CDLINFO News
Taylor & Francis: New UC Systemwide Agreement
CDL is pleased to announce that it has finalized an agreement on a new consortial contract for systemwide access to Taylor & Francis journals effective with the 2016 calendar year. The new agreement, negotiated and implemented early in 2016 but […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Cover art for every item
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on December 8, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]
DMPTool Service Update: November 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Bug fixes and enhancements: Our development efforts are mostly trained on the new Roadmap platform, however, there were a few DMPTool things that deserved attention this month. Institutional admins will notice improvements for assigning admin roles and a […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: December 2016
For the month of November, our major serial record distributions include EBSCO journals (17 titles), Open Access journals (512 titles which include: DOAJ, 286 titles; PubMed Central online journals, 26 titles; ScienceDirect online journals, 28 titles; SpringerOpen online journals, 74 […]
EZID Service Update: November 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities On Nov. 10, John Kunze (EZID’s Lead Architect) presented at Pidapalooza, the first international conference dedicated to persistent identifiers. The full schedule and some conference materials are available on the conference website. Conference attendees […]
New and improved Dash
Researchers are increasingly being asked to publish their datasets. For some disciplines, there are well-known conventions and repositories for doing this. However, for the vast majority of researchers, it is difficult to determine best practices and/or trustworthy places to publish […]
New milestones for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
CDL is proud to assist UC campus libraries with the publishing and preservation of ETDs (electronic masters theses and PhD dissertations). In recent months, we have accomplished a couple of huge milestones that the entire UC system can be proud […]
Berg Fashion Library moves to Bloomsbury platform
For the 6 participating UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz) access to the Berg Fashion Library, which was previously provided by Oxford University Press has transitioned to the Bloomsbury Academic platform. http://uclibs.org/PID/240961 (B, D, I, […]
Software Developer Opening for the Discovery and Delivery Team
Software developers, analysts and product managers on the CDL’s Discovery and Delivery (D2D) team work collaboratively and creatively to develop and support a wide variety of library services for the University of California’s libraries and for regional and international library […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2016
For the month of October, our major serial record distributions included AnthroSource online journals (24 titles), JSTOR online journals (97 titles), Open Access journals (315 titles). Of the OA journals, 197 titles were DOAJ; 25 titles were ScienceDirect online journals; 17 titles were […]