Month: March 2015
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online transition to new platform
Three campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, and San Diego) participatie in a Tier 2 license for access to six (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish; plus Arabic for UCB only) of the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. The 3 participating campuses have […]
New ACRL workshop presenter: CDL’s Katie Fortney
Katie Fortney, CDL’s Copyright Policy expert with the Access & Publishing group, was selected as a new presenter for ACRL’s “Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement” workshop, which is offered at institutions across the country on an ongoing basis. Katie […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2015
I’m very pleased to share the news that Becky Culbertson has been named a recipient of the annual Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award. The ALA press release highlights many of her contributions to the field, the benefits of which are well […]
Discovery and Delivery Services Product Manager position opens at CDL
You are experienced with managing large, end-user-facing, hosted services in digital libraries. You enjoy working in a collegial and collaborative environment with an experienced team of analysts, product managers and developers. You are experienced in maintaining strong vendor relationships, and […]
UC Davis, CDL to Lead Major Project to Build Open Access Financial Model
(Davis, CA) – The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library (CDL) will lead a major new project, with an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help define the future of Open Access to scholarship. […]
CDL Job Opening for Metadata Product Manager
You are an experienced metadata analyst and product manager. You have the ability to understand how metadata is mapped and transformed as it travels between discovery, delivery and decision support systems. You are deeply and creatively engaged with the digital […]
WAS Service Update: February 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS to Archive-it Transition. We have been working with Archive-it staff to successfully test and document the migration process. WAS tech staff have created custom exports of seed lists and metadata for import into Archive-it. […]
Merritt Service Update: February 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Replication at UCLA. We are currently replicating all content in SDSC to our storage node at UCLA. We estimate this will be completed by the end of March 2015. Automated harvesting process. We recently […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: Jan-Feb 2015
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 UCI Dash […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Easier to print search results & lists
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on March 12, 2015 included the following new features & enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not […]