Month: January 2018
Two CDL Job Openings: Collection Assessment Analyst and Licensing Analyst
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a collaborative effort of the ten campuses of the University of California, and is designed to enable UC libraries to continue to meet the informational needs of UC faculty and students. The CDL assumes […]
ARK Identifier Summit at the National Library of France, 21 March 2018
The BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) is organizing an ARK Identifier Summit in Paris on March 21 of 2018. As maintenance agency for the ARK standard, the California Digital Library is helping to plan the event, which will be conducted […]
DMPTool Service Update: January 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities Roadmap/DMPTool upcoming release. We’re on track for our target release date (check out the roadmap to MVP and monitor our progress on Github)! Roadmap v1.0 should be ready in time for a demo at the […]
New Licensed Resource – Annual Reviews
All UC campuses now have access to the Complete Sciences and Economics Collection (all 50 published titles, ‘Annual Review of …’); some campuses may have already had access to these and other AR titles via local subscriptions: http://uclibs.org/PID/9592 (All campuses; […]
WEST Executive Committee Election Results
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is governed by an Executive Committee that oversees the operation and development of WEST and works to integrate WEST with related archiving programs nationally and internationally. WEST members cast their votes in elections for […]
CDL Job Opening for Applications Programmer
The California Digital Library (CDL) is seeking an Applications Programmer analyst to help build and provide access to a world-class collection of historical and primary source materials. We need your expertise to uncover and share the remarkable, one-of-a-kind collections held […]
CDL Opening for Discovery & Delivery Director
At the California Digital Library (CDL), we believe passionately that the library, in all its forms, is critically important to the vital work of students, scholars and the public. As a University of California systemwide library, CDL provides services to […]
Merritt 2017 Year in Review
Merritt has done a lot of development in the past few years, in response to external demands. These developments are largely behind the scenes, and invisible to Merritt users: • Migrated all of our servers, storage and MySQL database to […]
Reports of EZID’s death are greatly exaggerated
In 1897, Mark Twain is said to have read his own obituary, and then remarked, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” And Mark Twain isn’t the only one to have this sorry experience, as Wikipedia’s List of premature […]
SCP Monthly Update, January 2018
Happy New Year 2018! SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of December. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our […]