Category: Newsletter
WAS Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Presentation. Rosalie Lack (WAS Service Manager) will be chairing a lightning talk session at the upcoming Society of American Archivists (SAA) Conference in August, in Washington, DC. The session title is “From Crawling to […]
Merritt Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities 9 campuses use Merritt to preserve Electronic theses and dissertations—we have over 14,000 ETDs in Merritt. We have been working with Emily Lin and Sarah Sheets at UC Merced to streamline the process. CDL […]
CDL Notice Regarding US-CERT CVE-2014-0160, “Heartbleed Bug” OpenSSL Vulnerability
By Kurt Ewoldsen, Manager, CDL Information & Applications Support On April 8, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) announced a serious vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160, aka the “Heartbleed Bug”) in OpenSSL, a cryptographic software library that underlies much of the encryption […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: March 2014
Welcome to the first Service Update for UC3 Dash! UC3 Dash is a systemwide service that will allow UC campuses to provide an easy‐to‐use solution for the effective curation of and access to campus research data. Dash is a centralized […]
DMPTool Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Development continues at a fast pace, and we’re on track to release the new version in May. We’re currently testing with users and fixing bugs. We’re planning to work with the UC Berkeley WebAccess […]
Update: WorldCat Discovery Services Beta Timeline for Melvyl and FirstSearch
OCLC has announced WorldCat® Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications that will be bringing the FirstSearch® and WorldCat® Local (WCL) services together. They have also announced that WorldCat Discovery Services will be available to all current FirstSearch subscribers in March 2014. […]
EZID wins 2013/14 DataCite Gold Award
At DataCite‘s General Assembly meeting this year in Dublin, Ireland, EZID was honored with the 2013/14 Gold Award for assigning more than 500,000 DOIs (digital object identifiers) in 14 months. This is the second Gold Award for EZID, and we […]
EZID Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID team members attended DataCite’s biannial strategic planning meeting and general assembly in Dublin, Ireland, at the end of March. The meeting was scheduled to coincide with the Research Data Alliance third plenary meeting […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2014
All the DDA pilots seem to be going strong. SCP is currently distributing records for four DDA pilots with records distributed for 1243 titles from YBP/Ebrary, 46 titles from CRC Press ENGnetBASE, 713 titles from Airiti, and 1540 titles from […]
UC Shared Print Teams launched and first quarterly report is available
The UC Shared Print Teams have launched and are currently prioritizing activities and developing a roadmap for UC shared print for 2014-2018. To read more about the activities your colleagues on the Shared Print Strategy and Shared Print Operations Teams […]