Category: Newsletter
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 […]
UC Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Now Have Preservation and Access
By Patricia Cruse, Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3) and Catherine Mitchell, Director, Publishing Group Several UC campuses are actively using CDL’s preservation and access services for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) of their graduate students, exercising a […]
Announcing the UC Library Reprints Service
By Jason Colman, Project Specialist, Mass Digitization The UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from their collections. Now, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, many of these books will be made available for purchase as reading copies […]
Who are Trevor, Darrell, Katie, Chloe, Lisa, Stacy, and Xiaowen?
Thanks to the HathiTrust User Experience Advisory Group, we now have a set of “personas” representing HathiTrust users. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, personas are composite fictional portraits created to represent different user types who […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – November 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 […]
bX Recommender Purchase Postponed Indefinitely
The UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) gave serious consideration to the purchase of bX Recommender following a three month trial and assessment last spring. HOPS determined the service to be of some usefulness in increasing discovery of UC’s full […]
Discover the groundbreaking research of UC’s Nobel Laureates in eScholarship
Last month, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor at UC Berkeley. Want to explore his groundbreaking research? Check out some of his recent publications (http://www.escholarship.org/uc/search?creator=%22Perlmutter,%20S.%22%22Perlmutter,%20S.%22;creator-join=or) in […]
Data Management Tool Launched by University of California Libraries and Partner Institutions
The press release (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/26584) below was distributed by the UC Newsroom (and at partner institutions) this morning: Important questions are challenging researchers today: Where should their research data reside? How can they make the data discoverable by other investigators and […]