Sarah Sheets

Oxford University Press (OUP) is in the process of updating a number of their database sites. American National Biography Online and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography were updated in late November 2017.  Oxford Music Online and Oxford Art Online will update by December 7th.  Domain URLs will remain the same for all databases; however, article and page location within the domain sites may have changed. OUP has implemented re-directs within the sites in response to those changes. With these updates, OUP hopes to enhance discoverability and improve search capabilities, have more frequent content updates, and allow for social media integration, so users can share content across channels.

Due to a scheduled update to the platform, some functionality related to account registration and editing on Taylor & Francis Online will not be available beginning Monday, November 20th at 8:30 pm through Tuesday, November 21st at 11:30 am PST.  We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

California Digital Library is pleased to announce the launch of a major redesign of eScholarship, the University of California’s Open Access repository.

Through this redesign, eScholarship offers a strong consortial repository solution containing custom access layers and brand identity for each of our ten UC campuses and 70+ academic journals. The redesign also meets the WCAG 2.0 AA standard for ADA accessibility, scales for mobile and tablet devices, and features a flexible design that allows for multiple content display options and customizable landing pages.

To learn more, visit the eScholarship redesign forum here.

Taylor & Francis is transitioning ebook content from the CRCnetBase platform and its other associated ebook collections to their new Ebook platform. As of October 31st, T&F will be placing permanent redirects from the old content to the new platform. Content to be migrated includes the following platforms:

STMnetBASE

BIOMEDICALSCIENCEnetBASE

CivilEngineeringnetBASE

ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE

ENGnetBASE

ENVIROnetBASE

FOODnetBASE

FORENSICnetBASE

InfoSECURITYnetBASE

ITECHnetBASE

MATHnetBASE

MechanicalEngineeringnetBASE

STATSnetBASE

Overlap access to both platforms is currently provided. The new platform has a minimal design and is keyword search-driven, with the ability to refine results using filters such as subject, publication date, and publisher imprint. The new platform is under development with features such as browse by subject, online reader integration for all titles, branding and additional limit/sort options in the future.

Check out the new platform here.