Month: November 2012
A unique gift that supports the libraries
Are you stuck for holiday gift giving ideas? Want to find a memorable and reasonably priced holiday present? Can’t think of what to give to a recent UC grad or alum? How about a book digitized from UC’s own library […]
Springer Journals and Ebook Migrating to New Springer Platform 11/26/12
Springer Journal and Ebook content will be migrating to a new Springer platform effective Monday, November 26. Springer will redirect all users to the new SpringerLink site at this time. The new SpringerLink is faster, easier to use and optimized […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — November 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The major serial record additions for the past month were to Academic Search Complete (177 titles), Open Access (147 titles), JSTOR (94 titles), and DragonSource (26 titles). For monographs, the major distributions were […]
IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) eBooks
By Julia Gelfand, UC Irvine, Resource Liaison for IET eBooks Several campuses have selected to participate in a Tier 2 for an eBook collection from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). This collection, divided by imprint dates, has a […]
HathiTrust October Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization Top HathiTrust news for October includes the announcement (within the Board of Governors), of HathiTrust Executive Committee officers, including UCSD’s Brian Schottlaender as Executive Committee chair, as well as information about funded opportunities for PhD […]
eScholarship Site Redesigned
Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing eScholarship has a new look! Over the past few months, we’ve redesigned the eScholarship homepage and informational pages to enable us to highlight important events within the scholarly communications environment and new services within […]
DataUp Service Update — September & October 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities We formally launched DataUp on 2 October. Most of September was devoted to preparing for this launch. This included close coordination among several groups, including CDL, Microsoft Research, OuterCurve Foundation, and DataONE. We worked […]
Merritt Service Update — September & October 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities As part of the Datashare project, we developed several new features: Data user agreements (DUA): Curators may now require anyone downloading their data to first agree to a statement about using the data. Before […]
DMPTool Service Update — September & October 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities October was our biggest month ever: 375 new users in October. There is now a total of almost 3500 users, and they’ve created almost 3,000 plans total. Among the UC campuses, there were […]
Why do CRL records display in Melvyl under UC Libraries?
You may have wondered why records for items held at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), located in Chicago, show up under Level 2 with the University of California Libraries holdings in Melvyl; see below. There are several reasons for […]