Category: Newsletter
Biochemical Society Journals move to the Silverchair platform in October
The Biochemical Society Journals via Portland Press will switch from the Highwire Press to the Silverchair platform on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. Per the vendor, permanent redirects will be available at homepage, issue and article levels starting October 8th. […]
Licensing Positions Available at the California Digital Library!
We’re hiring! The California Digital Library has an outstanding opportunity for two dynamic, highly-motivated individuals to join our systemwide licensed collections team. This is a transformative time at CDL and the University of California, with an opportunity to truly have […]
Welcome Rachel Lee, P&SC’s New Publications Manager
The Publishing & Special Collections Group welcomes Rachel Lee as the new Publications Manager for eScholarship! Leveraging her deep expertise in journal publishing, Rachel will develop new programs and materials to support the success of the 80+ open access journals […]
New Dryad is Here
The Dryad team has worked over the past year to understand what features are required to best support the research community’s ever-evolving needs. We are proud to announce the launch of our new Dryad platform and we are excited to […]
WorldCat Discovery: Additional format information in detailed records
The WorldCat Discovery installation on September 23, 2019 included the following new enhancement. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note: Not all of the enhancements/bug fixes are relevant to the UC Melvyl instances.) New features […]
New Resource: MIT Press Direct eBooks, 1943-2019
All UC campuses now have access to MIT Press Direct eBooks; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. http://uclibs.org/PID/385506 (All campuses, plus LBNL and LLNL; on the MIT Press Direct platform) MIT Press Direct will make […]
CDL Job Opening: Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer
CDL’s University of California Curation Center (UC3) is actively seeking candidates who want to develop and manage the tools and infrastructure supporting our growing suite of digital curation and preservation services. As a member of our team, you will be […]
Early English Books Online (EEBO) migrates to the ProQuest platform
Early English Books Online migrated from its legacy Chadwyck-Healey interface, to the newly-enhanced ProQuest Platform, on August 22, 2019. The ProQuest platform delivers research experience that guides discovery, access and management of content sources. As a result, Early English Books […]
Next Gen Library Publishing partnership awarded $2.2M Arcadia grant to improve scholarly publishing infrastructure
Educopia Institute and California Digital Library are pleased to announce an award in the amount of $2,200,000 from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin—in support of the “Next Generation Library Publishing” project. Through this project, Educopia and […]
CDL’s Publishing & Special Collections Group Releases 2019/2020 Service Roadmaps
CDL’s Publishing & Special Collections (P&SC) Group is excited to announce that our 2019/2020 service roadmaps are now publicly available: Calisphere Collection Management Systems eScholarship Online Archive of California Open Access Policy Implementation As was the case last year, these […]