Month: March 2009
New Licensed Resources: Asahi Kikuzo II; The Sixties
UC campuses now have access to Asahi Kikuzo II and The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 as part of Tier 2 licenses.
UC/Springer Open Access Journal Publishing Pilot – Resources for Campus Use
A task force appointed by the Scholarly Communications Officers (SCO) worked with the California Digital Library (CDL) to prepare information on the UC/Springer Open Access Journal Publishing Pilot, originally announced in January, for distribution to UC authors on each campus. The information can be found on the Reshaping Scholarly Communication site.
Calisphere — share your University of California-created web sites with us
Do you have a web site you'd like to share that has been created by a UC campus faculty member, librarian, or researcher? Let us know! We'd like to add it to Calisphere.
Next Generation Melvyl – Status Update; March Enhancements
The current Melvyl and Next Generation Melvyl will run in parallel until such time as OCLC has met UC's critical needs for the Melvyl Catalog. There were a number of enhancements brought into Next Generation Melvyl supported by WorldCat Local (WCL) on Sunday, March 15.
Digital Special Collections welcomes Sherri Berger
CDL is pleased to welcome Sherri Berger to the Digital Special Collections (DSC) group.
California Digital Library Announces Self-Guided Tutorial for the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the availability of an extensive self-guided tutorial for its eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) application.
NISC Databases Transitioning to EBSCOhost Research Platform
NISC USA resources have been purchased by EBSCO and will be transitioning to the EBSCOhost Research platform on April 17, 2009.
CDL’s Director of eScholarship Publishing, Catherine Mitchell, in the News
CDL's Director of eScholarship Publishing, Catherine Mitchell, has been re-envisioning scholarly publishing, a topic that's of broad interest right now.