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Category: Shared Collections

Celebrating WEST Archive Builders – What they do, who they are, what you can do!

The WEST program is unique in its use of a risk model that determines the level of effort invested in archiving the content. The majority of WEST Archivers agree to retain proposed titles and mark that commitment in the records’ […]

SCP Update – November 2024

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in October 2024 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 917 JapanKnowledge Lib: 1276 JSTOR Books DDA: 242 National Academies Press: 7 Oxford Scholarship Online 2024 Frontlist: 118 (GOBI) Taylor & Francis eBooks (STMnetbase/CRC Press) […]

Demystifying Disclosure Discrepancies

All WEST-retained journal records are updated to include information about the WEST program, any validation work that has been performed, and the results of that validation work, according to the policies laid out in the WEST Disclosure Policy.  The goal […]

SCP Update – October 2024

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in September 2024 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 319 ASCE E-books and Standards (2024-): 12 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2024 All eBooks: 19 (GOBI) IOS Press online monographs (Local-OA): 183 JSTOR […]

Historical Newspapers Online and Palmer’s Index to the Times

Earlier in 2024, ProQuest sunset the Chadwyck-Healey database titled Historical Newspapers Online and Palmer’s Index to the Times, previously found at http://historynews.chadwyck.com. Over the years, ProQuest has worked to migrate databases found on the Chadwyck-Healey platform over to the main […]

WEST’s new pilot with member libraries and the Internet Archive aims to maximize deselections, expand access, and enhance preservation

WEST is launching a pilot to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot will involve coordinating the donation of duplicate copies of WEST archived titles to the Internet Archive to expand digitization […]

WEST ASU Gap Filling Pilot Mid-Point Update

Current WEST archiving standards require Archive Builders to actively seek contributions to fill gaps in the medium and high risk level titles they archive, but WEST also bounds this work, limiting gap filling activities to ensure Builders have sufficient time […]

SCP Update – September 2024

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in August 2024 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 191 Cambridge eBooks without Partner Presses: 2024 All eBooks: 154 (GOBI) JSTOR Books DDA: 820 KinoDen: 3 National Academies Press: 2 Open access resource selected […]

Taylor & Francis – New HSS Ebooks

The University of California has recently purchased a new set of ebooks from Taylor & Francis: a one time purchase of 18 selected subject collections from the 2024 HSS (humanities and social sciences) ebook series. These ebooks will be available […]

ProQuest History Vault Moves Platforms

ProQuest has announced that all History Vault collections will migrate to the main ProQuest platform (https://search.proquest.com/), from the previous standalone History Vault site (http://hv.proquest.com/). Dual access at both platforms began June 26, 2024 and will last through January 8, 2025. […]