Category: Shared Collections
Cobweb Update: How Cobweb Facilitates Participatory Web Archiving
Given its breadth and depth, archiving the web can seem an overwhelming endeavor. Digital curators typically approach web archiving by first determining what to collect based on the collecting scope established by their organization. Once they’ve identified the general theme […]
CDL joins Royal Society Open Access Membership
CDL has recently signed on to the Royal Society Open Access Membership, an arrangement under which UC-affiliated authors (from any UC campus, UC Office of the President, or Lawrence Berkeley Lab) are entitled to a 25% discount off of Article […]
CDL welcomes Julia Kochi
Beginning today (April 2, 2018), a new – and to some, a very familiar – face has joined the CDL licensing team. Julia Kochi, Director of Collection & User Services at the UCSF Library, will be working at CDL 3 […]
Stat!Ref – Tier 2 resource – cancelled
Stat!Ref has been cancelled as a multi-campus subscription (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, and UCSD) as of March 2018. Individual campuses may be continuing subscriptions to selected titles. Please contact the health sciences collections librarian at your campus for more information.
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Eight is Available
For the nine participating campuses (all except UCSB), Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) has begun making its eighth collection of lectures available online. The basic component of the library is a 50 to 100-page electronic book that […]
New Licensed Resource – U.S. Major Dailies
All UC campuses now have access to U.S. Major Dailies; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions: http://uclibs.org/PID/301865 [database level] (All campuses; on the ProQuest platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/301866 Chicago Tribune (1985- ) http://uclibs.org/PID/301869 […]
Access to MPS ScholarlyStats will end on July 8, 2018
*** Reminder: Last day to download MPS reports is JULY 8, 2018! *** Due to budgetary and other reasons, CDL has decided not to renew its contract with MPS ScholarlyStats, a platform that collects monthly usage reports on UC-licensed e-resources. The […]
Index of Medieval Art Transitions to a new platform
For the six participating UC campuses on Friday, March 30, 2018, the Index of Medieval Art will transition to a new platform. http://uclibs.org/PID/9563 (UCB, UCI, UCLA, UCSB, UCSC, and UCSD; on the Princeton platform) According to the Index providers at […]
Update Delivered at ALA Midwinter 2018 WEST Members Meeting
WEST members met during the February ALA Midwinter Conference in Denver. Over 20 representatives of WEST member institutions were able to attend, including several members of WEST’s Executive Committee and Operations and Collections Council. The WEST Project Team provided updates […]
Wiley Online Library moves to Atypon Literatum platform
On March 17-18, 2018, the Wiley Online Library will be migrating to a new platform, Atypon Literatum. According to Wiley’s transition FAQ, the new platform is more intuitive, makes Wiley’s content more discoverable, and provides users with an improved experience […]