Category: Newsletter
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – July 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 […]
HathiTrust – It Just Gets Better
HathiTrust full-text search now leverages the richness of bibliographic data, and building and searching collections just got easier! Read on for more details of what this means for researchers. Full-text Search The HathiTrust full-text search index now includes bibliographic data, […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2010-2011 Local History Digital […]
New Calisphere features enable better image discovery and browsing
Two recent enhancements to the Calisphere interface, plus the release of a slideshow widget for contributors, provide new ways to discover and view the more than 220,000 images in the collection. “More like this” Every image on Calisphere now includes […]
Mark Twain Project Online Receives Award for Best Reference Web Site 2011
The Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO), a joint project of the Mark Twain Papers and Project of The Bancroft Library, the California Digital Library, and the University of California Press, was selected as one of the MARS Best Free Reference […]
CDL job openings for two programmer analysts
Shape the future of library systems. Position: Programmer Analyst III (2 open positions) About you You are a programmer who seeks out innovative ways to continually improve interactive library systems. You thrive on building new systems to meet emerging needs, […]
New Native American Rock Art topic on Calisphere
Did you know that humans have been living in California for an estimated 8,000-12,000 years? Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce the addition of a new topic to California Cultures, featuring Native American Rock art in California. The topic […]
SciFinder is now Web-only
As of June 30, 2011, SciFinder Scholar – the research discovery tool provided by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) – is available only as a web resource. Previously, SciFinder Scholar was available via client-downloadable software. For the past two years, […]
New Licensed Resources: Newspapers, Gale Resources, JSTOR, TTL
UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL and campus one-time purchases (some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions): 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (All campuses. On the Gale platform.) […]
Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape: Join us August 24-25
DataCite will hold its second Summer Meeting on August 24th and 25th at the historic Shattuck Plaza Hotel in Berkeley, California. The Summer Meeting — Data and the Scholarly Record: the Changing Landscape—will be a 1.5 day event hosted by […]