Category: Newsletter
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI
UC campuses, except UCSF, now have access to JSTOR XI as part of a CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI will contain at least 125 titles by the end of 2014, with page-image display, searchable […]
New Licensed Resource – ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library (SEDL)
By Julia Gelfand, Resource Liaison and Applied Sciences & Engineering Librarian, UCI Libraries Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Santa Barbara, San Diego) are now participating in a Tier 2 negotiation for the ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital […]
WAS Service Update – September 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Fall 2012 releases update WAS 2.0: We are continuing the quality assurance testing for the WAS 2.0 release; among the areas of focus are the new solr index; duplicate reduction (which will substantially reduced the […]
HathiTrust September 2012 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization September’s HathiTrust update includes late breaking news on the decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and others against HathiTrust. Top news items for September include the recent HathiTrust Research […]
Upcoming transition of former RLG resources from OCLC to EBSCOhost
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Following is an update on the status of the migration of many former RLG resources from the OCLC FirstSearch platform to the EBSCOhost platform scheduled for late 2012. As the databases […]
UC Librarians in Print
Five UC librarians have coauthored an article in the Journal of eScience Librarianship, “A Collaborative Framework for Data Management Services: The Experience of the University of California”. The abstract describes the article’s content as follows: The National Science Foundation and […]
Invitation to Data Curation Workshop — North and South
By Patricia Cruse, Director, UC3 Researchers now must manage and share their data as part of research grants, and are looking for assistance in meeting these requirements for data curation. Libraries, data centers, offices of research and other organizations within […]
ProQuest Congressional Migration Completed September 21, 2012
ProQuest discontinued its legacy platform and switched over to the new platform exclusively on Friday, 9/21, at which point users were automatically redirected from the old platform URLs to the new platform. Systemwide resources affected included: ProQuest Congressional LexisNexis Congressional […]
California Digital Library and partners launch DataUp
The University of California’s Digital Library (CDL) and its partners today (Oct. 2) launched DataUp, a free data management tool. Researchers struggling to meet new data management requirements from funders, journals and their own institutions now can use the DataUp […]
Licensed Resource Cancellation: Multidata Online
The consortial subscription to Multidata Online, an archive of Arabic periodicals, was cancelled by a UC systemwide decision.