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Update delivered at ALA Annual 2015 WEST Member Meeting

The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting took place on Sunday, June 28, 2015 from 1:00-2:00 pm in the Hotel Nikko San Francisco. Thank you to everyone who joined us! In addition to discussing WEST’s archiving progress, the WEST project team provided […]

New Licensed Resource – Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science

All UC campuses now have access to the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science. (All campuses; on the Wiley Online Library platform) This title has been cataloged by the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP). CDL fully funded the Handbook on […]

New Licensed Resource – Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900

All UC campuses now have access to America’s Historical Newspapers / Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900. http://uclibs.org/PID/42513 for Series 1, 1690-1876; http://uclibs.org/PID/275700 for Series 2, 1758-1900. (All campuses; on the Readex / NewsBank platform) America’s Historical Newspapers allows users to search […]

New Licensed Resource – FBIS Daily Reports, Western Europe (WEU), 1974-1996

  All UC campuses now have access to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, Western Europe (WEU) 1974-1996. http://uclibs.org/PID/137517      (All campuses; on the Readex/NewsBank platform) The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States’ principal […]

New Licensed Resource – German Literary Expressionism Online

All UC campuses now have access to German Literary Expressionism Online (Der literarische Expressionismus Online). http://uclibs.org/PID/273394      (all campuses; on the De Gruyter platform) CDL fully funded the German database on behalf of all campuses at the request of the European […]

Announcing the Clinics of North America on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect

In December 2014, Elsevier discontinued the MD Consult (MDC) platform.  MDC provided access to medical textbooks and some Elsevier journals, among them many Clinics of North America titles.  As an alternative, Elsevier released a product called ClinicalKey, a new platform […]

EZID Service Update: June 2015

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities At the beginning of the month, DataCite DOI services were interrupted on an intermittent basis for two days. Subsequent research by the DataCite technical team identified the cause as a runaway process that acted […]

DMPTool Service Update: June 2015

Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New Service Manager. We’ve hired a new DMPTool service manager: Stephanie Simms. She is already busy connecting with our partners to create a road map for future development. Stay tuned as we ramp up efforts […]

Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: June 2015

The major monograph distributions were for Springer (2209 titles), NBER working papers (1027 titles), Naxos (323 titles), Elsevier (348 titles), Loeb Classical Library (211), OECD (163 titles), IEEE (147 titles), SPIE (146 titles), Wiley (83 titles), Apabi (77 titles), and […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: Improved display for facets

  This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on June 11, 2015 included the following new features & enhancements. 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 on Melvyl.) […]