Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
HathiTrust April 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The HathiTrust April 2013 Update is now available. Several important new developments are announced in the newsletter: Service to support access for users with print disabilities at partner institutions Updated, enhanced HathiTrust web presence […]
HathiTrust Services for Users With Print Disabilities
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization In an important new development, HathiTrust now provides a way for the UC campuses to offer full view of some of the in-copyright books in HathiTrust to our print disabled patrons. A designated […]
Five things I learned at IIPC
I recently attended the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly (http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2013/program). The IIPC is a consortium of libraries, academic institutions and other organization engaged in web archiving. The IIPC’s General Assembly included three days of member meetings and two days of […]
10,000,000 HathiTrust Records Now Have Clear Labels in Melvyl
In response to user feedback from the UC community, OCLC has relabeled more than 10,000,000 Melvyl (WorldCat Local) records making it easy to distinguish if a digitized work in HathiTrust is available in full text or for limited viewing only. […]
WAS Service Update: April 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS at Society of California Archivists (SCA), Berkeley, CA. April 11 – 13. The WAS team attended and staffed a booth. Rosalie Lack also gave a short presentation to the Online Archive of California […]
Latest eScholarship Publishing Report
By Justin Gonder, eScholarship Operations Coordinator UC Researchers are publishing open access articles on a fascinating array of topics—from minimum wage to green marketing to nursing practice. This quarter’s top ten most popular eScholarship articles include the following: UC Berkeley: […]
Two Enhancements from HathiTrust: Interface Redesign and Research Center Tools
Redesigned Website By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization HathiTrust has released an updated, fresh design and new features for its website. The latest design incorporates feedback submitted by HathiTrust users and input from HathiTrust’s User Experience and Communications working groups. We encourage […]
Good enough to eat: Halberstadt food photographs at UC Davis
Our virtual world is rife with images of food: a friend’s triumphant dinner party, a market with overflowing produce, the not-to-be-missed doughnut around the corner. From amateur snapshots of memorable meals, to softly lit portraits of perfect desserts—I’m looking at you, […]
WAS Service Update: March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Upgrade to Wayback 1.7. We upgraded the version of Wayback (the tool that is used to replay web crawls). This has resulted in increased general reliability, as well as improved display. End of Term […]
HathiTrust March 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization Spring is here and the March HathiTrust update is hot off the press. The news includes: A reminder about submitting nominations for the Program Steering Committee A report on the HathiTrust Research Center’s […]