Month: July 2017
WorldCat Discovery beta: Share Personal Lists and “My Items”
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on July 27, 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.) New […]
DMPTool Service Update: July 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We passed another milestone this month as DCC completed the migration of all three production services—DMPonline, DMPTuuli, and DMPMelbourne—to the new Roadmap codebase! Check out the Release Notes for v0.3. The DMPTool migration […]
Web of Science Citation Map is gone for now
The Citation Map functionality in Web of Science is no longer available due to technology compatibility issues and reliance on browser support of Java. According to our Clarivate Analytics representative, Clarivate is investigating supporting this functionality but at the present […]
Disambiguating Dash and Merritt
What’s Dash? What’s Merritt? What’s the difference? After numerous questions about where things should go and what the differences are between our UC3 services, we got the hint that we are not communicating clearly. Clearing things up A group of […]
CDL’s new Licensed Resources Website has launched!
On Wednesday, July 12th, CDL launched the new Licensed Resources website (http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/licensed/). CDL’s User Experience Design (UX) team interviewed campus librarians who frequently used the previous site, discussed their findings with the CDL’s Licensed Content Group, and made changes to […]
Help us improve the CDL website!
The California Digital Library’s UX Design Service is gearing up to redesign cdlib.org and we want to learn about how you use the website: What works great, what doesn’t work, and what we can do to make it better. If […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2017
SCP regularly posts monthly distribution statistics report. This monthly report shows titles added and/or removed from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions in June 2017. Our major serial record distributions include Open […]
Happy Anniversary New Zealand Hansard: Celebrating 150 Years of Openness and Transparency
This month New Zealand celebrates 150 years of government openness and transparency. It was one of the first countries to record and publish independent transcripts of the speeches and debates in its Parliament. The debates of the New Zealand Parliament were […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Central Daily News
Five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the Central Daily News. http://uclibs.org/PID/296476 (B, I, LA, SB, SD; on the Transmission Books platform) Note: limited to 5 […]
New Licensed Resource: Announcing STMnetBASE eBooks from Taylor & Francis, 2017-2019
The UC Libraries have acquired the STMnetBASE frontlist ebook collection from CRC Press/Taylor & Francis for the next three years, 2017 – 2019. All ten campuses and CDL contributed towards this purchase. http://uclibs.org/PID/119780 (All campuses; on the CRCnetBASE platform) The […]