Category: Discovery & Delivery
Melvyl Central Index Update – Additional Changes in July 2013
In early June, CDL reported that staff had completed the biannual analysis for potential changes to the Melvyl Central Index configuration targeted for July 2013, and that while OCLC had added databases to the Central Index in the past six […]
CDL Welcomes Brian Riley
CDL welcomes Brian Riley to the Discovery & Delivery group, filling the applications programmer position vacated last year by Claudia Woo on her retirement. Brian comes to us most recently from Connecticut College where he was a senior web developer […]
Melvyl Enhancements – June 2013
OCLC completed two enhancements to WorldCat Local on June 19, 2013 that impact Melvyl. These include the following: Support for export of “non-Latin” characters from mapped 880 fields into citation management software (Note: This was the functionality that was removed […]
UC-eLinks moved successfully to the Ex Libris Cloud
Early in the morning on Thursday June 20, UC-eLinks went live on the Ex Libris Cloud. This means CDL is no longer hosting the SFX software that runs UC-eLinks. UC Davis also successfully moved its separate SFX instance onto the […]
HathiTrust May 2013 Update
May brings changes and challenges to HathiTrust as you can read in the May newsletter. This issue includes the following: A message from Executive Director John Wilkin on his appointment as the Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois. […]
Melvyl Central Index Update
CDL staff completed the biannual analysis for potential changes to the Melvyl Central Index configuration targeted for July 2013. While OCLC has added databases to the Central Index in the past six months, there are no CDL managed licenses with […]
Melvyl Enhancements – May 2013
OCLC has made two enhancements to WorldCat Local that impact Melvyl. These include the following: Support for IE10 WorldCat Local functionality, such as item availability and view now links, is now supported in IE10. (This had been reported as a […]
10,000,000 HathiTrust Records Now Have Clear Labels in Melvyl
In response to user feedback from the UC community, OCLC has relabeled more than 10,000,000 Melvyl (WorldCat Local) records making it easy to distinguish if a digitized work in HathiTrust is available in full text or for limited viewing only. […]
CDL staff embed in UCSC interlibrary services unit
By Alison Ray, Information Services Analyst & Leslie Wolf, Resource Sharing Project Manager Members of the California Digital Library are always looking for ways to get closer to the people and tools we connect through our digital services. Although we […]
DOI and PMID added to UC-eLinks Citation Linker
Your patience has been rewarded! By popular demand, the UC-eLinks team has added two new search fields to the end user Citation Linker forms: DOI – Digital Object Identifier PMID – PubMed Identifier Why is this good? When you enter […]