Category: Newsletter
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – August 2010
Several enhancements appear in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, August 8, 2010 install. The improvements include the following: Some OCLC databases will no longer require authentication: Offsite patrons will no longer need to […]
CDL Recruiting for Discovery & Delivery Programmer Analyst IV
Shape the future of discovery and delivery in library systems. Position: Programmer Analyst IV About you You are a senior programmer and digital library strategist committed to growing the next generation of discovery & delivery services. You seek out innovative […]
UC-eLinks knows when you have left the building
UC-eLinks now alerts users to logon to their campus network. Why do we need this? Most of us have experienced the frustration of being denied access to articles and other content that we know the UC libraries have licensed. We […]
Recruiting for Digital Special Collections Programmer Analyst
The California Digital Library’s Digital Special Collections (DSC) team is seeking a programmer analyst to help build and provide access to a world-class collection of historical and primary source materials. We need your expertise to uncover and share the remarkable, […]
July-August 2010 Vendor Transitions
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst Does your favorite resource look different? Many of our licensed resources have undergone (or are about to undergo) changes due to interface upgrades or transitions to another publishing platform or vendor platform. The […]
CDL Releases eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) Version 2.2
By Elise Proulx Publishing Group Outreach & Marketing Coordinator The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library (CDL) announces the release of version 2.2 of its search and display technology, the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF). XTF is an open source, […]
Four World Bank databases are now freely available
By Jayne Dickson, CDL Information Services Analyst Beginning immediately, four of the World Bank databases that previously were restricted to several campuses as part of the World Bank e-Library license are now freely available. The databases include Africa Development Indicators, […]
A Record-Breaking April for UC-eLinks
In the span of thirty days, UC-eLinks — University of California’s easy way to link from an article or book citation to the actual publication online — processed 900,000 OpenURLs. What does that mean? That’s how many times someone clicked […]
UC Continues to Support Open Access Resources
As part of UC’s continuing support of Open Access journals and alternatives to traditional publishing practices, UC campuses are now institutional supporting members of the two resources listed below. arXiv.org The University of California is now an institutional supporting member […]
Nature Publishing Group Price Increases Controversy Continues
The Nature Publishing Group has issued a response to a letter to UC faculty describing inflated price increases for the Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) 67 journals (including Nature) that UC licenses. CDL Executive Director Laine Farley; Richard Schneider, Associate Professor, […]