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Hiring Announcement for SILS Service Manager

The California Digital Library’s Discovery & Delivery program is pleased to welcome Caitlin Nelson as its Systemwide ILS Service Manager, effective July 1, 2020. The role is critical to the implementation and operation of the UC Systemwide ILS, and in […]

DynaMed Plus cancelled

Access to DynaMed Plus for currently participating campuses ended effective 5/31. A Tier 2 is being worked on; please contact the Tier 2 Campus Coordinator Sarah McClung with questions.  Information about the earlier subscription is available at https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2018/06/27/dynamed-plus-now-available-for-all-uc-campuses/

Put Crowdsourcing to Work for Your Library

Does your library need help transcribing manuscripts or radio broadcasts? Do you need help identifying people and places in photographs? Could you use a hand in finding constellations in historical celestial maps or identifying bird species in old prints? Then […]

EarthArXiv announces new partnership with California Digital Library to host earth sciences preprint service

The Advisory Council of the EarthArXiv preprint service for earth sciences is pleased to announce a partnership with the California Digital Library (CDL) that will support EarthArXiv’s mission, future growth, and long-term sustainability. Core to this partnership will be the […]

New PubMed is here

On Tuesday, May 19th, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) officially switched to the new version of PubMed.  SCP has already updated PIDs to point to the new version, retaining UC’s ‘otool’ extension so that the UC-eLinks button will display […]

SCP Update – May 2020

SCP posted the distribution statistics report for the month of April 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 […]

AMS Journals and Monographs move to a new platform

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journals and Monographs will be moving to a new web platform, date TBD. http://uclibs.org/PID/431494 According to the banner on the AMS website, “Unfortunately custom saved searches can’t be preserved; check your settings now so you […]

Alexander Street Press & Chadwyck-Healey databases move to ProQuest platform

In March 2020, individual Alexander Street Press (ASP) and Chadwyck-Healey (CH) literature collections became available on the main ProQuest platform and are cross-searchable with other relevant literature and multi-disciplinary content on the platform. According to the transition FAQ, the new […]

New Resource: ProQuest Historical Newspaper (HNP) and History Vault (HV) EBA Pilot

The ProQuest Historical Newspaper (HNP) http://uclibs.org/PID/241398 and History Vault (HV) http://uclibs.org/PID/431313 pilot plan is available to all ten UC campuses through 4/30/2021 and includes access to the online collections: 52 Historical Newspapers (US and International titles), and 45 History Vault […]

UC Libraries’ Shared Print Program Joins the Partnership for Shared Book Collections

The University of California Libraries’ Shared Print program has joined the Partnership for Shared Book Collections, a federation of shared print monographic programs that aims to coordinate shared print collaboration in North America to support cost-effective retention and access to […]