Category: Newsletter
Michael Morris-Pearce moves on and up to Oregon
As many of you know, Michael Morris-Pearce is moving to Portland. Michael has been with CDL for just over a year but in that time he’s made a lot of important contributions. One of those contributions was completely revising the […]
SpringerProtocols.com content transitions on July 25
On Wednesday, July 25th 2018, the SpringerProtocols.com platform will be deactivated. SpringerProtocols content is being concurrently-hosted on SpringerLink and is searchable on the new research platform, Springer Nature Experiments (http://uclibs.org/PID/127001), an interface specially designed and optimized for searching protocols and […]
Meet Claudia Conrad – D2D’s Metadata Product Manager
Claudia Conrad is joining CDL’s D2D team as Metadata Product Manager. She will be starting on July 30. Claudia brings a wealth of experience as a product manager, most recently with Innovative Interfaces. She is experienced in agile software development […]
So, what is Unpaywall anyway?
Unpaywall is a service that maintains a database of links to full-text articles from open-access sources all over the world. The content is harvested from legal sources including repositories run by universities, governments, and scholarly societies, as well as open […]
Khatira moving on and up to LLNL
It is with sadness and pleasure that I announce that Khatira Nawabi will be moving on to a new position at Lawrence Livermore National Lab as a legal document preparer for lab biologists and chemists preparing court filings. Khatira has […]
Search Extended: Manager, Shared Print Programs, CDL and WEST
We’re pleased to announce that CDL has extended its recruitment for the Manager of Shared Print Programs through August 6th. Come join us at CDL and help envision the future of print library collections at UC, WEST, and beyond! […]
New look for FirstSearch coming July 14th
On July 14th, the OCLC FirstSearch platform interface will display “an updated, more contemporary look.” The changes are limited to a restyling of the new interface and do not affect functionality, navigation or site structure. Databases currently hosted on the […]
CDL Job Opening for OAC/Calisphere Service & Outreach Manager
The California Digital Library (CDL) is hiring a Service & Outreach Manager to promote access to and awareness of a world-class collection of historical and primary source digital materials, aggregated at the statewide and national level through our services. Your […]
SCP Monthly Update — July 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of June. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. The major highlight of this month is that as of […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Publicly share personal lists
The WorldCat Discovery installation on June 28, 2018 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 […]