CDLINFO News
Call for Cycle 7 Archive Disclosures – Due May 25, 2018
The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders to submit metadata records describing the journal backfiles archived during WEST Cycle 7. Cycle 7 marks the second year in WEST’s inaugural two-year archiving period. During […]
CDL Job Opportunity: Metadata Product Manager (career position)
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a collaborative effort of the ten campuses of the University of California. As a UC systemwide library, CDL provides services to and on behalf of the UC system in partnership with the UC campus […]
UC Libraries on eScholarship
The UC Libraries now have a presence on eScholarhip. The URL is: https://escholarship.org/uc/uc_libraries You can also find this content by searching “University of California Systemwide Libraries” in the eScholarship search box. The documents found on the UC Libraries eScholaship presence are products […]
Introducing CDL’s Strategic Vision
When CDL set out to articulate a new strategy for our organization, we called the activity “strategic visioning,” not “strategic planning.” While a subtle distinction, it was a deliberate attempt to differentiate what we were doing from more traditional strategy […]
SCP Monthly Update – April 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of March. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. We added a new collection of ProQuest US major dailies […]
The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) Joins the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance
On March 12, EAST and the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance announced EAST’s participation in the Alliance. EAST joins the four founding Rosemont members—BTAA, FLARE, Scholars Trust, and WEST—in a national effort to ensure the preservation and availability of print journal […]
Cobweb Update: How Cobweb Facilitates Participatory Web Archiving
Given its breadth and depth, archiving the web can seem an overwhelming endeavor. Digital curators typically approach web archiving by first determining what to collect based on the collecting scope established by their organization. Once they’ve identified the general theme […]
EZID Service Update: March 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Identifier Systems Architect John Kunze was the keynote speaker at an ARK Summit hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2018/a.jp_180321_ark.html. The event, conducted in French, drew participants from around Europe. The Library […]
CDL joins Royal Society Open Access Membership
CDL has recently signed on to the Royal Society Open Access Membership, an arrangement under which UC-affiliated authors (from any UC campus, UC Office of the President, or Lawrence Berkeley Lab) are entitled to a 25% discount off of Article […]
CDL welcomes Julia Kochi
Beginning today (April 2, 2018), a new – and to some, a very familiar – face has joined the CDL licensing team. Julia Kochi, Director of Collection & User Services at the UCSF Library, will be working at CDL 3 […]