CDLINFO News
WAS Service Update: March 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS to Archive-it Transition. Work continues on the migration of UC WAS accounts to Archive-it: UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Office of the President Communications, NASA Wavelength, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, […]
CDL Job Opening for UC3 Director
The California Digital Library, University of California, invites applications for the position of Director of the UC Curation Center (UC3). Overview: The Director of the UC Curation Center (UC3) is responsible for envisioning and articulating a dynamic and forward-thinking strategic […]
Announcing WEST’s new FAQ!
WEST has revised its FAQ! The new WEST FAQ includes the following three sections: The Who, What, Where and How of WEST Accessing WEST Archives The Call for Holdings and Contributing Volumes to a WEST Archiver Holder Thank you to […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Loeb Classical Library
Five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Santa Barbara) are now participating in a Tier 2 license for the digital Loeb Classical Library, which was recently made available online by Harvard University Press. http://uclibs.org/PID/270639 (B, I, LA, R, SB; […]
New Licensed Resource – Nature Plants
All UC campuses now have access to Nature Plants on the Nature.com (NPG) platform. Nature Plants is a new systemwide license in 2015. After numerous faculty requests across a number of campuses, the UC Bio/Ag and Health & Life Sciences […]
Melvyl Central Index Update – April 2015
This month’s WorldCat Local installation on April 13, 2015 included the following databases which have now been added to all instances of Melvyl’s Central Index. New Databases MIT Press Journals from MIT Press — Journals covering a wide range […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Full text snippets & searching
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 13, 2015 included the following new features & 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 […]
Cycle 5 Collections Analysis Currently Underway
In the fall, 86 members submitted files for 109 OCLC symbols, totaling 2.4 million records. With those records, approximately 30,000 journal backfiles were identified for cycle 5 collections analysis – which is currently underway. WEST’s existing six Archive Builders will continue […]
New WEST Archive Holders Orientation Webinar
In Archive Cycle 4, WEST welcomed several more institutions to act as Archive Holders. Thank you to both our new and existing Archive Holders (now totaling 32!) for their commitment to retain print journals! To help members better understand the […]
EZID Service Update: March 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s CrossRef service went into production this month with CDL’s own eScholarship as the first publisher to make use of the ground-breaking partnership. As a reminder, the EZID CrossRef service means that qualified EZID […]