Month: December 2016
CDL office closure Dec. 22, 2016 PM – Jan. 2, 2017
This year, UC’s Office of the President (UCOP), including the California Digital Library (CDL), will be officially closed during the Winter and New Year holiday periods from Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 2:00 PM PST through Monday, January 2, 2017. The […]
A New Look for All Journals on Scitation
All American Institute of Physics Publishing (AIP) journals and Member Society publications transitioned in December 2016 to a newly redesigned Scitation platform. Member Societies include: AVS (American Vacuum Society) Acoustical Society of America American Association of Physics Teachers American Crystallographic […]
Cambridge Books Online, 2016-2018
The UC Libraries have acquired the Cambridge Books Online collection for systemwide access to Cambridge University Press eBooks published in 2016-2018. All 10 campuses and CDL contributed toward this purchase. The agreement represents a major systemwide adoption of ebooks, and […]
Taylor & Francis: New UC Systemwide Agreement
CDL is pleased to announce that it has finalized an agreement on a new consortial contract for systemwide access to Taylor & Francis journals effective with the 2016 calendar year. The new agreement, negotiated and implemented early in 2016 but […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Cover art for every item
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on December 8, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]
DMPTool Service Update: November 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Bug fixes and enhancements: Our development efforts are mostly trained on the new Roadmap platform, however, there were a few DMPTool things that deserved attention this month. Institutional admins will notice improvements for assigning admin roles and a […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: December 2016
For the month of November, our major serial record distributions include EBSCO journals (17 titles), Open Access journals (512 titles which include: DOAJ, 286 titles; PubMed Central online journals, 26 titles; ScienceDirect online journals, 28 titles; SpringerOpen online journals, 74 […]
EZID Service Update: November 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities On Nov. 10, John Kunze (EZID’s Lead Architect) presented at Pidapalooza, the first international conference dedicated to persistent identifiers. The full schedule and some conference materials are available on the conference website. Conference attendees […]