Month: September 2025
New WEST Office Hours – Beginning October 9th from 10am-11am
We are pleased to share that WEST will now be holding recurring office hours on the second Thursday of the month, beginning in October! These office hours are intended to be times for any WEST member to come ask questions […]
Deselection Deep Dive: University of Wyoming’s Experience with the WEST Internet Archive Pilot
Written with Jamie Markus, Associate Dean of Library Collections, University of Wyoming. Setting the Stage In September of 2024, WEST launched a pilot to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot involved […]
ASTM Digital Library: New Platform
At the end of June 2025, ASTM International (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials) announced their ASTM Digital Library has migrated from their Compass platform to their new Silverchair platform. ASTM Digital Library includes their books & manuals, […]
Airiti ebooks: New platform
On September 2, 2025, Airiti upgraded their Airiti iRead eBooks platform. Six UC campuses have books at Airiti (UCB/LBL, UCI, UCLA, UCSB, UCSC, UCSD). The Airiti eJournals platform (TEPS) is not impacted. New Site Features Upgraded full text search functionality […]
SCP Update – September 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in August 2025 UC eScholarship Theses and Dissertations: 1126 US Government Documents: 654 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 379 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 194 JSTOR Books: 97 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All […]