Month: February 2017
New Licensed Resource – Announcing SAGE Research Methods!
As part of the SAGE Premier 2017 journals renewal, CDL purchased on behalf of nine campuses (UC Davis has its own license) a 6-year license to SAGE Research Methods (SRM) with updates during 2017-2022. SRM has been a widely requested […]
SAGE Journals move to Atypon
SAGE Journals (http://journals.sagepub.com/) recently moved to the Atypon platform. New platform benefits include: clear, intuitive site designs based on deep understanding of user needs seamless multi-device experience with responsive design new functionality to enhance the user experience highly discoverable and […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Most recent records display first
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on February 16, 2017 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at http://www.oclc.org/support/services/discovery/release-notes.en.html. (Note that many of these do not have an impact on Melvyl.) […]
Seeking CDL’s Next Digital Content Development Manager
The California Digital Library seeks a dynamic, forward-looking digital library professional as its next Manager of Digital Content Development and Strategy. Working in a highly collaborative environment, this position is responsible for cultivating new opportunities and partnerships in shared digital […]
CDL welcomes Daniella Lowenberg!
Daniella joins the University of California Curation Center (UC3) as a Research Data Specialist / Dash Product Manager. Her new position will focus on building adoption and awareness of data publication tools as well as leading cross-organizational efforts in promoting […]
Chemical and Engineering News Goes Global
Chemical and Engineering News, the “news edition” of the American Chemical Society has recently undergone a change. As of January 2, 2017, ACS Publications has expanded the breadth of this journal for organizational subscribers with the addition of C&EN Global […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: February 2017
For the month of January, our major serial record distributions include Open Access journals (407 titles which include: DOAJ, 369 titles; ScienceDirect online journals, 24 titles), China online journals (87 titles). For monographs, the major record distributions are: American Institute […]
Announcing the JSTOR Ebooks DDA Pilot!
Books at JSTOR is an initiative to publish scholarly books online as part of JSTOR, one of the most well -known and widely used scholarly resources. The UC DDA Task Force evaluated the available content, platform features and licensing terms […]
EZID Service Update: January 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities John Kunze, EZID System Architect, and Greg Janée, EZID Technical Lead, along with a number of collaborators, published a preprint entitled “Uniform Resolution of Compact Identifiers for Biomedical Data” in bioRxiv, the preprint server […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – BioCyc Microbial Genomes and Metabolic Pathways Web Portal
Five campuses (Berkeley + Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Davis, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Santa Cruz) are participating in the BioCyc three-year Tier 2 license. http://uclibs.org/PID/288537 (B/LBL, D, LA, R, SC; on the BioCyc.org platform) BioCyc is a comprehensive resource for data […]