Category: Newsletter
SCP Monthly Update — May 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of April. 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 are Pishu […]
EZID Staff in Print: John Kunze and Greg Janée in Scientific Data
CDL’s John Kunze and Greg Janée contributed significantly to this new standard — a harmonized compact identifier system. Congratulations! —————————————————————– First big output of FORCE11 Data Citation Implementation Group – the harmonized compact identifier system. Paper published in Scientific Data […]
ARKs in the Open: Project Update #5, DuraSpace Summit and CNI engagement
The ARKs in the Open team has been out on the road, attending the DuraSpace Summit as well as the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring meeting in San Diego, California. Both events provided great networking opportunities, and, at the […]
Joan Starr to retire in June
Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, in CDL’s Infrastructure and Applications Support group, will be retiring on June 28, 2018. While this is sad news for CDL and the UC community, it is the right time for Joan (first grandchild on […]
EBSCOhost added to ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) record
Previously, the catalog record for ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) only displayed links to this database via ProQuest and GPO Online. The UC campuses also have complementary access to this database via EBSCOhost. Now, the catalog record for this database […]
Blackwell Reference Online titles migrating to new platform
Wiley is in the process of completing a multi-phase migration to the Atypon platform as mentioned in https://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2018/03/16/wiley-online-library-moves-to-atypon-literatum-platform/. As part of this, the Blackwell Reference Online titles are also being moved to the main Wiley Online Library platform. CDL only […]
Latin America Digital Beat / Data Base is no longer updating online content
[Update: As of December 3, 2018, the Latin America Digital Beat archive has not yet been moved to the UNM Digital Repository; it still resides at http://ladb.unm.edu/. Access to the LADB archive for the licensing campuses (B, I, LA, M, […]
Tier 2 Transition: OECD iLibrary Upgrade
On March 28, 2018, a major upgrade of the OECD iLibrary was implemented; the current site was fully replaced and all related links were redirected to the new version. This transition affects nine campuses (All except UCSF). http://uclibs.org/PID/21193 (B, D, I, […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Email Improvements
The WorldCat Discovery installation on March 29, 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 […]
New Mass Digitization Section Added to CDLib.org
The Mass Digitization section on the CDLib.org website has a brand new look! New and updated content describes the work, goals, and projects of the Mass Digitization team. Included is information on where to find, access, and use UC’s mass […]