CDLINFO News
DOI and PMID added to UC-eLinks Citation Linker
Your patience has been rewarded! By popular demand, the UC-eLinks team has added two new search fields to the end user Citation Linker forms: DOI – Digital Object Identifier PMID – PubMed Identifier Why is this good? When you enter […]
Elizabeth Cowell (UCSC) appointed to GPO Depository Library Council
Begin forwarded message: From: GPO Public Relations <public-relations@gpo.gov<mailto:public-relations@gpo.gov>> Date: April 3, 2013 8:52:02 AM EDT Subject: ACTING PUBLIC PRINTER NAMES NEW MEMBERS TO DEPOSITORY LIBRARY COUNCIL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 6, 2013 No. 13-13 MEDIA CONTACT: GARY SOMERSET 202.512.1957 | […]
EZID Service Update — March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities For the 2nd month in a row, EZID Clients captured top honors when DataCite’s Managing Director Jan Brase blogged about the “most popular datasets” using DataCite Statistics. February numbers showed that 8 of the 10 […]
Accessibility Improvements to UC-eLinks
In 2012, University of California hired an accessibility consultant Jim Thatcher to review ten websites at each campus including the UC libraries’ websites, and to write a report for each campus. UC Berkeley shared their “Thatcher” report with CDL in fall 2012. […]
UC-eLinks is moving to the Ex Libris Cloud
After more than a decade of hosting the Ex Libris SFX software that runs UC-eLinks, the CDL is joining a growing number of SFX customers by moving UC-eLinks hosting from CDL to the Ex Libris Cloud. The migration process will […]
BrowZine iPad Application Trial and Survey – ends April 30, 2013
Have an iPad? Help the Library evaluate a new research tool that is being considered for possible subscription. The libraries of the University of California are running a trial of a new technology called BrowZine, a tablet application that allows […]
CoUL Issues Statement of Support for Dale Askey
On March 26, 2013, the UC’s Council of University Librarians issued a statement of support for McMaster University librarian Dale Askey who has been sued by a publisher for making defamatory remarks in a blog post. The CoUL’s statement is […]
UC Berkeley Law Library Records Now in Melvyl as Part of UCB Collections
The UC Berkeley Law Library records now appear In Melvyl as part of the UC Berkeley Libraries collection (Level 1) for UC Berkeley. Berkeley Law is an affiliated library on the Berkeley campus. Records appear as part of the University […]
Merritt Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We are migrating the backend Merritt server environment from physical servers to Virtual Machines (VM). All UCOP services are moving to VMs, and we believe that this will result in more stable services. We […]
DMPTool Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We held two project meetings in February to discuss the grants we received from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and IMLS. A blogpost at the DMPTool blog describes the meetings, and links to reports […]