Category: Newsletter
WAS Service Update: May 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 release of new curator tools. We have decided to release the new curator tools ahead of the other features that were originally included in WAS 2.0 (i.e., migration to Solr and implementation of […]
DMPTool Service Update: May 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Development status: The requirements document has been finalized. Our developers are working on the new administrative features. We’re working with a UI specialist at Purdue and a design firm in Virginia on the […]
SciFinder Moves to Unlimited Access
By Teri Vogel, UCSD, SciFinder Resource Liaison The University of California Libraries now have unlimited access for Chemical Abstracts Service’s (CAS) SciFinder. The libraries have had a concurrent use limit of 36 seats for some time, but CAS has been […]
UCLA Online Campaign Literature Web Archive is now available
In 2012, the UCLA Online Campaign Literature Archive team started using WAS to capture elections for local, state, and federal offices affecting the Los Angeles area, as well ballot measure websites from California state and local Los Angeles area […]
DataUp Honored with NDSA Innovation Award
CDL is pleased to announce that the DataUp project has been chosen as a National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Innovation Award recipient in the “project” category. The Annual Innovation Awards were established by NDSA to recognize and encourage innovation in […]
EZID Service Update: May 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Mark your calendars! The DataCite summer meeting will take place at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington DC on September 19 – 20th. The meeting will begin at 13:30 on Sept. 19th […]
Melvyl Enhancements – May 2013
OCLC has made two enhancements to WorldCat Local that impact Melvyl. These include the following: Support for IE10 WorldCat Local functionality, such as item availability and view now links, is now supported in IE10. (This had been reported as a […]
HathiTrust April 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The HathiTrust April 2013 Update is now available. Several important new developments are announced in the newsletter: Service to support access for users with print disabilities at partner institutions Updated, enhanced HathiTrust web presence […]
HathiTrust Services for Users With Print Disabilities
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization In an important new development, HathiTrust now provides a way for the UC campuses to offer full view of some of the in-copyright books in HathiTrust to our print disabled patrons. A designated […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — May 2013
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Last month Springer topped our list for most titles distributed, 2731, which included the first titles sent, 41, for the newest Springer subject collection, Energy monographs. These include all the recently licensed 2013 […]