Category: Publishing, Archives, and Digitization
Invitation to Data Curation Workshop — North and South
By Patricia Cruse, Director, UC3 Researchers now must manage and share their data as part of research grants, and are looking for assistance in meeting these requirements for data curation. Libraries, data centers, offices of research and other organizations within […]
WAS Service Update – August 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS User’s Group meeting On Friday, August 10 in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists meeting in San Diego, the first WAS User’s Group was held. There were 16 attendees from 10 different […]
HathiTrust August 2012 Update
HathiTrust had a busy summer, as described in its August update. Reported in this issue is an array of new and ongoing activities. For example, later this year HathiTrust will begin accepting the “library walk-in” Shibboleth attribute from partner institutions […]
California Digital Library Joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing The California Digital Library is pleased to announce its new membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Founded in 2008 to “represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally […]
WAS Service Update – July 2012
WAS News Tracy Seneca, the WAS service manager and project leader since its inception in 2008, is leaving the California Digital Library for a position as Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tracy has been a […]
California Digital Library Announces Release of XTF Version 3.1
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.1 of XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. XTF provides efficient and practical […]
Staff Transition at the Web Archiving Service
To: Web Archiving Service Users and Community From: Tracy Seneca, Web Archiving Service Manager I’m writing to announce that in early August I will be moving on to an exciting new opportunity as the Digital Services Librarian at the University […]
HathiTrust June 2012 Update
The University of California libraries added another 3,446 volumes into HathiTrust this month, making UC’s total 3,340,228 of the 10,408,905 in HathiTrust. Of these, more than 3,000,000 volumes are in the public domain. UC’s contributions to development this month include […]
WAS Service Update – June 2012
Service Description The Web Archiving Service (WAS) enables librarians, archivists and researchers to capture, curate and preserve websites and web‐published materials. WAS makes it easy to build web archives, with scheduling and other tools to help manage your archive. You […]
CDL Joins Copyright Review Project
By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager The HathiTrust Digital Library contains millions of digital volumes that are not available to users, but could potentially be in the public domain and made viewable online if their copyright status were known. […]