Category: Newsletter
World Digital Preservation Day – 7 November 2024
Each year, the Digital Preservation Coalition promotes World Digital Preservation Day, which falls on the first Thursday of November. In line with this year’s theme of Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities, the UC […]
Historical Newspapers Online and Palmer’s Index to the Times
Earlier in 2024, ProQuest sunset the Chadwyck-Healey database titled Historical Newspapers Online and Palmer’s Index to the Times, previously found at http://historynews.chadwyck.com. Over the years, ProQuest has worked to migrate databases found on the Chadwyck-Healey platform over to the main […]
WEST’s new pilot with member libraries and the Internet Archive aims to maximize deselections, expand access, and enhance preservation
WEST is launching a pilot to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot will involve coordinating the donation of duplicate copies of WEST archived titles to the Internet Archive to expand digitization […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – September 2024
Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for September 2024 Content and Collections […]
SCP Update – September 2024
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in August 2024 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 191 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2024 All eBooks: 154 (GOBI) JSTOR Books DDA: 820 KinoDen: 3 National Academies Press: 2 Open access resource selected […]
Taylor & Francis – New HSS Ebooks
The University of California has recently purchased a new set of ebooks from Taylor & Francis: a one time purchase of 18 selected subject collections from the 2024 HSS (humanities and social sciences) ebook series. These ebooks will be available […]
ProQuest History Vault Moves Platforms
ProQuest has announced that all History Vault collections will migrate to the main ProQuest platform (https://search.proquest.com/), from the previous standalone History Vault site (http://hv.proquest.com/). Dual access at both platforms began June 26, 2024 and will last through January 8, 2025. […]
New Japanese Resource: Dai Kanwa Jiten
The Tier 2 for UC’s JapanKnowledge subscription package has added a new add-on product to the subscription called Dai Kanwa Jiten 大漢和辞典, also known as The Great Chinese-Japanese Character Dictionary, which is accessible to all UC users. This resource includes […]
CDL Staff Promoted
Three CDL staff members were promoted during the most recent UC Office of the President promotion cycle: Barbara Hui and Amy Wieliczka of the Publishing, Archives, and Digitization program and Alison Wohlers of the Shared Collections program. Barbara Hui and […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – August 2024
Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for August 2024 Content and Collections […]