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WorldCat Discovery beta: Call numbers added to emailed records

  This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on January 21, 2016 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact […]

DMPTool Service Update: December 2015

    Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Maintenance/migrations. The DMPTool will be unavailable on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 5 – 6pm (PDT) while we migrate the database to AWS. The application will also be moving to the cloud so you can expect another maintenance message […]

Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: December 2015

Our major serial record distributions for last month were for Open Access (505 titles), SuperStar (98 titles), EBSCO (48 titles), JSTOR (44 titles). For monographs they were for Naxos music (886 titles), Naxos Jazz (465 titles), SuperStar (391 titles), Knovel […]

AAAS platform adds functionality, changes URLs

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) platform is updating their site on January 12 to include responsive design, easier access table and figures, and incorporating functionality that is present in their other online titles to the main […]

New mobile version of UC-eLinks

As of January 12, 2016, you will see a mobile-optimized version of UC-eLinks when you are on most mobile devices. Thank you to the campus UC-eLinks Liaisons and the the UC-eLinks Operations team for assisting with testing. Mobile versions are […]

New Licensed Resource – BioOne Complete licensed on behalf of all UC campuses

All UC campuses now have access to BioOne Complete (formerly BioOne.1 and BioOne.2) on the BioOne.org platform; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions.  SCP distributed the journal title level records on December 21, 2015. BioOne.2 has […]

EZID Service Update: December 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID clients had another interesting exchange about “evolving” or dynamic datasets this month. This is clearly a topic that concerns many data managers. The latest discussion is here: http://bit.ly/1P7vLA4. In late November, DataCite held […]

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online is transitioning to the ProQuest search platform

“House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online” will be hosted exclusively on the ProQuest platform starting March 2016. It is currently hosted on the Chadwyck-Healey platform. UC campuses currently subscribe to the 19th Century (1801-1900) Parliamentary Papers database within the House […]

CDL office closure Dec. 23, 2015 PM – Jan. 1, 2016

This year, UC’s Office of the President, including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at 2:00 PM PST through Friday, January 1, 2016.  The […]

DMPTool Service Update: November 2015

    Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Seeking usage stats? Just a reminder that institutional administrators can get basic usage statistics via the DMPTool API (instructions here). We continue to receive requests for more robust reporting—this is at the top of the list […]