Year: 2020
Alexander Street Press & Chadwyck-Healey databases move to ProQuest platform
In March 2020, individual Alexander Street Press (ASP) and Chadwyck-Healey (CH) literature collections became available on the main ProQuest platform and are cross-searchable with other relevant literature and multi-disciplinary content on the platform. According to the transition FAQ, the new […]
New Resource: ProQuest Historical Newspaper (HNP) and History Vault (HV) EBA Pilot
The ProQuest Historical Newspaper (HNP) http://uclibs.org/PID/241398 and History Vault (HV) http://uclibs.org/PID/431313 pilot plan is available to all ten UC campuses through 4/30/2021 and includes access to the online collections: 52 Historical Newspapers (US and International titles), and 45 History Vault […]
UC Request Software Offers Links to HathiTrust’s Emergency Temporary Access to Copyrighted Books
In order to help UC faculty, students, and staff at all ten University of California campuses get electronic content as quickly as possible, the Request program has integrated access to copyright protected material via HathiTrust’s Emergency Temporary Access System (ETAS). […]
Call for Cycle 9 Archiving Disclosures – Due June 30, 2020
The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders to submit metadata records describing the journal backfiles archived during WEST Cycle 9. Back in September 2018, WEST members committed to titles for archiving during […]
UC Libraries’ Shared Print Program Joins the Partnership for Shared Book Collections
The University of California Libraries’ Shared Print program has joined the Partnership for Shared Book Collections, a federation of shared print monographic programs that aims to coordinate shared print collaboration in North America to support cost-effective retention and access to […]
Analysis sheds light on changes in journal risk level over time
As the collection analysis progresses, the WEST project team has been performing some additional lightweight analyses to investigate points of interest that came to light in the 2019 program assessment. WEST has not historically performed any retrospective reviews of archived […]
AGUA Development Phase 5 – Input Requested
Every other year WEST solicits unarchived holdings files from members and performs a collections analysis to identify what journals will be archived on behalf of the group over the next two years. During the ‘off years’ the WEST project team […]
New Resource: MIT Press Direct eBooks 2020
All UC campuses now have access to MIT Press Direct eBooks 2020 Frontlist which will contain approximately 150 books. The 2020 Frontlist will be comprised of the following subject collections: economics; environmental science; philosophy; and science, technology, and society, and […]
HathiTrust Provides Emergency Temporary Access to Copyrighted Books
In response to COVID-19 library service disruptions, HathiTrust has taken an important step to open up copyrighted material in their digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. UC faculty, students, and staff at […]
New Resource: Toyo Keizai Digital Archives: Unit 2 (1946-2015)
Tōyō Keizai Shinpō (1895-1960)/Shūkan Tōyō Keizai (1961-present) is a Japanese economic journal published to today, and Toyo Keizai Digital Archives: Unit Two offers online access to this journal from 1946 to 2015—the contents cover ca. 3,500 volumes in 445,000 pages […]