Category: Shared Collections
ProQuest Databases Transitioning to New Platform on August 8th
Many licensed ProQuest databases (including databases from CSA and Chadwyck-Healey) will transition to the new ProQuest platform on Wednesday, August 8. A full list of the transitioning systemwide-licensed databases with their PIDs is available at: http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/rl/docs/transitions/ProQuest_Systemwide_Database_Transition.doc. Note: Your campus may […]
New and Upgraded Licensed Content: AGU Digital Library Books; Congressional Hearings; NNCO; Times Digital Archive
AGU Digital Library Books (All campuses; on the AGU platform) (http://uclibs.org/PID/240973) This is a one-time CDL purchase. Perpetual rights for 400 titles, pre-2008 through 2012 of more than 50 years of Earth and space sciences research from AGU’s preeminent books. […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — June/July 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services SCP staffer Kate Garvey-Clasby is in the middle of processing the new EEBO records. Our plans for distributing them to the campuses are to send the monograph records on CD-ROM. For the serials […]
New Licensed Resource: RSC eBooks
All UC campuses now have access to this eBook collection: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) eBook Collection, 1968-2012 (Tier 1, all campuses; on the RSC platform) There is no collection-level PID for this resource; the eBook titles were individually cataloged […]
HathiTrust June 2012 Update
The University of California libraries added another 3,446 volumes into HathiTrust this month, making UC’s total 3,340,228 of the 10,408,905 in HathiTrust. Of these, more than 3,000,000 volumes are in the public domain. UC’s contributions to development this month include […]
CDL Joins Copyright Review Project
By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust Digital Library contains millions of digital volumes that are not available to users, but could potentially be in the public domain and made viewable online if their copyright status were known. […]
New Licensed Resource — JSTOR Arts & Sciences X
UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of CDL consortial licenses: JSTOR Arts & Sciences X (All campuses; on the JSTOR platform) [To be completed by the end of 2013] With a minimum of 125 titles […]
HathiTrust May 2012 Update
Just in time for summer reading, the May 2012 update has been posted. So grab a comfortable chair and a refreshing beverage, and read on about the activities of our new Board of Governors, our new shared location for instructional materials, […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — May 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services SCP is now regularly distributing the SCP files in Unicode. Many thanks to the campus staff who help us troubleshoot encountered problems. With the switch to Unicode, campuses should no longer be seeing […]
HathiTrust Instructional Materials
The HathiTrust Communications Working Group has just announced a new HathiTrust Resources and Guides Web page. Here you can find overviews, instructional materials, and guides covering HathiTrust and its services. These resources have been created by the HathiTrust Communications Working […]