Category: Newsletter
WorldCat Discovery beta: “Instrumentation” helps musicians choose ensemble materials
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on November 2, 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 […]
DMPTool Service Update: November 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We’re making progress toward our target release date in early 2018. You can track our progress here. We’re also testing the DMPTool data migration to the new platform and working with our UX team to […]
SCP Monthly Update — November 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of October. 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 […]
Global Financial Data (GFD) moves to a new platform
Currently, eight of the UC campuses (except UCSF and UCSB) license the Global Financial Data (GFD) database. On Wednesday, November 1st, GFD will transition to a new platform, powered by Finaeon Analytics. http://uclibs.org/PID/106641 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD, […]
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, […]