Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Presidential Open Access Policy webinar for library staff
Join Katie Fortney and Catherine Mitchell for a conversation about the new UC Presidential Open Access Policy. We’ll talk about who the policy covers, how it compares to the previous Senate OA Policies, and what some of the implications are […]
UCLDC Project Wrap-Up and Ongoing Collaboration
The launch of the new Calisphere site in September of this year represented the culmination of the UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) Project. We are pleased to say that the project achieved the goal of establishing a full pipeline for […]
WAS to Archive-It Migration Update
The Web Archiving Service (WAS) migration to Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service reached two major milestones last week when the WAS crawlers crawled their last crawl and the last of the UC institutions moved their collections to Archive-It. (See previous CDLINFO […]
Groundbreaking University of California policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees
On October 26, 2015, the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on […]
UC Libraries Statement on Authors Guild v. Google
October 20, 2015 The University of California libraries applaud the ruling by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals that Google’s digitization of library collections, creation of search functionality, display of snippets, and provision of copies to its partner libraries […]
Release of the new Calisphere! More content in a great new interface
CDL is pleased to announce the official, public release of the new Calisphere website, currently in beta mode. Go there now! The new Calisphere site provides access to even more unique digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums throughout the […]
The SNAC pack is back (in print)
Now that the first and second phases of the award-winning Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) research and demonstration project have been completed, Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Ray Larson (UC Berkeley) and three CDL staff members (Rachael Hu, […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 2nd Quarter 2015 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: “Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance” by Tsoutsoura, […]
It’s alive! Calisphere BETA soft launch
The UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) project team is pleased to announce the soft launch of Calisphere BETA. The beta site is the public interface to all collections that have been aggregated through the UCLDC platform, and represents the successful […]
HathiTrust Mobile – With You Wherever You Go
Did you know that HathiTrust Mobile is a digital library that’s small enough to carry wherever you go? It’s a simplified version of the HathiTrust Digital Library optimized for mobile devices. The collection of 13 million volumes includes 5 million open […]