Month: March 2018
CDL Job Opening for Shared Content Service Coordinator
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 […]
ARKs in the Open – Project Update #2
As part of the Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) in the Open project, we want to articulate and refine the long-term vision for ARK identifiers, starting with the ARK specification, and to collaborate with users on how to achieve it. Incubators […]
SCP Monthly Update — March 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of February. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. The highlights of our other major serial record distributions were […]
Birds, Bees, and EZIDs: Where Do CDL’s Persistent Identifiers Come from?
Leading up to UC-DLFx, CDL staff had been asked to explain how our services work with EZID and how the identifiers used in each system are related. At the conference we gave a brief presentation illustrating how Merritt, eScholarship, and Dash […]
Dash Service Update: March, 2018
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The Dash team has been busy parsing out the Code of Practice for Research Data to implement standardized and comparable data usage metrics (views, downloads) of datasets. A “how-to” guide for repositories and blog post […]
Two last minute items…
Thieme E-Library becomes Thieme MedOne Education As of today, March 1, 2018, the Thieme Electronic Book Library transitioned to a new platform becoming Thieme MedOne Education. This change affects the 7 participating campuses. https://medone-education.thieme.com/ (UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, […]