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January 2001
California Digital Library Releases New Publications The California Digital Library has unveiled novel scholarly publications as the focus of its latest release of online collections and services. This month's release, marking the beginning of the CDL's third year of operation, makes available both newly digitized and "born digital" research results. The publications range from online health science books and journals, to working papers in international and area studies, to a new website and documents covering the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. The new scholarly content complements the Melvylâ library catalog, a growing array of journal and reference databases, and information discovery tools that are also made available through the CDL. All of the new materials are available to the public, as is the online catalog and many related services. A digital version of "Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles," by UCSF professor Stanton A. Glantz and Edith D. Balbach, is a highlight of the new release. The digital book is the result of a partnership between the CDL's eScholarship program, designed to support innovation in scholarly communication, and the University of California Press. Readers can follow extensive end-of-chapter links and click through to digitized source materials, such as tobacco company and legislative documents, referenced in the book. Links to these supporting materials and easy navigation within the book are facilitated by eScholarship's use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), a standard in the use and presentation of digital information. eScholarship is also home to new tools for the creation of collections of research results and working papers. These "eprint" repositories are hosted by the CDL, but managed by disciplinary communities of scholars. The repositories, and the experiments in the dissemination of scholarship that they allow, emulate the highly successful Los Alamos National Laboratory's "arXiv" eprint service for physics, math and computer science. Repositories and author services for dermatology, international and area studies, and tobacco control are the first to be supported by the eScholarship program. The January release also features the debut of the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA), which documents the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. JARDA, an addition to the CDL's Online Archive of California, features newly digitized photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, oral histories, and inventories of archival collections. Eventually bringing together over 10,000 digital images and 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of documents and oral histories, JARDA is drawn from collections of numerous California archives and museums. The CDL, which partners with the 10 UC campuses, opened to the public in January 1999. As a digital "co-library," complementing the physical libraries of the UC system, the CDL uses technology to efficiently share materials held by UC, to provide greater and easier access to digital content, and to join with researchers in developing new tools and innovations for scholarly communication. Links: Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles |
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