Category: Newsletter
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)
HathiTrust Update for February – Full-text search, Bib Data Management and more
You can learn about the twelve candidates running for HathiTrust’s Board of Governors, find out about local digitization projects, and discover what the CDL is doing with Bibliographic Data Management and dictionary-building work in the HathiTrust update on February 2012 […]
CDL Position: Manager, Infrastructure and Applications Support
Are you excited about supporting the building and creative use of the world’s scholarship and knowledge? Are you a strong IT technical manager who can meet the challenges of managing complex relationships, keeping technologies up-to-date and working with developers to […]
UC-eLinks wording changes: simpler is better
Thanks to suggestions from UC librarians Katie Fortney (Santa Cruz), Ruth Gustafson (Davis), and Stacy Nelson (San Diego), the CDL has simplified key messages in the UC-eLinks window. But these changes go beyond wordsmithing — they reflect changes in the […]