Month: January 2011
Cancellation of Informa Healthcare Journals as of January 1, 2011
The Collection Development Officers at the ten UC campuses, the UC health and life science selectors (UCHLS) and CDL have decided to cancel the Informa Healthcare (IHC) systemwide license as of January 1, 2011. There were three important systemwide principles […]
Mellon Grant Awarded to University of California Libraries to Implement the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)
Researchers can now be assured that the scholarly record will be preserved for future generations through a coordinated system of trusted print archives held at libraries throughout the western United States. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University […]
UC-eLinks “Logon to your campus proxy or VPN” alert is helping users
A new feature implemented by the UC-eLinks team in July 2010 is making a huge difference — it’s a special UC-eLinks’ alert that tells users to logon to their campus proxy or VPN when we detect they are trying to […]
DataCite Metadata Scheme is published
The DataCite Metadata Scheme has been finalized and is now available here (http://datacite.org/schema/DataCite-MetadataKernel_v2.0.pdf). After many months and a lot of very early morning conference calls with my European colleagues, I am delighted to make this announcement. The core group that […]
Emily Stambaugh in Print
Emily Stambaugh, CDL’s Manager of Shared Print, recently had an article published in a recent issue of Against the Grain. The article is entitled Heading West: Circling the Wagons to Ensure Preservation and Access, and discusses the Western Regional Storage […]
HathiTrust WorldCat Local Discovery Tool
Today, OCLC and HathiTrust announced the release of a WorldCat Local-based interface for the HathiTrust Digital Library, currently containing more than 4 million records. The discovery interface is available at http://hathitrust.worldcat.org and will be updated on a regular basis. (Links […]
CDLers (and UCSBer) in Print
The latest D-Lib magazine is a special issue devoted to Research Data. It has an international list of authors, including a few from close to home. John Kunze and Patricia Cruse, University of California Curation Center; and Greg Janée, University […]
CDL On-the-Go
The CDL website has gone mobile. Since the launch of our new web presence in January, 2010, the User Experience Design team has continued our commitment to finding new and timely ways to serve our users’ needs. In the summer […]
Principal Metadata Analyst Position Closes 1/14/11
Shape the future of discovery & delivery. Discovery & Delivery: Job Opportunity Position: Principal Metadata Analyst About you You are an experienced metadata analyst. You have the ability to understand how metadata is mapped and transformed as it travels between […]
HathiTrust: 2010 Year in Review
By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager A special edition HathiTrust newsletter highlighting 2010 achievements and activities is now available. 2010 was quite a momentous year for our partnership; the membership of HathiTrust doubled to 52 institutions, and we’re approaching […]