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WAS User’s Group at the Society of American Archivists Meeting: Friday, August 10

CDL will be hosting a Web Archiving Service User’s group meeting in conjunction with the upcoming Society of American ArchivistsAnnual Meeting in San Diego.  Since many WAS users from around the country will be attending SAA, this will be a great […]

New Peer Review Indication in UC-eLinks

Within the next two weeks, UC-eLinks users will see a new icon in your campus’ UC-eLinks A-Z ejournal list to indicate peer reviewed journals. The icon looks like a document with a magnifying glass (see below.) This enhancement to SFX, the […]

HathiTrust May 2012 Update

Just in time for summer reading, the May 2012 update has been posted. So grab a comfortable chair and a refreshing beverage, and read on about the activities of our new Board of Governors, our new shared location for instructional materials, […]

Merritt Service Update: April – May 2012 http://merritt.cdlib.org

Merritt Service Description Merritt is a production level service that provides the UC community with an easy to use tool to manage, archive, and share their content. Content can be deposited and managed via a user-interface or an API. Merritt […]

DMPTool Service Update: April – May 2012 http://dmp.cdlib.org

DMPTool Service Description The Data Management Plan Tool (DMPTool) provides an easy to use interface that: • Helps users create ready-to-use data management plans for specific funding agencies • Meets funder requirements for data management plans • Provides step-by-step instructions […]

WAS Service Update: April– May 2012 http://was.cdlib.org

WAS Service Description The Web Archiving Service (WAS) enables librarians, archivists and researchers to capture, curate and preserve websites and web‐published materials.   WAS makes it easy to build web archives, with scheduling and other tools to help manage your archive.  […]

EZID Service Update: April – May 2012 http://n2t.net/ezid

Service Description  EZID (easy-eye-dee) is a production service that gives researchers the ability to create and manage long-term identifiers so that they can to track usage, get credit for their work, share their data, and have the data reused for […]

Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — May 2012

By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services SCP is now regularly distributing the SCP files in Unicode. Many thanks to the campus staff who help us troubleshoot encountered problems. With the switch to Unicode, campuses should no longer be seeing […]

The Broad Value of Web Archives: Researcher Findings

On April 30 2012, the International Internet Preservation Consortium hosted a day-long session on “The Broad Value of Web Archives: General Use” (http://netpreserve.org/events/2012ga.php).   Speakers at this event focused on the use and analysis of web-archived materials, and provided a glimpse into […]

Big Picture: The Latest at CDL

Looking for a current overview of what’s going on at the CDL?  Presentations and Q and A from the May 21, 2012 Users Council Meeting are now available for viewing at http://www.cdlib.org/groups/users_council/ The focus of the meeting was driven in […]