Category: Shared Collections
Update Delivered at ALA Annual 2017 WEST Member Meeting
WEST members met during the June ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Over 20 representatives of WEST member institutions were able to attend – hailing from California to Missouri. During the meeting, the WEST Project Team updated attendees on archiving progress, […]
SPIE Digital Library moves to new platform
The SPIE Digital Library is migrating from the Silverchair platform to a new SPIE Digital Library platform on Tuesday, August 15, 2017. Features of the new platform include improved search functionality, expanded taxonomy, full text HTML proceedings and eBooks, enhanced […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of July [xlsx]. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions. […]
LexisNexis Academic Becomes Nexis Uni
The national transition from legacy LexisNexis Academic to its completely reengineered successor Nexis Uni™ is now under way, and all UC campuses are among the first wave of migrating subscribers with IP-based access to Uni already activated. UC retains dual […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – North-China Daily News
Five campuses (Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara & Santa Cruz) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers and Hong Lists (1850-1951). http://uclibs.org/PID/296530 (I, LA, SD, SB, SC; on […]
Web of Science Citation Map is gone for now
The Citation Map functionality in Web of Science is no longer available due to technology compatibility issues and reliance on browser support of Java. According to our Clarivate Analytics representative, Clarivate is investigating supporting this functionality but at the present […]
CDL’s new Licensed Resources Website has launched!
On Wednesday, July 12th, CDL launched the new Licensed Resources website (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/licensed/). CDL’s User Experience Design (UX) team interviewed campus librarians who frequently used the previous site, discussed their findings with the CDL’s Licensed Content Group, and made changes to […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2017
SCP regularly posts monthly distribution statistics report. This monthly report shows titles added and/or removed from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions in June 2017. Our major serial record distributions include Open […]
Happy Anniversary New Zealand Hansard: Celebrating 150 Years of Openness and Transparency
This month New Zealand celebrates 150 years of government openness and transparency. It was one of the first countries to record and publish independent transcripts of the speeches and debates in its Parliament. The debates of the New Zealand Parliament were […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Central Daily News
Five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Central Daily News. http://uclibs.org/PID/296476 (B, I, LA, SB, SD; on the Transmission Books platform) Note: limited to 5 […]