Category: Newsletter
SCP Update – August 2020
SCP posted the distribution statistics report for the month of July 2020. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. They are color coded as: Net Increase (Green) — Net […]
“Building a National Finding Aid Network”: collaborative research and development initiative receives IMLS funding support
The California Digital Library is pleased to announce a $982,175 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS – National Leadership Grants for Libraries grant program) to conduct a two-year research and demonstration project designed to build the […]
SCP Update – July 2020
SCP posted the distribution statistics report for the month of June 2020. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. They are color coded as: Net Increase (Green) — Net […]
“They Were Really Us”: The UCSF Community’s Early Response to AIDS — A New Exhibition on Calisphere
When HIV/AIDS first seized the nation’s attention in the early 1980s, it was a disease with no name, known cause, treatment, or cure. Beginning as a medical mystery, it turned into one of the most divisive social and political issues […]
University of California Press ebook Collection Now Available
The UC libraries have acquired a comprehensive collection of ebooks from the University of California Press (http://uclibs.org/PID/432800). The acquisition, which was funded by CDL, gives UC libraries perpetual access to nearly every UC Press title published since 1928, including the […]
CDL, CRL, & HathiTrust Collaboration for Shared Print Infrastructure
In June, California Digital Library (CDL), the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), & HathiTrust affirmed their commitment – first announced in January 2020 – to take the lead in building on the last decade of shared print efforts to realize […]
Alexander Street Historical Collections migrate to the LAZR Platform
According to ASP’s migration information webpage, several Alexander Street legacy products are moving to the LAZR platform effective June 30, 2020. Affected UC-licensed resources are: Early Encounters in North America http://uclibs.org/PID/31414; all campuses North American Women’s Letters and […]
JoVE trial ends
The full trial access that UC has had to JoVE content will end on June 30, 2020. Access will continue as normal for libraries with JoVE Unlimited or individual subscriptions to JoVe Video Journals and Science Education. For more information […]
SciFindern now available for all UC faculty, staff and students
SciFindern (or SciFinder-n) is the new, streamlined SciFinder interface from CAS (Chemical Abstract Service) that covers the chemical literature, indexing millions of journal articles, patents, substances, and chemical reactions. The current SciFinder is not going away, so UC has access […]
Merritt and Dryad Certified by CoreTrustSeal as Trustworthy Repositories
University of California Curation Center (UC3) is happy to announce that its Merritt repository and Dryad’s underlying technical platform (Dash) have received CoreTrustSeal certification. This certification helps to instill transparency and accountability to our stakeholder communities, as it provides public evidence of […]