Category: Newsletter
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Tōyō Keizai Digital Archives: Unit One (1895-1945)
Thanks to the contributions of five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Merced, and Santa Cruz), the earliest part of the Tōyō Keizai Digital Archives is now available to users of all ten campuses and UCOP through JapanKnowledge at http://japanknowledge.com/library/. Note: […]
EZID Staff in Print: John Kunze and Greg Janée in bioRxiv
John Kunze, Identifier Systems Architect, and Greg Janée, EZID Technical Lead, along with a number of collaborators, published a preprint entitled “Uniform Resolution of Compact Identifiers for Biomedical Data” in bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology. It is available at […]
FRANCIS Database moves from EBSCOhost to free version
FRANCIS is produced by Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS). In addition to journal articles, the database indexes books, dissertations, reports and conferences related to humanities and social sciences topics. According […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: January 2017
Happy New Year! For the month of December, our major serial record distributions include Open Access journals (191 titles which include: DOAJ, 132 titles; Taylor & Francis online journals, 24 titles). For monographs, the major record distributions are: CRC Press monographs (72 […]
Danielle Westbrook begins as SLP Analyst
Some good news for the start of the New Year: It’s my distinct pleasure to announce that Danielle Westbrook has accepted the position of UC Systemwide Library Planning (SLP) Analyst. As the SLP Analyst, Danielle will provide UC systemwide committees, […]
CDL office closure Dec. 22, 2016 PM – Jan. 2, 2017
This year, UC’s Office of the President (UCOP), including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 2:00 PM PST through Monday, January 2, 2017. The […]
A New Look for All Journals on Scitation
All American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIP) journals and Member Society publications transitioned in December 2016 to a newly redesigned Scitation platform. Member Societies include: AVS (American Vacuum Society) Acoustical Society of America American Association of Physics Teachers American Crystallographic […]
Cambridge Books Online, 2016-2018
The UC Libraries have acquired the Cambridge Books Online collection for systemwide access to Cambridge University Press eBooks published in 2016-2018. All 10 campuses and CDL contributed toward this purchase. The agreement represents a major systemwide adoption of ebooks, and […]
Taylor & Francis: New UC Systemwide Agreement
CDL is pleased to announce that it has finalized an agreement on a new consortial contract for systemwide access to Taylor & Francis journals effective with the 2016 calendar year. The new agreement, negotiated and implemented early in 2016 but […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Cover art for every item
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on December 8, 2016 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.) […]