CDLINFO News
Announcing WEST’s new FAQ!
WEST has revised its FAQ! The new WEST FAQ includes the following three sections: The Who, What, Where and How of WEST Accessing WEST Archives The Call for Holdings and Contributing Volumes to a WEST Archiver Holder Thank you to […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Loeb Classical Library
Five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Santa Barbara) are now participating in a Tier 2 license for the digital Loeb Classical Library, which was recently made available online by Harvard University Press. http://uclibs.org/PID/270639 (B, I, LA, R, SB; […]
New Licensed Resource – Nature Plants
All UC campuses now have access to Nature Plants on the Nature.com (NPG) platform. Nature Plants is a new systemwide license in 2015. After numerous faculty requests across a number of campuses, the UC Bio/Ag and Health & Life Sciences […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – April 2015
This month’s WorldCat Local installation on April 13, 2015 included the following databases which have now been added to all instances of Melvyl’s Central Index. New Databases MIT Press Journals from MIT Press — Journals covering a wide range […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Full text snippets & searching
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 13, 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 […]
Cycle 5 Collections Analysis Currently Underway
In the fall, 86 members submitted files for 109 OCLC symbols, totaling 2.4 million records. With those records, approximately 30,000 journal backfiles were identified for cycle 5 collections analysis – which is currently underway. WEST’s existing six Archive Builders will continue […]
New WEST Archive Holders Orientation Webinar
In Archive Cycle 4, WEST welcomed several more institutions to act as Archive Holders. Thank you to both our new and existing Archive Holders (now totaling 32!) for their commitment to retain print journals! To help members better understand the […]
EZID Service Update: March 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s CrossRef service went into production this month with CDL’s own eScholarship as the first publisher to make use of the ground-breaking partnership. As a reminder, the EZID CrossRef service means that qualified EZID […]
Melvyl’s Central Index will be updated more frequently
Because OCLC recently simplified the underlying processes, CDL can now update Melvyl’s Central Index monthly rather than twice yearly (in January and July) as was previously the case. New Databases In March, OCLC added several resources that are […]
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online transition to new platform
Three campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, and San Diego) participatie in a Tier 2 license for access to six (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish; plus Arabic for UCB only) of the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. The 3 participating campuses have […]