Year: 2014
WEST starts Archive Cycle 5!
WEST is pleased to announce that work is already underway for Archive Cycle 5! Currently, members are providing files of library journal holdings data for the fifth round of collection analysis. Each year, WEST members provide their holdings for regional […]
Catherine Mitchell elected to Library Publishing Coalition Board
Catherine Mitchell, CDL’s Director of Access & Publishing, was recently elected to the Board of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). A relatively new organization, the LPC promotes the development of innovative, sustainable publishing services in academic & research libraries by […]
DataUp is Merging with Dash!
About Dash Dash is a University of California project to create a platform that allows researchers to easily describe, deposit and share their research data publicly. Currently the Dash platform is connected to the UC3 Merritt Digital Repository; however, we have […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: September 2014
For monographs, our major distributions included titles for Naxos (4999 titles), Springer (1402 titles), Wiley (208 titles), IEEE (152 titles), Apabi (100 titles), and YBP/Ebrary DDA (95 titles). For serials, our major distributions were for Open Access (635 titles) and […]
Calisphere in Atlantic Monthly Series
Calisphere is the University of California’s free public gateway to primary sources from across the state. Containing more than 240,000 unique digital items — such as photographs, letters, newspaper pages, and other resources — the website is a trove for discovering […]
EZID Service Update: August 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The EZID Team introduced the long-awaited suffix-passthrough feature for ARK identifiers. Suffix- passthrough greatly reduces the management burden for large datasets. To learn more see http://cdlib.org/2014/08/19/suffixpassthru/. And for the more detailed information and working […]
HathiTrust – Cool Happenings in July
HTRC Awarded Grant to Build Cool Tool Exciting news for the HathiTrust Research Center! In July, HTRC was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore the “Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm.” The […]
Introducing the New Interlibrary Courier Service and the New ILL Courier Operations Team
The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) units of the UC Libraries have a new courier service that started August 7, 2014. We are once again working with Tricor Courier & Cargo Service, which previously served the UC Libraries until November 2011. The […]
WEST invites title nominations for deep backfiles to hold in place
Does your library have a deep print journal backfile you would be willing to archive in place on behalf of the region? WEST would like to invite member libraries to nominate moderately held deep backfiles for archiving in place. This […]
Melvyl Enhancements: Availability on Brief and Call Numbers in Lists
In their latest installation of enhancements, OCLC fixed a bug where call numbers were not appearing in saved lists. In order to take advantage of this fix, it was necessary to turn on the Availability on Brief (AoB) record display […]