Month: January 2013
CDL Welcomes Katie Fortney
By Catherine Mitchell, Director, Access & Publishing Please join us in welcoming Katie Fortney to the CDL as our new Copyright Management Officer. Some of you may already know Katie from her previous incarnation as Collection Development Librarian and Scholarly […]
Dacheng Old Journal Full-text Database
By Susan Xue, UC Berkeley, Resource Liaison for Dacheng Journals All UC campuses; on the Dacheng platform http://uclibs.org/PID/241770 This collection of old journals contains more than 7,000 journal titles and 130,000 issues published in China from the late Qing Dynasty to 1949. […]
eScholarship Quarterly Reports – A Fascinating Snapshot
By Justin Gonder, eScholarship Operations Coordinator Each quarter, the CDL sends a report to each campus Scholarly Communication Officer (SCO) with information about that campus’s use of eScholarship as well as total usage systemwide. Instead of sending the reports out […]
The Progress of Preservation
I was very pleased by the nice recognition from Library of Congress’s “Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments of 2012” of three projects CDL has been involved in: The DataUp Project. The University of California Curation Center at the California Digital […]
DataUp, End of Term Web Archive Cited Among Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments of 2012
Two CDL projects are among a list of top ten digital preservation developments of 2012, according to Bill LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Library of Congress, DataUp and the End of Term Web Archive (http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/2012.html) are included in this […]
HathiTrust December 2012 Update
By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization December’s HathiTrust update is now available. There is a new feature of the “Most Accessed Volumes in HathiTrust.” Check out what our users are examining, from Korean American investigations to Forest Leaves. A […]
WAS Service Update – November/December 2012
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS 2.0 Release re-scheduled for 2013. One of the key, new features of WAS 2.0 will be the Solr index. It will bring faster and more accurate search results, advanced search features, and a more […]
CDL and Partners Receive Sloan Funding to Enhance DMPTool Features; Reach Out to Community
By Carly Strasser, Data Curation Specialist The California Digital Library and its partners were awarded a $590,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund further development of the popular Data Management Planning Tool (DMPTool) in 2013. The bulk […]
HathiTrust Research Center Video Now Available
Check out this information video about the HathiTrust Research Center: Learn how researchers are recognizing previously invisible patterns in literature, creating visualizations and sharing results.
UC Irvine Presents "Just Get It: The Search for Value-Based Delivery"
Several of our UC Irvine colleagues presented a session at the recent Charleston Conference with the title, Just Get It: The Search for Value-Based Delivery (Interlibrary Loan). CDL staffers attending the meeting suggested that additional staff would be interested in […]