Cycle 14 (2025) Collection Comparison Reports Now Available
WEST is pleased to announce that the fourteenth archiving cycle disclosure process is complete, and the Cycle 14 (2025) annual collection comparison reports are now available for WEST members to download in AGUA. These reports were generated for each member that submitted a file of records for the Cycle 14 & 15 collections analysis in 2024. All members also have access, at any time, to the All Archived Titles Report and On Demand Collection Comparison report in AGUA. The AGUA User Manual includes detailed instructions for using these pages.
As a reminder, beginning last year we made Metadata Validation Reports available under your, “My Institution’s Reports” section on AGUA. These reports highlight areas where your holdings data had a discrepancy with WorldCat holdings data, and can serve as a starting point for any data remediation efforts your institution would like to engage in. Note that in some cases reported “errors” are merely an outcome of local practice, and so won’t warrant correction. These are informational reports only and no action is required from your institution.
Congratulations and thank you all for another great year, and many thanks to the AGUA Development Team who produced these reports! Read on below for information about the reports available to your institution and when they might be useful to you:
| Report | Collection Comparison Reports | Validation Reports | On Demand Comparison Report | On Demand Analytics Report | WEST All Archived Titles Report | WEST All Archived Titles MARC File |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use If | You want to see at a glance all holdings in your collection which are archived for WEST | You want to engage in local data remediation or view areas where your holdings data had a discrepancy with WorldCat holdings data | You want to generate a comparison report any time of year (not just at the end of the archive cycle) and specify the journals you want to review locally | You want to generate a report of archived and unarchived titles held by specific groups such as WEST, CARLI, or SCELC (see AGUA user manual for a full list of groups) | You would like to view a complete list of WEST archived titles | You want a file of all WEST archived titles to load into your local catalog for more seamless discovery by your users |