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SCP Update – January 2025

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in December 2024

  • Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 22
  • CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 370
  • JSTOR Books DDA: 912
  • Taylor & Francis ebooks (CRC/netbases 2012 & prior): 84
  • Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC Press) 2021-: 168
  • Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles 2024: 64 (GOBI)
  • Collection level bibliographic records: 6

New Collections Added and Activated

  • CathayPlay: Four UC campuses, UCB, UCI, UCLA, and UCSD, now have subscription access to a new Chinese streaming video platform called CathayPlay, the collection includes access to over 800 streaming videos celebrating Chinese independent cinema. Click here for more details. Title level cataloging coming soon.
  • Ebsco ebook collections: CDL activated three EBSCO collections: EbscoHost Middle Search Reference eBook Collection, EbscoHost Primary Search Reference eBook Subscription, and MasterFILE Premier Reference eBook Subscription. These are subscription collections that come with our Academic Search Complete access.
  • UMPEBC University of Michigan Press eBooks Backfile: CDL has added this new ebook collection to UC Library Search. These books are courtesy access at Michigan’s Fulcrum platform, and our campuses have access to them as long as we continue to purchase new frontlist collections for the University of Michigan Press.
  • ACS In Focus Collection 4: CDL activated this collection for UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, and UCSD.
  • eBook 2025 frontlists: CDL activated several eBook 2025 frontlists, including Project Muse, UC Press, Duke University Press.

Highlights on Open Access

Highlights on Other Activities

  • Taylor and Francis Journals Gap clean up: As January 1, 2025, Taylor & Francis will be aligning the backfile access with the terms of UC transformative agreement (2024-2027). We do not anticipate that this change will be highly disruptive as the content is primarily older and receives low use. Several CDL ERT staff have been working on aligning content availability in Alma with the actual availability of content on the Taylor & Francis platform.
  • Springer 2024 & 2025 eBooks: CDL has finally reached agreement with Springer Nature on acceptable AI terms for the systemwide ebook license, enabling signing of the license for 2024-28. Access to 2024 & 2025 books is now available at the Springer platform. CDL staff are working on processing these packages for the catalog.
  • Recruitment updates:
    • Marcus Jun has accepted the position of Head of the CDL Shared Cataloging Program and will assume this role on February 10, working out of UCSD. He is currently the Institutional Repository Librarian at San Francisco State University. Shi Deng’s final day in her current role will be February 7, during which she will collaborate with Marcus to ensure a smooth transition.
    • The Job posting for the Chinese Language Metadata Librarian (member of the Shared Cataloging Program; position previously held by Bie-Hwa Ma) is available at: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04165. Review applications will start after January 27, 2025.

Report an Alma/Primo VE problem: This page outlines how and when campuses should report access issues to CDL. This page can be found under CDL’s Report a Problem page under “Report a SILS (Alma or Primo VE) Problem”.