Category: Newsletter
DMPTool Service Update: November 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Bug fixes and enhancements: Our development efforts are mostly trained on the new Roadmap platform, however, there were a few DMPTool things that deserved attention this month. Institutional admins will notice improvements for assigning admin roles and a […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: December 2016
For the month of November, our major serial record distributions include EBSCO journals (17 titles), Open Access journals (512 titles which include: DOAJ, 286 titles; PubMed Central online journals, 26 titles; ScienceDirect online journals, 28 titles; SpringerOpen online journals, 74 […]
EZID Service Update: November 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities On Nov. 10, John Kunze (EZID’s Lead Architect) presented at Pidapalooza, the first international conference dedicated to persistent identifiers. The full schedule and some conference materials are available on the conference website. Conference attendees […]
New and improved Dash
Researchers are increasingly being asked to publish their datasets. For some disciplines, there are well-known conventions and repositories for doing this. However, for the vast majority of researchers, it is difficult to determine best practices and/or trustworthy places to publish […]
Berg Fashion Library moves to Bloomsbury platform
For the 6 participating UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz) access to the Berg Fashion Library, which was previously provided by Oxford University Press has transitioned to the Bloomsbury Academic platform. http://uclibs.org/PID/240961 (B, D, I, […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2016
For the month of October, our major serial record distributions included AnthroSource online journals (24 titles), JSTOR online journals (97 titles), Open Access journals (315 titles). Of the OA journals, 197 titles were DOAJ; 25 titles were ScienceDirect online journals; 17 titles were […]
Cambridge University Press content moves to new platform: Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core is the new academic platform from Cambridge University Press. It consolidates all Cambridge content, and Cambridge hosted content (Materials Research Society Proceedings Online) onto the single Cambridge Core platform (https://www.cambridge.org/core). The switch to Cambridge Core happened on September […]
EZID Service Update: October 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s big news this month was the introduction of link checking. EZID will be checking target URL links for DOIs and ARKs on a monthly basis, though for accounts with hundreds of thousands or […]
New Request Feature: Remember User Login
We are pleased to release a new Request feature: Remember User Information Starting the morning of November 7, 2016, users will no longer need to re-enter their patron information when placing multiple requests in a single search session. After a […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: CJK Author Field Order
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on October 27, 2016 included the following bug fix. 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.) Bug Fixes […]