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Category: Shared Collections

SCP’s Becky Culbertson receives Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that Becky Culbertson, part of CDL’s Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) based at UC San Diego, is a recipient of the 2015 Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award. The award will be […]

UC Monthly E-Resource Usage Reports Are Now Available Via MPSInsight for Libraries

Monthly COUNTER usage reports for UC Libraries Systemwide licensed e-resources from 2010 to the present are now available via a link to MPSInsight for Libraries (formerly ScholarlyStats). ScholarlyStats was the brand name and platform under which MPS’s library statistics reporting […]

New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Red Book Online

Six campuses (Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to Red Book Online. http://uclibs.org/PID/268676 (D, I, LA, R, SD, SF; on the Silverchair platform) Red Book® Online includes […]

Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: February 2015

Our major monograph distributions for last month included titles for Early English Books (4,334 tiles), Springer (2,702 titles), SuperStar (520 titles), IEEE (130 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (121 titles), CRC Press (78 titles), Apabi (66 titles), and Wiley (60 titles). For […]

Update Delivered at ALA Midwinter 2015 WEST Member Meeting

The ALA Midwinter WEST Member Meeting took place on Sunday, Feb. 01, 2015 from 1-2:30 pm in the Hilton Chicago (Continental C). Thank you to everyone who braved the snow storm to join us! If you were unable to attend, please find […]

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 […]