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Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 1st Quarter 2016 Reports
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Marxist Theories of Development, the New International Division […]
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project Win’s ALA’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project (Copyright Review Management System) is the American Library Association’s 2016 winner of the L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. The award recognizes CRMS’ dedication to creating a “balanced U.S. Copyright system through advocacy for a robust fair use doctrine […]
Message from AVP / Executive Director
It’s early days for a message of deep substance, but never too early to say hello! I started work at CDL less than two weeks ago when a small ad-hoc greeting committee opened the door at 415 20th street. You’ll […]
EZID Service Update: April 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Last month we announced a DataCite webinar to be held on April 12th covering the new DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP) and the DataCite in RDF mapping. Here is a link to […]
CDL’s Adrian Turner wins Archival Award of Excellence
CDL is delighted to announce that Adrian Turner has won the prestigious Archival Award of Excellence from the California Historical Records Advisory Board. Adrian received the award in recognition of his exceptional dedication to and leadership in removing barriers to […]
Staff in Print – Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell
CDL’s Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell of the Access & Publishing group have contributed a chapter to Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship (An ALCTS Monograph), edited by Dawn Hale. Their chapter is entitled “Give Them What They Need: Rethinking Management, Aggregation, […]
Katrina Romanowsky leaving CDL
Katrina Romanowsky, the Access & Publishing Group’s Community & Outreach Manager, will be leaving CDL to pursue other creative endeavors. Her last day in the office will be Friday, May 6th. Katrina joined the Access & Publishing Group in 2013 […]
California Digital Library welcomes new leadership
Following an extensive international search, the University of California welcomes Günter Waibel as the new Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library (CDL). Waibel assumed his new post at the CDL on April 25th. Waibel comes […]
Opening More Books for Public Access – HathiTrust’s CRMS Project
For the past eight years, HathiTrust’s Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project has developed the tools, infrastructure, and practices to support the collaborative review of books in HathiTrust to make copyright determinations. Books were targeted for copyright investigation based on the […]
New Free Resource: American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955
All UC campuses now have access to American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955, a free index to nearly 100,000 key dissertations. http://uclibs.org/PID/282465 (All campuses; on the EBSCOhost Research Databases platform) This free research database provides access to the only comprehensive record of dissertations […]