, 2013 PM – Jan. 1, 2014
This year, UC’s Office of the President, including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Friday, December 20, 2013 at 2:00 PM PST through Wednesday, January 1, 2014. During […]
SCP’s New PID Service
One of the tools used by the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) is the PID (Persistent Identifier) Service, which allows SCP to create PIDs for systemwide-licensed resources. PIDs act as substitute URLs for a resource and the PID service allows SCP […]
Temporary Changing of the Guard at UC3
Patricia Cruse, CDL’s Director of Digital Preservation (UC3), will be reducing her duties at the CDL between January 14 and June 30, 2013. Trisha will be working remotely from Italy and Spain while she accompanies her husband on his […]
CDL office closure Dec. 21, 2012 PM – Jan. 1, 2013
This year, UC’s Office of the President, including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Friday, December 21, 2012 at 3 PM through Tuesday, January 1, 2013. During this […]