Beginning January 1, 2024, 9 University of California campuses are upgraded to the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection, also referred to as the JSTOR Full Access collection. All UC campuses except UC San Francisco will participate in this […]
The CDL is undertaking work to redesign the “CaliforniaDigitalLibrary.org” web site. The new site will be called Calisphere and is scheduled for release in June. Redesign decisions have been based on a variety of user assessment findings, including user studies […]
Official California Digital Library Web SiteThe CDL has engaged consultants to assist in the visual design, architecture, and organization of the CDL web site. Once the design is complete, UC faculty and library staff will be asked to test 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. Planning for the New Melvyl: Good News on the Personal Author Front One of the many features that distinguish Melvyl as a catalog with extraordinarily sophisticated power is that users can look for personal authors and retrieve the pertinent […]
CDL Shared Print has issued a call for proposals for prospective Shared Print monograph collections in Area Studies. CDC and CDL Shared Print collaborated to design a new, distributed framework for cooperative monograph collecting which will support the continued development of the UC Libraries' collective collections of international materials.
CDL and other UC staff are eagerly anticipating the “opening” of the CDL via the release of its web site in January 1999. Despite the many activities of the CDL and its partners — such as establishing shared collections principles […]
Do you have a web site you'd like to share that has been created by a UC campus faculty member, librarian, or researcher? Let us know! We'd like to add it to Calisphere.
In 2005, the UC Libraries entered into a ground-breaking partnership with the Internet Archive to digitize public domain book collections from the University of California Libraries. Today, five years and over 64 million pages later, we announce the conclusion of this phase of our Internet Archive collaboration and celebrate the work we have accomplished together.
NOTE: New resources listed below are not yet in the CDL Directory of Collections and Services; they will be added within the next 2 weeks. You can access them directly from the URL provided. A list of recently added content […]
