Month: April 2016
California Digital Library welcomes new leadership
Following an extensive international search, the University of California welcomes Günter Waibel as the new Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library (CDL). Waibel assumed his new post at the CDL on April 25th. Waibel comes […]
Opening More Books for Public Access – HathiTrust’s CRMS Project
For the past eight years, HathiTrust’s Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project has developed the tools, infrastructure, and practices to support the collaborative review of books in HathiTrust to make copyright determinations. Books were targeted for copyright investigation based on the […]
New Free Resource: American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955
All UC campuses now have access to American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955, a free index to nearly 100,000 key dissertations. http://uclibs.org/PID/282465 (All campuses; on the EBSCOhost Research Databases platform) This free research database provides access to the only comprehensive record of dissertations […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Trans Tech Publications
The German Swiss publisher, Trans Tech Publications based in Zurich was founded in 1967 and has become a major provider of journals and monographs in Engineering Research and Materials Science reflecting global advancement in those fields. Five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, […]
CDL Job Opening for Technical Team Manager
The California Digital Library’s (CDL) Discovery & Delivery team (D2D) seeks a service-oriented, innovative individual with strong management and leadership skills, and technical expertise for the position of Discovery & Delivery Technical Team Manager. The Technical Team Manager will lead and […]
DMPTool Service Update: March 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Migrations. Thanks to a tremendous effort by the UC3 team, all of our services—including the DMPTool—have been successfully migrated to AWS! The switch should not be apparent to users, but please let us know if you […]
CDL Job Opening for Library Data and Services Analyst
The California Digital Library, University of California, invites applications for the position of Library Data and Services Analyst. Overview: As a member of the Licensed Content Team within the CDL’s Collection Development and Management Program, the Library Data and Services […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2016
For the month of March, our major serial record distributions includes four new packages: American Society for Nutrition online journals (4 titles), ASCE [America Society for Civil Engineers] Library online journals (39 titles), Open Library of Humanities online journals (5 titles), and Trans Tech Publications […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2016
Our major serial record distributions for February were Open Access (449 titles), which included DOAJ 279 titles, and JSTOR online journals (67 titles). For monographs, we have added Elsevier monographs (106 titles), IEEE conference proceedings (212 titles), Naxos music records […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Feedback link implementation
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 14, 2016 included the following new features and 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 have an impact on Melvyl.) […]