Category: Newsletter
New, collaborative process for curating Calisphere exhibitions
We’re pleased to announce a more collaborative process for the development of Calisphere Exhibitions, which we believe will bring more voices and stories to the site — as well as highlight more contributor content. What’s new? To date, CDL has […]
Announcing ILLReports! (Replacing JReports)
On November 6th, users will be able to access reports on UC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) activity through our newly designed interface: ILLReports (https://illreports.cdlib.org). The previous service, JReports, will be retired and no longer available. These reports illustrate UC Interlibrary Loan activity, […]
Farewell to Emily Stambaugh
Transitions are often bittersweet, and the one we announce today is no exception. With some sadness at the loss of a valued colleague but also with anticipation of exciting new directions ahead, both the California Digital Library and the Western […]
EZID Service Update: October 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID is changing its DOI service, and implementation is underway. More information is available here: https://ezid.cdlib.org/learn/doi_services_faq. If you have questions about your specific situation, please contact us. EZID Partners and Clients Our current EZID […]
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. […]