Category: Discovery & Delivery
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.) […]
UC-eLinks user interface simplified: Go button is going, going, gone
CDL made a modification to the UC-eLinks menu window and the direct linking banner that affects the user interface but does not change any functionality. Under the hood, we switched the SFX template that controls the user interface from a […]
Jing Jiang joins D2D
CDL welcomes Jing Jiang, the newest application developer on the Discovery & Delivery (D2D) team. She comes to us by way of IT Infrastructure Services at the UC Davis library, where she was a member of the technical team supporting the […]
What’s happening with WorldCat Local, FirstSearch & WorldCat Discovery?
The WorldCat Discovery beta launched in April 30, 2014 and is currently slated to conclude at the end of July 2015. WorldCat Discovery merges WorldCat Local and FirstSearch on a new platform with major functional design improvements. While OCLC considers […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – Modern Language Open collection temporarily removed
Liverpool University Press has sent OCLC the incorrect data for this collection, and OCLC is working with them to correct and reload the data. In the meantime, OCLC is removing the data from the central index; consequently, CDL has […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Linked Author Names & Subject Facet
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on May 7, 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 […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – April 2015
This month’s WorldCat Local installation on April 13, 2015 included the following databases which have now been added to all instances of Melvyl’s Central Index. New Databases MIT Press Journals from MIT Press — Journals covering a wide range […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Full text snippets & searching
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 13, 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 […]
Melvyl’s Central Index will be updated more frequently
Because OCLC recently simplified the underlying processes, CDL can now update Melvyl’s Central Index monthly rather than twice yearly (in January and July) as was previously the case. New Databases In March, OCLC added several resources that are […]