Month: May 2011
Websites: Make Them Accessible to Everyone
Is your website as accessible and inclusive as it should be for all your potential audiences? The University of California is committed to providing an electronic environment that is accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities. To make it easier […]
Change in the way UC-eLinks displays articles with an embargo or moving wall
More full text links are now displaying in UC-eLinks due to a change in the way SFX (the software underlying UC-eLinks) handles embargoes and moving walls. This change means UC-eLinks will display more full text links from platforms that include […]
Learn more about digital preservation, web archiving and data curation
UC3, CDL is pleased to announce a Summer Webinar Series highlighting projects, services, and developments in the areas of digital preservation, web archiving and data curation. A goal of the webinars is to raise awareness of these issues, and the […]
CRL and California Digital Library to Develop Print Archives Preservation Registry
CRL is working with the California Digital Library to develop a Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR). PAPR will support research library and consortial efforts to archive and manage critical print serial collections in an informed and cost-effective manner. PAPR will feature […]
Important Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Enhancements – May, 2011
Please read the following notes very carefully—there are several important pieces of information that will impact our Melvyl WCL service now and in the future. Those items which impact the UC Libraries immediately are marked with an asterisk (*). Please […]
Spreading the Word about JHOVE2: Tutorial Delivered in Salt Lake City, Rome
For the past two years the University of California Curation Center (UC3) has been partnering with Portico and Stanford on a project to develop JHOVE2, an open source format-aware characterization application and framework. The goals of the project were to […]
University of Michigan to Identify Orphan Works in HathiTrust
The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). […]
HathiTrust Makes Progress in April 2011
An update on HathiTrust Activities has been posted at http://www.hathitrust.org/updates_april2011 In addition to new functionality for its PageTurner application in April, improving the way volumes in the repository can be viewed and used (announced earlier in CDLINFO, other highlights this […]
Viewing HathiTrust Books Just Got Better
Would you like to scan the contents of a book at a glance? This is now possible with HathiTrust’s upgrade to its pageturner functionality. The recent enhancements were developed collaboratively by CDL’s Stephanie Collett and staff at the University of […]
HathiTrust Webinar Available Online
Is your 52 volume set of Voltaire checked out but someone else needs to use it? HathiTrust to the rescue! Want to learn more about HathiTrust, how it’s governed, what it contains and how people use it? HathiTrust partners participated […]