Month: August 2012
Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) Announces Print Archiving Milestone
The press release below can also be seen at the UC Newsoom. The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a partnership to create a distributed retrospective print journal repository in the western United States, has completed its first round of print […]
Next-Generation Technical Services Update: August 2012
UC Libraries Next-Generation Technical Services Transitions to 2012-13 Over the summer, the NGTS Management Team and the Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) have been reviewing the work of the Power of Three (POT) groups (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/ngts_pots.html) with an eye […]
Upcoming UC-only OCLC Webinar: 9/20/2012
Are you curious about what the future looks like for Melvyl, resource sharing (ILL), and FirstSearch WorldCat? Join us for a UC- only OCLC webinar, “Transforming Discovery and Resource Sharing with OCLC: FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing and More.” The webinar […]
UC-eLinks now offers direct linking for articles in Melvyl
UC-eLinks now offers direct linking for articles in Melvyl when UC has licensed the electronic edition of the journal. In some cases you will see the UC-eLinks menu header in a frame at the top of the article (see image […]
Merritt webinar, August 22, 2012
We will host a webinar on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 from 2:00-3:00pm (PT) to highlight new enhancements to Merritt. The webinar is open to the public, with a limit to the first 150 attendees; a recording will be made available […]
DataUp Service Update: July 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities For the last month we have been testing out beta versions of the DataUp tools and relaying issues and bugs to the Microsoft Research developers. We received a beta version of the tools in […]
DMPTool Service Update – July 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities There were 34 new users from UC campuses in June, bringing the total to 482 UC users. UC users have created 397 data management plans since the service began in Oct 2011. Overall, […]
Merritt Service Update – July 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities A number of enhancements have been deployed to Merritt as of July 2012, as summarized on the UC3 Curation wiki (https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/Home). Some of the key highlights: Merritt now supports public access to designated collections and […]
EZID Service Update – July 2012
July Activities EZID added support for an additional DataCite metadata element, resourceType. This is similar to the Dublin Core Format element, and it will become a required by DataCite in the next few months. We decided to help users prepare […]
WAS Service Update – July 2012
WAS News Tracy Seneca, the WAS service manager and project leader since its inception in 2008, is leaving the California Digital Library for a position as Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tracy has been a […]