Category: Newsletter
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, […]
CDL Recruiting for Discovery & Delivery Programmer Analyst
By Lynne Cameron, Technical Lead, Discovery & Delivery Shape the future of library systems. Position: Programmer Analyst III About you You are a programmer interested in being part of a team envisioning and building the next generation of library discovery […]
CDL Recruiting for Publishing Support Programmer
By Lisa Schiff, Technical Lead, eScholarship Publishing Group Job Summary: The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library provides open access digital publication services to the University of California academic community, supports widespread distribution of UC research materials, and fosters […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – May 2010
By Ellen Meltzer, Information Services Manager Two enhancements appear in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, May 23 install. The improvements include: A change to the global header: the Library custom web links at […]
Issues in Applied Linguistics Now Published in eScholarship
eScholarship is pleased to announce the publication of volume 17, issues 1 & 2 of UCLA’s Issues in Applied Linguistics. Initially launched in 1989 as a print-only journal, this volume marks the journal’s first digital publication. Issues in Applied Linguistics […]
CDL Archiving Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Websites
The California Digital Library is using the Web Archiving Service to archive sites related to the gulf oil spill. While CDL’s primary role in Web archiving is to provide tools and support to collection specialists, we also use the service […]
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library Finishes Digitization
Working together with CDL and Google, UCSD has finished digitizing nearly 100,000 volumes from the collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sio/) – the world’s largest oceanographic library. Included are works on marine biology, climate science, ecology, geology, and many other subjects. The collection […]
Patricia Cruse: Digital Preservation Pioneer
CDL Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3), Patricia Cruse, was profiled in the May 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Preservation Newsletter, where she was dubbed a “digital preservation pioneer”. The article also links to a […]