Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
SNAC wins C.F.W. Coker Award from Society of American Archivists
If you’re researching the life of Gertrude Stein and want to see all of the primary source materials created by her and documenting her life and work, you’d likely spend years trying to locate those items. From finding her manuscripts, […]
The Elephant Weighs In: Updates from HathiTrust and UC Libraries
It’s been a busy year for HathiTrust Digital Library. In April, the five millionth volume was opened for public reading and partner downloading. That’s a weighty accomplishment and it couldn’t have happened without the vast contributions made by UC libraries, librarians, and staff. […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 1st 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: “Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech” […]
Digitization is Golden: UC Berkeley Book Scanning Projects
This post contributed by Erik Mitchell, Associate University Librarian and Director of Digital Initiatives and Collaborative Services at UC Berkeley In July 2014, the UC Berkeley Libraries sent their first shipment of books to Google to be digitized as part […]
Calisphere collections now available through the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Researchers are now able to explore Calisphere’s incredible collection of digital primary sources within the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). This month, the CDL successfully shared more than 225,000 metadata records from Calisphere from UC libraries and over 120 […]
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, […]
New ACRL workshop presenter: CDL’s Katie Fortney
Katie Fortney, CDL’s Copyright Policy expert with the Access & Publishing group, was selected as a new presenter for ACRL’s “Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement” workshop, which is offered at institutions across the country on an ongoing basis. Katie […]
WAS Service Update: February 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS to Archive-it Transition. We have been working with Archive-it staff to successfully test and document the migration process. WAS tech staff have created custom exports of seed lists and metadata for import into Archive-it. […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 4th Quarter 2014 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 […]
UC Press and the CDL Receive $750K Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The University of California Press (UC Press) and the California Digital Library (CDL), have received a grant of $750,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a web-based, open source content and workflow management system to support the publication […]