Category: Newsletter
Welcome Devin Smith, new part-time Application Programmer on the PAD team
We are delighted to announce that Devin Smith has joined the Publishing, Archives, and Digitization group as a part-time Application Programmer, starting today, May 16, 2022. Devin will be working closely with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on Open Access and […]
A warm welcome to Zainab Olaosebikan, Director of Finance & Operations!
Please join me in extending a very warm welcome to Zainab Olaosebikan, CDL’s new Finance & Operations Director. In her role, Zainab will oversee all aspects of CDL operations, including its financial activities, audit and compliance, contracts and grants, and […]
Moving On
I want to let you know that I’m planning to retire from the University of California on July 1, 2022, with my last working day sometime in late April. This seemed like the right moment since CDL was significantly reducing […]
eScholarship celebrates its 20-year anniversary!
The University of California’s eScholarship publishing and institutional repository program celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year, a milestone that provides us with an opportunity to reflect on how far UC has come in the work of open access library publishing […]
Ellen Finnie to retire September 2022!
With a heavy heart, I want to share with you news of an upcoming CDL transition: Ellen Finnie, CDL’s Director of Shared Collections, will be retiring as of September 1, 2022. As Director, Ellen has been working with teams at […]
Raiden van Bronkhorst Joins CDL
CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Team is excited to welcome our new software engineer, Raiden van Bronkhorst. Raiden will be working primarily on machine learning projects. Raiden is a recent cum laude graduate of Western Washington University (WWU) where he majored […]
SCP Update – April 2022
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in March 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 113 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 91 Getty Publications Virtual Library (Local-OA): 311 JSTOR Books DDA: 502 Link to the full reports: 2022-03-Total_Portfolio_Count_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections 2022-03-Collection_level_bib_records_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections Highlights […]
CDL Job Opening: Assistant Director for Open Access Agreements
The Assistant Director for Open Access Agreements is responsible for stewarding California Digital Library activities related to publisher agreements for open access, including analysis, data and financial modeling, negotiations, implementation, administration, and assessment. Reporting to the CDL Director of Shared […]
SCP Update – March 2022
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in February 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 197 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 1,074 JSTOR Books DDA: 312 University of Chicago Oriental Institute publications (Local-OA): 144 Collection level records: 12 Link to the […]
New Tier 2 Resource: Artech House Ebooks
As part of a new Tier 2 agreement, four campuses plus LBNL now have access to Artech House ebooks via IEEE Xplore. UCB, UCI, UCLA and LBNL have access to the full backfile of nearly 700 ebooks back to 1999, […]