Month: August 2015
Informa Healthcare journals moving to the Taylor and Francis platform on September 1st
As of September 1, Informa Healthcare journal content will be hosted on the Taylor and Francis platform. This follows the transfer in management of the Informa Healthcare titles to Taylor and Francis in January 2015. Users should be automatically directed to […]
CDL Job Opening for UX Designer
Do you get intrigued thinking through system interactions and engaging in the details of a useful and arresting user experience for online websites and resources? Then join our team! We are hiring a person to join the UX team and […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Availability/Location Information on Brief Results
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on August 21, 2015 included the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/services/d2d/melvyl/public/. (Note that many of these do not have an impact […]
Melvyl & FirstSearch transition to WorldCat Discovery rescheduled to June 2016
OCLC’s latest roadmap for WorldCat Discovery (WCD) development indicates that parity with the existing FirstSearch and WorldCat Local interfaces will not happen until spring 2016. Additionally, CDL continues to work with OCLC to resolve a few remaining issues where WCD […]
Readex Interface Enhancements, released August 19
Readex released changes to the Early American Newspapers and Early American Imprints databases on August 19, 2015. These changes affect the local databases only, and do not affect the larger Archive of Americana interface. Changes to these database interfaces include: […]
CDL Acquires New One-time Systemwide Resources in 2015
One of the goals for the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) in 2015 was to evaluate and ‘refresh’ the annual survey to bibliographer groups. The survey has been in practice since 1997 as the major source of campus priorities for systemwide […]
New Licensed Resource — Business Expert Press Digital Library (2010-2015)
All UC campuses now have access to Business Expert Press Digital Library (2010-2015). Note: Some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. http://uclibs.org/PID/276063; all campuses, on the IG Library Portal platform. SCP cataloged and distributed the individual ebook […]
DNSA is transitioning to the ProQuest search platform September 16th
The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) will transition from the Chadwyck-Healey platform to the main ProQuest platform on September 16. Both versions of the databases are available in parallel until that date at http://uclibs.org/PID/96899. Please note that users with a […]
The SNAC pack is back (in print)
Now that the first and second phases of the award-winning Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) research and demonstration project have been completed, Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), Ray Larson (UC Berkeley) and three CDL staff members (Rachael Hu, […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2015
Our major serial record distributions for July were for Open Access (508 titles) and EBSCO (40 titles). For monographs they were for SuperStar (577 titles), Springer (564 titles), IEEE (185 titles), Elsevier (139 titles), World Bank (110 titles), Alexander Street […]