Author: Jayne Dickson
WorldCat Discovery beta: Improved filtering for author names on brief results
The WorldCat Discovery installation on April 17, 2019 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
Personal Lists are available in WorldCat Discovery
Personal Lists are a much used feature of WorldCat Local (WCL) and UC campus librarians made their feelings clear that this feature needed to be available in WorldCat Discovery (WCD) as well. We’re happy to report that the Personal Lists […]
New Resource: Biochemical Society Journals on Portland Press platform
Five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the front file (2017- ) of five of the Biochemical Society’s online journals. As part of this license, all […]
America’s Historical Newspapers migrates to enhanced interface
America’s Historical Newspapers and the World Newspaper Archive are now available with enhanced interfaces. In terms of systemwide subscriptions, this affects Early American Newspapers Series 1 and 2. Campuses that locally subscribe to additional collections within America’s Historical Newspapers, please […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: User Interface Improvements
The WorldCat Discovery installation on March 20, 2019 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Interface improvements
The WorldCat Discovery installation on February 20, 2019 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: High res cover art & aligned titles
The WorldCat Discovery installation on January 18, 2019 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
New resources in Melvyl’s Central Index
Seven resources have been added to Melvyl’s Central Index. They are: CDL now activates CDL-managed Tier 2 resources in Melvyl’s Central Index so each campus will have different resources listed in their Central Index, depending on the resources they license. A […]
New Access World News interface rolled out
NewsBank has introduced a new interface with cross-database searching of historical (if licensed) and current content. Presently, all UC campuses have access to the ‘current’ Access World News online content [1985 (varies by title) – present]. http://uclibs.org/PID/98452 Access World News […]
Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000 transitions to new platform
Alexander Street‘s Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 – 2000 database has transitioned to a new platform which it now shares with two related products: Women and Social Movements International and Women and Social Movements in Modern […]