Month: November 2014
WEST member meeting at ALA Midwinter in Chicago: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting is happening on Sunday, Feb. 01, 2015 from 1-2:30 pm in the Hilton Chicago (Continental C). Please RSVP to our poll (found here) (http://doodle.com/u7rqy5mrktpf8pm6) if you plan to attend. Please list your institution next to your […]
Staff in Print – John Kratz and Carly Strasser
CDL is pleased to announce that a new version of Data publication consensus and controversies by John Kratz, a CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellow at CDL, and UC3 Data Curation Project Manager Carly Strasser, was just published by F1000Research and is available at http://f1000research.com/articles/3-94/v3. Here […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus Quarterly Reports
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Library Terms That Users Understand” by Kupersmith, John, […]
DMPTool Service Update: October 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Usage. We had the highest number of new users and created plans in a single month in October. There were 472 new users in October, and 500 new plans were created. We now […]
Merritt Service Update: October 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities SDSC Migration update. We are close to completing the migration of content from the UCOP Data Center to the SDSC Cloud Storage service. This migration should be finished in mid November. UCLA Replication. Once […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2014
For monographs, our major distributions included titles for Springer (1,269 titles), SuperStar (238 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (177 titles), Airiti PDA (153 titles), Open Access (106 titles), IEEE (101 titles) and Apabi (99 titles). For serials, our major distributions were for […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: October 2014
The UC3 Dash (https://dash.ucop.edu) service provides an easy-to-use solution for the effective curation of and access to research data. Dash is a centralized UC3-hosted service, with UC campus and DataONE branded instances. Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities […]
Call for WEST Cycle 3 (2013/14) statistics underway
WEST cycle 3 statistics gathering is well underway! Thank you to everyone who has responded to our call – we greatly appreciate it. Following each cycle, WEST collects deselection, archiving and lending/borrowing statistics from our members and Archive Holders. These […]
Announcing University of California Libraries’ Shared Print RoadMap 2014-2018
The University of California Libraries recently adopted a roadmap for UC shared print activities for the next few years. Key projects and policies that our libraries will pursue and explore include: Coordinated print serials archiving to UCs two Regional Library […]
EZID Service Update: October 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The DataCite Metadata Working Group released Version 3.1 of the DataCite Schema. This version adds: New affiliation attributes for Creator and Contributor A new contributorType: DataCurator Two new relatedIdentifierTypes (arXiv and bibcode) Two new […]