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Category: Shared Collections

SCP Update – April 2025

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in March 2025 Apabi Nian jian ku (Local-L): 101 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 119 China Statistical Yearbooks (CSYD 1949-) (Local-L): 1839 JSTOR Books: 364 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 226 Wiley Online […]

New Presses at De Gruyter and De Gruyter Brill Merger

New ebook packages at De Gruyter The UCs have recently purchased titles from several University Presses at De Gruyter, which are new for systemwide access. These collections were purchased on behalf of all 10 UC campuses: University of Chicago Press […]

Alloy Phase Diagram transitions to Materials Platform for Data Science

ASM International’s Alloy Phase Diagram Database has recently transitioned to a new platform, now under the name Materials Platform for Data Science (MPDS). Subscribers of the Alloy Phase Diagrams at MPDS remain the same: UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, and […]

Save the Date for the 2025 WEST Member Meeting!

WEST will hold its 2025 summer member meeting virtually this year on Thursday July 24 from 10-11:30am PT. Please register in advance for this meeting. Information for joining the meeting will be shared automatically after registering.* Please share this information […]

Ebook Usability Report on Aggregator Platforms: A Case Study of EBSCO and ProQuest

Following the University of California Ebook Usability Common Knowledge Group’s (EUCKG) analysis of 3 publisher platforms (Cambridge, Elsevier, and Wiley) and the publication of an initial report, the EUCKG received feedback to evaluate ebook aggregators to see how they perform […]

Call for Cycle 14 Archiving Disclosures

The WEST Cycle 14 disclosure period is now open! The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders to submit records of all materials archived for WEST to CDL via the file upload tool […]

SCP Update – March 2025

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in February 2025 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 212 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 176 JSTOR Books: 177 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 219 Link to the full reports (UC login required) 2025-02-Total […]

New Resource: APA PsycTests

The 10 UC campuses (+Lawrence Berkeley Lab) now have access to APA PsycTests! Any existing campus subscriptions were taken into account with the new Tier 1 subscription.  The APA PsycTests database is a scholarly source for bibliographic & full text […]

CDL Shared Collections contributions to new book

A new book, Standards and Best Practices on Data and Digital Resources, with contributions from Bie-hwa Ma and Shi Deng, former colleagues from the CDL Shared Cataloging Program, has been published recently. This was an output of an international collaboration […]

Download AGUA Reports More Easily!

Every two years, when not actively engaged in collections analysis, WEST modifies and enhances the AGUA collection analysis and decision support system to add new features, reports, and tools or improve existing ones. These development phases typically include several projects, […]