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New Tier 2 Resource: China Data Online is back!

Previously, China Data Online was a Tier 2 license with the University of Michigan’s China Data Center (CDC). Unexpectedly, in September 2018, UM’s China Data Center closed its doors; access was cancelled for all resources. Recently, four UC campuses (Berkeley, […]

New Resource: Biochemical Society Journals on Portland Press platform

Five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the front file (2017- ) of five of the Biochemical Society’s online journals. As part of this license, all […]

BagIt celebrates twin milestones

If two digital archives have been exchanging digital content in the past five years, chances are they were using “BagIt”, a file packaging format that’s extremely popular in cultural and scientific data archiving. BagIt is a standard for moving data […]

Access discontinued to OCLC’s CAMIO database

Per information from OCLC email… OCLC discontinued access to the CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) database for WorldCat Local and FirstSearch/WorldCat Discovery subscribers on 31 December 2018. The expansion of online access to this type of content in […]

Cambridge University Press and the University of California Agree to Open Access Publishing Deal

Agreement is UC’s first with a major publisher and Cambridge’s first in the Americas The University of California and Cambridge University Press have entered into a transformative agreement that will advance the global shift toward an open access future for […]

Exploring innovations in history: architecture, television, travel — new collections made available through LSTA!

  New collection highlights Calisphere continues to grow, not only in size but also in breadth with new collections providing insight into innovations in architecture, television, and travel. UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum is a longstanding […]

SCP Monthly Update — April 2019

SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of March 2019. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials, we distributed a new collection of Lyell […]

America’s Historical Newspapers migrates to enhanced interface

America’s Historical Newspapers and the World Newspaper Archive are now available with enhanced interfaces. In terms of systemwide subscriptions, this affects Early American Newspapers Series 1 and 2. Campuses that locally subscribe to additional collections within America’s Historical Newspapers, please […]

New Tier 2 Resource: Lyell Collection

Four campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, and San Diego) now have access to the Geological Society of London’s Lyell Collection as part of a new Tier 2 agreement. http://uclibs.org/PID/330767                     B, D, LA and SD; on the Lyell Collection platform The […]

At long last, HathiTrust records have been fixed in Melvyl

After many years of frustration with HathiTrust books that campus users do not have digital access to appearing in the Melvyl catalog with an indication of a digital holding, we are pleased to inform you that the HathiTrust records in […]