Category: Newsletter
New Licensed Resource – Nature Plants
All UC campuses now have access to Nature Plants on the Nature.com (NPG) platform. Nature Plants is a new systemwide license in 2015. After numerous faculty requests across a number of campuses, the UC Bio/Ag and Health & Life Sciences […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – April 2015
This month’s WorldCat Local installation on April 13, 2015 included the following databases which have now been added to all instances of Melvyl’s Central Index. New Databases MIT Press Journals from MIT Press — Journals covering a wide range […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Full text snippets & searching
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 13, 2015 included the following new features & 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 […]
EZID Service Update: March 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s CrossRef service went into production this month with CDL’s own eScholarship as the first publisher to make use of the ground-breaking partnership. As a reminder, the EZID CrossRef service means that qualified EZID […]
Melvyl’s Central Index will be updated more frequently
Because OCLC recently simplified the underlying processes, CDL can now update Melvyl’s Central Index monthly rather than twice yearly (in January and July) as was previously the case. New Databases In March, OCLC added several resources that are […]
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online transition to new platform
Three campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, and San Diego) participatie in a Tier 2 license for access to six (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish; plus Arabic for UCB only) of the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. The 3 participating campuses have […]
New ACRL workshop presenter: CDL’s Katie Fortney
Katie Fortney, CDL’s Copyright Policy expert with the Access & Publishing group, was selected as a new presenter for ACRL’s “Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement” workshop, which is offered at institutions across the country on an ongoing basis. Katie […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2015
I’m very pleased to share the news that Becky Culbertson has been named a recipient of the annual Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award. The ALA press release highlights many of her contributions to the field, the benefits of which are well […]
Discovery and Delivery Services Product Manager position opens at CDL
You are experienced with managing large, end-user-facing, hosted services in digital libraries. You enjoy working in a collegial and collaborative environment with an experienced team of analysts, product managers and developers. You are experienced in maintaining strong vendor relationships, and […]
UC Davis, CDL to Lead Major Project to Build Open Access Financial Model
(Davis, CA) – The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library (CDL) will lead a major new project, with an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help define the future of Open Access to scholarship. […]