Month: September 2015
WorldCat Discovery beta: Personal Lists; Importing Lists from WorldCat.org
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on September 25, 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 […]
Melvyl’s Central Index is expanding
CDL will now activate CDL-managed Tier 2 databases in Melvyl’s Central Index. This was the recommendation of the Melvyl Configuration and Electronic Resources Project Team, and the Council of University Librarians endorsed it on September 14, 2015. Why is this […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2015
The first set of records for two new monographic packages were sent out last month, for Business Expert Press and for the Oxford Literature Handbooks. Business Expert Press promotes itself as providing “… concise, practical, treatments of the topics taught […]
NewsBank Interface Upgrade
NewsBank recently released interface chances for the Access World News and America’s News Magazines databases — http://uclibs.org/PID/98452. Enhancements include: Searching • More navigators by which the content can be explored • Searches can be refined either before or after conducting […]
Ovid User Interface Enhancements
The OVID interface (UC’s current host platform for the Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins titles) will be undergoing an interface upgrade on September 30, 2015, including changes to Journal Views (Journal Listings View [see below], Journal Title View and Journal Full […]
DMPTool Service Update: August 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New Template. We added a new template for NIH-Genomic Data Sharing; get the full report on the DMPTool blog. Users should also note that we renamed the existing NIH template “NIH-Generic” and created […]
CDL’s Shared Cataloging Program helps support alternative press/open access resource
SCP staff are constantly on the lookout for how their cataloging can be leveraged for the greater good. Such an opportunity recently presented itself with the licensing by CDL of 800 titles offered by Reveal Digital in their Independent Voices […]
Release of the new Calisphere! More content in a great new interface
CDL is pleased to announce the official, public release of the new Calisphere website, currently in beta mode. Go there now! The new Calisphere site provides access to even more unique digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums throughout the […]
Laine Farley, CDL Executive Director, to Retire Effective September 30th
Laine Farley, longtime Executive Director of the California Digital Library, will retire from the CDL effective September 30th, 2015. Farley is CDL’s third and longest-running Executive Director, having served in that capacity for nine years—first as Acting Executive Director from […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Gunsho Ruiju Online
Nine campuses (all except UCSF) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to Gunsho Ruiju Online. http://uclibs.org/PID/168427 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD, SB and SC; on the JapanKnowledge platform) The Gunsho Ruiju series is […]