Category: Shared Collections
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, […]
Shared Print Roundup: Q1 2025
Even though we’re only three months into 2025, there have already been many exciting updates, webinars, and articles from community members across shared print! Below is a roundup of shared print news and events from January and February, and registration […]
SCP Update – February 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in January 2025 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 61 Apabi Dian zi tu shu (Local-L): 6 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 220 JSTOR Books: 641 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 260 Cambridge eBooks […]
New Resource: CEUP East Meets West
Nine UC campuses are now supporting the Opening the Future ebook collection CEUP: East Meets West, for a three year commitment (2025-2027). From the Central European University Press (CEU Press), the East Meets West collection is a new package offered […]