Category: Shared Collections
Cobweb: Collaborative Collection Development for Web Archives
A partnership between the CDL, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library has been award funding from IMLS to create Cobweb, a collaborative collection development platform for web archiving, https://github.com/CobwebOrg/cobweb. The demands of archiving the web in comprehensive breadth or thematic depth easily exceed […]
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Seven 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 seventh collection of lectures available online. The basic component of the library is a 50 to 100-page electronic book that […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: October 2016
For the month of September, we added a new serial package AnthroSource online journals (29 titles). Other major serial record distributions include EBSCO journals (34 titles), and Open Access journals (308 titles which include: BioMed Central online journals, 36 titles; […]
UC Berkeley Researcher Mines HathiTrust Volumes for Cliometric History of Postsecondary Education in California
By guest blogger, UC Berkeley Economist Zach Bleemer Editor’s note: UC Libraries continue to digitize and add to the HathiTrust corpus that is now over 14.7 million volumes. A key reason for digitizing library collections is to facilitate new forms of computer-aided research […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2016
For August 2016, we completed cataloging of Taylor & Francis online journal of total 3210 titles, thanks to Becky, Kate, and the rest of CDLA/SCP staff working very hard for the last two months. The major monographs distributions are Business […]
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 […]