Month: March 2012
Visit the Data Pub at CDL
By Patricia Cruse, Director, UC Curation Center Data management plans, data publication, and calls for open data are raising the visibility of digital data as a medium to be addressed by a wide community of researchers, libraries, museums and data centers. […]
Ergonomics Abstracts New Platform
Ergonomics Abstracts (Systemwide access) has transitioned from Taylor & Francis to the EBSCOhost platform. (http://uclibs.org/PID/126493)
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: March 2012
A roundup of this month’s activities and accomplishments from the Power of Three (POT) (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/ngts_pots.html) Groups: POT 1: Build the UC Digital Collection infrastructure POT 1 has adjusted its task list and timeline to reflect feedback from the NGTS Management […]
HathiTrust Update for February – Full-text search, Bib Data Management and more
You can learn about the twelve candidates running for HathiTrust’s Board of Governors, find out about local digitization projects, and discover what the CDL is doing with Bibliographic Data Management and dictionary-building work in the HathiTrust update on February 2012 […]
CDL Position: Manager, Infrastructure and Applications Support
Are you excited about supporting the building and creative use of the world’s scholarship and knowledge? Are you a strong IT technical manager who can meet the challenges of managing complex relationships, keeping technologies up-to-date and working with developers to […]
UC-eLinks wording changes: simpler is better
Thanks to suggestions from UC librarians Katie Fortney (Santa Cruz), Ruth Gustafson (Davis), and Stacy Nelson (San Diego), the CDL has simplified key messages in the UC-eLinks window. But these changes go beyond wordsmithing — they reflect changes in the […]
Additional institutions adopting the DMPTool for managing their scholars’ research needs
The DMPTool now supports the National Institutes of Health (NIH) data sharing requirements. NIH requires that projects seeking more than $500,000 in direct costs in any single year address data sharing plans in their grant application. In some cases, some […]
Web Archiving Service Welcomes Emory University Libraries
CDL Welcomes Emory University Libraries as the newest Web Archiving Service (http://was.cdlib.org/) partner! Kate Donovan Jarvis, Emory’s University Archivist and Erika Farr, Coordinator for Digital Archives will be using the service to archive the University’s websites. They will also use […]
Melvyl Central Index: Change in Language for Authentication Screen; Removal of SCIPIO
Based on user input, CDL has made the following changes to the Melvyl Central Index Pilot with the endorsement of the Melvyl Central Index task group: 1. The language on the Authentication screen has been modified. 2. The SCIPIO: Art […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update – January/February 2012
By Adolfo Tarango, Head, Systemwide Collection Services Since I was unable to provide you with a monthly update in January, this update covers the work output for December 2011 and January 2012. Our December monographic output highlights include Springer (875 […]