Category: Newsletter
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, […]
Letter to UC Faculty on Nature Publishing Group Subscription Increases
A letter dated June 4, 2010 describing exorbitant subscription increases on the part of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) for the 67 journals UC licenses (including Nature) was distributed to UC faculty by campus librarians with the support of faculty […]
Immediate Change: Time, Inc. Titles Removed from LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis has informed us that Time Inc. has decided to withdraw its publications from all LexisNexis services, effective immediately. Previously, LexisNexis Academic was restricted to rolling coverage of the most recent 2 years for the titles shown below. As of […]
Ivy Anderson in Print
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published a special issue of Research Library Issues (RLI) on strategies now being deployed to increase the amount of content that is open and available to the research library community, and by extension, […]