The University of California Libraries join with our HathiTrust colleagues in welcoming the decision by the Second Circuit of the US Court of Appeals that key services of the HathiTrust Digital Library – digitization for the purpose of full-text searching and access for the print-disabled – are fair uses under US copyright law.
The University of California and several partners have released a new version of a free tool that helps researchers and their institutions create effective data management plans required by the federal government.
The DMPTool v2 aids researchers with this critical component of research practice required by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Under the 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy directive, this requirement will expand to nearly all federal agencies within the next year.
In a news article on the University of California website, UC archival collections are highlighted across the campuses. States the article, “While there’s no other band like the Grateful Dead, UC Santa Cruz is in good company insofar as housing archives of cultural significance. The University of California is home to dozens of special collections at its 10 campuses.
Today, April 17, 2014, the Digital Public Library of America welcomed the California Digital Library, in collaboration with the ten-campus University of California (UC) Libraries system, as a DPLA Content Hub. A Content Hub is a centralized aggregation point for a large corpus of metadata from one or more institutions, which DPLA can harvest and display in its public access system.
Re: Common Knowledge Group Call for Members To: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (for information) Users Council (via Ellen Meltzer for information & distribution) LAUC (via Nick Robinson for information & distribution) From: UC Libraries Advisory Structure (via Marlo Young, Communications Manager) Date: 14 April 2014
This memo serves as call for members interested in a new UC Libraries Statistics Common Knowledge Group (CKG).
This memo serves as call for members interested in a new UC Shared Visual Resources Common Knowledge Group (CKG).
Membership is open to all levels of staff interested in and responsible for building shared visual resource collections. The Common Knowledge Group Charter containing more detail, and general information about CKGs, is available online at:http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/ckg
The California Digital Library (CDL), in conjunction with University of California campus partners, has chosen Symplectic as the vendor to implement a publication harvesting system in support of the UC Open Access Policy, passed by the Academic Senate in July 2013.
One of the outstanding NGTS items assigned to the UC Libraries Advisory Structure’s Strategic Action Group 3: Collection Building & Management (SAG3), was the final report from POT 7 LT2, “Responding to the Changing Collection Development and Management Landscape in the UC Libraries: The Role of the Collections Librarian”.
