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A Victory For Fair Use May 19, 2016 The Authors Guild’s decade long lawsuit against Google came to an end April 18th when the Supreme Court declined to hear the Authors Guild’s Appeal of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision from October 2015. By declining, the Supreme Court affirmed the Circuit Court’s ruling that Google’s digitization of library collections, the creation of search functionality, and display of snippets are all non-infringing fair uses. If one takes into account the fair use findings in other similar cases, there are now four argued rulings which affirm that the work undertaken by participants in the Google Library Project to convert library collections to digital form constitute fair use as defined by U.S. Copyright law, a victory for fair use, libraries, scholars, researchers, and the public alike. |
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Video: Research Data Matters May 13, 2016 Why is research data management important and what is the impact of good data management practices? |
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University of California Press and California Digital Library partner with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to build open source publishing platform May 12, 2016 California Digital Library and University of California Press are pleased to announce their partnership with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to develop Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. |
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Reimagined Libraries April 28, 2016 UC Merced Library’s Deputy University Librarian, Donald Barclay, follows the upwards and download trends associated with libraries and reveals how they have reinvented themselves to meet users’ needs. See “Has the library outlived is usefulness in the age of Internet? You’d be surprised” in The Conversation. |
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41,000 new items to explore on Calisphere April 7, 2016 Flying bees, North Korean propaganda, and Catholicism in Los Angeles are just some of the subjects represented in the more than 41,000 new items recently added to Calisphere. The 56 new collections from Loyola Marymount University, Orange County Public Libraries, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the University of the Pacific are now available on the site. Calisphere’s new metadata infrastructure has made it possible to provide access to more digital content than ever before. This time last year, on the old platform, Calisphere provided access to approximately 250,000 digital objects; today, the new site has almost double that amount and is now approaching half a million items. |
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Proquest Critical Maintenance March 21, 2016 Proquest will be performing critical maintenance during the first weeks of April which will briefly affect access to a variety of their products. |
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Exhibit Reception: Selected Works - Graduate Student Research at UC Merced March 14, 2016 Come see how UCM graduate students are pursuing exciting research projects that make major contributions to their fields. In this second installment of the Selected Works exhibit, the accomplishments and research of two selected graduate students are highlighted. |
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ProQuest Critical Maintenance March 11, 2016 On Saturday March 12, 2016, ProQuest will be installing critical updates to its systems infrastructure. The window is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM PST and will last for eight (8) hours. During this time, a variety of products on the ProQuest platform (like Proquest Congressional Databases and research tools like Pivot) may not be accessible. |
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60 MINUTES Now Available March 10, 2016 All UC campuses now have access to 60 MINUTES: 1997-2014 through the Alexander Street Press platform. The collection provides 350 hours of video from 17 years of broadcasts, including many segments not available anywhere else. This range of content offers endless applications for students and researchers. The collection also includes 175 hours of bonus segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning, whose news pieces and cultural features create a fitting complement to 60 MINUTES content. The addition of this bonus programming brings the collection to a total of 525 hours of CBS News content. |
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Wiley Online Journals February 22, 2016 The California Digital Library and Wiley are in negotiations currently for renewal of the Wiley journal package. Unfortunately, Wiley has chosen to stop UC access to all Wiley journals in the package until negotiations are concluded. CDL is working as quickly as possible to resolve this problem and restore access to these journals. Should you have questions or concerns as to this issue, please contact Jim Dooley, Head, Collection Services at jdooley@ucmerced.edu. |
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