Under the leadership of then UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the CDL's original mission was to forge a better system for scholarly information management and improved support for teaching and research.
CDL continues to explore how services such as digital curation, scholarly publishing, archiving and preservation support research throughout the information lifecycle.
Several CDL projects focus on collaboration with other California Universities and organizations to create and extend access to digital material to UC partners and to the public at large.
[8][9][10][11] Calisphere is a free website that offers educators, students, and the public access to more than one million primary sources such as photographs, documents, newspapers, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, and other cultural artifacts.
These projects expand the UC Libraries' ability to give faculty, students and the public access to information and support our exploration of new service models.
The focus of the CDL's Discovery and Delivery team is the integration of library services and resources in order to remove barriers between users and content.
[16] AGUA provides key collection data to the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) and UC Libraries Shared Print Initiative.
Merritt is a repository service from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that lets the UC community manage, archive, and share its digital content.
[17] The service currently uses digital object identifiers (DOIs) and Archival Resource Keys (ARKs), which can be provided prior to publication and aid in linking related datasets and articles.