Category: Shared Collections
HathiTrust Update for February – Full-text search, Bib Data Management and more
You can learn about the twelve candidates running for HathiTrust’s Board of Governors, find out about local digitization projects, and discover what the CDL is doing with Bibliographic Data Management and dictionary-building work in the HathiTrust update on February 2012 […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – January/February 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Since I was unable to provide you with a monthly update in January, this update covers the work output for December 2011 and January 2012. Our December monographic output highlights include Springer (875 […]
Calculating scholarly journal value through objective metrics
Authored by Jacqueline Wilson and Chan Li CDL’s Collection Development and Management: Licensed Resources program has developed a value-based strategy which is now used as a major part of the University of California’s journal collection planning process. The strategy involves […]
PsycINFO Records Missing Publication Dates
By Teal Smith, User Communication and Instruction Librarian, UC Merced and Resource Liaison, PsycINFO Teal Smith (UCM), the Resource Liaison for PsycINFO (on the ProQuest/CSA Illumina platform), has notified CDL that some PsycINFO records are missing journal issue publication dates. […]
HathiTrust Collection Exceeds 10 Million Volumes
HathiTrust reached a major milestone on January 5, 2012, exceeding 10 million volumes in its digital collections. More than 2.7 million of these volumes are in the public domain. Read more about the breakdown of collections by copyright distribution date, […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – December 2011
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries. Established in January 2000, the program is based at UC San Diego. To learn more about SCP, see […]
Licensed Database Transitions 2012: bepress/De Gruyter, Project Muse, Wilson/EBSCO, ProQuest
Several CDL and campus licensed databases will be transitioning to new platforms in the new year. Below are several of the upcoming changes: The academic publisher De Gruyter is acquiring the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) portfolio of 67 journals in […]
Announcing the UC Library Reprints Service
By Jason Colman, Project Specialist, Mass Digitization The UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from their collections. Now, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, many of these books will be made available for purchase as reading copies […]
Who are Trevor, Darrell, Katie, Chloe, Lisa, Stacy, and Xiaowen?
Thanks to the HathiTrust User Experience Advisory Group, we now have a set of “personas” representing HathiTrust users. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, personas are composite fictional portraits created to represent different user types who […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – November 2011
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries. Established in January 2000, the program is based at UC San Diego. To learn more about SCP, see […]