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CDL in the Cloud!

The California Digital Library (CDL) provides many services for the scholarly community and the Infrastructure & Application Support (IAS) team is responsible for the technology underlying all of these services. The IAS team recently hit a new milestone as they […]

Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2016

For August 2016, we completed cataloging of Taylor & Francis online journal of total 3210 titles, thanks to Becky, Kate, and the rest of CDLA/SCP staff working very hard for the last two months. The major monographs distributions are Business […]

Flood of UC Riverside Books Flow through Google Digitization Channel

In January 2016, the UC Riverside Libraries joined the University of California’s ongoing digitization project and began sending books to be digitized as part of the Google Books Library Project. The UC Riverside team sends approximately 2,500 volumes each month and […]

EZID Service Update: August 2016

    Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We shared EZID’s development roadmap for the next 18 to 24 months: https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/DataCite/2016-2018+EZID+Roadmap. The roadmap includes a combination of back-end and front-end work, so whether you interact with EZID via the application programming […]

Welcome Monica Westin!

Please welcome Monica Westin, who has just joined the Access & Publishing group as the Outreach and Community Engagement Coordinator for eScholarship! Monica comes to us via the Berkeley Electronic Press (where she was most recently the Marketing Communications & […]

Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2016

For July 2016 monographs distributions, we added a new package Cambridge online monographs (383 titles).  Other major monographs packages are: ACM Digital Library online conference proceedings (77 titles), IEEE Xplore online conference proceedings (136 titles), Wiley online monographs (55 titles), […]

WorldCat Discovery beta: User Experience Enhancements

  This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on August 29, 2016 included the following new features and 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 have an impact on Melvyl.) […]

CDL – UCSC Focus Group Study on Print and E-book Use webinar for library staff

Please join Danielle Watters Westbrook (CDL), Chan Li (CDL), Kerry Scott (UCSC) and Sarah Troy (UCSC) for a discussion about a focus group project conducted at UCSC last fall, about user behavior in academic libraries regarding print book and e-book […]

DMPTool Service Update: July 2016

    Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Templates. The template inventory is underway. We recently added templates for the DOT and NASA (blog updates here and here). Next in line are DOD, NIJ/DOJ, and NSF Arctic Programs. Let us know if […]

CDL welcomes Matthew McKinley

Matthew McKinley has just joined CDL as the new Metadata Harvest Operator for Calisphere, and will be working alongside Mark, Adrian and Brian to perform/monitor Calisphere metadata harvests, as well as making improvements to the harvester codebase. Matthew earned his MSIS […]