Category: Newsletter
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 […]
UC Libraries Digital Collection Project: "Anteater" (Winter 2014) Release
The CDL is pleased to announce the latest release of the UC Libraries Digital Collection Implementation Project (UCLDC). The release is called “Anteater,” after UC Irvine’s mascot (each release is labeled with a campus nickname to simplify versioning). Overview The […]
Merritt Service Update: January-February 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Datashare is a new service at UCSF for researchers to submit and discover important research data (http://datashare.ucsf.edu). We’re exploring the possibility of expanding Datashare to other campuses. We held a webinar on February 2 […]
DMPTool Service Update: January 2014 – February 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Development status: You can follow our progress on the wiki at: https://bitbucket.org/dmptool/main/wiki/DMPTool2Project (and we’re working to update it with the most recent schedule). You’ll find a discussion of the new features on the DMPTool […]
WAS Service Update: January – February 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Storage. The technical team started work on migrating WAS storage to San Diego Supercomputer Center. The timeline for completion is summer 2014. Once completed we will be able to realize significant cost savings on storage, […]
DataUp Service Update: January – February 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataUp Version 2 phase of the project is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, in partnership with the DataONE organization (http://www.dataone.org). The newest version of DataUp was announced and demonstrated […]