Category: Shared Collections
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 […]
New Group Selection in the On Demand Comparison Report And New On Demand Analytics Report
This year, as part of AGUA Development Phase 7, in addition to the New Fields Available in the WEST All Archived Titles Report and the development to Download AGUA Reports More Easily, the AGUA Development Team completed an enhancement to […]
New Fields Available in the WEST All Archived Titles Report!
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, […]
2025 WEST Member Meeting Recap: Why WEST Now? Protecting our foundations in times of turmoil and uncertainty
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us Thursday, 7/24/2025, for our annual WEST Member Meeting! For those of you who were not able to attend, or for those who’d like to review some of the presentations or […]
Shared Print Round-Up: Q2 2025
Over the last quarter we’ve had many exciting updates, webinars, and articles from community members across shared print! Below is a roundup of shared print news and events from March through June. In March, Liz Hayden, Associate University Librarian for […]
New and Continuing Resources and OA Investments Fiscal Year 24-25
FY24-25 New and Continuing Resources CDL is pleased to announce new and continuing resources recently acquired by the UC Libraries for systemwide use by UC students and faculty. The selection of these resources was a collaborative effort involving all ten […]
SCP Update – July 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in June 2025 CathayPlay (Local-L): 435 JSTOR Books: 357 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 203 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 134 Oxford Scholarship Online Complete: 118 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles […]
AP Images Collection to be Discontinued
University of California users have had multiple ways to access Associated Press (AP) content over the years, including both the AP Images Collection at EBSCOhost, and the newer AP Newsroom platform, a standalone site, through EBSCO. In 2019, UC’s main […]
Education Research Index
ProQuest has released a new free database called Education Research Index, which is available to all UC campuses. Education Research Index includes ERIC + a new Supplemental Education Index, and users can search them together or separately at ProQuest. UC […]
WEST Internet Archive Pilot – Report and Recommendations Now Available!
Last Fall (2024), WEST launched a pilot with the Internet Archive and six WEST member libraries to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot involved coordinating the donation of duplicate copies of […]