Category: Newsletter
Society for Automotive Engineers resources requires updated browser
The SAE Digital Library will be upgrading its system to comply with Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 standards starting on January 31, 2016. Users must update their browser settings to enable TLS 1.2 or download a TLS 1.2-compatible browser in […]
Ken Weiss retires
It is with mixed emotion that I can announce that Ken Weiss will be retiring from the CDL in January. Ken joined the UC3 team in May 2013 and since then has contributed significantly to the maturity and robustness of […]
EZID Service Update: November 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities An EZID client recently wondered about a DOI that seemed to be broken, and this lead to the topic of reserved identifiers, a special EZID feature. By default, the DOIs and ARKs that you create […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Change to how availability information will display in search results
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on November 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 […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV Collection. http://uclibs.org/PID/1980 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the JSTOR platform) The Arts & Sciences XIV Collection brings together more than […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2015
The holiday season is fast approaching and upcoming December campus closures will be affecting SCP operations. The UCSD campus will be officially closed December 24 through January 3. Additionally, it is probable that several staff will be taking off December […]
UCLDC Project Wrap-Up and Ongoing Collaboration
The launch of the new Calisphere site in September of this year represented the culmination of the UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) Project. We are pleased to say that the project achieved the goal of establishing a full pipeline for […]
WAS to Archive-It Migration Update
The Web Archiving Service (WAS) migration to Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service reached two major milestones last week when the WAS crawlers crawled their last crawl and the last of the UC institutions moved their collections to Archive-It. (See previous CDLINFO […]
EZID Service Update: October 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataCite, CrossRef and ORCID made a joint announcement of a new development: auto-updates to your ORCID profile. What this means: ORCIDs are unique persistent identifiers for researchers. Until now, researchers with ORCID profiles have had […]
John Chodacki Named Director of the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library
The California Digital Library is delighted to announce the appointment of John Chodacki as the new Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) effective October 19th, 2015. John comes to the CDL from the Public Library of Science […]