Month: April 2017
Michael Urashka Joins CDL
Michael joins the Infrastructure and Applications Support (IAS) system administration team to expand our capacity and help us create the next generation of CDL infrastructure in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Michael comes to CDL from Lawrence Berkeley National […]
DMPTool Service Update: March 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Templates. We’re updating some existing templates (e.g., the NEH released a 2017 PDF) (https://www.neh.gov/files/grants/data_management_plans_2017.pdf) and auditing the complete inventory ahead of the migration to the new version of the tool. In the next version, funder/public […]
Introducing the UC-eLinks Sidebar
Ex Libris has launched a new option for direct linking in SFX (UC-eLinks): the DirectLink sidebar. The sidebar appears on the right side of the screen while the full text appears on the left side of screen. The DirectLink Sidebar […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Easier to navigate search results
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on April 13, 2017 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.) […]
New resources in Melvyl’s Central Index
Six resources have been added to Melvyl’s Central Index. They are: PsycARTICLES (American Psychological Association) University of California Press Journals (University of California Press) BMJ Journals (BMJ Publishing) Mary Ann Liebert Online (Mary Ann Liebert Publishers) Berg Fashion Library (Bloomsbury Publishing) […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2017
For the month of March, our major serial record distributions include Gale Literature Resource Center online journals (27 titles), Open Access journals (147 titles which include: DOAJ, 66 titles; PubMed Central online journals, 48 titles). Also 35 titles of EBSCO […]
EZID Service Update: March 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Joan Starr, EZID’s Service Manager, participated in the first California Data Librarians Meeting, hosted by UC Santa Barbara. The format was “unconference” style, and Starr proposed a topic that was chosen: Frequently Asked Questions […]
Dash Service Update: March 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Bug Fixes and Enhancements: The Dash team is currently finishing up our timed-release of datasets feature. In March, we created a Publication Date chooser, a reviewer URL for private datasets, and a feature for 10 […]