Category: Newsletter
BagIt celebrates twin milestones
If two digital archives have been exchanging digital content in the past five years, chances are they were using “BagIt”, a file packaging format that’s extremely popular in cultural and scientific data archiving. BagIt is a standard for moving data […]
Access discontinued to OCLC’s CAMIO database
Per information from OCLC email… OCLC discontinued access to the CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) database for WorldCat Local and FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery subscribers on 31 December 2018. The expansion of online access to this type of content in […]
Cambridge University Press and the University of California Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal
Agreement is UC’s first with a major publisher and Cambridge’s first in the Americas The University of California and Cambridge University Press have entered into a transformative agreement that will advance the global shift toward an open access future for […]
Exploring innovations in history: architecture, television, travel — new collections made available through LSTA!
New collection highlights Calisphere continues to grow, not only in size but also in breadth with new collections providing insight into innovations in architecture, television, and travel. UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum is a longstanding […]
SCP Monthly Update — April 2019
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of March 2019. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials, we distributed a new collection of Lyell […]
America’s Historical Newspapers migrates to enhanced interface
America’s Historical Newspapers and the World Newspaper Archive are now available with enhanced interfaces. In terms of systemwide subscriptions, this affects Early American Newspapers Series 1 and 2. Campuses that locally subscribe to additional collections within America’s Historical Newspapers, please […]
New Tier 2 Resource: Lyell Collection
Four campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, and San Diego) now have access to the Geological Society of London’s Lyell Collection as part of a new Tier 2 agreement. http://uclibs.org/PID/330767 B, D, LA and SD; on the Lyell Collection platform The […]
At long last, HathiTrust records have been fixed in Melvyl
After many years of frustration with HathiTrust books that campus users do not have digital access to appearing in the Melvyl catalog with an indication of a digital holding, we are pleased to inform you that the HathiTrust records in […]
SCP Serials Cataloging Switching to Separate Record Approach
The long-held practice of simply adding URL links to existing print records when cataloging serial titles will cease on April 1, 2019. Using the print record as a composite record for both print and online version had helped users see […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: User Interface Improvements
The WorldCat Discovery installation on March 20, 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 […]