Category: Newsletter
Meet Noah White – D & D’s new software engineer
CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Team welcomes Noah White as their new software engineer. Noah will be working primarily on interlibrary loan and machine learning projects. Noah just graduated from UC Davis where he majored in Computer Science and minored in […]
New OA Resource: Hate in America: White Nationalism and the press in the 1920s
CDL one time funds were used for UC’s systemwide contribution to the Reveal Digital “Hate in America” and “Diversity and Dissent” collections. “Diversity and Dissent” will begin digitization in late 2019 and will be announced at that time; “Hate in […]
New Resource: Superstar Journals Database
Superstar Journals Database contains more than 7,470 full-text Chinese journals and more than 1,200 core journals, from 1949-present. It has a good mixture of disciplines, including engineering, agronomy, social science, culture, education, philosophy, and medicine. Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, […]
Another fond farewell – Mihoko Hosoi moves on to Penn State University Libraries
It’s with extraordinarily mixed emotions that I share this next bit of news with everyone. It’s my sad but happy duty to announce that Mihoko Hosoi has accepted the position of Associate Dean for Collections, Research, and Scholarly Communications at […]
Passing the Torch of Persistence: EZID Development Update
Persistent identifiers are the backbone of scholarly communication infrastructure and long-term digital preservation, key to supporting a fully networked research ecosystem. CDL’s EZID service has been a leading example in the library and research community for how digital curation tools can enable […]
Alexander Street Press platform upgrade (Drama Databases)
For the transitioning databases, this move provides more flexibility with new content types in the future, such as video and audio, and offers cross-searching with other Alexander Street content. Access to the legacy platforms will be available through June 30, 2019 after which all […]
MLA & LION databases transition to new platforms on July 1st
Reminder: As of Monday, July 1, 2019, the MLA International Bibliography database (and its related MLA Directory of Periodicals database) and the Literature Online (LION) database are available on the EBSCOhost and ProQuest platforms, respectively. For several months, ending on […]
OCLC’s SCIPIO database cancelled
SCIPIO, Art and rare book sales/auction catalogs database, was cancelled effective June 30, 2018. Originally activated systemwide as part of OCLC’s Base Package of databases, SCIPIO was cancelled last year in response to the 2017-18 database review. The delete record for […]
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Nine is Available
For the seven participating campuses (UCB [incl LBL], UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD), Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) has begun making its ninth collection of lectures available online. The basic component of the library is a […]
UC Libraries Open UC Publications for Worldwide Access in HathiTrust
Librarians at UC Merced and UC San Diego recently completed projects to open University of California publications in the HathiTrust Digital Library and make them available for worldwide access. To accomplish this, they used HathiTrust’s Rights Holder Creative Commons Declaration […]