Category: Shared Collections
Thousands of Historic California Legislative Publications Newly Available for Access
A collaboration between CDL’s Mass Digitization Team, the California Office of Legislative Counsel, and librarians at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and the California State Library has resulted in 4,000 volumes of historic California Legislative materials being digitized and opened for […]
CDL Position Opening: Shared Content Service Coordinator
At the California Digital Library (CDL), we believe passionately that the library, in all its forms, is critically important to the vital work of students, scholars and the public. As a University of California systemwide library, CDL provides services to […]
SCP Monthly Update — August 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of July. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials distributions, SCP continued to focus on the major […]
Enhanced Cochrane Library platform debuts
On August 7, 2018 the redesigned and enhanced Cochrane Library platform was launched. Currently, six campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco) participate in the license of the Cochrane Library. (http://uclibs.org/PID/4649) (B, D, I, LA, SD, […]
CDL joins ICOLC Opposing the MLA International Bibliography Exclusivity with EBSCO
CDL recently signed on to the letter [PDF] prepared by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC), concerning the MLA International Bibliography exclusivity with EBSCO. On June 26, 2018, MLA announced that the MLA International Bibliography will be exclusively offered […]
ProQuest platform interface enhancements will be rolled out July 26
The July 26, 2018 ProQuest platform release will introduce redesigned basic search and search results pages. These improvements will put more emphasis on source types to help researchers retrieve more relevant results from across the platform. These changes only affect […]
SpringerProtocols.com content transitions on July 25
On Wednesday, July 25th 2018, the SpringerProtocols.com platform will be deactivated. SpringerProtocols content is being concurrently-hosted on SpringerLink and is searchable on the new research platform, Springer Nature Experiments (http://uclibs.org/PID/127001), an interface specially designed and optimized for searching protocols and […]
Search Extended: Manager, Shared Print Programs, CDL and WEST
We’re pleased to announce that CDL has extended its recruitment for the Manager of Shared Print Programs through August 6th. Come join us at CDL and help envision the future of print library collections at UC, WEST, and beyond! […]
New look for FirstSearch coming July 14th
On July 14th, the OCLC FirstSearch platform interface will display “an updated, more contemporary look.” The changes are limited to a restyling of the new interface and do not affect functionality, navigation or site structure. Databases currently hosted on the […]
SCP Monthly Update — July 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of June. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. The major highlight of this month is that as of […]