Month: October 2005
NISC Improves Its Interface
The database provider, NISC, has asked the CDL to move to a new interface as of November 1. UC licenses the following databases from NISC (Your campus may license additional databases as well.): African Studies Black Studies Database Family and […]
Google Scholar Emphasized Links
Now that UC-eLinks has migrated to Version 3 of SFX, the CDL has the necessary technical capability to share UC’s ejournal holdings with Google Scholar. By doing so, Google Scholar will then be aware which journals and papers UC has […]
Directory of CDL-Licensed Content Retiring
Reminder: The Directory of CDL-Licensed Content [http://www.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/directory_search] will be retired October 31, 2005. At that time, please be prepared to remove any links to or mention of the Directory in campus web pages or guides. Users who have bookmarked the […]
Updated versions of OAC and eScholarship Editions
Last week the CDL released updated versions of the Online Archive of California (OAC) <http://www.oac.cdlib.org/> and eScholarship Editions <http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/>. The eScholarship Editions home page provides more visible access to various browse options. Most of the other noticeable interface changes were […]
New CDL Resource Liaisons
The CDL is pleased to announce the appointment of the following CDL Resource Liaisons: ArtBibliographies Modern (Tier 2) — Krista Ivy, UC Riverside Bibliography of the History of Art — Susan Jurist, UC San Diego Contemporary Women’s Issues — Sherri […]
UC Libraries Partner With Technology Companies and Non-Profits to Provide Free Public Access to Digital Books
The University of California libraries are participating in a new partnership to build a freely accessible digital library with materials drawn from across the world. The UC libraries will contribute books and resources in order to build a collection of […]
CDL Receives Grant for Melvyl Catalog Recommender Project
What if your library catalog was smart enough to offer good recommendations? The Melvyl Catalog Recommender Project is an experimental research and prototyping project that is investigating a number of technical strategies for making online public access catalogs easier to […]