Month: November 2013
Updates from beyond WEST: Shared Print at the 2013 Charleston Conference
At the Charleston Conference, two shared print groups, the Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s (CIC) Shared Print Repository, presented on their projects, goals and activities. In “Data to Decisions: Shared Print Retention in Maine,” […]
UC Faculty Publish in eScholarship
Interested in the research and open access publishing at your campus? At other UC campuses? CDL sends campuses a quarterly report with each campus’s eScholarship publishing statistics (and more). For a summary of UC’s most popular campus eScholarship publications this […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection II
UC campuses now have access to the JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection II as part of the CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Ecology & Botany II The Ecology & Botany Collection II expands coverage of Ecology & […]
K-Theory now available through Portico
The academic community lost access to the mathematics journal K-Theory on the SpringerLink platform when the editorial board resigned in 2007 and founded a new journal, Journal of K-Theory, published by Cambridge University Press. Access to the original K-Theory content […]
HathiTrust October 2013 Update
There are a number of exciting announcements from HathiTrust this month: Zephir, a new bibliographic data management system developed for HathiTrust by the California Digital Library was released. HT announced its intention to become a replicating node in the Digital […]
Welcome Dana Jemison
Please join CDL in welcoming Dana Jemison as a Metadata Analyst to our Discovery & Delivery Team. Dana will be working primarily on the PAPR (Print Archives Preservation Registry) project. PAPR supports research library and consortial efforts to archive and […]
Introducing Zephir, HathiTrust’s New Metadata Management System
The California Digital Library (CDL), in collaboration with staff from the University of Michigan, has developed and implemented a new bibliographic metadata management system, Zephir, for the HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from […]
Emily Stambaugh speaks on "Reinventing Shared Print" and provides update on UC Shared Print and WEST
The OCLC Collective Insight Series event, “Getting off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless Collections,” was held at Loyola Marymount University on October 15, 2013. The interactive program explored current and future opportunities to share print and electronic collections across […]
UC Open Access Policy implementation is live!
The Academic Senate of the University of California adopted an Open Access Policy on July 24, 2013, ensuring that future scholarly articles authored by faculty at all 10 UC campuses will be made available to the public at no charge. […]