CDLINFO News
OCLC’s Vision and Services to Support the Collective Collection
In August, OCLC’s President and CEO, Skip Prichard, announced OCLC’s vision for supporting the Collective Collection. This will include support for shared print services. For more details, please watch this video (5 minutes). More recently, OCLC’s Vice President of Global […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Group and ungroup editions and formats
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on October 5, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl […]
SCP Monthly Update, October 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of September [xlsx]. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions. […]
New Reaxys is now available
Recently, Elsevier launched a new release of Reaxys©, a chemistry research database. According to the Elsevier press release, the new Reaxys combines a highly streamlined user interface with search and indexing enhancements powered by machine learning algorithms to ensure maximum […]
Introducing Oscar Luna
CDL has contracted with an eminently qualified finance professional to fill the Business Services Manager role on an interim basis. Oscar Luna will join us starting September 20th on a 1 year full-time contract as Finance Manager. Oscar will take […]
Announcing the Completion of New Enhancements for the AGUA Analysis and Decision Support Tool
During the past year, the WEST Development and Project teams have worked together to realize six important enhancements for the AGUA tool. We are pleased to announce that these enhancements have been successfully tested and are now live in the […]
Call for WEST Cycle 6 (2016/17) Statistics is Underway – extended deadline: Friday, October 27, 2017
WEST Cycle 6 statistics gathering is well underway! Thank you to everyone who has responded to our call – we greatly appreciate it. Following each cycle, WEST collects deselection, archiving, and lending statistics from our Members and Archive Holders. Currently, […]
WEST Webinar: The Why and How of Submitting Unarchived Holdings Files
In the beginning of September, the WEST Project Team sent out a request for unarchived holdings data from Full Members, which will inform the coming round of collections analysis determining what to archive next. On September 13th and 20th, the […]
Annual Collection Comparison Reports for Cycle 6 now available in AGUA
At the end of August, the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) announced that the sixth archiving cycle is complete and the Cycle 6/2017 collection comparison reports are available to full members. If your institution provided records for analysis in fall […]
DMPTool Service Update: September 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities If you missed the announcements last month (e.g., here), please note that the DMPTool brochure page https://dmp.cdlib.org now redirects to the main application https://dmptool.org/. It’s time to update your bookmarks. Machine-actionable DMPs: We received a 2-year NSF EAGER […]