Month: July 2012
New and Upgraded Licensed Content: AGU Digital Library Books; Congressional Hearings; NNCO; Times Digital Archive
AGU Digital Library Books (All campuses; on the AGU platform) (http://uclibs.org/PID/240973) This is a one-time CDL purchase. Perpetual rights for 400 titles, pre-2008 through 2012 of more than 50 years of Earth and space sciences research from AGU’s preeminent books. […]
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) Records Now in Melvyl
As of today, July 30, 2012, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL in the catalog) bibliographic records were added to UC Berkeley’s local OPAC, Oskicat (http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/) and will now also appear in Melvyl under the holdings for UC Berkeley. Examples of […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — June/July 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services SCP staffer Kate Garvey-Clasby is in the middle of processing the new EEBO records. Our plans for distributing them to the campuses are to send the monograph records on CD-ROM. For the serials […]
Followup on Peer Review Indication in UC-eLinks
The UC-eLinks team received this question from a librarian about the recently-published article on Peer Review Indication in UC-eLinks. Question: Because journals aren’t peer reviewed (articles are), how do you decide which journal titles get the peer-review indicator icon? Answer: […]
Portal for Earth Science Data Exploration
As research in the Earth and environmental sciences evolves to become more data-intensive, the ability to discover, integrate and analyze massive amounts of heterogeneous scientific information has become critical to enabling researchers to address complex questions about the environment and […]
EZID Summer 2012 Webinar on August 15
Do you manage or help others manage any kinds of digital objects, such as texts, data sets, terms, or images? Do you need an easy solution to citing and providing access to this kind of work? EZID makes it simple […]
New Licensed Resource: RSC eBooks
All UC campuses now have access to this eBook collection: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) eBook Collection, 1968-2012 (Tier 1, all campuses; on the RSC platform) There is no collection-level PID for this resource; the eBook titles were individually cataloged […]
Staff Transition at the Web Archiving Service
To: Web Archiving Service Users and Community From: Tracy Seneca, Web Archiving Service Manager I’m writing to announce that in early August I will be moving on to an exciting new opportunity as the Digital Services Librarian at the University […]
ILL VDX Transition
VDX, part of the backend of UC’s Request interlibrary borrowing and lending service, moved from being hosted at CDL to OCLC over the weekend of July 13 -15. The move went smoothly, with only the usual minor glitches that occur […]
Merritt Service Update – June 2012
Service Description Merritt is a production level service that provides the UC community with an easy to use tool to manage, archive, and share their content. Content can be deposited and managed via a user-interface or an API. Service Managers […]