Category: Publishing
UCSF Implements Open Access Policy
The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, eliminating barriers to sharing their research. The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest scientific institution […]
Your Faculty is Publishing in Open Access!
What do “Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change” and “The World Distribution of Household Wealth” have in common? They’re both UC faculty-published articles on UC’s flourishing open access platform, eScholarship. eScholarship supports the publication of UC-affiliated conference papers, articles, […]
Meet Virtual Martin
We here at the California Digital Library (CDL) are very serious when it comes to all things digital. Some of our colleagues work virtually so we’ve explored the gamut of long-distance communication solutions. The latest solution, a robot, has been […]
California Digital Library Joins PKP as Major Development Partner in Open Access Publishing
By Catherine Mitchell, Director of Publishing As the scholarly publishing landscape heats up with more talk of boycotts and Open Access mandates, research libraries increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between publishers and faculty — and eagerly working to provide […]
eScholarship Launches New Submission Management System
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Publishing Group The eScholarship team is excited to announce the official launch of our new submission management system. This milestone marks the completion of a two-phased project, begun in 2009, to transition eScholarship (UC’s Open Access […]
UC Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Now Have Preservation and Access
By Patricia Cruse, Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3) and Catherine Mitchell, Director, Publishing Group Several UC campuses are actively using CDL’s preservation and access services for the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) of their graduate students, exercising a […]
Mark Twain Project Online Receives Award for Best Reference Web Site 2011
The Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO), a joint project of the Mark Twain Papers and Project of The Bancroft Library, the California Digital Library, and the University of California Press, was selected as one of the MARS Best Free Reference […]
California Digital Library Announces Release of XTF Version 3.0
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. XTF provides efficient and practical […]
Digital library’s global, local services
The California Digital Library’s (CDL) success in elevating the digital library to be expansively global and deeply local has been demonstrated this fall in its launching of an array of pioneering resources that support activities in all corners of research […]
eScholarship Integrates PubMed LinkOut Feature
By Elise Proulx Publishing Group Outreach & Marketing Coordinator Follow eScholarship on Facebook and Twitter. The Publishing Group of the California Digital Library (CDL) announces the implementation of the PubMed LinkOut feature for material published by eScholarship, the University of […]