Category: Discovery & Delivery
WorldCat Discovery beta: Availability/Location Information on Brief Results
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on August 21, 2015 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact […]
Melvyl & FirstSearch transition to WorldCat Discovery rescheduled to June 2016
OCLC’s latest roadmap for WorldCat Discovery (WCD) development indicates that parity with the existing FirstSearch and WorldCat Local interfaces will not happen until spring 2016. Additionally, CDL continues to work with OCLC to resolve a few remaining issues where WCD […]
Mirroring FirstSearch searching in WorldCat Discovery (WCD)
As you know, OCLC is rolling out a new discovery interface (WorldCat Discovery) which will merge together the existing OCLC FirstSearch and WorldCat Local (WCL) interfaces onto this new platform. Currently, the UC campuses are scheduled to move to the […]
Caitlin Nelson joins D2D
On Monday, August 10th, CDL’s Discovery to Delivery (D2D) team welcomed Caitlin Nelson as the Discovery & Delivery Services Product Manager. Caitlin will be product manager for Request and eventually Melvyl, and she’s already been recruited for a UCLAS task force […]
Feedback links removed from WorldCat Local
As of July 23, 2015, OCLC has removed feedback links from the WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org user interfaces as part of an OCLC technical infrastructure project. You should now report Melvyl problems directly to the Melvyl Operations Team at melvylops@cdlib.org. […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: APA, MLA and Chicago citations added
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on July 23, 2015 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact […]
Melvyl & FirstSearch transition to WorldCat Discovery delayed
CDL has confirmed with OCLC that development work we are awaiting will not be done this summer. WorldCat Discovery is not yet at functional parity with WorldCat Local Melvyl, so UC libraries will not be switching over to WorldCat Discovery […]
New Google Scholar Button makes research easier
Google Scholar recently released a new browser plug-in (for Chrome, Firefox and Safari) that adds a Scholar button to your browser toolbar for easy access to Google Scholar from ANY web page. Click the Scholar button to: Find full text […]
HathiTrust Mobile – With You Wherever You Go
Did you know that HathiTrust Mobile is a digital library that’s small enough to carry wherever you go? It’s a simplified version of the HathiTrust Digital Library optimized for mobile devices. The collection of 13 million volumes includes 5 million open […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Improved display for facets
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on June 11, 2015 included the following new features & enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]