Month: August 2015
ProQuest Updates Platform Interface, August 20th
ProQuest will be rolling out changes to the interface of the main ProQuest platform on August 20, 2015. The ProQuest Congressional interface implemented a similar look and feel on August 5th. The changes are predominantly CSS and display-based (font, color, […]
New Licensed Resource: Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) — Literature
All UC campuses now have access to Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) — Literature. Note: Some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. http://uclibs.org/PID/276064; All campuses, on the Oxford Handbooks platform. Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO), the home of scholarly research […]
Alexander Street Press Debuts New Interface for Selected Resources
The Alexander Street platform will be debuting a new interface on Friday August 14. From the vendor’s announcement, the new interface includes: More intuitive search, browse, video, and audio pages to help patrons find content faster Easily accessible instructional videos […]
Mirroring FirstSearch searching in WorldCat Discovery (WCD)
As you know, OCLC is rolling out a new discovery interface (WorldCat Discovery) which will merge together the existing OCLC FirstSearch and WorldCat Local (WCL) interfaces onto this new platform. Currently, the UC campuses are scheduled to move to the […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 2nd Quarter 2015 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: “Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance” by Tsoutsoura, […]
Changing of the guard
In July, Erika Wilson, CDL Executive Assistant to Laine Farley, became the Communications and Operations Manager at the Authors Alliance (http://www.authorsalliance.org/). “As we continue to grow, it’s important we have staff committed to our mission,” said Authors Alliance Executive Director […]
CDL welcomes Angela Di Iorio
CDL is thrilled to welcome Angela Di Iorio from La Sapienza Digital Library in Rome. She will be joining us for two months as a visiting scholar. Angela is a technologist who has been working on digital library management and […]
Caitlin Nelson joins D2D
On Monday, August 10th, CDL’s Discovery to Delivery (D2D) team welcomed Caitlin Nelson as the Discovery & Delivery Services Product Manager. Caitlin will be product manager for Request and eventually Melvyl, and she’s already been recruited for a UCLAS task force […]
CDL Job Opening for Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing
The California Digital Library has an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and motivated professional to lead its content licensing unit. The Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing will lead and manage collaborative licensing activities and negotiate license agreements for digital scholarly […]
CDL Staff in Print – John Kratz & Carly Strasser in Scientific Data
Congratulations to John Kratz, a CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellow at CDL, and our former CDL colleague, Carly Strasser, on today’s publication of their article, “Making Data Count”, in the journal Scientific Data. The article presents research conducted for Making Data […]