CDLINFO News
Community-Owned Data Publishing Infrastructure
As a library community, we continue to struggle to find scalable approaches to offering open, shared, sustainable scholarly infrastructure. This is especially true in the data publishing and research data management space where institution-focused approaches to capturing and curating data […]
Request a book chapter: New Request feature
The CDL Resource Sharing Team and ILLOps groups are pleased to present a new feature for Request: request a book chapter from a whole book. You can now switch a request from the whole book to a single chapter of […]
SCP Monthly Update–October 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of September. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials distributions, SCP continued to focus on the major […]
HathiTrust Turns 10!
October 13 marks the 10th anniversary of the HathiTrust Digital Library. Ten years ago, HathiTrust was launched jointly by the 12-university consortium known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) and the 10 university libraries of University of California system. The […]
Contemporary Women’s Issues moves to new Gale platform
Recently, Contemporary Women’s Issues moved from the RDS platform to Gale’s InfoTrac platform. Contemporary Women’s Issues offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. The database provides access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering […]
Greg Janée in Transition
Greg Janée, lead developer for the EZID service, has recently stepped up to be the Director of the Data Curation Program at the UCSB Library. Greg, who joined CDL’s UC3 team at 50% time 10 years ago, shifted to CDL’s infrastructure team […]
National Technical Information Library (NTRL) is now Open Access
The National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) has become an open access resource, following a decision made by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). NTRL was previously licensed as Tier 2 by five UC campuses. With the change of NTRL to […]
SCP Monthly Update — September 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of August. This monthly report shows net the increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. For serials distributions, SCP continued to focus on the […]
CDL welcomes Brian David
CDL happily welcomes Brian David as CDL’s new Information Services analyst. Most recently, Brian spent 3+ years at bepress as a consultant and team manager. Before then, his career included work within the non-profit and agriculture sectors, among other positions. […]
China Data Online Cancellation
The China Data Online product is no longer available through UC’s Tier 2 subscription vendor. According to the China Data Center website (http://www.chinadatacenter.org/closed/): “Effective immediately, this China Data Center (CDC) website and associated CDC websites will no longer be available. […]