Category: Newsletter
WorldCat Discovery beta: Easier to navigate search results
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 13, 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 resources in Melvyl’s Central Index
Six resources have been added to Melvyl’s Central Index. They are: PsycARTICLES (American Psychological Association) University of California Press Journals (University of California Press) BMJ Journals (BMJ Publishing) Mary Ann Liebert Online (Mary Ann Liebert Publishers) Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury Publishing) […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2017
For the month of March, our major serial record distributions include Gale Literature Resource Center online journals (27 titles), Open Access journals (147 titles which include: DOAJ, 66 titles; PubMed Central online journals, 48 titles). Also 35 titles of EBSCO […]
EZID Service Update: March 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Joan Starr, EZID’s Service Manager, participated in the first California Data Librarians Meeting, hosted by UC Santa Barbara. The format was “unconference” style, and Starr proposed a topic that was chosen: Frequently Asked Questions […]
Dash Service Update: March 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Bug Fixes and Enhancements: The Dash team is currently finishing up our timed-release of datasets feature. In March, we created a Publication Date chooser, a reviewer URL for private datasets, and a feature for 10 […]
New Licensed Resource – Bijutsu Shinpō
All UC campuses now have access to the historical journal Bijutsu Shinpō [Art News journal]: http://uclibs.org/PID/289469 (All campuses; on the JapanKnowledge.com platform) Note: There is a limit of 4 simultaneous users; if denied access, try again later. All campuses have […]
CDL Seeks Data Analyst (Temporary)
Are you a talented data analyst with an ability to create captivating interactive visual representations from large datasets? Would you like to gain valuable experience putting those skills to use in support of open access to research articles and information? […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Simplified Permalinks
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on March 16, 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.) […]
DMPTool Service Update: February 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Templates. We’re working on adding some new and reviewing some existing templates, particularly in light of the new “themes” and machine-actionable DMP efforts (see below). As always, please notify us of any pressing template needs […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2017
For the month of February, our major serial record distributions include Gale. Literature Resource Center online journals (39 titles), JSTOR online journals (33 titles), Open Access journals (192 titles which include: DOAJ, 130 titles), and Sage online journals (208 titles). […]