Month: October 2013
UC Libraries receive grant to support Phase 2 of the Western Regional Storage Trust
Researchers can 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 of […]
Licensed Resource Platform Change: AIP Scitation
AIP Scitation (All campuses; on the Scitation Platform) A new platform is in place for AIP Scitation, enhancing the online research experience for AIP Publishing and AIP Member Society journals. Developed in conjunction with a leading technology partner, the new […]
DataUp Service Update: July – September 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DataUp received the NDSA Innovation Award on July 24th at a ceremony during the 2013 Digital Preservation Conference. CDL’s Stephen Abrams accepted the award on the team’s behalf. The DataUp project team met […]
Merritt Service Update: July-September 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The migration of content in the legacy Digital Preservation Repository (DPR) to Merritt is complete. Over 80,000 objects in 89 collections from the DPR were successfully ingested into Merritt. It took many weeks of […]
DMPTool Service Update: July-September 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Development status: You can follow our progress on the wiki at: https://bitbucket.org/dmptool/main/wiki/DMPTool2Project. DMPTool webinar series: We held 3 webinars in July and 2 in August, with guest speakers: Joan Starr (CDL) on promoting institutional […]
WAS Service Update: July -September 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities 1. WAS 2.0 released. With the WAS 2.0 release, WAS curators now have new tools and reports that support: site creation and management; collection development; quality assurance; site analysis; and integration with local systems. […]
HathiTrust September 2013 Update
An Executive Director search is under way for HathiTrust, as reported in the HT September update. Other highlights in September include a meeting of the Program Committee, where it was reported that new subgroups will be appointed to advance the […]
EZID Service Update: July, August and September 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataCite summer meeting was held on September 19-20th, following the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Second Plenary. The meeting had the highest attendance yet for a DataCite conference, with participants coming from all over […]
The Richness of the UC Libraries Revealed in Reprints
The UC Libraries are happy to announce the re-launch of the University of California Library Reprints website! Through our partnerships with the Internet Archive and Google, the UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from our […]
New UC IT Accessibility Policy in Place
By Ellen Meltzer, Representing the UC Libraries on the UC Electronic Accessibility Leadership Team (EALT) You may have learned at your campuses that, as one of his last official acts, UC President Mark Yudof adopted a University of California Policy […]