Month: April 2013
DMPTool Webinar Series
The California Digital Library received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) last year to develop education and outreach materials for librarians surrounding the DMPTool, a service that helps researchers create and manage data […]
Latest eScholarship Publishing Report
By Justin Gonder, eScholarship Operations Coordinator UC Researchers are publishing open access articles on a fascinating array of topics—from minimum wage to green marketing to nursing practice. This quarter’s top ten most popular eScholarship articles include the following: UC Berkeley: […]
Licensed Resource: National Palace Museum Transition
National Palace Museum http://uclibs.org/PID/126960 AIRITI, a Chinese e-content provider of Chinese academic e-journals, is no longer distributing the Tier 2 resource NPM (National Palace Museum), an image archive of treasures at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. The collection includes […]
CDL staff embed in UCSC interlibrary services unit
By Alison Ray, Information Services Analyst & Leslie Wolf, Resource Sharing Project Manager Members of the California Digital Library are always looking for ways to get closer to the people and tools we connect through our digital services. Although we […]
Virginia Steel (UCSC) Appointed UCLA University Librarian
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/uc-santa-cruz-s-virginia-steel-245436.aspx Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost To: Administrative Officers, Deans, Department Chairs, Directors, Faculty, Library Staff, Vice Chancellors and Vice Provosts Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to announce the appointment of Virginia Steel as UCLA’s University Librarian, […]
Two Enhancements from HathiTrust: Interface Redesign and Research Center Tools
Redesigned Website By Heather Christenson, Project Manager, Mass Digitization HathiTrust has released an updated, fresh design and new features for its website. The latest design incorporates feedback submitted by HathiTrust users and input from HathiTrust’s User Experience and Communications working groups. We encourage […]
Good enough to eat: Halberstadt food photographs at UC Davis
Our virtual world is rife with images of food: a friend’s triumphant dinner party, a market with overflowing produce, the not-to-be-missed doughnut around the corner. From amateur snapshots of memorable meals, to softly lit portraits of perfect desserts—I’m looking at you, […]
DataUp Service Update: March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Strasser provided a demonstration of DataUp to attendees at the Beyond the PDF 2 Conference, held in Amsterdam. Strasser submitted a paper on DataUp and the DMPTool to the Research Data Management Infrastructure Meeting […]
Merritt Service Update: March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities An updated roadmap summarizing our 2013 development priorities for Merritt is now available on the UC3 Curation Wiki: http://bit.ly/16O0hGK We are continuing work towards migrating the backend Merritt server environment from physical servers to Virtual […]
DMPTool Service Update: March 2013
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities DMPTool webinar series: The first webinar, an introduction to the DMPTool, will be May 28. Register for the webinar: (http://bit.ly/Z4g43Z) Read more about the webinar series: (http://bit.ly/12C9vWh) We’ve created two advisory boards for the DMPTool, […]