Category: Newsletter
OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot final report
Beginning in late 2010, an ad hoc Coordinating Committee consisting of several individuals who were active in the shared print (print archiving) community began to explore ways in which libraries could use OCLC features and services to disclose retention commitments […]
Several new monographic series agreements endorsed in April
The Shared Monograph Planning Group is pleased to announce fourteen (14) initiative statements from UC Bibliographer groups to collaboratively collect monographic print series. Each initiative statement contains a list of print series and identifies a campus that has agreed to […]
Your Faculty is Publishing in Open Access!
What do “Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change” and “The World Distribution of Household Wealth” have in common? They’re both UC faculty-published articles on UC’s flourishing open access platform, eScholarship. eScholarship supports the publication of UC-affiliated conference papers, articles, […]
Mellon Supports Phase 2 of Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC)
The CDL is pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is supporting a second phase of the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project, which will dramatically expand the range of source data for research and demonstration purposes: […]
New Licensed Resource – TBRC Core Collections Tranches 8 and 9
UC campuses now have access to the remaining sections of this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license: Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) Digital Library (All campuses, on the TBRC platform)http://uclibs.org/PID/159590 The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center is dedicated […]
HathiTrust March 2012 Update – New Board of Governors, CDL Zephir testing and more
In March, the new members of HathiTrust’s Board of Governors were announced; working group and committee reports are included. The California Digital Library achieved a milestone in March, loading all bibliographic records submitted by HathiTrust contributing institutions into the Zephir […]
Hot Articles: a new service using UC-eLinks
Hot Articles is a new free service that shows you immediately, based on real usage data, what publications are hot in your broad subject area. How does Hot Articles work? Hot Articles is a mini window (a “tile”) that goes […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – March 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Our highest record distributions for serials in February were Open Access (201 titles), DragonSource (104 titles), Sage (46), Taylor & Francis (28), and LexixNexis (24 titles). The DragonSource distributions are the first for […]
Visit the Data Pub at CDL
By Patricia Cruse, Director, UC Curation Center Data management plans, data publication, and calls for open data are raising the visibility of digital data as a medium to be addressed by a wide community of researchers, libraries, museums and data centers. […]
Ergonomics Abstracts New Platform
Ergonomics Abstracts (Systemwide access) has transitioned from Taylor & Francis to the EBSCOhost platform. (http://uclibs.org/PID/126493)