Category: Newsletter
CDL and DuraSpace launch open community outreach initiative for ARK identifiers
California Digital Library (CDL) and DuraSpace are pleased to announced a collaboration aimed at building an open, international community around Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) and their use as persistent identifiers in the open scholarly ecosystem. Over 550 institutions (research, not-for-profit, […]
DMPTool Launch News: February 27
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DMPTool Launch Date. We’re excited to announce the much-anticipated launch date for the new version of the DMPTool: Tues, 27 Feb. Please note that the tool will be unavailable from 8am-5pm on the day of […]
New Si ku quan shu I database is now available
As mentioned in an earlier CDLINFO article, UC’s access to EastView’s Si ku quan shu database ceased at the end of 2017. Now, 9 UC campuses (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD, SB, and SC) have begun participation in […]
New Licensed Resource – Materials Science & Engineering Database
All UC campuses now have access to ProQuest’s Materials Science & Engineering Database, based on UC’s standalone subscription to Earthquake Engineering Abstracts. http://uclibs.org/PID/300988 (All campuses; on the ProQuest platform) The Materials Science & Engineering Database is an interdisciplinary resource combining […]
SCP Monthly Update — February 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of January [Excel]. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. This month we added two new serials collections: Annual […]
EZID Service Update: January 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Identifier Systems Architect John Kunze participated in two panel discussions at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter Meeting. John spoke on YAMZ, a crowd-sourced metadata dictionary at the GeoSemantics symposium. YAMZ offers a […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – EPS China Statistics
Four campuses (Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to EPS China Statistics. http://uclibs.org/PID/300987 (D, I, LA, SD; on the EPS China Data platform) EPS China Statistics provides 41 China databases […]
Two CDL Job Openings: Collection Assessment Analyst and Licensing Analyst
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a collaborative effort of the ten campuses of the University of California, and is designed to enable UC libraries to continue to meet the informational needs of UC faculty and students. The CDL assumes […]
ARK Identifier Summit at the National Library of France, 21 March 2018
The BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) is organizing an ARK Identifier Summit in Paris on March 21 of 2018. As maintenance agency for the ARK standard, the California Digital Library is helping to plan the event, which will be conducted […]
DMPTool Service Update: January 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap/DMPTool upcoming release. We’re on track for our target release date (check out the roadmap to MVP and monitor our progress on Github)! Roadmap v1.0 should be ready in time for a demo at the […]