Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
¡Viva la Causa!: Herman Baca Collection reveals 50 years of Chicano community activism in San Diego
By Sherri Berger, CDL and Marlayna Christensen, UC San Diego Approximately 40,000 pages of textual and visual material documenting Chicano community activism in San Diego are now freely available on the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The material […]
New OAC feature: support for publication of supplemental PDF guides
Last year, we released a new tool for the Online Archive of California (OAC) called RecordEXPRESS. This tool made it even easier for OAC contributors to create collection guides using a simple web form. RecordEXPRESS also enables contributors to attach […]
HathiTrust – December 2013 Update
HathiTrust highlights for the month of December include the following: An update on the Executive Director Search Approval of HathiTrust’s 2014 budget and fees An arrangement to preserve and provide access to materials made available by Knowledge Unlatched A reminder […]
WAS Service Update: October 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Infrastructure. Work continues on infrastructure upgrades to search and indexing. New public content 1. University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign World Sustainable Development Web Archive. This archive aims to preserve web content published by Non‐Governmental Organizations […]
Eight New Web Archives Go Live
There are eight new archives, from three institutions now publicly available in WAS. The archives include a collection of NGO sites from around the world that focus on environmental and economic sustainability, over 50 NGOs that address local environmental conditions in China, […]
UC Faculty Publish in eScholarship
Interested in the research and open access publishing at your campus? At other UC campuses? CDL sends campuses a quarterly report with each campus’s eScholarship publishing statistics (and more). For a summary of UC’s most popular campus eScholarship publications this […]
HathiTrust October 2013 Update
There are a number of exciting announcements from HathiTrust this month: Zephir, a new bibliographic data management system developed for HathiTrust by the California Digital Library was released. HT announced its intention to become a replicating node in the Digital […]
Introducing Zephir, HathiTrust’s New Metadata Management System
The California Digital Library (CDL), in collaboration with staff from the University of Michigan, has developed and implemented a new bibliographic metadata management system, Zephir, for the HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from […]
UC Open Access Policy implementation is live!
The Academic Senate of the University of California adopted an Open Access Policy on July 24, 2013, ensuring that future scholarly articles authored by faculty at all 10 UC campuses will be made available to the public at no charge. […]
First release of the UC Libraries Digital Collection Project
The CDL is pleased to announce the first release of the UC Libraries Digital Collection Implementation Project (UCLDC). The primary goal of the release was to establish infrastructure for the UCLDC, with a focus on the back-end systems and administrative […]