Category: Newsletter
Temporary Changing of the Guard at UC3
Patricia Cruse, CDL’s Director of Digital Preservation (UC3), will be reducing her duties at the CDL between January 14 and June 30, 2013. Trisha will be working remotely from Italy and Spain while she accompanies her husband on his […]
UC3 Makes Customizable Outreach Materials Available
At the UC3 Workshops held in November, many of you mentioned wanting access to our outreach materials. Consequently, we have created a page (http://www.cdlib.org/uc3/resources/outreach.html) that pulls together flyers, logos, etc. for all of the services. Note that these are all customizable […]
DMPTool Service Update: November – December 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The UC Curation Center, CDL, in conjunction with the University of Virginia Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, and the DataONE consortium, was awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation […]
Merritt Service Update: November – December 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We have made significant changes to Merritt’s Inventory micro-service architecture, which supports indexing of metadata records for search, browse, and display. The process involved transitioning from 4Store (an RDF-based database) to MySQL. This has […]
DataUp Service Update: November – December 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We successfully established a “Practice Repository” for DataUp, allowing those interested in using DataUp in practice mode to get an identifier and archive their practice data without impacting the legitimate content in ONEShare. DataUp […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — January 2013
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services December was a short work month but some significant distributions were made. For monographs, the major distributions were to SPIE Conference Proceedings (213 titles), CRC Press (208 titles), Knovel (204 titles), Gale Mexican […]
CDL Welcomes Matt Pearson
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization CDL is delighted to announce that Matt Pearson began work in the Mass Digitization Team of the Collection Development and Management Program on January 14, 2013 as our new Digitization & Services Coordinator. […]
CDL Welcomes Katie Fortney
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing Please join us in welcoming Katie Fortney to the CDL as our new Copyright Management Officer. Some of you may already know Katie from her previous incarnation as Collection Development Librarian and Scholarly […]
Dacheng Old Journal Full-text Database
By Susan Xue, UC Berkeley, Resource Liaison for Dacheng Journals All UC campuses; on the Dacheng platform http://uclibs.org/PID/241770 This collection of old journals contains more than 7,000 journal titles and 130,000 issues published in China from the late Qing Dynasty to 1949. […]
eScholarship Quarterly Reports – A Fascinating Snapshot
By Justin Gonder, eScholarship Operations Coordinator Each quarter, the CDL sends a report to each campus Scholarly Communication Officer (SCO) with information about that campus’s use of eScholarship as well as total usage systemwide. Instead of sending the reports out […]