CDLINFO News
SCP Monthly Update – April 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of March. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. We added a new collection of ProQuest US major dailies […]
The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) Joins the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance
On March 12, EAST and the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance announced EAST’s participation in the Alliance. EAST joins the four founding Rosemont members—BTAA, FLARE, Scholars Trust, and WEST—in a national effort to ensure the preservation and availability of print journal […]
Cobweb Update: How Cobweb Facilitates Participatory Web Archiving
Given its breadth and depth, archiving the web can seem an overwhelming endeavor. Digital curators typically approach web archiving by first determining what to collect based on the collecting scope established by their organization. Once they’ve identified the general theme […]
EZID Service Update: March 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Identifier Systems Architect John Kunze was the keynote speaker at an ARK Summit hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2018/a.jp_180321_ark.html. The event, conducted in French, drew participants from around Europe. The Library […]
CDL joins Royal Society Open Access Membership
CDL has recently signed on to the Royal Society Open Access Membership, an arrangement under which UC-affiliated authors (from any UC campus, UC Office of the President, or Lawrence Berkeley Lab) are entitled to a 25% discount off of Article […]
CDL welcomes Julia Kochi
Beginning today (April 2, 2018), a new – and to some, a very familiar – face has joined the CDL licensing team. Julia Kochi, Director of Collection & User Services at the UCSF Library, will be working at CDL 3 […]
Stat!Ref – Tier 2 resource – cancelled
Stat!Ref has been cancelled as a multi-campus subscription (UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, and UCSD) as of March 2018. Individual campuses may be continuing subscriptions to selected titles. Please contact the health sciences collections librarian at your campus for more information.
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Eight is Available
For the nine participating campuses (all except UCSB), Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) has begun making its eighth collection of lectures available online. The basic component of the library is a 50 to 100-page electronic book that […]
New Licensed Resource – U.S. Major Dailies
All UC campuses now have access to U.S. Major Dailies; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions: http://uclibs.org/PID/301865 [database level] (All campuses; on the ProQuest platform) http://uclibs.org/PID/301866 Chicago Tribune (1985- ) http://uclibs.org/PID/301869 […]
Access to MPS ScholarlyStats will end on July 8, 2018
*** Reminder: Last day to download MPS reports is JULY 8, 2018! *** Due to budgetary and other reasons, CDL has decided not to renew its contract with MPS ScholarlyStats, a platform that collects monthly usage reports on UC-licensed e-resources. The […]