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When placing multiple requests in a single search session, users no longer have to re-enter their information such as their UCMnetID. More details are available at CDLINFO News.
Deputy University Librarian, Donald Barclay, explains the OA 2020 (Open Access) initiative and discusses whether this proposed model might work. View the complete article in The Conversation 25 October 2016.
eScholarship is an scholarly publishing service made available by the California Digital Library (CDL). Journals, books, conferences, theses/dissertations, and previously published works are available open-access via this platform. See the top publications, affiliated with UC Merced, from the 3rd quarter of 2016.
A collection of works by poet and playwright Ana Rossetti is now part of the library, and UC Merced now leads an archiving project that documents the history of UC Cooperative Extension. Check out the full article in the latest issue of Panorama.
A partnership between the CDL, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library has been awarded funding to create Cobweb, a collaborative collection development platform for web archiving.
Archiving the web comprehensively and thematically can exceed the technical and financial ability of any single library. To ensure that the limited resources of archiving programs are used most effectively, it is important that curators know something about the collection development priorities and holdings of similarly-engaged institutions. Cobweb will do this by supporting three key functions: nominating, claiming, and holdings. The nomination function will let curators suggest web sites relevant to specific areas; the claiming function will allow archival programs to indicate they intend to capture some portion of nominated sites; and the holdings function will allow programs to show which sites that have actually been captured.
How would Cobweb work? Imagine a fast-moving news event happening online via news reports, videos, blogs, and social media. Noting the importance of the event, a curator immediately creates a new Cobweb project and issues a call for nominations. Scholars, subject area specialists, and even interested members of the public respond, contributing to a site list more far-reaching than could be created by any one institution. Archiving institutions review the list and claim responsibility for capturing portions of it that are in line with their local policies and technical capabilities. After capture, the institutions’ holdings information is updated in Cobweb to show the various collections containing newly accessible content. Cobweb will collect only metadata; the actual archived web content would be managed by the individual collecting organizations. Notwithstanding, by sharing the work, more content will be captured more quickly with less effort than would usually be possible.
Cobweb is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The UC Merced Library recently began working with cognitive science Professor Michael Spivey to bring the Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society’s Annual Conference to eScholarship, UC’s Open Access publishing platform.
The Society’s annual conference provides a forum for leading researchers to present the latest theories and data. Per the society, its mission is “to promote cognitive science as a discipline and to foster scientific interchange among researchers in various areas of study.”
“Proceedings” for the year 2000 (vol. 22) recently went live at eScholarship. The library is preparing more proceedings for import.
This news originally appeared in Panorama.
Article first published in Panorama.
University News highlights the one-year pilot project to assess UC Cooperative Extension records at three offices. This exciting archiving initiative is intended to make the documents and history of UC Cooperative Extension available to scholars. See "UC Merced Chosen to Lead Agricultural Archiving Project" for details.
As of October 1, 2016, the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL), a repository for technical reports from government agencies produced by the NTIS, has discontinued it digital-on-demand services, where users could request reports that were not available in full text to be digitized and made available in the database. Should you have questions or need assistance, please contact Jim Dooley, Head of Collections Services for further details.
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