Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for April 2024 New Content and Collections  New UC Santa Cruz Collections established in Merritt The UC Santa Cruz Library Special Collections & Archives department has undertaken a major AV preservation project that involves digitization of AV materials. The initial collections have now been established in Merritt for use during the project. Some of these col ..read more

CDL recently made a 3-year commitment to purchase the Duke University Press ebook frontlist packages at the De Gruyter platform, covering the years 2024-2026.  These frontlists will be funded through CDL. Additionally, CDL has purchased the Archive and Backfile of Duke University Press titles at De Gruyter.  The Archive covers the years 1964-1999, while the Backfile covers 2000-2013. Together, the two collections include approximately 1900 titles.  The Duke University Press Archive & Backfile purchase was also funded through CDL.  Access is for all UC campuses, and the ..read more

In April 2023, CDL shared news that several of the UC’s CNKI resources would be suspended due to a Chinese government audit of CNKI’s platform, as announced by CNKI & East View. It was unknown at the time how long the suspension would last. Fortunately, East View and CNKI announced that access began returning in mid-March 2024 and should now be fully restored for the databases that were suspended for UCs. CDL staff are working to review and update Alma collections based on the restored access, updates from CNKI, and any changes to the platforms. Databases that were impacted and now restore ..read more

In 2022, CDL and the UC campuses committed to supporting the Global Press Archive CRL Phase 2 project, continuing the work accomplished in Phase 1. This project supports the digitization of millions of pages of content hosted on East View’s GPA platform. These collections are made available through the GPA CRL Alliance, a partnership between the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and East View Information Services. The GPA CRL collections promote open access to both thematic and single-title collections of digitized newspapers. Additional in-copyright collections are made available for CRL-me ..read more

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDLManaged Electronic Collections in March 2024 ACM Digital Library Complete: 47 ASME Digital Collection eBooks (2023-): 3 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2023 All eBooks: 1,606 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 186 IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) Conference Proceedings: 274 JSTOR Books DDA: 157 National Academies Press: 11 SCP GOBI Oxford Scholarship Online 2023 Frontlist (Oxford Scholarship Online (LocalL)): 4 (GOBI) Springer English/International eBooks 2023 – Full Set: 802 (GOBI) Springer German Language eBooks 2023 – Full Set: 313 (GOBI) Wiley O ..read more

On behalf of the UC Libraries, the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has unanimously approved endorsement of the Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries. Released in March 2023 by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and the ALA Core Metadata & Collections Section, the statement reads: “The endorsers listed below urge all organizations, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, to uphold libraries’ rights and interests to use, re-use, adapt, aggregate, and share metadata that describes library collections to serve the public interest, without restriction o ..read more

During ‘off years’ of the collection analysis cycle, WEST works on identifying and building out enhancements to AGUA (https://agua.cdlib.org/west), both on the backend to increase automation and improve our ability to perform the collection analyses and on the front end by improving the interface and building new reports to support WEST members. Additionally, WEST may consider opportunities to collaborate with other organizations doing similar work to pool resources to develop products and services that benefit WEST and the wider community. WEST is in the beginning planning stages for AGUA Dev ..read more

The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders* to submit records of all materials archived for WEST to CDL via the file upload tool in AGUA. WEST asks that members include records for all materials archived for WEST in Cycle 13 and in earlier cycles to capture any cataloging updates or changes to your local records and ensure WEST’s records are aligned with local records.   WEST asks that Archive Holders and Builders submit these records to AGUA by May 31, 2024. Please provide records to OCLC separately on a schedule convenient for your library ..read more

Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for March 2024 New Content and Collections  Upcoming UC Santa Cruz Collections The UC Santa Cruz Library Special Collections & Archives department has undertaken a major AV preservation project that involves digitization of AV materials. Preservation of the resulting files and objects will take place in Merritt. A sampling of these collections includes: Sara ..read more

The California Digital Library (CDL) is recruiting for the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services position. Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services Reporting to CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Associate Director, the Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services, oversees the management and ongoing development of a portfolio of metadata ingest and analytical tools, primarily the Zephir product, utilized by HathiTrust repository contributors nationwide. The Senior Product Manager – Metadata Services is a member of a team of four, including a metadata analyst and two developers, responsible for ..read more