Category: Newsletter
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 […]
EZID Service Update: September 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities As announced in early August, EZID is changing its DOI service. If you did not read the announcement, you can find it here: http://cdlib.org/2017/08/04/ezid-doi-service-is-evolving/. Implementation began in September with these steps: We asked DOI-service […]
DMPTool Team Awarded NSF EAGER Grant for Actionable DMPs
DMPTool is delighted to announce that the California Digital Library has been awarded a 2-year NSF EAGER grant to support active, machine-actionable data management plans (DMPs). The vision is to convert DMPs from a compliance exercise based on static text documents […]
SCP Monthly Update, September 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of August. 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. For […]
Digitization at the speed of light: 6,000 photos of sci-fi history now on Calisphere
Almost 6,000 newly digitized photos of science fiction and fantasy conventions, held by UC Riverside, are now available on Calisphere. See collection. The photos depict the World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”) and its attendees throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. They […]
Compendex has a new look
In August, Compendex (on the Engineering Village platform) launched an updated interface, refreshed to improve usability. According to the vendor’s information, “the new user interface will keep all the current navigation and high quality functionality, using a modern interface experience. […]
EZID Service Update: August 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID announced a major shift in its DOI service, scaling back its scope of business to encompass solely the University of California (UC). Non-UC clients will be gradually transitioned to an alternate DOI service […]