Month: June 2012
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: June 2012 Review
Six of the Power of Three (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/ngts_pots.html) groups (POTs) have been charged and actively working since August 2011. Due to the complexity of “Developing policies and practices to implement a technical infrastructure for collaborative UC digital services,” POT 1 did […]
New Licensed Resource — JSTOR Arts & Sciences X
UC campuses now have access to this electronic resource as part of CDL consortial licenses: JSTOR Arts & Sciences X (All campuses; on the JSTOR platform) [To be completed by the end of 2013] With a minimum of 125 titles […]
Request Service unavailable July 13 at 5:00 PM – July 16 at 8:00 AM
During the weekend of July 13-15, CDL will migrate the VDX interlibrary loan application from CDL servers to servers hosted by OCLC. During the migration, which will begin at 5:00 PM PDT on July 13, the Request, My ILL and […]
New updates to EZID
EZID, the service that makes long-term identifiers easy, just got informative new content: FAQ for (and from) libraries (see Documentation (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/documentation) ) Slides from Joan Starr’s two recent ALA Annual Meeting presentations (see Outreach (http://n2t.net/ezid/home/outreach) ) Libraries and Data Management […]
New Web Archiving Service Partner: Temple University Libraries
CDL is delighted to welcome the Temple University Libraries as a Web Archiving Service (WAS) partner. WAS enables librarians and archivists to build archives of harvested websites, and to continue their role as stewards of cultural heritage materials for researchers […]
WAS User’s Group at the Society of American Archivists Meeting: Friday, August 10
CDL will be hosting a Web Archiving Service User’s group meeting in conjunction with the upcoming Society of American ArchivistsAnnual Meeting in San Diego. Since many WAS users from around the country will be attending SAA, this will be a great […]
New Peer Review Indication in UC-eLinks
Within the next two weeks, UC-eLinks users will see a new icon in your campus’ UC-eLinks A-Z ejournal list to indicate peer reviewed journals. The icon looks like a document with a magnifying glass (see below.) This enhancement to SFX, the […]
HathiTrust May 2012 Update
Just in time for summer reading, the May 2012 update has been posted. So grab a comfortable chair and a refreshing beverage, and read on about the activities of our new Board of Governors, our new shared location for instructional materials, […]
Merritt Service Update: April – May 2012 http://merritt.cdlib.org
Merritt Service Description Merritt is a production level service that provides the UC community with an easy to use tool to manage, archive, and share their content. Content can be deposited and managed via a user-interface or an API. Merritt […]
DMPTool Service Update: April – May 2012 http://dmp.cdlib.org
DMPTool Service Description The Data Management Plan Tool (DMPTool) provides an easy to use interface that: • Helps users create ready-to-use data management plans for specific funding agencies • Meets funder requirements for data management plans • Provides step-by-step instructions […]