Month: December 2010
DataCite Turns One
Recently I attended the General Assembly of DataCite, the international organization devoted to providing a reliable means of citing research data. The organization has made remarkable progress in a year and is well on the way to providing this critical […]
CDL office closure Dec. 22, 2010 PM – Dec. 31, 2010
This year, UC’s Office of the President, including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year Holiday periods from Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 2 p.m. through Friday, December 31, 2010. During this […]
UCSC Librarians in Print
UCSC’s Christy Hightower, Science and Engineering Collections Coordinator, and Christy Caldwell, Science and Engineering Librarian, recently published an article in the Fall 2010 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (ISTL). Their article, Shifting Sands: Science Researchers on Google […]
New Licensed Resource: International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of CDL consortial licenses. International Bibliography of Art (IBA) (All UC campuses; on the CSA Illumina platform.) (http://uclibs.org/PID/105531) The definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art, the International […]
CrossFire Beilstein transitions to Reaxys for 2011
Access to the Beilstein database (via the CrossFire search interface) will end on December 31, 2010. The Beilstein database will be replaced by Reaxys, Elsevier’s workflow solution for research chemists. Reaxys search, analysis and workflow tools are designed around the […]
Prototype interface released for searching archival authority records
CDL’s Digital Special Collections program is pleased to announce the public release of a draft prototype historical access system for the Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC). SNAC is a two-year research project, funded by the National Endowment for […]
Data Documentation Initiative Workshops 1/10-12 at UCSD – Sign Up Now
Immediately following ALA Midwinter, the UCSD Libraries will host a two-part workshop on the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), a community XML standard being deployed internationally for describing, managing, and accessing data sets. The goal of the workshop is to promote […]
ProQuest Transition Delayed for UC
ProQuest databases are beginning a transition to a new platform beginning in January 2011; however, CDL will not activate the new platform until a later date. In CDL and Resource Liaison testing, we have discovered problems with Web VPN compatibility […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Images from UCSD’s Melanesian Archive
By Kathryn Creely, Melanesian Studies Librarian, UC San Diego and Sherri Berger, Digital Special Collections Program Coordinator. Take an “armchair voyage” to Oceania! Nearly 6,000 photographs depicting the people and places of the Pacific Islands are now available on the […]
Now, Dashboard! Now, Dancer!
Are you using a dashboard to assess your organization’s performance? At CDL, we decided to give this approach a try. This time last year, I was beginning the necessary background work, including gathering initial data that would help me understand […]