Month: September 2012
HathiTrust August 2012 Update
HathiTrust had a busy summer, as described in its August update. Reported in this issue is an array of new and ongoing activities. For example, later this year HathiTrust will begin accepting the “library walk-in” Shibboleth attribute from partner institutions […]
California Digital Library Joins the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing The California Digital Library is pleased to announce its new membership in the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Founded in 2008 to “represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally […]
ECS Journals Transition to New Platform
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals are now available on the HighWire Press platform. They have transitioned from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Scitation platform, which is discontinuing its hosting services for ECS and selected other society publishers.
SPIE Digital Library moves to a new platform
By Jean McKenzie, UC Berkeley Engineering Library, Resource Liaison for SPIE The SPIE Digital Library (SPIEDL) moved to Silverchair Information Systems platform SCM6 on August 22, 2012. SPIEDL has an updated look, improved functionality, and more content. 40,000 additional articles […]
Work in progress: UC libraries website redesign update
The following is a work-in-progress update for the 2012 redesign project of the UC libraries website (http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/). This website is a web presence for all UC library groups and their systemwide activities. (This website is a separate entity from the […]
Momentum Press 2011 Digital Library
All UC campus libraries now have access to this electronic resource as part of a Tier 2 license. Momentum Press 2011 Digital Library (All campuses including LBL; on the ebrary platform.)http://uclibs.org/PID/241136 Digital Library (45 books): Comprised of five Topical Engineering […]
EZID goes abroad: Announcing EZID UK
The EZID (http://n2t.net/ezid) Team is excited to announce a new partnership with EDINA, a UK national academic data center based at the University of Edinburgh, and JISC, the UK’s “expert on information and digital technologies for education and research”. Our […]