Category: Newsletter
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Trans Tech Publications
The German Swiss publisher, Trans Tech Publications based in Zurich was founded in 1967 and has become a major provider of journals and monographs in Engineering Research and Materials Science reflecting global advancement in those fields. Five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, […]
CDL Job Opening for Technical Team Manager
The California Digital Library’s (CDL) Discovery & Delivery team (D2D) seeks a service-oriented, innovative individual with strong management and leadership skills, and technical expertise for the position of Discovery & Delivery Technical Team Manager. The Technical Team Manager will lead and […]
DMPTool Service Update: March 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Migrations. Thanks to a tremendous effort by the UC3 team, all of our services—including the DMPTool—have been successfully migrated to AWS! The switch should not be apparent to users, but please let us know if you […]
CDL Job Opening for Library Data and Services Analyst
The California Digital Library, University of California, invites applications for the position of Library Data and Services Analyst. Overview: As a member of the Licensed Content Team within the CDL’s Collection Development and Management Program, the Library Data and Services […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2016
For the month of March, our major serial record distributions includes four new packages: American Society for Nutrition online journals (4 titles), ASCE [America Society for Civil Engineers] Library online journals (39 titles), Open Library of Humanities online journals (5 titles), and Trans Tech Publications […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2016
Our major serial record distributions for February were Open Access (449 titles), which included DOAJ 279 titles, and JSTOR online journals (67 titles). For monographs, we have added Elsevier monographs (106 titles), IEEE conference proceedings (212 titles), Naxos music records […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Feedback link implementation
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 14, 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: March 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Last month, we announced two draft DataCite specifications available for comment: the DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP) and the DataCite in RDF. On Tuesday April 12, members of the team working on these […]
A bee’s flight and other wonders: 41,000 new items to explore on Calisphere
Flying bees, North Korean propaganda, and Catholicism in Los Angeles are just some of the subjects depicted in the more than 41,000 new items that have recently been added to Calisphere. A total of 56 fascinating and diverse new collections […]
Farewell to Margery Tibbetts
After 31 years of service, Margery Tibbetts, long time technical lead for UCe-Links and WorldCat Local, will retire from CDL, effective April 5, 2016. Margery started working in academic libraries her freshman year at Purdue University and continued working there […]