Category: Shared Collections
Flood of UC Riverside Books Flow through Google Digitization Channel
In January 2016, the UC Riverside Libraries joined the University of California’s ongoing digitization project and began sending books to be digitized as part of the Google Books Library Project. The UC Riverside team sends approximately 2,500 volumes each month and […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2016
For July 2016 monographs distributions, we added a new package Cambridge online monographs (383 titles). Other major monographs packages are: ACM Digital Library online conference proceedings (77 titles), IEEE Xplore online conference proceedings (136 titles), Wiley online monographs (55 titles), […]
CDL – UCSC Focus Group Study on Print and E-book Use webinar for library staff
Please join Danielle Watters Westbrook (CDL), Chan Li (CDL), Kerry Scott (UCSC) and Sarah Troy (UCSC) for a discussion about a focus group project conducted at UCSC last fall, about user behavior in academic libraries regarding print book and e-book […]
Nga Ong joins CDL
On August 3rd, Nga Ong joined CDL’s Licensed Content Team as a Library Data and Services Analyst. In her new position, Nga will work on various collection analysis and assessment projects and will be involved with CDL HelpLine activities. Nga joins CDL from […]
NCBI will be transitioning to using HTTPS-only protocols on September 30, 2016
NCBI (host server for the PubMed database and others) will be transitioning to using HTTPS-only protocols on September 30, 2016 NCBI will be transitioning to using HTTPS-only protocols on September 30, 2016. This change may affect any software that uses […]
UC Davis and CDL complete Pay It Forward project
The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library have recently completed the 18-month Pay It Forward project, an effort funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. The project brought together research libraries at Harvard, Ohio […]
14.6 Million Books to be Made Available to Blind & Print-Disabled Readers
HathiTrust Digital Library is collaborating with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) to make 14.6 million digital volumes fully accessible to blind and print-disabled readers in the United States. The two organizations have worked together to bring to fruition their […]
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) transitions to EBSCOhost
For the 8 participating UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Diego) access to the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), which was previously provided by the University of Michigan Library, has transitioned to the […]
New Platform for Declassified Documents Reference System
The Declassified Documents Reference System has been launched and is now live on the Artemis platform from Gale Cengage. The DDRS is now known as U.S. Declassified Documents. http://uclibs.org/PID/6937 The U.S. Declassified Documents can now be cross-searched with the other […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – ACM Books (Collection I)
Four campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego) are participating in the Tier 2 license for ACM Books (Collection I). http://uclibs.org/PID/283501 (B, I, LA, and SD; on the ACM Digital Library platform) ACM Books is a new series of […]