Month: July 2015
DMPTool Service Update: July 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Strategy for new templates. At least one agency released new requirements this month; the NIH published guidelines for developing genomic data sharing plans (http://gds.nih.gov/pdf/NIH_guidance_developing_GDS_plans.pdf). We learned about it from a member of the library […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2015
Our major serial record distributions for June were for ProQuest (78 titles), IEEE (70 titles), Open Access (42 titles), Black Studies Center (37 titles), International Index to Black Periodicals (32 titles), ScienceDirect (30 titles), and Literature Online (29 titles). Our […]
Wiley Online Library adds CAPTCHA to prevent systematic article downloads
Wiley has implemented CAPTCHA (http://www.captcha.net/) for users downloading more than 25 articles in an active session on the Wiley Online Library. This is in order to prevent systematic downloads of content above a threshold that Wiley deems to be an […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Smart Grid Research: Connected Homes
Five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Smart Grid Research: Connected Homes – Impact of Smart Grid on Connected Homes Landmark Research Study. This purchase supplements […]
Feedback links removed from WorldCat Local
As of July 23, 2015, OCLC has removed feedback links from the WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org user interfaces as part of an OCLC technical infrastructure project. You should now report Melvyl problems directly to the Melvyl Operations Team at melvylops@cdlib.org. […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – SAE Technical Papers Archive, 1906-1997
Four campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and Los Angeles) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the SAE Technical Papers Archive, 1906-1997. http://uclibs.org/PID/255206 (B, D, I, and LA; on the SAE Digital Library platform) Content in this resource […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: APA, MLA and Chicago citations added
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on July 23, 2015 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. 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 have an impact […]
It’s alive! Calisphere BETA soft launch
The UC Libraries Digital Collection (UCLDC) project team is pleased to announce the soft launch of Calisphere BETA. The beta site is the public interface to all collections that have been aggregated through the UCLDC platform, and represents the successful […]
New Licensed Resource – International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed.
All UC campuses now have access to the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed.; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions: http://uclibs.org/PID/274924 (All campuses; on the ScienceDirect platform) The second edition of […]
Melvyl & FirstSearch transition to WorldCat Discovery delayed
CDL has confirmed with OCLC that development work we are awaiting will not be done this summer. WorldCat Discovery is not yet at functional parity with WorldCat Local Melvyl, so UC libraries will not be switching over to WorldCat Discovery […]