Month: November 2017
Duke University Press Journals move to Silverchair platform
On Monday, November 20, 2017, Duke University Press Journals transitioned from Highwire to the Silverchair platform. According to Duke University Press, the transition to Silverchair will provide an integrated user experience for all humanities and social sciences content from Duke […]
Oxford updates Biography & Music/Art databases
Oxford Biography Resources On Monday, November 27, 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP) updated their Biography resources: American National Biography Online: UCB, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, and UCSD Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: “Instrumentation” helps musicians choose ensemble materials
This month’s WorldCat Discovery installation on November 2, 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 enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl […]
DMPTool Service Update: November 2017
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap update. We’re making progress toward our target release date in early 2018. You can track our progress here. We’re also testing the DMPTool data migration to the new platform and working with our UX team to […]
Introducing the WEST Technical Support and Expertise Forum
The past six months or so—marked by disclosures of archived titles and collecting files of unarchived holdings—have demonstrated that many of our members are managing ILS transitions and other technical shifts that can delay or complicate WEST activities. At the […]
SCP Monthly Update — November 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of October. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions. For […]
CDL Job Opening for a Library Carpentry Coordinator/Research Data Specialist
The UC Curation Center (UC3) is looking for a successful Library Carpentry Coordinator/Research Data Specialist who uses their product management skills, project management skills, software/data skills, and knowledge of the Data Carpentry & Software Carpentry community to promote and expand […]
Global Financial Data (GFD) moves to a new platform
Currently, eight of the UC campuses (except UCSF and UCSB) license the Global Financial Data (GFD) database. On Wednesday, November 1st, GFD will transition to a new platform, powered by Finaeon Analytics. http://uclibs.org/PID/106641 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD, […]
New, collaborative process for curating Calisphere exhibitions
We’re pleased to announce a more collaborative process for the development of Calisphere Exhibitions, which we believe will bring more voices and stories to the site — as well as highlight more contributor content. What’s new? To date, CDL has […]
Announcing ILLReports! (Replacing JReports)
On November 6th, users will be able to access reports on UC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) activity through our newly designed interface: ILLReports (https://illreports.cdlib.org). The previous service, JReports, will be retired and no longer available. These reports illustrate UC Interlibrary Loan activity, […]