Category: Newsletter
Project MUSE launches redesigned platform
Today (June 14, 2018), Project MUSE released its newly-redesigned web presence. This is an interface change only, no changes to URLs or landing pages. Project Muse PID is http://uclibs.org/PID/31861. Per the announcement, “This launch is a redesign and re-engineering of […]
SCP Monthly Update — June 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of May. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. The highlights of our major serial record distributions were Open […]
ARKs in the Open: Project Update #6, Advisory Group formed
The ARKs in the Open team is delighted to announce the formation of the ARKs-in-the-Open Advisory Group. The Advisory Group will provide a means for transitioning the ARK specification and registry from the California Digital Library to a community supported […]
CDL Job Opening for UC3 Product Manager (EZID) / Research Data Specialist
The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded at the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being published and accessed. Since then, CDL has built a strong portfolio […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: More precisely link to author names
The WorldCat Discovery installation on May 31, 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 […]
Letter to the Community: CDL and Dryad Partnership
CDL has invested considerable effort researching and building exemplars in research data management and data publishing. Like most institutions, we have had varying levels of success, especially when it comes to adoption and reach. While we have tried to convince […]
Morgan & Claypool Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences – Collection 4 is available
Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers has two full-text series of short books acquired as a Tier 2 purchase: Synthesis and Colloquium. The Colloquium Digital Library of the Life Sciences is now in its fourth collection and continues to span biological, […]
New Request (ILL/DDS) security feature debuts
On Monday, May 21st, a new security feature was implemented in Request (UC’s interlibrary loan and document delivery service). The feature prevents the user from entering an email address other than a UC campus email address OR any email address […]
New Tier 2 Resource: Fūzoku Gahō
Thanks to the contributions of 7 campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, San Diego and Santa Barbara), Fūzoku Gahō is now available to users at all ten campuses and UCOP through JapanKnowledge at https://japanknowledge.com/library/. http://uclibs.org/PID/302248 All UC campuses; on the […]
New Tier 2 Resource: The Oriental Economist Digital Archive
Thanks to the contributions of 3 campuses (Berkeley, Merced, and San Diego), the Oriental Economist is now available to users at all ten campuses and UCOP through JapanKnowledge at https://japanknowledge.com/library/. http://uclibs.org/PID/302155 All UC campuses; on the JapanKnowledge Lib platform Note: […]