Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
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 […]
WAS Service Update: July -September 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities 1. WAS 2.0 released. With the WAS 2.0 release, WAS curators now have new tools and reports that support: site creation and management; collection development; quality assurance; site analysis; and integration with local systems. […]
HathiTrust September 2013 Update
An Executive Director search is under way for HathiTrust, as reported in the HT September update. Other highlights in September include a meeting of the Program Committee, where it was reported that new subgroups will be appointed to advance the […]
The Richness of the UC Libraries Revealed in Reprints
The UC Libraries are happy to announce the re-launch of the University of California Library Reprints website! Through our partnerships with the Internet Archive and Google, the UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from our […]
New Web Archive: Current Events in China – Popular Websites, Blogs & Twitters
By Su Chen, Head, UCLA East Asian Library Newsnet, Commentary, Blog, and Twitter are the major channels for over 500 million Chinese to access news, voice opinions, and exchange ideas on current important domestic and international issues, although the exchanges are […]