Category: Newsletter
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 […]
Cancellation of Informa Healthcare Journals as of January 1, 2011
The Collection Development Officers at the ten UC campuses, the UC health and life science selectors (UCHLS) and CDL have decided to cancel the Informa Healthcare (IHC) systemwide license as of January 1, 2011. There were three important systemwide principles […]
Mellon Grant Awarded to University of California Libraries to Implement the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)
Researchers can now be assured that the scholarly record will be preserved for future generations through a coordinated system of trusted print archives held at libraries throughout the western United States. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University […]
UC-eLinks “Logon to your campus proxy or VPN” alert is helping users
A new feature implemented by the UC-eLinks team in July 2010 is making a huge difference — it’s a special UC-eLinks’ alert that tells users to logon to their campus proxy or VPN when we detect they are trying to […]
Emily Stambaugh in Print
Emily Stambaugh, CDL’s Manager of Shared Print, recently had an article published in a recent issue of Against the Grain. The article is entitled Heading West: Circling the Wagons to Ensure Preservation and Access, and discusses the Western Regional Storage […]
HathiTrust WorldCat Local Discovery Tool
Today, OCLC and HathiTrust announced the release of a WorldCat Local-based interface for the HathiTrust Digital Library, currently containing more than 4 million records. The discovery interface is available at http://hathitrust.worldcat.org and will be updated on a regular basis. (Links […]