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 […]
EZID, the service that makes long-term identifiers easy, just got in formative new content: FAQ for (and from) libraries (see Documentation (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/documentation) ) Slides from Joan Starr’s two recent ALA Annual Meeting presentations (see Outreach (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach) ) Libraries and Data […]
[…] The size (FTE or collection budget) of the University and its member campuses should not be used formulaically to calculate price levels, unless there is an understanding that subsequent pricing will be adjusted to reflect demonstrated use. 4. The University […]
[…] manager is independent of the N2T resolver (and other external resolvers) in the sense that one service can be down without affecting the other. Long term availability of the EZID manager interface is shored up by its essential simplicity – […]
On August 20, Academic Universe presented its new user interface. Although a few problems have been identified (some have been resolved by the vendor, and some require further work), the new interface significantly improves usability of the Academic Universe databases. […]
a. ERIC (Telnet) via Stan ford No Longer Available Stanford is in the process of restructuring its locally loaded databases. As part of this process, Stanford staff decided to discontinue the local load of the ERIC database as of July […]
a. Timeline for Notifying Users CDL staff and TSC members have created a timeline and plan for notifying users and library staff of details for retiring the CDL-hosted journal article databases from now through the end of the year. The […]
[…] the CDL Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections, four additional journals from the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) have been licensed for all campuses by the CDL. In addition to the valuable content these journals represent, the decision to license them […]
By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager Request Delayed One of the most significant remaining challenges in the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot supported by WorldCat Local (WCL) is the integration with Request (ILL). Request is dependent on a major re-architecture […]
