Month: October 2015
John Chodacki Named Director of the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library
The California Digital Library is delighted to announce the appointment of John Chodacki as the new Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) effective October 19th, 2015. John comes to the CDL from the Public Library of Science […]
Groundbreaking University of California policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees
On October 26, 2015, the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: October 2015
The first set of records for two new journals packages, Reveal Digital’s Independent Voices and for SAE, went out this past month. You may have seen some press already regarding Independent Voices. This collection consists of alternative press newspapers and […]
DMPTool Service Update: September 2015
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities New Template. In response to updated guidelines, we added a drop-down menu for the US Department of Energy (DOE) with a new “DOE: Generic” template. Check out the DMPTool blog for the full story. […]
Joanne Miller moves to UC Academic Senate
Joanne Miller, Systemwide Library Planning Analyst at CDL, will be leaving us to take a new position as an analyst with the UC Academic Senate. This is a wonderful opportunity for Joanne – she will make a valuable contribution to […]
UC Libraries Statement on Authors Guild v. Google
October 20, 2015 The University of California libraries applaud the ruling by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals that Google’s digitization of library collections, creation of search functionality, display of snippets, and provision of copies to its partner libraries […]
Tier 2 databases are added to Melvyl’s Central Index
As reported in a previous CDLINFO article (Melvyl’s Central Index is expanding), CDL is now activating CDL-managed Tier 2 databases in Melvyl’s Central Index. Going forward, each campus will have different databases listed in their Central Index, depending on the […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Chinese Databases (Classic Ancient Books & Local Records)
Eight campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Database of Chinese Classic Ancient Books or Zhongguo jiben guji ku (中国基本古籍庫) and to the […]
ScienceDirect to discontinue support of Internet Explorer 8
Elsevier/ScienceDirect is following Microsoft’s directive to focus support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions. Microsoft announced in 2014 that, as of January 2016, it would only support the most recent IE browser version with technical support and security updates. We […]
CDL Interim Leadership Named
Yesterday, Susan Carlson, UCOP’s Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Programs, issued a formal announcement (below) regarding the California Digital Library’s interim leadership. October 7, 2015 I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Ivy Anderson as Interim Executive […]