Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
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 […]
The DAMS is live! UC Libraries Digital Collection Project reaches major milestone
The UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) Project has just reached the halfway point, and with it, a major milestone: the shared digital asset management system (DAMS) is now in production and ready for use by campus library staff! Watch our […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus Top 10 Publications
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: “Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: Ten […]
WAS Service Update: June 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Storage. Work continues on migration of WAS storage to the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). We are now moving the content at a rate of approximately 1 TB a day. Once it is all […]
It Takes a Village to Digitize a Library: UC Davis’ Mass Digitization Project Concludes
A year ago, UC Davis began sending out-of-copyright books and journals to be digitized as part of UC’s partnership in the Google Books Library Project. The UC Davis team has sent more than 36,290 books to be digitized and […]