Category: Newsletter
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII
UC campuses, except UCSF, now have access to JSTOR A & S XII as part of a CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII expands coverage of the social sciences, and comprises disciplines with high usage […]
UC Davis releases university web archives
UC Davis’s web archive of over 300 sites from the ucdavis.edu domain is now available for public access. This is a project of the UCD University Archives (started in 2011) to capture the websites of the University’s administration, schools and […]
UC Libraries partner with DPLA via HathiTrust
As announced today, HathiTrust Digital Library collections, including over 400,000 UC volumes, will be discoverable within the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project. Of HathiTrust’s nearly 11 million volumes, the 3.5 million that are in the public domain or […]
New Licensed Resource: MIT Press eBooks in Computer Science and Engineering via IEEE Xplore
By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley, Resource Liaison Seven campuses now have access to the MIT Press eBooks Library: The Computing & Engineering Collection (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/books.jsp?refinementGroups=3343_4282906416_MITP&pageNumber=1) via IEEE Xplore. UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSC and UCSD participated in this Tier 2 […]
SciVerse Hub is Retiring in August 2013
For those accessing Elsevier via the SciVerse Hub, the SciVerse Hub is being retired as of 24 August 2013. (CDL does not provide a database level record pointing to the SciVerse interface.) In order to ensure a smooth transition, Elsevier […]
HathiTrust May 2013 Update
May brings changes and challenges to HathiTrust as you can read in the May newsletter. This issue includes the following: A message from Executive Director John Wilkin on his appointment as the Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois. […]
Merritt Service Update: May 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Work is in-progress and on track for the following high priority development activities, slated for completion this summer: Migrate Merritt’s underlying technical infrastructure from physical servers to Virtual Machines (VM). (All UCOP services are […]
Launch of the UC Libraries Digital Collection Project
By Ginny Steel, University Librarian, UCSC & Council of University Librarians (CoUL) Chair In late 2011, the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) and the Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) asked the Next Generation Technical Services Management Team to […]
Melvyl Central Index Update
CDL staff completed the biannual analysis for potential changes to the Melvyl Central Index configuration targeted for July 2013. While OCLC has added databases to the Central Index in the past six months, there are no CDL managed licenses with […]
DataUp Service Update: May 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Strasser presented on DataUp for the Helmholtz Open Access Webinar Series on May 6 and May 14. The presentation is available at http://oa.helmholtz.de/index.php?id=309 – c2231. Strasser presented on DataUp for the Council on Library […]