Month: March 2017
UC Irvine Book Featured as HathiTrust’s 15 Millionth Volume
Congratulations to UC Irvine! Their book, digitized as part of the Google Library Project, was recently celebrated as the 15 millionth volume contributed to the HathiTrust Digital Library! Published in 1585, Le Parfait Courtisan du Comte Baltasar Castillonois… is known in English as The Book […]
New Licensed Resource – Bijutsu Shinpō
All UC campuses now have access to the historical journal Bijutsu Shinpō [Art News journal]: http://uclibs.org/PID/289469 (All campuses; on the JapanKnowledge.com platform) Note: There is a limit of 4 simultaneous users; if denied access, try again later. All campuses have […]
CDL Seeks Data Analyst (Temporary)
Are you a talented data analyst with an ability to create captivating interactive visual representations from large datasets? Would you like to gain valuable experience putting those skills to use in support of open access to research articles and information? […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: Simplified Permalinks
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on March 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.) […]
DMPTool Service Update: February 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Templates. We’re working on adding some new and reviewing some existing templates, particularly in light of the new “themes” and machine-actionable DMP efforts (see below). As always, please notify us of any pressing template needs […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2017
For the month of February, our major serial record distributions include Gale. Literature Resource Center online journals (39 titles), JSTOR online journals (33 titles), Open Access journals (192 titles which include: DOAJ, 130 titles), and Sage online journals (208 titles). […]
Dash Service Update: February 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Daniella Lowenberg began as Dash’s Service Manager. You can read more about Daniella here or contact her directly. Bug Fixes and Enhancements: The Dash team is currently working on embargo and large upload features which will […]
EZID Service Update: February 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Joan Starr, EZID’s Service Manager, offered a webinar this month to a group of US federal senior scientific and technical information (STI) managers called CENDI. The slides from the talk, “Identifiers and Citation,” are […]
Oxford Journals move to new platform, Oxford Academic
In late 2016 and early 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP) began the process of transitioning all OUP Journals to the new Oxford Academic (Silverchair) platform; OUP announced on February 1, 2017 that all journal content migration was complete. This was […]