(c) University of California Over three thousand dissertations and theses digitized from UCSF’s archives, originally submitted to the university between 1965 and 2006, were added to eScholarship this year. These titles cover topics as disparate as the pregnancy experiences of black women, AIDS and … Read more
Illustration by Ernest H. Shepard published in Winnie the Pooh On January 1, 2022 the public domain expanded in the United States to include works published in 1926. This is only the fourth expansion of the US public domain since … Read more
Digitized books have become increasingly popular in recent years, and for university libraries and scholars, the first 18 months of the pandemic threw their value into sharp relief. As campuses across the country closed, many libraries began offering expanded access … Read more
This article is based on the transcript from the HathiTrust Slack Pop-up held December 16, 2021 and the Dissertation Licensing in HathiTrust: Webinar & Virtual Chat held January 19, 2022. Both featured Sara Gunasekara from UC Davis, and Kristina Hall … Read more
Dear UC Library colleagues We are writing to inform you of the newly formed Digital Preservation Leadership Group (DPLG) within the UC Libraries Advisory Structure (UCLAS) structure. This group is charged by the Direction and Oversight Committee (DOC) to lead … Read more
CDL’s Digitization team is pleased to announce the launch of the UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center, designed for UC libraries staff who participate in, contribute to, and/or use the HathiTrust Digital Library. The new Help Center will allow users to: … Read more
Dear UC Libraries colleagues, The UC Libraries Forum 2021 planning committee is excited to announce that registration is now open for the UC Libraries Forum 2021 Conference! Registration is free and open to all UC library staff who wish to … Read more
CoUL resolution honoring CDL’s Ivy Anderson This past June, the UC Council of University Librarians (CoUL) celebrated Ivy Anderson’s 15-year career with the University. To mark her retirement, CoUL published a resolution to honor her many achievements and contributions. CoUL … Read more
Today, the manner in which patrons and staff discover materials across the entire University of California has fundamentally changed with the introduction of UC Library Search. Replacing Melvyl, which has dutifully served as the UC union catalog since 1981, UC … Read more
Have you caught wind of an exciting open access publishing project on your campus? If so, the “Innovative Publishing Models” working group of the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) wants to hear from you! We are collecting examples of recent … Read more
