Category: Newsletter
NCBI will be transitioning to using HTTPS-only protocols on September 30, 2016
NCBI (host server for the PubMed database and others) will be transitioning to using HTTPS-only protocols on September 30, 2016 NCBI will be transitioning to using HTTPS-only protocols on September 30, 2016. This change may affect any software that uses […]
UC Davis and CDL complete Pay It Forward project
The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library have recently completed the 18-month Pay It Forward project, an effort funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. The project brought together research libraries at Harvard, Ohio […]
CDL Job Opening for Discovery and Delivery Systems Librarian
The Discovery and Delivery Systems Librarian serves as a domain expert in both library and key technical domains, responsible for operating key library services (union catalog, link resolvers) and integrated services such as Interlibrary Loan, while maintaining community connections and […]
14.6 Million Books to be Made Available to Blind & Print-Disabled Readers
HathiTrust Digital Library is collaborating with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) to make 14.6 million digital volumes fully accessible to blind and print-disabled readers in the United States. The two organizations have worked together to bring to fruition their […]
WorldCat Discovery & FirstSearch: Latest updates from OCLC
On July 14th, OCLC presented a Virtual WorldCat Discovery User Community Meeting webinar that included information on the latest status of WorldCat Discovery, FirstSearch, the OCLC Community Center and more. The webinar recording of this program is available here. […]
EZID Service Update: July 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities With the help of CDL’s User Experience team we conducted acceptance testing of the new user interface. Volunteers from seven UC campuses participated, provided feedback, suggestions and information about their EZID usage. We are […]
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) transitions to EBSCOhost
For the 8 participating UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Diego) access to the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), which was previously provided by the University of Michigan Library, has transitioned to the […]
New Platform for Declassified Documents Reference System
The Declassified Documents Reference System has been launched and is now live on the Artemis platform from Gale Cengage. The DDRS is now known as U.S. Declassified Documents. http://uclibs.org/PID/6937 The U.S. Declassified Documents can now be cross-searched with the other […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – ACM Books (Collection I)
Four campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego) are participating in the Tier 2 license for ACM Books (Collection I). http://uclibs.org/PID/283501 (B, I, LA, and SD; on the ACM Digital Library platform) ACM Books is a new series of […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV Collection. http://uclibs.org/PID/1980 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the JSTOR platform) From the JSTOR website… JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences XV […]