By Joan Starr, EZID Service Manager Service Description EZID (easy-eye-dee) is a production service that makes it simple for digital object producers (researchers and others) to obtain and manage long-term identifiers for their digital content. EZID makes objects easier to […]
Last month, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor at UC Berkeley. Want to explore his groundbreaking research? Check out some of his recent publications (http://www.escholarship.org/uc/search?creator=%22Perlmutter,%20S.%22%22Perlmutter,%20S.%22;creator-join=or) in […]
a. Alexander Street Press Correction: North American Women’s Letters and Diaries and The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries will not be released until this spring. There will be a future CDLINFO item announcing their availability. As recommended by the […]
a. Access to OCLC Databases Changing Soon OCLC is making a significant change in the way they handle their Z39.50 databases. The result of this change is that the FirstSearch databases available from CDL via Z39.50 will ONLY be available […]
a. RILM Changes (Michael Colby, Resource Liaison for RILM) On August 15, RILM transitioned from the OCLC interface accessible via the CDL-hosted databases interface, to the native interface offered by NISC. UC access to RILM can now be found at […]
The latest statistical profile of the CDL is now available from the “About the CDL” publications web page and the Evaluation Activities page , entitled The California Digital Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use (July 1, 2001 – June […]
a. Reminder – Access to OCLC Database Changing WorldCat (WCAT), PapersFirst (PAPR) and ProceedingsFirst (PROC) will be available ONLY in OCLC’s web interface (native mode) and no longer available via Z39.50 in the CDL-hosted databases interface. This change is earlier […]
In its role to identify appropriate mechanisms for developing CDL shared content to serve UC instructional and research programs, the Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC) conducts surveys of UC subject selector (bibliographer) groups annually. The responses to the […]
Originally created by the SOPAG Electronic Resources Cataloging Task Force in 1999 Revised March 2003 by Becky Culbertson Revised November 2008 by SCDPP WG Revised September 2009 by Renee Chin Revised March 2019 by SCP Approved with minor revision July […]
The California Digital Library is pleased to announce that a contract has been signed with Ex Libris for its ALEPH 500 system to serve as the underlying technology for the University of California’s Melvyl® Union Catalog. Ex Libris has a […]
