CDLINFO News
Cambridge University Press content moves to new platform: Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core is the new academic platform from Cambridge University Press. It consolidates all Cambridge content, and Cambridge hosted content (Materials Research Society Proceedings Online) onto the single Cambridge Core platform (https://www.cambridge.org/core). The switch to Cambridge Core happened on September […]
EZID Service Update: October 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s big news this month was the introduction of link checking. EZID will be checking target URL links for DOIs and ARKs on a monthly basis, though for accounts with hundreds of thousands or […]
New Request Feature: Remember User Login
We are pleased to release a new Request feature: Remember User Information Starting the morning of November 7, 2016, users will no longer need to re-enter their patron information when placing multiple requests in a single search session. After a […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: CJK Author Field Order
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on October 27, 2016 included the following bug fix. 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.) Bug Fixes […]
DMPTool Service Update: September 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New template: Department of Defense (details on the blog) Themes: We’re still collecting feedback on the revised set of themes for DMP templates and guidance (details on the blog). Machine-actionable DMPs. Join us for PIDapalooza […]
Alison Ray moves to D2D
CDL is pleased to announce that Alison Ray will begin her new position as Discovery and Delivery Systems Analyst on November 1. Alison spent the last 6 months as the interim person in the void left by Margery Tibbetts’ retirement. […]
SAE Digital Library is now SAE MOBILUS
The SAE Digital Library is now SAE MOBILUS, with a new name, URL and functionality. The SAE Technical Papers and Technical Papers Archives are a Tier 2 license. Participants by collection: Technical Papers: UCB (including LBL), UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR […]
Cobweb: Collaborative Collection Development for Web Archives
A partnership between the CDL, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library has been award funding from IMLS to create Cobweb, a collaborative collection development platform for web archiving, https://github.com/CobwebOrg/cobweb. The demands of archiving the web in comprehensive breadth or thematic depth easily exceed […]
EZID Introduces Link Checking
The EZID team is happy to announce the introduction of link checking. EZID now checks the location URLs (links) of all identifiers to see if any are broken. Here are the details: EZID runs a harvester that continuously checks links. […]
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Seven is Available
For the nine participating campuses (all except UCSB), Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) has begun making its seventh collection of lectures available online. The basic component of the library is a 50 to 100-page electronic book that […]