The following articles, published in various journals and magazines, provide insight into the California Digital Library and its programs and initiatives. Most have been written by CDL staff.
- Isaac Mankita, Ellen Meltzer, James Harris. "A Handful of Things." D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 12, No.5. May 2006.
- John Ober. "Facilitating open access: Developing support for author control of copyright
." C&RL News Vol. 67, No. 4. April 2006.
- Roy Tennant. "A bibliographic metadata infrastructure for the twenty-first century." Library Hi Tech Vol 22 (2) 2004.
- Laine Farley. "Digital Images Come of Age." Syllabus Magazine. May 2004
- Catherine Candee. "Fat Cat Publishers Breaking the System." Syllabus Magazine. May 2004
- Catherine B. Soehner. "The eScholarship Repository: A University of California Response to the Scholarly Communication Crisis." Science & Technology Libraries Vol. 22, nos. 3/4, 2002, pp. 29-37.
- Roy Tennant. "Publishing Books Online at eScholarship." XML in Libraries, edited by Roy Tennant. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2002.
- Karen Coyle. "Make Sure You Are Privacy Literate." Library Journal. October 1, 2002
- Roy Tennant. "Institutional Repositories." Library Journal. September 2002
- Robin Chandler. "Museums in the Online Archive of California (MOAC): Building Digital Collections Across Libraries and Museums." First Monday Vol. 7, no. 5. May 2002
- Robin Chandler. "Building Digital Collections at the OAC: Current Strategies
with a View to Future Uses." Journal of Archival Organization Vol. 1, no 1. Spring 2002
- "Dan Greenstein: University of California, CA Digital Library Orchestrating Digital Worlds." Library Journal. March 15, 2002
- Patricia Cruse. "Counting California: Government Information Access Made Easy." Connection No. 19. January 2002
- Catherine Candee. "The California Digital Library and the eScholarship Program." Journal of Library Administration Vol. 35, nos. 1/2, 2001, pp. 37-59.
- "With no Walls to Confine it, the California Digital Library is Moving in Many Directions." Notice Vol. 25, no. 1. October 2001
- Roy Tennant. "Digital Libraries — Cross-Database Search: One-Stop Shopping." Library Journal. October 2001
- Roy Tennant. "Digital Libraries — The Other E-Books." Library Journal. September 2001
- John Ober. "The Digital Library Triumvirate: Content, Collaboration, and Technology." Syllabus Magazine. May 2001
- Karen Coyle. "The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study." D-Lib Magazine Vol. 6, no. 3. March 2000
- John Ober. "The California Digital Library." D-Lib Magazine Vol. 5, no. 3. March 1999