Month: November 2016
New and improved Dash
Researchers are increasingly being asked to publish their datasets. For some disciplines, there are well-known conventions and repositories for doing this. However, for the vast majority of researchers, it is difficult to determine best practices and/or trustworthy places to publish […]
New milestones for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
CDL is proud to assist UC campus libraries with the publishing and preservation of ETDs (electronic masters theses and PhD dissertations). In recent months, we have accomplished a couple of huge milestones that the entire UC system can be proud […]
Berg Fashion Library moves to Bloomsbury platform
For the 6 participating UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz) access to the Berg Fashion Library, which was previously provided by Oxford University Press has transitioned to the Bloomsbury Academic platform. http://uclibs.org/PID/240961 (B, D, I, […]
Software Developer Opening for the Discovery and Delivery Team
Software developers, analysts and product managers on the CDL’s Discovery and Delivery (D2D) team work collaboratively and creatively to develop and support a wide variety of library services for the University of California’s libraries and for regional and international library […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2016
For the month of October, our major serial record distributions included AnthroSource online journals (24 titles), JSTOR online journals (97 titles), Open Access journals (315 titles). Of the OA journals, 197 titles were DOAJ; 25 titles were ScienceDirect online journals; 17 titles were […]
Cambridge University Press content moves to new platform: Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core is the new academic platform from Cambridge University Press. It consolidates all Cambridge content, and Cambridge hosted content (Materials Research Society Proceedings Online) onto the single Cambridge Core platform (https://www.cambridge.org/core). The switch to Cambridge Core happened on September […]
EZID Service Update: October 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities EZID’s big news this month was the introduction of link checking. EZID will be checking target URL links for DOIs and ARKs on a monthly basis, though for accounts with hundreds of thousands or […]