Category: Newsletter
New Resources Available
a. ASM Handbooks Online By Camille Wanat (UC Berkeley), Resource Liaison The ASM Handbooks Online is a new Tier 2 acquisition negotiated on behalf of six participating campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Merced, and UC San […]
eScholarship Repository: One Million Downloads Reached; Postprints Service Launched
The eScholarship Repository has reached one million full-text downloads, a remarkable achievement given the repository’s short life. On Wednesday, the eScholarship program announced the launch of its new eScholarship Repository postprints service, which provides scholars with another option for regaining […]
Library Staff News
a. Roy Tennant Receives Literati Club Award for Excellence; Named User Services Architect Roy Tennant’s article, “A bibliographic metadata infrastructure for the twenty-first century,” has been named the 2005 Literati Club Awards for Excellence outstanding paper for the journal Library […]
VDX: Status Update
VDX (Virtual Document eXchange) is UC’s consortial borrowing system for use in interlibrary loan (ILL), based on Fretwell-Downing’s product. The VDX implementation is a large and complex project that has far-reaching implications for all UC library patrons. As such, it […]
Resource Update
a. America’s Newspapers Features a New Interface and New Search By Kay Collins (Resource Liaison), UC Irvine America’s Newspapers from Newsbank recently launched a new interface. With the new interface, selecting which papers to search is the first decision. You […]
Online Archive of California: OAC 3.0 Release
The CDL and the OAC Operations Group are pleased to announce the release of the Online Archive of California, Version 3.0 at http://www.oac.cdlib.org. OAC 3.0 represents two primary changes from previous systems: Use of a new software platform developed by […]
2004 Melvyl Catalog Satisfaction Survey Results
A Melvyl Catalog Satisfaction Survey was made available via the web to UC library staff November 2-20, 2004. Its aim was to determine the level of satisfaction of campus library staff for Melvyl, to surface issues of dissatisfaction of which […]
Metasearch Usability
In the Metasearch Infrastructure Project, the CDL is working to create metasearch tools and software that campus libraries can use to craft search portals tailored to specific audiences. The “Core Collection” portal is targeted towards undergraduate students doing research for […]
Library Staff News
Patricia Martin joined the CDL on January 5 as the new Bibliographic Services Manager, reporting to Laine Farley, Director of Digital Library Services. Originally from New York, Patti received her MLIS from UCLA in 1989, and has spent the last […]
UC-eLinks: Targets and Titles
The campus libraries are full participants in adding their campus-licensed resources to the UC-eLinks program. Along with the CDL, they have added many new targets (including journal aggregators, library catalogs, full text books, journal publishers and more) and titles in […]