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Category: Shared Collections

Contemporary Women’s Issues moves to new Gale platform

Recently, Contemporary Women’s Issues moved from the RDS platform to Gale’s InfoTrac platform.  Contemporary Women’s Issues offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe.  The database provides access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering […]

National Technical Information Library (NTRL) is now Open Access

The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) has become an open access resource, following a decision made by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). NTRL was previously licensed as Tier 2 by five UC campuses. With the change of NTRL to […]

SCP Monthly Update — September 2018

SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of August. This monthly report shows net the increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials distributions, SCP continued to focus on the […]

China Data Online Cancellation

The China Data Online product is no longer available through UC’s Tier 2 subscription vendor. According to the China Data Center website (http://www.chinadatacenter.org/closed/): “Effective immediately, this China Data Center (CDC) website and associated CDC websites will no longer be available. […]

Digitization at the Click of a Shutter: Works of California Photographers Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Now Online

Thousands of images by California photographers Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) and Pirkle Jones (1914–2009) are now digitized and available online (many for the first time!) on Calisphere and UC Santa Cruz University Library Digital Collections. They are also available at the Digital Library of […]

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 […]