Category: Shared Collections
UCSF Implements Open Access Policy
The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, eliminating barriers to sharing their research. The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest scientific institution […]
HathiTrust April 2012 Update
This month’s HathiTrust update is now available. The update reports that “California Digital Library created prototype exports of the metadata that will be used to populate HathiTrust’s tab-delimited inventory files (“hathifiles”) and bibliographic catalog. Timing tests for these exports were […]
ProQuest New Platform to be Available; New ProQuest Training Materials
The new and current platforms of CDL-licensed ProQuest databases will run in parallel, beginning the week of May 6. ProQuest currently encompasses resources on the ProQuest, CSA and Chadwyck-Healy (ChH) platforms, as well as related products such as Lexis-Nexis Congressional […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – April 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Last month we distributed the first set of records for the Alexander Street Press collection, Theatre in Video (350 titles). This is also the first time SCP has distributed bibliographic records for videos. […]
OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot final report
Beginning in late 2010, an ad hoc Coordinating Committee consisting of several individuals who were active in the shared print (print archiving) community began to explore ways in which libraries could use OCLC features and services to disclose retention commitments […]
Several new monographic series agreements endorsed in April
The Shared Monograph Planning Group is pleased to announce fourteen (14) initiative statements from UC Bibliographer groups to collaboratively collect monographic print series. Each initiative statement contains a list of print series and identifies a campus that has agreed to […]
New Licensed Resource – TBRC Core Collections Tranches 8 and 9
UC campuses now have access to the remaining sections of this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license: Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) Digital Library (All campuses, on the TBRC platform)http://uclibs.org/PID/159590 The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center is dedicated […]
HathiTrust March 2012 Update – New Board of Governors, CDL Zephir testing and more
In March, the new members of HathiTrust’s Board of Governors were announced; working group and committee reports are included. The California Digital Library achieved a milestone in March, loading all bibliographic records submitted by HathiTrust contributing institutions into the Zephir […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – March 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Our highest record distributions for serials in February were Open Access (201 titles), DragonSource (104 titles), Sage (46), Taylor & Francis (28), and LexixNexis (24 titles). The DragonSource distributions are the first for […]
Ergonomics Abstracts New Platform
Ergonomics Abstracts (Systemwide access) has transitioned from Taylor & Francis to the EBSCOhost platform. (http://uclibs.org/PID/126493)