Category: Newsletter
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.
Selected AccessEngineering E-books on CDL-Hosted Licensed Content Platform
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst /Resource Liaison Coordinator Thanks to a new hosting service released by CDL in June 2012, an important set of engineering e-books from publisher McGraw-Hill, formerly available to selected UC campuses at the McGraw-Hill AccessEngineering(TM) […]
UC-only OCLC webinar now available
The streamed UC-only OCLC webinar, “Transforming Discovery and Resource Sharing with OCLC: FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing and More” is now available for viewing from the CDL website. The September 20, 2012 session was presented by Mindy Pozenel, Director, OCLC WorldCat Discovery […]
DMPTool Service Update – August 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities There were 22 new users from UC campuses in June, bringing the total to 482 UC users. UC users have created 432 data management plans since the service began in Oct 2011. Overall, there […]
Merritt Service Update – August 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities public access to designated collections and objects integration with the CDL-developed eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), allowing for depositors to create tailored portals to designated public access collections streamlining of the Merritt administrative and submission […]
DataUp Service Update — August 2012
� Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities For the last month we have been preparing for the release of the DataUp tool, scheduled for 2 October. We are coordinating our launch with the outreach and communication efforts of Microsoft Research, […]
EZID Service Update — August 2012
August Activities Service Manager Joan Starr held a webinar on August 15th attended by more than 100 participants from organizations all over the country. The webinar was recorded, and the audio and slides are both available on the EZID […]