Category: Newsletter
Job Alert: Publications Manager, eScholarship
The Publishing & Special Collections Group at the California Digital Library is seeking candidates for our Publications Manager position. If you have publishing experience and are looking for an exciting opportunity to help work toward open and sustainable scholarly communication […]
New resources in Melvyl's Central Index
Seven resources have been added to Melvyl’s Central Index. They are: CDL now activates CDL-managed Tier 2 resources in Melvyl’s Central Index so each campus will have different resources listed in their Central Index, depending on the resources they license. […]
New Resource: Archives of Sexuality & Gender, Parts I-III
All UC campuses now have access to Gale’s Archives of Sexuality & Gender, Parts I-III. These are Part I – LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940: This collection consists of 20 individual collections, with a total page count of nearly […]
MLA International Bibliography is moving to EBSCO
On 26 June 2018, the editor of the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB) announced that going forward EBSCO would be the single vendor for this resource and the accompanying MLA Directory of Periodicals (MLADP). An overlap period where both the existing […]
SCP Monthly Update – May 2019
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of April 2019. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials, major distributions were Lyell Collection online journals […]
RAND California cancelled as of May 1st
As part of the Tier 1 Database Cancellation review, the CDL license for RAND California (State Statistics) has been cancelled effective May 1, 2019. Campuses may continue their access by subscribing locally. The delete record for this resource will be […]
New OA Resource: PhilPapers—Philosophical Research Online
PhilPapers is a comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles. PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums. From the internal resource evaluation: “PhilPapers […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Accessibility updates for improved discovery
The WorldCat Discovery installation on May 9, 2019 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
Nexis Uni upgrade begins today (May 1, 2019)
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, LexisNexis upgraded the Nexis® resources, including Nexis Uni. Although focused more on their Nexis.com professional resources, a Nexis Upgrade Comparison (Differences) guide that explains the feature differences between the previous Nexis and the upgraded Nexis […]
New Resource: Takita Choin kyuzo Kindai sakka genkoshu
Thanks to the contributions from UC Berkeley and UCLA, Takita Choin kyūzō Kindai sakka genkōshu 滝田樗陰旧蔵近代作家原稿集 (a collection of Japanese literary manuscripts by modern writers, originally owned by Takita Choin) has become available to users of all ten campuses and […]