Month: January 2015
Wiley Journals integrate “ReadCube” into platform
It seems that ReadCube is everywhere lately. It’s a desktop, web browser and mobile app-based program for managing, annotating, and accessing academic research articles. It provides access to research materials through partnerships with several publishing companies including the Nature Publishing […]
Scholarly Publishing Data Analyst – California Digital Library, University of California
Are you a data-driven information professional passionate about transforming scholarly communication? Do you want to understand how academic research institutions can support the shift to open access? So do we! The California Digital Library (CDL) has an exciting and unique […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: January 2015
Our major monograph distributions for last month included titles for Springer (1,644 titles), Knovel (374 titles), IEEE (158 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (144 titles), Wiley (141 titles), and Airiti (61 titles). For serials, our only major distributions were for Open Access […]
Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library Collection Six is Available
Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers has two fulltext series of short books acquired as a Tier 2 purchase. The Synthesis Series (http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/browseLbS.jsp) currently has completed its sixth collection and includes a total of 46 series in Collections 1-6 that span […]
Challenges to Licensing – MD Consult Update
The vast majority of publishers and vendors who enter into negotiations with CDL demonstrate an open-minded, flexible approach and are more than willing to reach common ground in pricing and licensing terms. It is rare that after a long period […]
DMPTool Service Update: December 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Personnel changes here at CDL that affect the DMPTool: Trisha Cruse, UC3 Director, has retired from CDL after 20 years of service in UC including her previous position at UCSD. Trisha was one […]
WAS Service Update: December 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Archive-it Partnership. The CDL and the UC Libraries are partnering with Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service. In the coming year, CDL’s Web Archiving Service (WAS) collections and all core infrastructure activities, i.e., crawling, indexing, […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: December 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 We added […]
Announcing a New Partnership: California Digital Library, UC Libraries, and Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service
The CDL and the UC Libraries are partnering with Internet Archive’s Archive-It Service. In the coming year, CDL’s Web Archiving Service (WAS) collections and all core infrastructure activities, i.e., crawling, indexing, search, display, and storage, will be transferred to Archive-It. […]
Merritt Service Update: December 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Trisha Cruse, UC3 Director, has retired from CDL after 20 years of service in UC including her previous position at UCSD. Trisha was the original director of the Digital Preservation Program and UC3, and […]