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DataUp Service Update: March – April 2014

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataUp Version 2 phase of the project, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and in partnership with the DataONE organization (http://www.dataone.org), is underway! The project developer (housed at Microsoft Research […]

DMPTool Service Update: April 2014

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We’re very close to launching the new version of the DMPTool – May 19 for administrators and May 29 for all users! A schedule of the upcoming releases and changes to the DMPTool are […]

UC3 Dash Service Update: April 2014

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We are working closely with UC Berkeley to get the first instance of CDL-hosted Dash up and running. Stay tuned for more updates! Github Wiki. The Github repository’s wiki will be used in lieu […]

WEST Strategic Planning Meeting June 3rd

The WEST Executive Committee and Operations & Collections Council will meet on June 3 in Oakland, California to plan for subsequent WEST phases. The goals of WEST’s strategic planning this year are to explore options for change to the existing […]

Embed with HathiTrust: Putting Digital Books in Your Users’ Path

Did you know that it’s easy to embed HathiTrust books in your website? You can embed any public domain book into HTML code.  Follow the instructions on the HathiTrust website or simply find the book you want and click the “Embed this […]

Latest eScholarship Activity: Find It Here

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: “Psychology and Economics” by Rabin, Matthew, Department of […]

EZID Service Update: April 2014

  Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID responded to the widely reported OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug by upgrading our OpenSSL installation and replacing our security certificates to eliminate this particular vulnerability. For more information about CDL’s response to the Heartbleed bug, […]

WorldCat Discovery Services beta is launched

On April 30, 2014 OCLC released the WorldCat Discovery Services beta to existing WorldCat Local customers. OCLC has provided campus-specific preview URLs for the WorldCat Discovery Services (Beta) interface. Links to the beta are available on the CDL Melvyl website. […]

WEST assessment survey a success!

The “WEST Phase 2 Assessment Survey 2014” ran from March 5, 2014 through March 24, 2014. Thank you to all participants! We received a very good response rate, with a total of 96 respondents. The results were representative of numerous […]

Melvyl Enhancements – April 2014

OCLC brought in three enhancements to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on April 24, 2014, described below. 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.) Bug […]