Month: November 2010
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 […]
OCLC webinar on Merritt, Thursday Nov. 18
OCLC Research is hosting a webinar on Merritt as part of their Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) series on Thursday, Nov 18 at 11am PT (2pm ET). The webinar will be led by Stephen Abrams […]
Licensed Resource Change: Alternative Press Index & Archive
Alternative Press Index and Archive are moving to a new vendor. Alternative Press Index http://uclibs.org/PID/7399 Alternative Press Index Archive http://uclibs.org/PID/49179 As announced last spring (http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/questions/), EBSCO has acquired the rights to license several OCLC FirstSearch databases, including Alternative Press Index […]
Uncommonly In Common
Colleagues from JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Rachel Bruce and Neil Jacobs visited CDL on October 29. We have often met with various representatives from JISC who have been engaged in many of the initiatives, services and issues that are […]
Publishing Group Director Catherine Mitchell on the University as Publisher
By Elise Proulx Publishing Group Outreach & Marketing Coordinator California Digital Library Publishing Group Director Catherine Mitchell sees local publishing services as key for universities to reclaim their primary intellectual asset – the scholarly output of faculty. By getting involved […]
HathiTrust Search Widget
By Heather Christenson, CDL HathiTrust Project Manager CDL has developed a search box that can be placed on any web page to search the HathiTrust Digital Library directly from websites, learning management systems, library guides and more. There are a […]
Nov 8th and 16th: Introduction to the Web Archiving Service
Introduction to the Web Archiving Service Two sessions offered: November 8th and November 16th, 10:00 – 11:30 am Learn how to use the Web Archiving Service to capture critical websites and publications and build searchable archives. If you are a […]
Reducing the Cost of Change
Two of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, Jim Highsmith and Alistair Cockburn, have said here that the strategy behind Agile methods “is to reduce the cost of change.” To me this is a provocative phrase, “reduce the cost of […]