Month: April 2013
WAS Service Update: March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Upgrade to Wayback 1.7. We upgraded the version of Wayback (the tool that is used to replay web crawls). This has resulted in increased general reliability, as well as improved display. End of Term […]
UC Libraries Advisory Structure Enters Next Phase
Planning for the new UC Libraries Advisory Structure has entered its next phase. The Council of University Librarians has endorsed charges for the primary committees. The committees are now named: the Coordinating Committee; Strategic Action Group 1 (SAG 1): Scholarly […]
HathiTrust March 2013 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization Spring is here and the March HathiTrust update is hot off the press. The news includes: A reminder about submitting nominations for the Program Steering Committee A report on the HathiTrust Research Center’s […]
DOI and PMID added to UC-eLinks Citation Linker
Your patience has been rewarded! By popular demand, the UC-eLinks team has added two new search fields to the end user Citation Linker forms: DOI – Digital Object Identifier PMID – PubMed Identifier Why is this good? When you enter […]
Elizabeth Cowell (UCSC) appointed to GPO Depository Library Council
Begin forwarded message: From: GPO Public Relations <public-relations@gpo.gov<mailto:public-relations@gpo.gov>> Date: April 3, 2013 8:52:02 AM EDT Subject: ACTING PUBLIC PRINTER NAMES NEW MEMBERS TO DEPOSITORY LIBRARY COUNCIL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 6, 2013 No. 13-13 MEDIA CONTACT: GARY SOMERSET 202.512.1957 | […]
EZID Service Update — March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities For the 2nd month in a row, EZID Clients captured top honors when DataCite’s Managing Director Jan Brase blogged about the “most popular datasets” using DataCite Statistics. February numbers showed that 8 of the 10 […]
Accessibility Improvements to UC-eLinks
In 2012, University of California hired an accessibility consultant Jim Thatcher to review ten websites at each campus including the UC libraries’ websites, and to write a report for each campus. UC Berkeley shared their “Thatcher” report with CDL in fall 2012. […]
UC-eLinks is moving to the Ex Libris Cloud
After more than a decade of hosting the Ex Libris SFX software that runs UC-eLinks, the CDL is joining a growing number of SFX customers by moving UC-eLinks hosting from CDL to the Ex Libris Cloud. The migration process will […]
BrowZine iPad Application Trial and Survey – ends April 30, 2013
Have an iPad? Help the Library evaluate a new research tool that is being considered for possible subscription. The libraries of the University of California are running a trial of a new technology called BrowZine, a tablet application that allows […]
CoUL Issues Statement of Support for Dale Askey
On March 26, 2013, the UC’s Council of University Librarians issued a statement of support for McMaster University librarian Dale Askey who has been sued by a publisher for making defamatory remarks in a blog post. The CoUL’s statement is […]