Category: Newsletter
Caitlin Nelson joins D2D
On Monday, August 10th, CDL’s Discovery to Delivery (D2D) team welcomed Caitlin Nelson as the Discovery & Delivery Services Product Manager. Caitlin will be product manager for Request and eventually Melvyl, and she’s already been recruited for a UCLAS task force […]
CDL Staff in Print – John Kratz & Carly Strasser in Scientific Data
Congratulations to John Kratz, a CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellow at CDL, and our former CDL colleague, Carly Strasser, on today’s publication of their article, “Making Data Count”, in the journal Scientific Data. The article presents research conducted for Making Data […]
EZID Service Update: July 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID clients engaged in a lively discussion on EZID’s listserv about DOI assignment to datasets that change over time. If you have been reading about data citation over the last few years, you may […]
DMPTool Service Update: July 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Strategy for new templates. At least one agency released new requirements this month; the NIH published guidelines for developing genomic data sharing plans (http://gds.nih.gov/pdf/NIH_guidance_developing_GDS_plans.pdf). We learned about it from a member of the library […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2015
Our major serial record distributions for June were for ProQuest (78 titles), IEEE (70 titles), Open Access (42 titles), Black Studies Center (37 titles), International Index to Black Periodicals (32 titles), ScienceDirect (30 titles), and Literature Online (29 titles). Our […]
Wiley Online Library adds CAPTCHA to prevent systematic article downloads
Wiley has implemented CAPTCHA (http://www.captcha.net/) for users downloading more than 25 articles in an active session on the Wiley Online Library. This is in order to prevent systematic downloads of content above a threshold that Wiley deems to be an […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Smart Grid Research: Connected Homes
Five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Smart Grid Research: Connected Homes – Impact of Smart Grid on Connected Homes Landmark Research Study. This purchase supplements […]
Feedback links removed from WorldCat Local
As of July 23, 2015, OCLC has removed feedback links from the WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org user interfaces as part of an OCLC technical infrastructure project. You should now report Melvyl problems directly to the Melvyl Operations Team at melvylops@cdlib.org. […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – SAE Technical Papers Archive, 1906-1997
Four campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and Los Angeles) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the SAE Technical Papers Archive, 1906-1997. http://uclibs.org/PID/255206 (B, D, I, and LA; on the SAE Digital Library platform) Content in this resource […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: APA, MLA and Chicago citations added
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on July 23, 2015 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 […]