Category: Shared Collections
New Licensed Resource – Materials Science & Engineering Database
All UC campuses now have access to ProQuest’s Materials Science & Engineering Database, based on UC’s standalone subscription to Earthquake Engineering Abstracts. http://uclibs.org/PID/300988 (All campuses; on the ProQuest platform) The Materials Science & Engineering Database is an interdisciplinary resource combining […]
SCP Monthly Update — February 2018
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of January [Excel]. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. This month we added two new serials collections: Annual […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – EPS China Statistics
Four campuses (Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to EPS China Statistics. http://uclibs.org/PID/300987 (D, I, LA, SD; on the EPS China Data platform) EPS China Statistics provides 41 China databases […]
Two CDL Job Openings: Collection Assessment Analyst and Licensing Analyst
The California Digital Library (CDL) is a collaborative effort of the ten campuses of the University of California, and is designed to enable UC libraries to continue to meet the informational needs of UC faculty and students. The CDL assumes […]
New Licensed Resource – Annual Reviews
All UC campuses now have access to the Complete Sciences and Economics Collection (all 50 published titles, ‘Annual Review of …’); some campuses may have already had access to these and other AR titles via local subscriptions: http://uclibs.org/PID/9592 (All campuses; […]
WEST Executive Committee Election Results
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is governed by an Executive Committee that oversees the operation and development of WEST and works to integrate WEST with related archiving programs nationally and internationally. WEST members cast their votes in elections for […]
SCP Monthly Update, January 2018
Happy New Year 2018! SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of December. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our […]
Cobweb Update: Supporting Collaborative Web Archiving
Not unlike the arachnids to which we allude in the Cobweb name, the team behind this open source service platform designed to support collaborative collection development for web archives has been industriously working up an initial prototype of the system. […]
WEST Representatives Attend Rosemont Shared Print Alliance In-person Meeting
On November 3rd, WEST representatives from the WEST Executive Committee, supported by the WEST Project Team, traveled to Rosemont, Illinois to take part in an in-person strategic meeting of the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance. WEST’s representatives on the Rosemont Executive […]
Wendy Parfrey retires in January
Wendy Parfrey, CDL’s Shared Content Coordinator and stalwart participant of CDL’s licensing and negotiations team, will be retiring on January 31, 2018. After twenty years with sales and marketing positions in the publishing industry (Pearson, Elsevier, Gale, Dialog and several […]