Category: Newsletter
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 […]
Eric Lopatin joins CDL as UC3’s new Product Manager
We are excited to have Eric Lopatin join us as UC3’s new Product Manager. Eric brings with him a long-standing appreciation for software quality, UX prototyping, and technical workflows which stem from prior roles at Amazon Music, Adobe Systems, Inc, and Public Library […]
Meet Vasu Choudhary, CDL’s new Licensing Analyst
CDL is excited to announce that Vasu Choudhary will join the Collection Development & Management group as a Licensing Analyst, effective Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Vasu currently works as a legal support specialist at the Office of General Counsel, UC […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Improved filtering for author names on brief results
The WorldCat Discovery installation on April 17, 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 […]
Personal Lists are available in WorldCat Discovery
Personal Lists are a much used feature of WorldCat Local (WCL) and UC campus librarians made their feelings clear that this feature needed to be available in WorldCat Discovery (WCD) as well. We’re happy to report that the Personal Lists […]
New Tier 2 Resource: China Data Online is back!
Previously, China Data Online was a Tier 2 license with the University of Michigan’s China Data Center (CDC). Unexpectedly, in September 2018, UM’s China Data Center closed its doors; access was cancelled for all resources. Recently, four UC campuses (Berkeley, […]
New Resource: Biochemical Society Journals on Portland Press platform
Five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the front file (2017- ) of five of the Biochemical Society’s online journals. As part of this license, all […]