Category: Newsletter
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection II
UC campuses now have access to the JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection II as part of the CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Ecology & Botany II The Ecology & Botany Collection II expands coverage of Ecology & […]
K-Theory now available through Portico
The academic community lost access to the mathematics journal K-Theory on the SpringerLink platform when the editorial board resigned in 2007 and founded a new journal, Journal of K-Theory, published by Cambridge University Press. Access to the original K-Theory content […]
HathiTrust October 2013 Update
There are a number of exciting announcements from HathiTrust this month: Zephir, a new bibliographic data management system developed for HathiTrust by the California Digital Library was released. HT announced its intention to become a replicating node in the Digital […]
Welcome Dana Jemison
Please join CDL in welcoming Dana Jemison as a Metadata Analyst to our Discovery & Delivery Team. Dana will be working primarily on the PAPR (Print Archives Preservation Registry) project. PAPR supports research library and consortial efforts to archive and […]
Introducing Zephir, HathiTrust’s New Metadata Management System
The California Digital Library (CDL), in collaboration with staff from the University of Michigan, has developed and implemented a new bibliographic metadata management system, Zephir, for the HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from […]
UC Open Access Policy implementation is live!
The Academic Senate of the University of California adopted an Open Access Policy on July 24, 2013, ensuring that future scholarly articles authored by faculty at all 10 UC campuses will be made available to the public at no charge. […]
First release of the UC Libraries Digital Collection Project
The CDL is pleased to announce the first release of the UC Libraries Digital Collection Implementation Project (UCLDC). The primary goal of the release was to establish infrastructure for the UCLDC, with a focus on the back-end systems and administrative […]
Melvyl Enhancements – October 2013
There are several Melvyl enhancements as a result of OCLC’s October 28, 2013 WorldCat Local install described below and at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/24October2013_WCL_ReleaseNoteUpdate.doc. (Some of the changes described at the link above do not impact the University of California’s versions of WorldCat.) […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – SAE Digital Library
In October 2013, five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and Riverside) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the SAE International Digital Library of Technical Papers: http://uclibs.org/PID/255206 SAE, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers, […]
Licensed Resource Transition: AP Images
AP Images Collection (Tier 1; AP Images continues to be hosted by the Associated Press and although distributed and licensed by EBSCO, is not hosted on the EBSCO platform.) http://uclibs.org/PID/6955 The Associated Press recently performed a visual update of the […]