Category: Shared Collections
WorldCat Discovery beta: Staff Accounts are now available!
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Staff User Accounts are here! With a staff user account, you can view MARC records, view the OCLC# on the brief record display, and search by library holding symbol. Further staff account features are anticipated. […]
New Elsevier Ebook Collections for 2013 and 2015
All UC campuses will have access to 2013 and 2015 ebook collections from Elsevier. The two CDL purchases made in December complement a purchase of the 2014 frontlist by CDL last year. Imprints include Academic Press, Mosby Saunders Churchill Livingston, […]
Wiley Journals integrate “ReadCube” into platform
It seems that ReadCube is everywhere lately. It’s a desktop, web browser and mobile app-based program for managing, annotating, and accessing academic research articles. It provides access to research materials through partnerships with several publishing companies including the Nature Publishing […]
Scholarly Publishing Data Analyst – California Digital Library, University of California
Are you a data-driven information professional passionate about transforming scholarly communication? Do you want to understand how academic research institutions can support the shift to open access? So do we! The California Digital Library (CDL) has an exciting and unique […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: January 2015
Our major monograph distributions for last month included titles for Springer (1,644 titles), Knovel (374 titles), IEEE (158 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (144 titles), Wiley (141 titles), and Airiti (61 titles). For serials, our only major distributions were for Open Access […]
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Six is Available
Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers has two fulltext series of short books acquired as a Tier 2 purchase. The Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) currently has completed its sixth collection and includes a total of 46 series in Collections 1-6 that span […]
Challenges to Licensing – MD Consult Update
The vast majority of publishers and vendors who enter into negotiations with CDL demonstrate an open-minded, flexible approach and are more than willing to reach common ground in pricing and licensing terms. It is rare that after a long period […]
Complete DNSA Collection is Now Available
CDL has reached an agreement for consortial access to the complete collection of the Digital National Security Archive for all ten campuses. DNSA offers access to primary documents from the National Security Archive, and is the most comprehensive collection available […]
MD Consult ends on December 31, 2014
Elsevier will be discontinuing the MD Consult product as of December 31, 2014. Access to the site and content will cease at that time. For questions, please contact the MD Consult Resource Liaison, Bethany Harris (beharris@ucsd.edu) or your local campus […]
Staff in Print—Emily Stambaugh co-authors "Shared Print Programs"
CDL is pleased to announce that a new book, Shared Print Programs, SPEC Kit 345, by Rebecca Crist and Emily Stambaugh, CDL’s Manager of Shared Print, was just published and is available at http://publications.arl.org/Shared-Print-Programs-SPEC-Kit-345/. Here is a brief blurb on […]