Communiqués & Press Releases

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Communiqués

The following communiqués are position statements or descriptions of strategic directions for the California Digital Library.

• Challenges to licensing from some publishers.

Press Releases

The following press releases contain information about new content and services, partnerships, and other announcements. These press releases also appear in the comprehensive University of California online news service UC NewsWire.

• The UC Libraries have issued an Open Letter to Licensed Content Providers concerning the serious economic challenges facing the University of California Libraries. May 26, 2009 [PDF]

  The letter asks all information providers with whom we negotiate content licenses to respond to the major fiscal challenges affecting higher education in California in a spirit of collaboration and mutual problem-solving. We expect to work with each of our vendors at renewal to develop creative solutions that can preserve the greatest amount of content to meet the information needs of the University of California’s students, faculty, and researchers.

• University of California Libraries and Springer sign pilot agreement for open access journal publishing. January 21, 2009 [PDF]
• Laine Farley named executive director of the CDL. December 5, 2008 [HTML]
• The UC libraries support the settlement between Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers. October 28, 2008 [HTML]
• CDL and the University of California Libraries join the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) in launching the HathiTrust shared digital repository: October 13, 2008 [HTML]
• University of California is testing new Google software that will allow greater access to digitized content available online. March 13, 2008 [PDF]
• University of California eScholarship® Repository Exceeds 5 Million Full-Text Downloads; 20,000 Papers.  January 14, 2008 [PDF]
• University of California Libraries Collaborate with OCLC on Next Generation Melvyl® Catalog: June 22, 2007 [PDF]
• UC launches Calisphere web site. August 21, 2006 [HTML]
• UC libraries partner with Google to digitize books. August 9, 2006 [HTML]
• UC libraries highlight important initiatives and new digital services to Regents. May 18, 2006 [HTML]
• UC libraries partner with technology companies and non-profits to provide free public access to digitized books. October 3, 2005 [DOC]
• CDL announces new director of licensed content for UC.  September 6, 2005 [DOC]
• UC launches postprints service to provide greater access to UC scholarship. February 23, 2005 [DOC]
• CDL receives $2.4 million Library of Congress grant to preserve online government and political materials.  September 30, 2004 [DOC]
• New eScholarship service expands UC effort to publish scholarship.  September 14, 2004 [DOC]
• Counting California web site wins prestigious award.  June 28, 2004 [DOC]
• UC's eScholarship Repository adds peer-reviewed publications.  March 9, 2004 [PDF]
• eScholarship Editions publishes innovative books from UC Press.  November 24, 2003 [PDF]
• UC libraries unveil new Melvyl® Catalog.  April 23, 2003 [PDF]
• CDL's eScholarship repository reaches major milestones.  March 12, 2003 [PDF]
• Five hundred UC Press eScholarship Editions now available on the web.  January 7, 2003 [DOC]
• New Director of the CDL.  February 13, 2002 [PDF]
• New service provides free interactive access to California statistics.  August 9, 2001 [DOC]
• CDL and Berkeley Electronic Press announce partnership for scholarly communication initiatives.  October 4, 2001 [PDF]
• Digital publications highlights new release of the CDL.  January 19, 2001 [PDF]
• CDL to partner with EBSCO on UC ejournal access.  January 10, 2001 [PDF]
• The CDL acquires unique humanities databases for the UC from Alexander Street Press.  January 10, 2001 [PDF]
• UC and state libraries agree to create new information services.  June 12, 2000 [PDF]
• One-stop scholarly searching unveiled in new release of the CDL.  January 6, 2000 [PDF]
• California history and culture available online: $1.5 million supports the CDL's Online Archive of California.  November 6, 1999 [PDF]