Month: January 2010
Major Report on Scholarly Communication Needs & Practices Now Available in eScholarship
by Elise Proulx, Outreach & Marketing Coordinator, Publishing Group Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty […]
Searching for UC Systemwide Electronic Resources in the Catalogs
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services; Linda Barnhart, Head of Metadata Services (UCSD); and Adolfo Tarango, Head of CJK, Serials & Shared Cataloging Division (CDL/UCSD) There is a disparity between what users see in current Melvyl, the Next Generation […]
Luna Insight collections: transitioning access in January 2010
By Rosalie Lack, CDL Digital Special Collections Director The CDL has transitioned the access of several image collections from CDL’s version of the Luna Insight service to other entry points. This decision is a result of a recent analysis of […]
Mass Digitization Projects Update: 2009 in Review
By Heather Christenson, CDL Mass Digitization Project Manager The UC Libraries’ made great progress in mass digitization of books in 2009, despite significant fiscal challenges. In April 2009 we reached a major milestone: over 2 million books digitized! In August […]
Learning from Detroit, or, Why projects fail
When I heard about the would-be Christmas bomber, I couldn’t help thinking, “Why haven’t the 9/11 Commission Report recommendations been implemented?” And since that day, indeed, we’ve come to find out that the various security agencies are still not talking adequately […]
Web of Science and BIOSIS Database News
By Beth Weil (UCB), WoS and BIOSIS Resource Liaison As part of the CDL negotiated 3-year Web of Science renewal, UC campuses now have access to Social Science Citation Index back to 1900 through the Web of Science database. This […]
Web Archiving Service: Revised Site
On Thursday January 21, the California Digital Library launched a redesigned Web Archiving Service home page: http://was.cdlib.org. The new design integrates information about both web archives and curatorial tools, so that people visiting the site can easily get information about […]
Welcome to Behind the Scenes!
This is a new blog-within-a-blog, by me, Joan Starr, CDL’s Manager of Strategic and Project Planning. I chose my tagline, ‘Behind the Scenes,’ because, as a CDL Service Manager, I operate a little bit out of the limelight. At the […]
Welcome to CDL’s remodeled web site
Redesigning a web site has much in common with remodeling a house. It takes longer than you anticipate, you find unexpected challenges along the way, and in the end, you can’t imagine how you lived without it. Our remodel features […]
New Licensed Resource: JSTOR Arts and Sciences VIII
By Ellen Meltzer, Manager, CDL Information Services UC campuses except UCSF now have access to this electronic resource as part of CDL consortial licenses: JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII (All campuses except UCSF; on the JSTOR platform) The Arts & […]