Month: January 2016
Meet Robert Wang – CDL’s new UX Designer
Robert Wang is a new UX Designer at the California Digital Library (CDL). He recently graduated from the University of Michigan with an M.S. in Information, specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI). He is excited about advancing CDL’s mission of supporting scholarship […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Call numbers added to emailed records
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on January 21, 2016 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 […]
DMPTool Service Update: December 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Maintenance/migrations. The DMPTool will be unavailable on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 5 – 6pm (PDT) while we migrate the database to AWS. The application will also be moving to the cloud so you can expect another maintenance message […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: December 2015
Our major serial record distributions for last month were for Open Access (505 titles), SuperStar (98 titles), EBSCO (48 titles), JSTOR (44 titles). For monographs they were for Naxos music (886 titles), Naxos Jazz (465 titles), SuperStar (391 titles), Knovel […]
AAAS platform adds functionality, changes URLs
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) platform is updating their site on January 12 to include responsive design, easier access table and figures, and incorporating functionality that is present in their other online titles to the main […]
New mobile version of UC-eLinks
As of January 12, 2016, you will see a mobile-optimized version of UC-eLinks when you are on most mobile devices. Thank you to the campus UC-eLinks Liaisons and the the UC-eLinks Operations team for assisting with testing. Mobile versions are […]
New Licensed Resource – BioOne Complete licensed on behalf of all UC campuses
All UC campuses now have access to BioOne Complete (formerly BioOne.1 and BioOne.2) on the BioOne.org platform; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. SCP distributed the journal title level records on December 21, 2015. BioOne.2 has […]
EZID Service Update: December 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID clients had another interesting exchange about “evolving” or dynamic datasets this month. This is clearly a topic that concerns many data managers. The latest discussion is here: http://bit.ly/1P7vLA4. In late November, DataCite held […]