CDLINFO News: Collection Development

PsycINFO Records Missing Publication Dates

February 1, 2012  |  Category:  Collection Development,Licensed Resources,Newsletter,Resource Liaisons  |  Author: 

By Teal Smith, User Communication and Instruction Librarian, UC Merced and Resource Liaison, PsycINFO Teal Smith (UCM), the Resource Liaison for PsycINFO (on the ProQuest/CSA Illumina platform), has notified CDL … More

HathiTrust Collection Exceeds 10 Million Volumes

January 6, 2012  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

HathiTrust reached a major milestone on January 5, 2012, exceeding 10 million volumes in its digital collections. More than 2.7 million of these volumes are in the public domain. Read … More

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Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – December 2011

December 19, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Licensed Resources,Newsletter,Shared Cataloging  |  Author: 

By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries.  Established in January 2000, the program is based … More

Licensed Database Transitions 2012: bepress/De Gruyter, Project Muse, Wilson/EBSCO, ProQuest

December 19, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Information Services,Licensed Resources,Newsletter  |  Author: 

Several CDL and campus licensed databases will be transitioning to new platforms in the new year.  Below are several of the upcoming changes: The academic publisher De Gruyter is … More

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Announcing the UC Library Reprints Service

December 1, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

By Jason Colman, Project Specialist, Mass Digitization The UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from their collections.  Now, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, many of these … More

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Who are Trevor, Darrell, Katie, Chloe, Lisa, Stacy, and Xiaowen?

Thanks to the HathiTrust User Experience Advisory Group, we now have a set of “personas” representing HathiTrust users.   For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, personas are … More

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Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – November 2011

November 21, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Licensed Resources,Newsletter,Shared Cataloging  |  Author: 

By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries.  Established in January 2000, the program is based … More

New Custom URL for PubMed

October 25, 2011  |  Category:  Newsletter,Shared Cataloging  |  Author: 

Recently, it came to our attention that PubMed had changed its URL, which subsequently changed the custom URL used by the UC campuses. PubMed’s custom URL includes specific components (tool … More

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Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – October 2011

October 24, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Licensed Resources,Newsletter,Shared Cataloging  |  Author: 

By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for the University of California campus libraries.  Established in January 2000, the program is based … More

HathiTrust Update, September 2011 – Constitutional Convention and much more

October 17, 2011  |  Category:  Collection Development,Mass Digitization,Newsletter  |  Author: 

 Read the latest about the recent HathiTrust Constitutional Convention (with wide UC library participation), HathiTrust Mobile, Authors Guild Lawsuit, and a whole host of other initiatives in the latest HathiTrust … More

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