Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
HathiTrust November 2012 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization November was a busy month at HathiTrust. HT prepared technical systems to offer access to out of print and brittle works at partner institutions; worked with several institutions on deposit of locally-digitized materials; […]
New environmental history collections now available through the OAC
The CDL is pleased to announce the availability of over 41 important collections, held by nine institutions throughout California, which document environmental history within and beyond the state. The availability of these previously “hidden” archival collections represents the successful conclusion […]
New! Contributor Showcases on Calisphere
Calisphere contributors have a new way to highlight their digital images and texts with the recently released “showcase” feature. These pages, unique to each of Calisphere’s 120 contributing libraries, archives, and museums, provide increased opportunities for visitors to explore the […]
A unique gift that supports the libraries
Are you stuck for holiday gift giving ideas? Want to find a memorable and reasonably priced holiday present? Can’t think of what to give to a recent UC grad or alum? How about a book digitized from UC’s own library […]
HathiTrust October Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization Top HathiTrust news for October includes the announcement (within the Board of Governors), of HathiTrust Executive Committee officers, including UCSD’s Brian Schottlaender as Executive Committee chair, as well as information about funded opportunities for PhD […]
eScholarship Site Redesigned
Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing eScholarship has a new look! Over the past few months, we’ve redesigned the eScholarship homepage and informational pages to enable us to highlight important events within the scholarly communications environment and new services within […]
WAS Service Update – October 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Work continues on the WAS 2.0 release and the WAS public interface redesign. iPRES 2012: WAS Service Manager, Rosalie Lack, attended the iPRES 2012 Conference. Of the sessions dedicated to web archiving, of particular interest […]
Librarian in Print – Rachael Hu
CDL’s Rachael Hu has an article published in this month’s RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (Fall 2012 13:175-190). The article is entitled, “Methods to Tame the Madness: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Assessment Techniques for […]
eScholarship PLUS
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing The California Digital Library is pleased to announce a new print-on-demand (POD) and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship, the University of California’s open access (OA) publishing platform. This […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2011-2012 Local History Digital Resources Project […]