Category: UC Libraries News
The Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH) has its roots in the California Digital Library (CDL)
By Staci Markos, UCB Jepson Herbaria (smarkos@berkeley.edu) All over the world, dried plant collections are maintained in herbaria. Collections from California date from the early 1800s to the present. Each plant specimen is mounted on a sheet of acid-free paper along […]
UC OA Policy webinar: Publication Harvester goes live!
With the University of California Open Access Policy entering its second phase of implementation, faculty at all ten UC campuses will now be required to submit their publications to eScholarship in compliance with the policy. That means we can all […]
UCSF Partners with Google Books for Digitization Project
By guest blogger, UCSF Archivist Polina Ilieva The UCSF library is an important UC contributor to the Google Books digitization project. Through the collaboration with the California Digital Library (CDL) digitization team 1,317 volumes from the general and rare book […]
Explore, Advocate, Build, Connect: CDL’s 2013-2014 Annual Report
CDL is pleased to announce the release of its CDL AnnualReport 2013-2014. Over the past year, CDL continued to develop and refine its service portfolio at a remarkable pace, completing seven major milestones and conducting exploratory projects focused on understanding […]
UC Libraries Statement on Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Digital Library Appellate Court Ruling
The University of California Libraries join with our HathiTrust colleagues in welcoming the decision by the Second Circuit of the US Court of Appeals that key services of the HathiTrust Digital Library – digitization for the purpose of full-text searching […]
Data Management Planning Tool More Responsive to Researchers’ Needs
The University of California and several partners have released a new version of a free tool that helps researchers and their institutions create effective data management plans required by the federal government. The DMPTool v2 aids researchers with this critical […]
UC Special Collections Highlighted
In a news article on the University of California website, UC archival collections are highlighted across the campuses. States the article, “While there’s no other band like the Grateful Dead, UC Santa Cruz is in good company insofar as housing […]
DPLA Welcomes CDL and UC Libraries Participation: Content Hub Launch
Today, April 17, 2014, the Digital Public Library of America welcomed the California Digital Library, in collaboration with the ten-campus University of California (UC) Libraries system, as a DPLA Content Hub. A Content Hub is a centralized aggregation point for […]
The University of California awards contract to Symplectic for the implementation of a publication harvesting system to support UC’s Open Access Policy
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July […]
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 […]