CDLINFO News
Contemporary Women’s Issues moves to new Gale platform
Recently, Contemporary Women’s Issues moved from the RDS platform to Gale’s InfoTrac platform. Contemporary Women’s Issues offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. The database provides access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering […]
Greg Janée in Transition
Greg Janée, lead developer for the EZID service, has recently stepped up to be the Director of the Data Curation Program at the UCSB Library. Greg, who joined CDL’s UC3 team at 50% time 10 years ago, shifted to CDL’s infrastructure team […]
National Technical Information Library (NTRL) is now Open Access
The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) has become an open access resource, following a decision made by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). NTRL was previously licensed as Tier 2 by five UC campuses. With the change of NTRL to […]
SCP Monthly Update — September 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of August. This monthly report shows net the increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials distributions, SCP continued to focus on the […]
CDL welcomes Brian David
CDL happily welcomes Brian David as CDL’s new Information Services analyst. Most recently, Brian spent 3+ years at bepress as a consultant and team manager. Before then, his career included work within the non-profit and agriculture sectors, among other positions. […]
China Data Online Cancellation
The China Data Online product is no longer available through UC’s Tier 2 subscription vendor. According to the China Data Center website (http://www.chinadatacenter.org/closed/): “Effective immediately, this China Data Center (CDC) website and associated CDC websites will no longer be available. […]
CDL receives additional LSTA grant funding to expose more cultural heritage collections through Calisphere and DPLA
CDL is pleased to announce that we have received an additional year of grant support from the California State Library, enabling us to aggregate and provide even more comprehensive access to unique digital resources from cultural heritage organizations throughout the […]
Stephen Abrams leaving CDL
As many of you know, Stephen Abrams will be returning to the Boston area in order to be in closer geographic proximity to family. His last day at CDL will be October 5, 2018. For over 10 years, Stephen has been […]
Digitization at the Click of a Shutter: Works of California Photographers Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Now Online
Thousands of images by California photographers Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) and Pirkle Jones (1914–2009) are now digitized and available online (many for the first time!) on Calisphere and UC Santa Cruz University Library Digital Collections. They are also available at the Digital Library of […]
Thousands of Historic California Legislative Publications Newly Available for Access
A collaboration between CDL’s Mass Digitization Team, the California Office of Legislative Counsel, and librarians at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and the California State Library has resulted in 4,000 volumes of historic California Legislative materials being digitized and opened for […]