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…
CDLINFO News: Collection Development
HathiTrust Collection Exceeds 10 Million Volumes
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…
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – December 2011
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
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…
Announcing the UC Library Reprints Service
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…
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…
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – November 2011
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
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…
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – October 2011
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
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…
