Month: December 2011
CDL office closure Dec. 23, 2011 PM – Jan. 2, 2012
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 Friday, December 23, 2011 at noon through Monday, January 2, 2012. During this closure, […]
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: December 2011
Power of Three (POT) 1 to build UC Digital Collection infrastructure The NGTS Management Team held a kickoff conference call with Power of Three (POT) group 1, which has been charged (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/ngts_pot1_charge.pdf) to “Build the systemwide infrastructure to support digitized […]
Major Melvyl Enhancements Coming in January
Two exciting new features enhancing Melvyl will be turned on in Melvyl beginning this January: View Now and Central Index. Two task groups appointed by and reporting to the UC Heads of Public Services (HOPS) recommended that these features be […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – December 2011
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries. Established in January 2000, the program is based at UC San Diego. To learn more about SCP, see […]
Licensed Database Transitions 2012: bepress/De Gruyter, Project Muse, Wilson/EBSCO, ProQuest
Several CDL and campus licensed databases will be transitioning to new platforms in the new year. Below are several of the upcoming changes: The academic publisher De Gruyter is acquiring the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) portfolio of 67 journals in […]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory joins UC-eLinks
Berkeley Lab joins the ten UC campuses in having access to UC-eLinks for easy linking to articles and other UC-eLinks features. The Lab officially introduced UC-eLinks in September 2011. They created a video to explain how UC-eLinks works. UC Berkeley […]
UC Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Now Have Preservation and Access
By Patricia Cruse, Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3) and Catherine Mitchell, Director, Publishing Group Several UC campuses are actively using CDL’s preservation and access services for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) of their graduate students, exercising a […]
Announcing the UC Library Reprints Service
By Jason Colman, Project Specialist, Mass Digitization The UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from their collections. Now, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, many of these books will be made available for purchase as reading copies […]