Category: Newsletter
DMPTool Service Update: September 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New template: Department of Defense (details on the blog) Themes: We’re still collecting feedback on the revised set of themes for DMP templates and guidance (details on the blog). Machine-actionable DMPs. Join us for PIDapalooza […]
Alison Ray moves to D2D
CDL is pleased to announce that Alison Ray will begin her new position as Discovery and Delivery Systems Analyst on November 1. Alison spent the last 6 months as the interim person in the void left by Margery Tibbetts’ retirement. […]
SAE Digital Library is now SAE MOBILUS
The SAE Digital Library is now SAE MOBILUS, with a new name, URL and functionality. The SAE Technical Papers and Technical Papers Archives are a Tier 2 license. Participants by collection: Technical Papers: UCB (including LBL), UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR […]
Cobweb: Collaborative Collection Development for Web Archives
A partnership between the CDL, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library has been award funding from IMLS to create Cobweb, a collaborative collection development platform for web archiving, https://github.com/CobwebOrg/cobweb. The demands of archiving the web in comprehensive breadth or thematic depth easily exceed […]
EZID Introduces Link Checking
The EZID team is happy to announce the introduction of link checking. EZID now checks the location URLs (links) of all identifiers to see if any are broken. Here are the details: EZID runs a harvester that continuously checks links. […]
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Seven is Available
For the nine participating campuses (all except UCSB), Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) has begun making its seventh collection of lectures available online. The basic component of the library is a 50 to 100-page electronic book that […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 3rd Quarter 2016 Reports
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Marxist Theories of Development, the New International Division […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: October 2016
For the month of September, we added a new serial package AnthroSource online journals (29 titles). Other major serial record distributions include EBSCO journals (34 titles), and Open Access journals (308 titles which include: BioMed Central online journals, 36 titles; […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: MARC Record Refinements
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on September 29, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]
EZID Service Update: September 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities John Kunze, EZID’s Lead Architect, presented a paper at SciDataCon, part of International Data Week in Denver, CO (September 11-17). John’s paper, “A Vocabulary for Persistence,” (http://www.scidatacon.org/2016/sessions/103/paper/109/) was part of the Semantic Enrichment, Metadata and […]