Month: April 2014
WEST Invoicing 2014
WEST will issue member fee invoices in May/June for the calendar year 2014. As previously announced via email to members in December 2013, there will be increases to the member fees this year. As we advance to a fully member-supported […]
CDL Notice Regarding US-CERT CVE-2014-0160, “Heartbleed Bug” OpenSSL Vulnerability
By Kurt Ewoldsen, Manager, CDL Information & Applications Support On April 8, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) announced a serious vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160, aka the “Heartbleed Bug”) in OpenSSL, a cryptographic software library that underlies much of the encryption […]
WEST accomplishments and member benefits
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) has launched into its next three-year phase (Phase 2, 2014-2016.) During this next phase, WEST will strive to reach sustainability and will build upon the significant accomplishments of its first three years to provide […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: March 2014
Welcome to the first Service Update for UC3 Dash! UC3 Dash is a systemwide service that will allow UC campuses to provide an easy‐to‐use solution for the effective curation of and access to campus research data. Dash is a centralized […]
DMPTool Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Development continues at a fast pace, and we’re on track to release the new version in May. We’re currently testing with users and fixing bugs. We’re planning to work with the UC Berkeley WebAccess […]
Update: WorldCat Discovery Services Beta Timeline for Melvyl and FirstSearch
OCLC has announced WorldCat® Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications that will be bringing the FirstSearch® and WorldCat® Local (WCL) services together. They have also announced that WorldCat Discovery Services will be available to all current FirstSearch subscribers in March 2014. […]
EZID wins 2013/14 DataCite Gold Award
At DataCite‘s General Assembly meeting this year in Dublin, Ireland, EZID was honored with the 2013/14 Gold Award for assigning more than 500,000 DOIs (digital object identifiers) in 14 months. This is the second Gold Award for EZID, and we […]
EZID Service Update: March 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID team members attended DataCite’s biannial strategic planning meeting and general assembly in Dublin, Ireland, at the end of March. The meeting was scheduled to coincide with the Research Data Alliance third plenary meeting […]