Month: September 2014
UCSF Partners with Google Books for Digitization Project
By guest blogger, UCSF Archivist Polina Ilieva The UCSF library is an important UC contributor to the Google Books digitization project. Through the collaboration with the California Digital Library (CDL) digitization team 1,317 volumes from the general and rare book […]
Explore, Advocate, Build, Connect: CDL’s 2013-2014 Annual Report
CDL is pleased to announce the release of its CDL AnnualReport 2013-2014. Over the past year, CDL continued to develop and refine its service portfolio at a remarkable pace, completing seven major milestones and conducting exploratory projects focused on understanding […]
Merritt Service Update: August 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities SDSC migration. We are migrating content from the UCOP data center to the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). We’ve migrated about 40,000 objects so far, with another 120,000 left to go. We are migrating […]
UC3 Dash Service Update: August 2014
UC3 Dash is a systemwide service we are developing in partnership with UC campus libraries. It will allow UC campuses to provide an easy-to-use solution for the effective curation of and access to campus research data. Dash is […]
WAS Service Update: August 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities WAS User Group Meeting. The WAS User Group meeting was held during the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (SAA 2014). The meeting was open to all conference attendees for a discussion to explore web […]
New Happenings at HathiTrust – August Update
New happenings at HathiTrust: The University of Michigan received a third grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) of 489K for copyright determinations work in their Copyright Review Management System (CRMS). The grant will fund the […]
WEST starts Archive Cycle 5!
WEST is pleased to announce that work is already underway for Archive Cycle 5! Currently, members are providing files of library journal holdings data for the fifth round of collection analysis. Each year, WEST members provide their holdings for regional […]
Catherine Mitchell elected to Library Publishing Coalition Board
Catherine Mitchell, CDL’s Director of Access & Publishing, was recently elected to the Board of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). A relatively new organization, the LPC promotes the development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in academic & research libraries by […]
DataUp is Merging with Dash!
About Dash Dash is a University of California project to create a platform that allows researchers to easily describe, deposit and share their research data publicly. Currently the Dash platform is connected to the UC3 Merritt Digital Repository; however, we have […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2014
For monographs, our major distributions included titles for Naxos (4999 titles), Springer (1402 titles), Wiley (208 titles), IEEE (152 titles), Apabi (100 titles), and YBP/Ebrary DDA (95 titles). For serials, our major distributions were for Open Access (635 titles) and […]