Category: Newsletter
Duke ebooks at De Gruyter
CDL recently made a 3-year commitment to purchase the Duke University Press ebook frontlist packages at the De Gruyter platform, covering the years 2024-2026. These frontlists will be funded through CDL. Additionally, CDL has purchased the Archive and Backfile of […]
Access Restored to CNKI Resources
In April 2023, CDL shared news that several of the UC’s CNKI resources would be suspended due to a Chinese government audit of CNKI’s platform, as announced by CNKI & East View. It was unknown at the time how long […]
Highlight on the Global Press Archive CRL collections
In 2022, CDL and the UC campuses committed to supporting the Global Press Archive CRL Phase 2 project, continuing the work accomplished in Phase 1. This project supports the digitization of millions of pages of content hosted on East View’s […]
Say Hello to Liz Miraglia, the Discovery and Delivery Program’s new Associate Director
The California Digital Library’s Discovery and Delivery program team is thrilled to welcome Liz Miraglia to her new role as Associate Director. Liz brings with her nine years of experience with the UC Libraries, working in various programs and roles […]
SCP Update – April 2024
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDLManaged Electronic Collections in March 2024 ACM Digital Library Complete: 47 ASME Digital Collection eBooks (2023-): 3 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2023 All eBooks: 1,606 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 186 IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) […]
Three New Newspaper Databases at Shanghai Library’s CNBKSY Platform
Four UC campuses have recently purchased several newspaper archives at CNBKSY. Participating UC campuses include: Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, and Irvine. The China Times 時事新報 1911-1949 Access at: https://www.cnbksy.com/product/productDescription?id=464&isProduct=false CNBKSY has digitized 147,000 pages of The […]
UC Libraries endorse Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries
On behalf of the UC Libraries, the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has unanimously approved endorsement of the Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries. Released in March 2023 by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and the […]
Opportunity for WEST members to share development ideas and needs
During ‘off years’ of the collection analysis cycle, WEST works on identifying and building out enhancements to AGUA (https://agua.cdlib.org/west), both on the backend to increase automation and improve our ability to perform the collection analyses and on the front end […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – March 2024
Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for March 2024 New Content and […]
Job Opening: Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services
The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services position. Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services Reporting to CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Associate Director, the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services, oversees the management […]