Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus Quarterly 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: “Library Terms That Users Understand” by Kupersmith, John, […]
UC Libraries Digital Collection Project update: Fall 2014 release
The CDL is pleased to announce the Fall 2014 release of the UC Libraries Digital Collection Implementation Project (UCLDC), nicknamed “Bear.” The release brings us another step closer to the successful completion of the two-year project. Video summary For a […]
UC OA Policy webinar: Publication Harvester goes live!
With the University of California Open Access Policy entering its second phase of implementation, faculty at all ten UC campuses will now be required to submit their publications to eScholarship in compliance with the policy. That means we can all […]
UCSF Partners with Google Books for Digitization Project
By guest blogger, UCSF Archivist Polina Ilieva The UCSF library is an important UC contributor to the Google Books digitization project. Through the collaboration with the California Digital Library (CDL) digitization team 1,317 volumes from the general and rare book […]
WAS Service Update: August 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS User Group Meeting. The WAS User Group meeting was held during the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (SAA 2014). The meeting was open to all conference attendees for a discussion to explore web […]
New Happenings at HathiTrust – August Update
New happenings at HathiTrust: The University of Michigan received a third grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) of 489K for copyright determinations work in their Copyright Review Management System (CRMS). The grant will fund the […]
Catherine Mitchell elected to Library Publishing Coalition Board
Catherine Mitchell, CDL’s Director of Access & Publishing, was recently elected to the Board of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). A relatively new organization, the LPC promotes the development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in academic & research libraries by […]
Calisphere in Atlantic Monthly Series
Calisphere is the University of California’s free public gateway to primary sources from across the state. Containing more than 240,000 unique digital items — such as photographs, letters, newspaper pages, and other resources — the website is a trove for discovering […]
HathiTrust – Cool Happenings in July
HTRC Awarded Grant to Build Cool Tool Exciting news for the HathiTrust Research Center! In July, HTRC was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore the “Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm.” The […]
Big Strides for the Elephant – HathiTrust Mid-Year Update 2014
2014 has been a great year for the HathiTrust Digital Library, and the year is only half over! Milestones In February, HathiTrust surpassed 11 million volumes in its collection. Close to 4 million of these are in the public […]