CDLINFO News
DataUp Service Update: January – February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Strasser, Kunze, and Cruse presented DataUp as a poster at the 2013 International Data Curation Conference, held in Amsterdam in January, receiving 2nd place in the poster competition. Strasser presented the DataUp poster at […]
WAS Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release. Work continues on the release. SJSU Intern. Caitlin O’Neal López has joined our team, virtually, as an intern from San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science. (Caitlin currently […]
Welcome to the new UC libraries website
By Ginny Steel, University Librarian, UCSC & Council of University Librarians Chair I am delighted to announce the redesigned UC Libraries website. The website is the primary communication vehicle for the UC libraries’ systemwide initiatives and collaborative activities and is […]
HathiTrust February 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization The HathiTrust update on February activities is now available. Top News: the HathiTrust Research Center plans a release of software infrastructure at the end of March, loaded with the latest and greatest service components and […]
EZID Service Update: February 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataCite’s Managing Director Jan Brase blogged this month about the “11 most popular datasets” using DataCite Statistics. EZID Clients were 9 out of the 11. Congratulations! (http://bit.ly/YGEufT) EZID currently holds approximately a half million […]
Historic audio and video recordings on OAC and Calisphere
CDL is pleased to announce the recent addition of 33 digitized sound and video recordings to the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere, as part of a pilot project to investigate hosting and providing access to A/V media. Browse […]
Mount Holyoke College Signs up for WAS
The CDL Web Archiving Service (WAS) (http://was.cdlib.org/) is extremely pleased to welcome Mount Holyoke College as its newest subscriber. Leslie Fields, Head of Archives & Special Collections at Mount Holyoke, explains “after testing several options we determined that WAS was […]
Migration of FirstSearch Databases to EBSCO Complete as of 2/28/13
The migration of several databases migrating from the FirstSearch platform to EBSCOhost will be complete by February 28, 2013. These databases include the following: Anthropological Index Anthropological Literature Anthropology Plus Chicano Database FRANCIS History of Science, Technology and Medicine Index […]
WAS Service Update: January 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release Work on the new release continues. Significant progress was made in January; testing will begin in early February. Based on the results of testing, we will have a release date. VM […]
New Licensed Resource: LandScan 2011 Global Population Database
By Brian Quigley, UC Berkeley Six campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) have purchased the LandScan 2011 Global Population Database. Produced by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), LandScan provides ambient population (24-hour average) data […]