Category: Newsletter
CDL Job Opening for Discovery and Delivery Systems Analyst
Reporting to the Discovery & Delivery Technical Team Manager, the Discovery and Delivery Systems Analyst serves as a domain expert in both library and key technical domains, maintaining community connections and information flow related to library systems software, standards and […]
CDL Helpline: notice of staffing transitions
Currently, the CDL Helpline (available via the CDL Helpline database, email [cdl@www.cdlib.org] and telephone [510.987.0555]) is experiencing staffing transitions. During the next month or so, responses to issues reported to Helpline staff might take slightly longer than usual, although we’ll […]
EZID Service Update: January 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month re3data.org announced a new metadata schema (http://www.re3data.org/2016/01/new-re3data-org-schema-and-search-functionality/). re3data.org is the Registry of Research Data Repositories, and it has been part of DataCite since 2014. A quick search of the registry for UC […]
California Digital Library announces new leadership
Following an extensive international search, the University of California is pleased to announce the appointment of Günter Waibel as the new Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library (CDL). Waibel’s appointment will take effect in early […]
Meet Robert Wang – CDL’s new UX Designer
Robert Wang is a new UX Designer at the California Digital Library (CDL). He recently graduated from the University of Michigan with an M.S. in Information, specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI). He is excited about advancing CDL’s mission of supporting scholarship […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Call numbers added to emailed records
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on January 21, 2016 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. 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 […]
DMPTool Service Update: December 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Maintenance/migrations. The DMPTool will be unavailable on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 5 – 6pm (PDT) while we migrate the database to AWS. The application will also be moving to the cloud so you can expect another maintenance message […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: December 2015
Our major serial record distributions for last month were for Open Access (505 titles), SuperStar (98 titles), EBSCO (48 titles), JSTOR (44 titles). For monographs they were for Naxos music (886 titles), Naxos Jazz (465 titles), SuperStar (391 titles), Knovel […]
AAAS platform adds functionality, changes URLs
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) platform is updating their site on January 12 to include responsive design, easier access table and figures, and incorporating functionality that is present in their other online titles to the main […]
New mobile version of UC-eLinks
As of January 12, 2016, you will see a mobile-optimized version of UC-eLinks when you are on most mobile devices. Thank you to the campus UC-eLinks Liaisons and the the UC-eLinks Operations team for assisting with testing. Mobile versions are […]