Category: Newsletter
Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement Decision: UC and HathiTrust Responses
The UC libraries have issued a statement on the March 22, 2011 federal court decision regarding the proposed Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement. The statement is available on UC’s Reshaping Scholarly Communication website: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/google/settlement_decision.html HathiTrust’s response is available at http://www.hathitrust.org/hathitrust_asa_response
CDL Technical Requirements for Vendors – Revised and Improved!
By Holly Eggleston, Electronic Resource Analyst An updated version of the Technical Requirements for Licensed Resources document has been posted to http://www.cdlib.org/gateways/vendors/guidelines_technical.html. The Technical Requirements document is primarily intended for new and continuing vendors of CDL’s licensed electronic resources, but […]
Materials Research Society Publications – Platform transition
The Materials Research Society (MRS) has migrated its publishing content to the Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) platform. This migration affects local campus subscriptions to the Journals of Materials Research and the MRS Bulletin, as well as CDL licensed access to […]
World Banking Abstracts Transition
UC’s access to the licensed content (from 2006 to the present) of World Banking Abstracts (ISSN 0265-9484) was previously available via the Wiley Online Library platform. Wiley has now made World Banking Abstracts available on a new platform. As before, […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – February 2011
There is one item that improves the user experience in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, February 13, 2011 install. Other enhancements have a positive impact on Local Holdings Record (LHR) displays and links […]
Mobile Usability Testing Rig for m.cdlib
By Jane Lee, CDL Senior Assessment Analyst In the summer of 2010, CDL’s User Experience Design team began investigating the possibility of creating a mobile version of CDL’s newly redesigned website. As part of its design process for creating an […]
Online data management planning tool tames data and meets researchers’ funding requirements
A group of major research institutions is partnering to develop a flexible online tool to help researchers generate data management plans. This effort is in response to demands from funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Kearny Street Workshop posters from UCSB
Students and researchers now have free access to 170 images of posters, artwork, and photographs documenting the work of the Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian/Pacific American community in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco. View them on Calisphere or the […]
New licensed resource: Sibu Congkan
UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license. Some campuses may already have had access to this title through previous local campus subscriptions. Sibu Congkan 四部叢刊 (Online) (Tier 2 participating libraries include […]
New Licensed Resource – Colloquium digital library of life sciences: Collection 1
All UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license. Some campuses may already have access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions. Colloquium digital library of life sciences: Collection 1. (Tier 2 […]