Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
New, collaborative process for curating Calisphere exhibitions
We’re pleased to announce a more collaborative process for the development of Calisphere Exhibitions, which we believe will bring more voices and stories to the site — as well as highlight more contributor content. What’s new? To date, CDL has […]
Redesigned eScholarship Site Launches
The Publishing group at the California Digital Library is pleased to announce the launch of a major redesign of eScholarship, the University of California’s Open Access repository and publishing platform. With this release, eScholarship now offers a robust consortial repository […]
Adding Links to HathiTrust Resources in Your Local ILS
UC libraries interested in helping their users find digitized books in HathiTrust, may wish to include links to HathiTrust volumes in your local catalog. The Mass Digitization team recently posted a decision tree to assist with this work. The document is […]
Digitization at the speed of light: 6,000 photos of sci-fi history now on Calisphere
Almost 6,000 newly digitized photos of science fiction and fantasy conventions, held by UC Riverside, are now available on Calisphere. See collection. The photos depict the World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”) and its attendees throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. They […]
Happy Anniversary New Zealand Hansard: Celebrating 150 Years of Openness and Transparency
This month New Zealand celebrates 150 years of government openness and transparency. It was one of the first countries to record and publish independent transcripts of the speeches and debates in its Parliament. The debates of the New Zealand Parliament were […]
HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Seeks Proposals from Scholars
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is seeking proposals from scholars interested in receiving advanced collaborative support to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis. Who may submit proposals? Individual scholars or teams of scholars from academic and non-profit institutions. At […]
New HathiTrust Section Added to CDLib.org
We recently added a new HathiTrust section to the CDLib.org website. The new section describes UC’s partnership and involvement with the HathiTrust Digital Library and is intended for UC librarians, staff and students, as well as the interested public. 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 […]
CDL Seeks Data Analyst (Temporary)
Are you a talented data analyst with an ability to create captivating interactive visual representations from large datasets? Would you like to gain valuable experience putting those skills to use in support of open access to research articles and information? […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 4th Quarter 2016 Reports
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Marxist Theories of Development, the New International Division […]