Category: Discovery & Delivery
WorldCat Discovery beta: Access DOIs in record descriptions
The WorldCat Discovery installation on July 26, 2018 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
Michael Morris-Pearce moves on and up to Oregon
As many of you know, Michael Morris-Pearce is moving to Portland. Michael has been with CDL for just over a year but in that time he’s made a lot of important contributions. One of those contributions was completely revising the […]
Meet Claudia Conrad – D2D’s Metadata Product Manager
Claudia Conrad is joining CDL’s D2D team as Metadata Product Manager. She will be starting on July 30. Claudia brings a wealth of experience as a product manager, most recently with Innovative Interfaces. She is experienced in agile software development […]
So, what is Unpaywall anyway?
Unpaywall is a service that maintains a database of links to full-text articles from open-access sources all over the world. The content is harvested from legal sources including repositories run by universities, governments, and scholarly societies, as well as open […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Publicly share personal lists
The WorldCat Discovery installation on June 28, 2018 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
Meet Sarah Houghton, CDL’s new Discovery & Delivery Director
The California Digital Library is delighted to announce the appointment of Sarah Houghton as the new Director of the Discovery & Delivery (D2D) program effective August 1st 2018. Sarah comes to the California Digital Library after serving seven years as […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: More precisely link to author names
The WorldCat Discovery installation on May 31, 2018 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
New Request (ILL/DDS) security feature debuts
On Monday, May 21st, a new security feature was implemented in Request (UC’s interlibrary loan and document delivery service). The feature prevents the user from entering an email address other than a UC campus email address OR any email address […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Email Improvements
The WorldCat Discovery installation on March 29, 2018 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
CDL Job Opportunity: Metadata Product Manager (career position)
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a collaborative effort of the ten campuses of the University of California. As a UC systemwide library, CDL provides services to and on behalf of the UC system in partnership with the UC campus […]