Category: Newsletter
Data Documentation Initiative Workshops 1/10-12 at UCSD – Sign Up Now
Immediately following ALA Midwinter, the UCSD Libraries will host a two-part workshop on the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), a community XML standard being deployed internationally for describing, managing, and accessing data sets. The goal of the workshop is to promote […]
ProQuest Transition Delayed for UC
ProQuest databases are beginning a transition to a new platform beginning in January 2011; however, CDL will not activate the new platform until a later date. In CDL and Resource Liaison testing, we have discovered problems with Web VPN compatibility […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Images from UCSD’s Melanesian Archive
By Kathryn Creely, Melanesian Studies Librarian, UC San Diego and Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator. Take an “armchair voyage” to Oceania! Nearly 6,000 photographs depicting the people and places of the Pacific Islands are now available on the […]
New Licensed Resources – Asahi Kikuzo II Visual; People’s Daily
UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial or Tier 2 licenses. (Some campuses may already have had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions.): Asahi Kikuzo II Visual, Premium Value Pack […]
Let’s be consistent: Best Practices for UC Library Home Pages
UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) appointed a task force to examine best practices for UC library home pages so that our users experience a consistently clear (and common) understanding of our services. The task group’s report is now available. […]
UCLA Campus Affiliated Library Added to Next Generation Melvyl Pilot
An important NGM Pilot milestone has been reached November 18, 2010, with the addition of the UCLA Film and Television Archive (FATA) as a UCLA Library with a separate ILS. This proof of concept has implications for the possible addition […]
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – November 2010
Several enhancements improve the user experience in the Next Generation Melvyl (NGM) Pilot as a result of OCLC’s Sunday, November 7, 2010 install. The improvements, shown in detail in the PDF (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/oclc_docs/WCLocalNovemberInstallannouncement_2_.pdf), include: Changes to Format Facet and Format Limiter […]
Digital library’s global, local services
The California Digital Library’s (CDL) success in elevating the digital library to be expansively global and deeply local has been demonstrated this fall in its launching of an array of pioneering resources that support activities in all corners of research […]
eScholarship Integrates PubMed LinkOut Feature
By Elise Proulx Publishing Group Outreach & Marketing Coordinator Follow eScholarship on Facebook and Twitter. The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library (CDL) announces the implementation of the PubMed LinkOut feature for material published by eScholarship, the University of […]
Licensed Resource Change: Alternative Press Index & Archive
Alternative Press Index and Archive are moving to a new vendor. Alternative Press Index http://uclibs.org/PID/7399 Alternative Press Index Archive http://uclibs.org/PID/49179 As announced last spring (http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/questions/), EBSCO has acquired the rights to license several OCLC FirstSearch databases, including Alternative Press Index […]