(Davis, CA) – The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library (CDL) will lead a major new project, with an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help define the future of Open Access to scholarship.
TO: Users Council (for distribution) via Jayne Dickson CoUL (for distribution) via Lorelei Tanjii UCLAS (for distribution) via Rosalie Lack AULs Collections Chairs of Bibliographer Groups (for distribution) RLF deposit contacts (for distribution) via Colleen Carlton and Erik Mitchell
FROM: Emily Stambaugh (on behalf of UC Shared Print Strategy and Operations Teams)
The University of California Press (UC Press) and the California Digital Library (CDL), have received a grant of $750,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a web-based, open source content and workflow management system to support the publication of open access (OA) monographs in the humanities and social sciences. When complete, this system will be made available to the community of academic publishers, especially university presses and library publishers.
Last year, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) welcomed the California Digital Library as a DPLA Content Hub, on behalf of the UC Libraries and with the endorsement of the Council of University Librarians.
All over the world, dried plant collections are maintained in herbaria. Collections from California date from the early 1800s to the present. Each plant specimen is mounted on a sheet of acid-free paper along with a label that details where and when the plant was collected, who collected it, and other site-specific information. Botanical specimens are an irreplaceable, tangible record of biodiversity at a particular time and place.
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To: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (via Marlo Young for information) Users Council (via Jayne Dickson for information & distribution) LAUC (via Matt Conner for information & distribution) From: Coordinating Committee, UC Libraries Advisory Structure Date: 4 December 2014
This memo serves as call for members interested in a newly established Library IT Common Knowledge Group (CKG).
