Category: Newsletter
Beaumont Yung Accepts Appointment at UCSF
After 10+ years of distinguished service at CDL, Beaumont is pursuing a tremendous new career opportunity at UCSF. Please join us in congratulating him on his new appointment as Director of Business Services in the UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor’s Office. […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of July [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. […]
LexisNexis Academic Becomes Nexis Uni
The national transition from legacy LexisNexis Academic to its completely reengineered successor Nexis Uni™ is now under way, and all UC campuses are among the first wave of migrating subscribers with IP-based access to Uni already activated. UC retains dual […]
EZID DOI Service is Evolving
By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager, California Digital Library; Michael Witt, Associate Professor of Library Science, Purdue University Libraries; and, Patricia Cruse, Executive Director, DataCite The California Digital Library (CDL) and Purdue University are adopting a new strategic direction for […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – North-China Daily News
Five campuses (Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara & Santa Cruz) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers and Hong Lists (1850-1951). http://uclibs.org/PID/296530 (I, LA, SD, SB, SC; on […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Share Personal Lists and “My Items”
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on July 27, 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 do not have an impact on Melvyl.) New […]
DMPTool Service Update: July 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We passed another milestone this month as DCC completed the migration of all three production services—DMPonline, DMPTuuli, and DMPMelbourne—to the new Roadmap codebase! Check out the Release Notes for v0.3. The DMPTool migration […]
Web of Science Citation Map is gone for now
The Citation Map functionality in Web of Science is no longer available due to technology compatibility issues and reliance on browser support of Java. According to our Clarivate Analytics representative, Clarivate is investigating supporting this functionality but at the present […]
CDL’s new Licensed Resources Website has launched!
On Wednesday, July 12th, CDL launched the new Licensed Resources website (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/licensed/). CDL’s User Experience Design (UX) team interviewed campus librarians who frequently used the previous site, discussed their findings with the CDL’s Licensed Content Group, and made changes to […]
Help us improve the CDL website!
The California Digital Library’s UX Design Service is gearing up to redesign cdlib.org and we want to learn about how you use the website: What works great, what doesn’t work, and what we can do to make it better. If […]