Month: May 2016
WorldCat Discovery beta: Search Spelling Suggestion
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on May 12, 2016 included the following new features and enhancements. 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 on Melvyl.) […]
University of California Press and California Digital Library partner with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to build open source monograph publishing platform
From the OSC blog post… California Digital Library and University of California Press are excited to announce their partnership with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to develop Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. Through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of California […]
Latest eScholarship Activity: Campus 1st Quarter 2016 Reports
Check out this quarter’s reports to discover eScholarship’s publishing profiles (and more). Here’s a listing of each campus’s most popular publications this quarter brought to you by the eScholarship team. UC Berkeley: “Marxist Theories of Development, the New International Division […]
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project Win’s ALA’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
HathiTrust’s CRMS Project (Copyright Review Management System) is the American Library Association’s 2016 winner of the L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award. The award recognizes CRMS’ dedication to creating a “balanced U.S. Copyright system through advocacy for a robust fair use doctrine […]
Message from AVP / Executive Director
It’s early days for a message of deep substance, but never too early to say hello! I started work at CDL less than two weeks ago when a small ad-hoc greeting committee opened the door at 415 20th street. You’ll […]
EZID Service Update: April 2016
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Last month we announced a DataCite webinar to be held on April 12th covering the new DataCite to Dublin Core application profile (DC2AP) and the DataCite in RDF mapping. Here is a link to […]
CDL’s Adrian Turner wins Archival Award of Excellence
CDL is delighted to announce that Adrian Turner has won the prestigious Archival Award of Excellence from the California Historical Records Advisory Board. Adrian received the award in recognition of his exceptional dedication to and leadership in removing barriers to […]
Staff in Print – Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell
CDL’s Sherri Berger and Catherine Mitchell of the Access & Publishing group have contributed a chapter to Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship (An ALCTS Monograph), edited by Dawn Hale. Their chapter is entitled “Give Them What They Need: Rethinking Management, Aggregation, […]
Katrina Romanowsky leaving CDL
Katrina Romanowsky, the Access & Publishing Group’s Community & Outreach Manager, will be leaving CDL to pursue other creative endeavors. Her last day in the office will be Friday, May 6th. Katrina joined the Access & Publishing Group in 2013 […]