Category: Press Releases
UC Davis Library and California Digital Library launch project to explore expanded lending of digitized books
Digitized books have become increasingly popular in recent years, and for university libraries and scholars, the first 18 months of the pandemic threw their value into sharp relief. As campuses across the country closed, many libraries began offering expanded access […]
UC secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher
The University of California today (March 16) announced a pioneering open access agreement with the world’s largest scientific publisher, Elsevier, making significantly more of the University’s research available to people worldwide — immediately and at no cost. The deal will put […]
eScholarship Releases “Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Based, Open Access Text” Using the Manifold Platform
Faculty at UC Davis Health in collaboration with the California Digital Library (CDL) and Blaisdell Medical Library are pleased to announce the release of Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Based, Open Access Text. This new online resource aims to […]
Next Gen Library Publishing partnership awarded $2.2M Arcadia grant to improve scholarly publishing infrastructure
Educopia Institute and California Digital Library are pleased to announce an award in the amount of $2,200,000 from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin—in support of the “Next Generation Library Publishing” project. Through this project, Educopia and […]
Cambridge University Press and the University of California Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal
Agreement is UC’s first with a major publisher and Cambridge’s first in the Americas The University of California and Cambridge University Press have entered into a transformative agreement that will advance the global shift toward an open access future for […]
Letter to the Community: CDL and Dryad Partnership
CDL has invested considerable effort researching and building exemplars in research data management and data publishing. Like most institutions, we have had varying levels of success, especially when it comes to adoption and reach. While we have tried to convince […]
Make Data Count: Building a System to Support Recognition of Data as a First Class Research Output
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work, this award will result in the […]
UC Irvine Book Featured as HathiTrust’s 15 Millionth Volume
Congratulations to UC Irvine! Their book, digitized as part of the Google Library Project, was recently celebrated as the 15 millionth volume contributed to the HathiTrust Digital Library! Published in 1585, Le Parfait Courtisan du Comte Baltasar Castillonois… is known in English as The Book […]
WEST libraries achieve 500,000 volumes
Member libraries of the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) have reached a major milestone, successfully archiving half a million journal volumes. Forum Journal 3, no. 3 (1989). Photo by Amy Watson, Arizona State University Libraries, 2016. The five hundred […]
University of California Press and California Digital Library partner with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to build open source monograph publishing platform
From the OSC blog post… California Digital Library and University of California Press are excited to announce their partnership with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to develop Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. Through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of California […]