Category: Discovery & Delivery
ILL VDX Transition
VDX, part of the backend of UC’s Request interlibrary borrowing and lending service, moved from being hosted at CDL to OCLC over the weekend of July 13 -15. The move went smoothly, with only the usual minor glitches that occur […]
HathiTrust June 2012 Update
The University of California libraries added another 3,446 volumes into HathiTrust this month, making UC’s total 3,340,228 of the 10,408,905 in HathiTrust. Of these, more than 3,000,000 volumes are in the public domain. UC’s contributions to development this month include […]
CDL Joins Copyright Review Project
By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust Digital Library contains millions of digital volumes that are not available to users, but could potentially be in the public domain and made viewable online if their copyright status were known. […]
Request Service unavailable July 13 at 5:00 PM – July 16 at 8:00 AM
During the weekend of July 13-15, CDL will migrate the VDX interlibrary loan application from CDL servers to servers hosted by OCLC. During the migration, which will begin at 5:00 PM PDT on July 13, the Request, My ILL and […]
New Peer Review Indication in UC-eLinks
Within the next two weeks, UC-eLinks users will see a new icon in your campus’ UC-eLinks A-Z ejournal list to indicate peer reviewed journals. The icon looks like a document with a magnifying glass (see below.) This enhancement to SFX, the […]
CDL Departures May, June 2012
CDL reports with mixed feelings the upcoming retirements of three of our valued colleagues: John Ober, Margaret Low, and Claudia Woo. John Ober began his stint as CDL Assistant Director for Education and Communications in 1998 and leaves us as […]
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 […]
Hot Articles: a new service using UC-eLinks
Hot Articles is a new free service that shows you immediately, based on real usage data, what publications are hot in your broad subject area. How does Hot Articles work? Hot Articles is a mini window (a “tile”) that goes […]
UC-eLinks wording changes: simpler is better
Thanks to suggestions from UC librarians Katie Fortney (Santa Cruz), Ruth Gustafson (Davis), and Stacy Nelson (San Diego), the CDL has simplified key messages in the UC-eLinks window. But these changes go beyond wordsmithing — they reflect changes in the […]
Melvyl Central Index: Change in Language for Authentication Screen; Removal of SCIPIO
Based on user input, CDL has made the following changes to the Melvyl Central Index Pilot with the endorsement of the Melvyl Central Index task group: 1. The language on the Authentication screen has been modified. 2. The SCIPIO: Art […]