Category: Newsletter
Merritt Service Update: March 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Replication at UCLA close to completion. We are very close to having replicated all Merritt content in SDSC and UCLA data centers. There are approximately 3,000 objects left (out of a total of 1.5 […]
WAS Service Update: March 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS to Archive-it Transition. Work continues on the migration of UC WAS accounts to Archive-it: UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Office of the President Communications, NASA Wavelength, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, […]
CDL Job Opening for UC3 Director
The California Digital Library, University of California, invites applications for the position of Director of the UC Curation Center (UC3). Overview: The Director of the UC Curation Center (UC3) is responsible for envisioning and articulating a dynamic and forward-thinking strategic […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Loeb Classical Library
Five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Santa Barbara) are now participating in a Tier 2 license for the digital Loeb Classical Library, which was recently made available online by Harvard University Press. http://uclibs.org/PID/270639 (B, I, LA, R, SB; […]
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 […]