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New Licensed Resource: PsychiatryOnline Premium
Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 agreement for PsychiatryOnline Premium (http://uclibs.org/PID/163456); on the American Psychiatric Publishing platform. This collection features the DSM Library (http://uclibs.org/PID/261169) which includes the […]
CDL purchases Elsevier eBooks, 2014
On behalf of all UC campuses, CDL made a one-time purchase of the frontlist of Elsevier’s ebook collection with over 850 titles to be published in 2014. This collection spans 24 subject collections published under well-known imprints within science, technology, […]
CDL Welcomes Joel Hagedorn
By Eric Satzman, CDL Web production Manager CDL is pleased to announce that Joel Hagedorn has joined the CDL as the newest member of the Web Production team. Joel comes to us from UC Berkeley Extension where he previously worked […]
EZID Service Update: January 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities In late January 2014, the URL for EZID’s home page changed from http://n2t.net/ezid to http://ezid.cdlib.org. The URL for the application programming interface (API) will also change to http://ezid.cdlib.org. This change provides a more natural […]
Elsevier Contract Renewed for Next 5 Years
CDL has completed a favorable negotiation with Elsevier to renew the Science Direct journals for 2014-2018. The agreement continues UC’s strong record of excellent long-term cost control for this important package. Science Direct is the largest journals package for co-investment […]
WorldCat Discovery Services –Coming When?
OCLC has announced that their WorldCat® Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications, will be bringing the FirstSearch® and WorldCat® Local (WCL) services together. They have also announced that WorldCat Discovery Services will be available to all current FirstSearch […]
Newsletter Spotlight: CDL's Mass Digitization projects
Recently, UCOP’s link newsletter included an article, Digitization project breathes new life into UC Libraries’ collections, focusing on the University of California Reprints website and CDL’s Mass Digitization projects. Check it out!
Melvyl Enhancements – January 2014: Data from MARC fields/subfields added to display
OCLC brought in one enhancement to WorldCat Local impacting Melvyl on January 13, 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.) Data […]
UC Shared Print Update Delivered to the CRL Print Archives Network Meeting at ALA Midwinter 2014
The University of California Libraries have completed a strategic planning effort to guide the development of shared print collections and services in the upcoming years. The environment for print collections has evolved considerably since the inception of the UC shared […]
WEST Update Delivered to the CRL Print Archives Network Meeting at ALA Midwinter 2014
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) has entered into its second three-year implementation phase with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Between 2013 and 2016, WEST libraries will undertake two more archiving cycles, conduct strategic planning and assessment […]