Category: Newsletter
Redesigned eScholarship Site Launches
The Publishing group at the California Digital Library is pleased to announce the launch of a major redesign of eScholarship, the University of California’s Open Access repository and publishing platform. With this release, eScholarship now offers a robust consortial repository […]
Celebrate Open Access Week with UC3’s Series on Open Data!
To celebrate Open Access Week 2017, the UC Curation Center is posting a series of blog posts to spotlight and explore Open Data as an essential component to liberating and advancing research. All week they’ll be covering policies, user stories, […]
Taylor & Francis Ebooks transition to new platform
Taylor & Francis (T&F) is migrating ebook content from the CRCnetBase platform (as well as other ebook imprints hosted by T&F) to their new Ebook platform (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/). As of November 7, 2017, T&F will be placing permanent redirects from the […]
Adding Links to HathiTrust Resources in Your Local ILS
UC libraries interested in helping their users find digitized books in HathiTrust, may wish to include links to HathiTrust volumes in your local catalog. The Mass Digitization team recently posted a decision tree to assist with this work. The document is […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Group and ungroup editions and formats
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on October 5, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl […]
SCP Monthly Update, October 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of September [xlsx]. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions. […]
New Reaxys is now available
Recently, Elsevier launched a new release of Reaxys©, a chemistry research database. According to the Elsevier press release, the new Reaxys combines a highly streamlined user interface with search and indexing enhancements powered by machine learning algorithms to ensure maximum […]
Introducing Oscar Luna
CDL has contracted with an eminently qualified finance professional to fill the Business Services Manager role on an interim basis. Oscar Luna will join us starting September 20th on a 1 year full-time contract as Finance Manager. Oscar will take […]
DMPTool Service Update: September 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities If you missed the announcements last month (e.g., here), please note that the DMPTool brochure page https://dmp.cdlib.org now redirects to the main application https://dmptool.org/. It’s time to update your bookmarks. Machine-actionable DMPs: We received a 2-year NSF EAGER […]
Chan Li Moves to UC Berkeley
Chan has accepted the position of the Assessment Program Librarian at UC Berkeley. Her last day at CDL will be Friday, October 6th. Interestingly, Chan started at CDL exactly 11 years ago on Friday, Oct. 6, 2006 – and probably […]