Month: May 2017
Make Data Count: Building a System to Support Recognition of Data as a First Class Research Output
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work, this award will result in the […]
John Kratz joins UX Team
CDL is happy to announce that John Kratz has joined the User Experience Design team as a full-time career UX designer. In case you weren’t aware of John’s history here at CDL and his many contributions and project work prior […]
Please save your Artstor Digital Library notes and citations before June 1st
The Artstor Support Team sent information today (May 18th) about some upcoming feature changes which may require users to save some of their work in the Artstor Digital Library. These changes are part of the release of an improved platform […]
HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Seeks Proposals from Scholars
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is seeking proposals from scholars interested in receiving advanced collaborative support to solve challenging problems related to computational analysis. Who may submit proposals? Individual scholars or teams of scholars from academic and non-profit institutions. At […]
AP Images Collection is transitioning to the EBSCOhost platform
The Associated Press (AP) Images Collection will be hosted exclusively on the EBSCOhost® platform beginning on June 16, 2017. It is currently hosted on the APImages.com platform. AP Images Collection is a primary source database with millions of images from 1826 […]
New HathiTrust Section Added to CDLib.org
We recently added a new HathiTrust section to the CDLib.org website. The new section describes UC’s partnership and involvement with the HathiTrust Digital Library and is intended for UC librarians, staff and students, as well as the interested public. The […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of April. This monthly report shows titles being added and/or removed from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are highlights of our major record distributions. Our major serial […]
EZID Service Update: April 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Joan Starr, EZID’s Service Manager, attended DataCite’s annual Strategy Meeting and General Assembly where she gave a presentation on the Force11 Software Citation Principles. Software and data differ from one another in several key […]
Termination of CiNii Institutional Fixed-Price Service; most content moving to Open Access
While the CiNii Institutional Fixed-Price Service was terminated in March 2017, the CiNii search interface will continue to be available at its current location (https://ci.nii.ac.jp/). Outbound linking from the CiNii search interface to content will be handled exclusively by CiNii’s […]
Dash Service Update: April 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The Dash team has released the following new features: timed-release of data (private for peer review), a private reviewer URL for data download, corresponding author email capture and display, enhancements to the search and browse features, […]