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Next Generation Melvyl Pilot – February 2010 Enhancements

By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services Four enhancements that impact the UC Libraries Next Generation Melvyl Pilot were made by OCLC on Sunday, February 21, 2010.  These changes include the following: 1. URLs for detailed records were expanded to […]

Music Index Online moves to EBSCOhost on March 1, 2010

By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has acquired The Music Index Online™ from Harmonie Park Press, and access to this resource via the Harmonie Park Press platform will end on February 28, 2010. The Music Index […]

UC-eLinks new website and 2009 usage statistics

By Lena Zentall, UC-eLinks Project Manager UC-eLinks new website UC-eLinks has a new face on the CDL website. http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/ucelinks/ As part of the CDL website redesign, we reorganized and refreshed the UC-eLinks content we provide to library staff and our […]

Double Issue of California Italian Studies Journal Launches in eScholarship

by Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing Group eScholarship is pleased to announce the inaugural double issue of California Italian Studies Journal (http://escholarship.org/uc/ismrg_cisj), a digital, peer-reviewed, open access journal committed to publishing innovative and influential scholarly work in the […]

EconLit, FIAF Transitioning to CSA Illumina and Chadwyck-Healey Platforms

By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services Two databases, EconLit and FIAF (Film/TV Periodicals Index [International Federation of Film Archives]), will be transitioning from their current platform on OvidSP.   EconLit will be moving to CSA Illumina and FIAF will transition […]

Farewell Rosalie Lack

By Ivy Anderson, Director of Collection Development & Management Rosalie Lack will be leaving the CDL in early March for an exciting new opportunity as Deputy Director of an international non-profit library consortium called eIFL.net (http://www.eifl.net/ ). Her last day […]

Finding and teaching with images using ARTstor

By Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator As the new semester ramps up, we thought it was a good time to remind you about the wealth of digital images available on ARTstor.  New content and features are always being […]

IEEE’s Xplore interface changing on February 13th

By Jean McKenzie (UCB), IEEE Resource Liaison After much development and testing, IEEE is switching to its new version of the Xplore Digital Library on Saturday, February 13th. This database gives the UC Campuses access to: IEEE journals, transactions, letters, […]

Resource Liaison Assignment Update: February 2010

By Holly Eggleston, Resource Liaison Coordinator and Electronic Resource Analyst CDL is pleased to announce the following resource liaison assignments within the Resource Liaisons (RL) program. Resource Liaisons provide a crucial link between the UC system and our licensed resource […]

CDL welcomes Greg Janée

By John Kunze, CDL Preservation Technologies Architect Please join me in welcoming a new half-time developer, Greg Janée to the UC Curation Center.  Greg will be working remotely from Santa Barbara, where the other half of his time goes to […]