Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
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 […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 1st 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 […]
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project Win’s ALA’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project (Copyright Review Management System) is the American Library Association’s 2016 winner of the L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. The award recognizes CRMS’ dedication to creating a “balanced U.S. Copyright system through advocacy for a robust fair use doctrine […]
CDL’s Adrian Turner wins Archival Award of Excellence
CDL is delighted to announce that Adrian Turner has won the prestigious Archival Award of Excellence from the California Historical Records Advisory Board. Adrian received the award in recognition of his exceptional dedication to and leadership in removing barriers to […]
Staff in Print – Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell
CDL’s Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell of the Access & Publishing group have contributed a chapter to Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship (An ALCTS Monograph), edited by Dawn Hale. Their chapter is entitled “Give Them What They Need: Rethinking Management, Aggregation, […]
Katrina Romanowsky leaving CDL
Katrina Romanowsky, the Access & Publishing Group’s Community & Outreach Manager, will be leaving CDL to pursue other creative endeavors. Her last day in the office will be Friday, May 6th. Katrina joined the Access & Publishing Group in 2013 […]
Opening More Books for Public Access – HathiTrust’s CRMS Project
For the past eight years, HathiTrust’s Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project has developed the tools, infrastructure, and practices to support the collaborative review of books in HathiTrust to make copyright determinations. Books were targeted for copyright investigation based on the […]
End of Term Web Archive project update
As we near the end of a presidential term, the End of Term (EOT) Web Archive 2016 project team is planning for the 2016-2017 crawling activities. For the upcoming transition from one president to another, we will capture federal government […]
A bee’s flight and other wonders: 41,000 new items to explore on Calisphere
Flying bees, North Korean propaganda, and Catholicism in Los Angeles are just some of the subjects depicted in the more than 41,000 new items that have recently been added to Calisphere. A total of 56 fascinating and diverse new collections […]
Heather Christenson joins HathiTrust Digital Library
Heather Christenson, Manager of Digital Content Development and Strategy within the CDL Collections Program, has taken a new position with HathiTrust as Program Officer for Federal Documents & Collections. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a major new initiative […]