Category: Newsletter
UC is Moving to a Hosted VDX Solution at OCLC in 2012
By Patricia Martin, Director, Discovery & Delivery The Council of University Librarians, in consultation with several All Campus Groups and SOPAG, has endorsed CDL’s plan to move the management of UC’s VDX application from in-house at CDL to hosting at […]
PsycINFO Records Missing Publication Dates
By Teal Smith, User Communication and Instruction Librarian, UC Merced and Resource Liaison, PsycINFO Teal Smith (UCM), the Resource Liaison for PsycINFO (on the ProQuest/CSA Illumina platform), has notified CDL that some PsycINFO records are missing journal issue publication dates. […]
Melvyl Enhancements – November 2011
Several enhancements improve the user experience in Melvyl as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, November 20 install. The improvements are shown in detail in the attached PDF. (There are some items that do not apply to the UC libraries’ versions […]
Meet Rob Valentine
In its 2011 review, CDL was explicitly encouraged to “aggressively pursue external funding as a mechanism to fund the innovation and the delivery of more robust services to faculty and students” and to “expand fee-for-service offerings to external/ Non –UC […]
eScholarship Launches New Submission Management System
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Publishing Group The eScholarship team is excited to announce the official launch of our new submission management system. This milestone marks the completion of a two-phased project, begun in 2009, to transition eScholarship (UC’s Open Access […]
HathiTrust Collection Exceeds 10 Million Volumes
HathiTrust reached a major milestone on January 5, 2012, exceeding 10 million volumes in its digital collections. More than 2.7 million of these volumes are in the public domain. Read more about the breakdown of collections by copyright distribution date, […]
CDL office closure Dec. 23, 2011 PM – Jan. 2, 2012
This year, UC’s Office of the President, including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Friday, December 23, 2011 at noon through Monday, January 2, 2012. During this closure, […]
Major Melvyl Enhancements Coming in January
Two exciting new features enhancing Melvyl will be turned on in Melvyl beginning this January: View Now and Central Index. Two task groups appointed by and reporting to the UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) recommended that these features be […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – December 2011
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries. Established in January 2000, the program is based at UC San Diego. To learn more about SCP, see […]
Licensed Database Transitions 2012: bepress/De Gruyter, Project Muse, Wilson/EBSCO, ProQuest
Several CDL and campus licensed databases will be transitioning to new platforms in the new year. Below are several of the upcoming changes: The academic publisher De Gruyter is acquiring the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) portfolio of 67 journals in […]