Author: Sherry Lochhaas
OECD Publications Become Open Access
OECD has announced that starting July 1, 2024, all OECD data and publications, including all materials at the OECD iLibrary, will be freely available. OECD Members have agreed to move to an open access model for their publications, and […]
New Resource: Fire Insurance Maps online (FIMo)
A new Tier 2 has formed to subscribe to Fire Insurance Maps online (FIMo), specifically subscribing to California map content. Participating campuses in the Tier 2 include UCB, UCD, UCI, UCM, UCR, UCSD, UCSB, and UCSC (UCLA has already purchased […]
Artstor Migrates to JSTOR Platform
Artstor is now available at the JSTOR platform (https://www.jstor.org/), and the legacy Artstor website (https://library.artstor.org/) will be retired on August 1, 2024. JSTOR has been working on this migration since early 2023, while continuously improving the JSTOR platform to better […]
Upcoming Changes to the World Bank eLibrary
The World Bank has announced that they are discontinuing the World Bank eLibrary subscription platform at the end of June 2024. The University of California’s current subscription term is prorated to extend through this period. CDL currently subscribes to the […]
New Resource: Tenno Kozoku Jitsuroku
The UC system now has access to the JapanKnowledge collection Tenno Kozoku Jitsuroku 天皇皇族実録 (Records of the Emperor and the Imperial Family) [1st and 2nd phases] Tenno Kozoku Jitsuroku, which was originally compiled by the Imperial Household Ministry in the […]
Iter Bibliography Moves to EBSCOhost
As of May 24, 2024 Iter Bibliography has migrated to EBSCOhost as the new hosting platform for subscribers, from its original platform at Iter through the University of Toronto (https://www.itergateway.org). UC has 7 campus subscribers to Iter Bibliography (UCB, UCD, […]
Duke ebooks at De Gruyter
CDL recently made a 3-year commitment to purchase the Duke University Press ebook frontlist packages at the De Gruyter platform, covering the years 2024-2026. These frontlists will be funded through CDL. Additionally, CDL has purchased the Archive and Backfile of […]
Access Restored to CNKI Resources
In April 2023, CDL shared news that several of the UC’s CNKI resources would be suspended due to a Chinese government audit of CNKI’s platform, as announced by CNKI & East View. It was unknown at the time how long […]
Highlight on the Global Press Archive CRL collections
In 2022, CDL and the UC campuses committed to supporting the Global Press Archive CRL Phase 2 project, continuing the work accomplished in Phase 1. This project supports the digitization of millions of pages of content hosted on East View’s […]
Three New Newspaper Databases at Shanghai Library’s CNBKSY Platform
Four UC campuses have recently purchased several newspaper archives at CNBKSY. Participating UC campuses include: Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, and Irvine. The China Times 時事新報 1911-1949 Access at: https://www.cnbksy.com/product/productDescription?id=464&isProduct=false CNBKSY has digitized 147,000 pages of The […]