CDLINFO News
EZID Service Update: July 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Registration for the DataCite summer meeting is now open to everyone who wants to know more about the latest developments helping to integrate data into the record of science. The event is free, but […]
UC Libraries Digital Collection project: stay in the loop!
In June, the Council of University Librarians announced the creation of a project team at CDL for the UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC), an initiative to build infrastructure for the shared management and display of our libraries’ rich digital collections. Since […]
University of California Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy
The press release below can also be seen on the Academic Senate’s homepage at: http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/ The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — July 2013
The significant record distributions for July include the following for journals: Open Access (307 titles), Wiley-Blackwell (45 titles), and JSTOR (33 titles). We had one new monographs package, MIT Press, for which 468 records were sent out. These titles are […]
UC Davis Joins Google Book Digitization Project
By Heather Christenson, CDL, & Karleen Darr, UC Davis In June 2013, the UC Davis Library began sending public domain (out-of- copyright) books and journals to be digitized as part of UC’s partnership in the Google Books Library Project. UC […]
PDF processing: a behind-the-scenes but important update to the OAC
This week we changed how we process PDF documents on the Online Archive of California (OAC). Although this won’t result in any flashy new features on the OAC, it will improve the site’s functionality for both contributors and end users. […]
Announcing DataCite Metadata Version 3.0
Scholarly research is producing more digital research data, and scholarly communication depends on data to verify findings, create new research, and share outcomes. Until recently, a persistent approach to access, identification, sharing, and re-use of datasets has been missing. DataCite, […]
CDL Welcomes Danielle Watters Westbrook
We are pleased to announce that Danielle Watters Westbrook has joined CDL as our Shared Print Collections Analyst. Danielle will be supporting UC Shared Print and the Western Regional Storage Trust. Danielle brings a unique combination of skills in collection […]
WAS Service Update: June 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 release of new curator tools. Development and testing completed. Release date scheduled for the week of July 8. The curator features will include: ability to override robots.txt; new QA reports; additional metadata […]
DataUp Service Update: June 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataUp project received a 12-month grant from the National Science Foundation to improve on the current feature set. The funds are a supplemental grant to the DataONE project (http://www.dataone.org) and will be used […]