Category: Newsletter
UC3 Dash Service Update: April 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We are working closely with UC Berkeley to get the first instance of CDL-hosted Dash up and running. Stay tuned for more updates! Github Wiki. The Github repository’s wiki will be used in lieu […]
WEST Strategic Planning Meeting June 3rd
The WEST Executive Committee and Operations & Collections Council will meet on June 3 in Oakland, California to plan for subsequent WEST phases. The goals of WEST’s strategic planning this year are to explore options for change to the existing […]
Embed with HathiTrust: Putting Digital Books in Your Users’ Path
Did you know that it’s easy to embed HathiTrust books in your website? You can embed any public domain book into HTML code. Follow the instructions on the HathiTrust website or simply find the book you want and click the “Embed this […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Find It Here
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Psychology and Economics” by Rabin, Matthew, Department of […]
EZID Service Update: April 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID responded to the widely reported OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug by upgrading our OpenSSL installation and replacing our security certificates to eliminate this particular vulnerability. For more information about CDL’s response to the Heartbleed bug, […]
WorldCat Discovery Services beta is launched
On April 30, 2014 OCLC released the WorldCat Discovery Services beta to existing WorldCat Local customers. OCLC has provided campus-specific preview URLs for the WorldCat Discovery Services (Beta) interface. Links to the beta are available on the CDL Melvyl website. […]
Melvyl Enhancements – April 2014
OCLC brought in three enhancements to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on April 24, 2014, described below. 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.) Bug […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2014
I’m pleased to announce that SCP is now cataloging two high profile open access monographic collections, Knowledge Unlatched and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The UC’s are charter members of Knowledge Unlatched, http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, a collaborative initiative enabling free […]
HathiTrust Update – Spring 2014
Recent highlights and events at HathiTrust: HathiTrust released a statement regarding the “Heartbeat Bug” on April 9th. In February Mike Furlough was appointed Executive Director of HathiTrust. He begins his tenure with HathiTrust on May 19. See the Press Release. Welcome Mike! In […]
DPLA Welcomes CDL and UC Libraries Participation: Content Hub Launch
Today, April 17, 2014, the Digital Public Library of America welcomed the California Digital Library, in collaboration with the ten-campus University of California (UC) Libraries system, as a DPLA Content Hub. A Content Hub is a centralized aggregation point for […]