Category: Shared Collections
Alexander Street Press platform upgrade (Video Databases)
Alexander Street Press will be moving their video-only collections on a new platform starting July 10th, when the collection URLs will be redirected. According to ProQuest’s press release, “The new interface is simpler and faster with a continued focus on […]
New OA Resource: Hate in America: White Nationalism and the press in the 1920s
CDL one time funds were used for UC’s systemwide contribution to the Reveal Digital “Hate in America” and “Diversity and Dissent” collections. “Diversity and Dissent” will begin digitization in late 2019 and will be announced at that time; “Hate in […]
New Resource: Superstar Journals Database
Superstar Journals Database contains more than 7,470 full-text Chinese journals and more than 1,200 core journals, from 1949-present. It has a good mixture of disciplines, including engineering, agronomy, social science, culture, education, philosophy, and medicine. Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, […]
Another fond farewell – Mihoko Hosoi moves on to Penn State University Libraries
It’s with extraordinarily mixed emotions that I share this next bit of news with everyone. It’s my sad but happy duty to announce that Mihoko Hosoi has accepted the position of Associate Dean for Collections, Research, and Scholarly Communications at […]
Alexander Street Press platform upgrade (Drama Databases)
For the transitioning databases, this move provides more flexibility with new content types in the future, such as video and audio, and offers cross-searching with other Alexander Street content. Access to the legacy platforms will be available through June 30, 2019 after which all […]
MLA & LION databases transition to new platforms on July 1st
Reminder: As of Monday, July 1, 2019, the MLA International Bibliography database (and its related MLA Directory of Periodicals database) and the Literature Online (LION) database are available on the EBSCOhost and ProQuest platforms, respectively. For several months, ending on […]
OCLC’s SCIPIO database cancelled
SCIPIO, Art and rare book sales/auction catalogs database, was cancelled effective June 30, 2018. Originally activated systemwide as part of OCLC’s Base Package of databases, SCIPIO was cancelled last year in response to the 2017-18 database review. The delete record for […]
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Nine is Available
For the seven participating campuses (UCB [incl LBL], UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD), Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) has begun making its ninth collection of lectures available online. The basic component of the library is a […]
SCP Monthly Update – June 2019
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of May 2019. This monthly report shows the net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials, major distributions were EBSCO journals (25 […]
Royal Society (London) moves to Atypon’s Literatum platform
At the end of 2018, the Royal Society’s digital publishing platform migrated from HighWire to the Literatum platform from Atypon. The move enabled the Royal Society to host the same high quality content but do so in a way that […]