CDLINFO News
WorldCat Discovery: Additional format information in detailed records
The WorldCat Discovery installation on September 23, 2019 included the following new enhancement. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note: Not all of the enhancements/bug fixes are relevant to the UC Melvyl instances.) New features […]
New Resource: MIT Press Direct eBooks, 1943-2019
All UC campuses now have access to MIT Press Direct eBooks; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. http://uclibs.org/PID/385506 (All campuses, plus LBNL and LLNL; on the MIT Press Direct platform) MIT Press Direct will make […]
Archived titles reports for Cycle 8 now available!
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is pleased to announce that the eighth archiving cycle disclosure process is complete. Cycle 8 (2019) annual collection comparison reports are now available for WEST’s full members to download in AGUA. Both full and supporting members […]
SCP Monthly Update — September 2019
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of August 2019. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. They are color coded as: Net Increase (Green) — […]
WEST Cycles 10 & 11 Call for Unarchived Holdings & Webinar
In the beginning of September, the WEST Project Team sent out a call for unarchived holdings data from WEST Full Members, which will inform the next round of collection analysis (cycles 10 & 11) that will determine what to archive […]
CDL Job Opening: Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer
CDL’s University of California Curation Center (UC3) is actively seeking candidates who want to develop and manage the tools and infrastructure supporting our growing suite of digital curation and preservation services. As a member of our team, you will be […]
Early English Books Online (EEBO) migrates to the ProQuest platform
Early English Books Online migrated from its legacy Chadwyck-Healey interface, to the newly-enhanced ProQuest Platform, on August 22, 2019. The ProQuest platform delivers research experience that guides discovery, access and management of content sources. As a result, Early English Books […]
Next Gen Library Publishing partnership awarded $2.2M Arcadia grant to improve scholarly publishing infrastructure
Educopia Institute and California Digital Library are pleased to announce an award in the amount of $2,200,000 from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin—in support of the “Next Generation Library Publishing” project. Through this project, Educopia and […]
CDL’s Publishing & Special Collections Group Releases 2019/2020 Service Roadmaps
CDL’s Publishing & Special Collections (P&SC) Group is excited to announce that our 2019/2020 service roadmaps are now publicly available: Calisphere Collection Management Systems eScholarship Online Archive of California Open Access Policy Implementation As was the case last year, these […]
Meet UC3’s Associate Director, Catherine Nancarrow
CDL happily welcomes Catherine Nancarrow as UC3’s Associate Director. Catherine will be working across the range of systemwide projects at UC3, providing oversight and support for the group’s product managers and facilitating communications within UC3 and across CDL and the UC campuses. Catherine brings to […]