Category: Newsletter
ECS Journals Transition to New Platform
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals are now available on the HighWire Press platform. They have transitioned from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Scitation platform, which is discontinuing its hosting services for ECS and selected other society publishers.
SPIE Digital Library moves to a new platform
By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley Engineering Library, Resource Liaison for SPIE The SPIE Digital Library (SPIEDL) moved to Silverchair Information Systems platform SCM6 on August 22, 2012. SPIEDL has an updated look, improved functionality, and more content. 40,000 additional articles […]
Work in progress: UC libraries website redesign update
The following is a work-in-progress update for the 2012 redesign project of the UC libraries website (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/). This website is a web presence for all UC library groups and their systemwide activities. (This website is a separate entity from the […]
Momentum Press 2011 Digital Library
All UC campus libraries now have access to this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license. Momentum Press 2011 Digital Library (All campuses including LBL; on the ebrary platform.)http://uclibs.org/PID/241136 Digital Library (45 books): Comprised of five Topical Engineering […]
EZID goes abroad: Announcing EZID UK
The EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid) Team is excited to announce a new partnership with EDINA, a UK national academic data center based at the University of Edinburgh, and JISC, the UK’s “expert on information and digital technologies for education and research”. Our […]
Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) Announces Print Archiving Milestone
The press release below can also be seen at the UC Newsoom. The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a partnership to create a distributed retrospective print journal repository in the western United States, has completed its first round of print […]
Upcoming UC-only OCLC Webinar: 9/20/2012
Are you curious about what the future looks like for Melvyl, resource sharing (ILL), and FirstSearch WorldCat? Join us for a UC- only OCLC webinar, “Transforming Discovery and Resource Sharing with OCLC: FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing and More.” The webinar […]
UC-eLinks now offers direct linking for articles in Melvyl
UC-eLinks now offers direct linking for articles in Melvyl when UC has licensed the electronic edition of the journal. In some cases you will see the UC-eLinks menu header in a frame at the top of the article (see image […]
DataUp Service Update: July 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities For the last month we have been testing out beta versions of the DataUp tools and relaying issues and bugs to the Microsoft Research developers. We received a beta version of the tools in […]
DMPTool Service Update – July 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities There were 34 new users from UC campuses in June, bringing the total to 482 UC users. UC users have created 397 data management plans since the service began in Oct 2011. Overall, […]