Month: May 2016
Calisphere exceeds half a million items!
“The deeper you look, the more you’ll discover.” Today, the Calisphere motto rings particularly true, as we celebrate the growth of the collection to over half a million items! (Or 530,711, to be exact.) Recent additions include the Gold […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: May 2016
For the month of April, our major serial record distributions include EBSCO journals (78 titles), JSTOR online journals (55 titles), Superstar Chinamaxx journals (52 titles), and Open Access journals (175 titles, including Gallica online journals, a new package of 10 […]
University of Chicago Press Journals Move to the Atypon Platform
The University of Chicago Press launched of a new online home for the University of Chicago Press’s portfolio of nearly 70 journals on the Atypon platform. The new platform provides advanced search and information discovery capabilities; superior readability and accessibility; […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Nutrition Science Collection
Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and San Francisco) are participating in a Tier 2 license for the Nutrition Science Collection from the American Society of Nutrition. The Nutrition Science Collection includes the complete content of their […]
Exploration of Training for UC Librarians in Research Data Curation
As research data curation becomes an integral part of library services, for some librarians it is a core job duty and thus requires specialized, expert-level knowledge. Others may only need to become familiar with a broad overview of the issues. […]
Brian Riley joins UC3
Brian Riley, Application Programmer with CDL’s Discovery & Delivery team, has been on loan to UC3 working on the DMPTool service – helping with our AWS migration and implementing some long-awaited updates and bug fixes to DMPTool. UC3 is happy to […]
CDL Welcomes Jim Vanderveen to UC3
Please welcome Jim Vanderveen, who has worked at UC Davis the past 4 years as their Bibliographic Database Coordinator. Jim previously worked at CSU Sacramento Office of Water Programs as their IT Administrator. This combined skill set of DevOps and […]
Rosalie Lack moves to UCLA Library
Rosalie Lack, CDL’s Web Archiving Coordinator, has accepted a position with the UCLA library. Her last day at the CDL will be May 24. During her time with the CDL, Rosalie has demonstrated a strong commitment to the success of […]
New Open Access (OA) Resources: Luminos, Open Library of Humanities, Open Book Publishers
The UC Libraries are supporting a number of innovative open access initiatives in scholarly publishing this year. Luminos (http://www.luminosoa.org/) is the University of California Press’s new OA publishing program for monographs. The project has strong support from UC scholars as […]
CDL Welcomes Conclusion of Authors Guild v. Google
CDL welcomes the conclusion of the Authors Guild’s decade long lawsuit against Google. The suit came to an end April 18th when the Supreme Court declined to hear the Authors Guild’s Appeal of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision […]