Category: Shared Collections
New Reaxys is now available
Recently, Elsevier launched a new release of Reaxys©, a chemistry research database. According to the Elsevier press release, the new Reaxys combines a highly streamlined user interface with search and indexing enhancements powered by machine learning algorithms to ensure maximum […]
Announcing the Completion of New Enhancements for the AGUA Analysis and Decision Support Tool
During the past year, the WEST Development and Project teams have worked together to realize six important enhancements for the AGUA tool. We are pleased to announce that these enhancements have been successfully tested and are now live in the […]
Call for WEST Cycle 6 (2016/17) Statistics is Underway – extended deadline: Friday, October 27, 2017
WEST Cycle 6 statistics gathering is well underway! Thank you to everyone who has responded to our call – we greatly appreciate it. Following each cycle, WEST collects deselection, archiving, and lending statistics from our Members and Archive Holders. Currently, […]
WEST Webinar: The Why and How of Submitting Unarchived Holdings Files
In the beginning of September, the WEST Project Team sent out a request for unarchived holdings data from Full Members, which will inform the coming round of collections analysis determining what to archive next. On September 13th and 20th, the […]
Annual Collection Comparison Reports for Cycle 6 now available in AGUA
At the end of August, the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) announced that the sixth archiving cycle is complete and the Cycle 6/2017 collection comparison reports are available to full members. If your institution provided records for analysis in fall […]
Chan Li Moves to UC Berkeley
Chan has accepted the position of the Assessment Program Librarian at UC Berkeley. Her last day at CDL will be Friday, October 6th. Interestingly, Chan started at CDL exactly 11 years ago on Friday, Oct. 6, 2006 – and probably […]
SCP Monthly Update, September 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of August. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. Here are the highlights of our major record distributions. For […]
Need to Weed? WEST Webinar: On Demand Collection Comparison Report
On August 2nd and 9th, the WEST Project Team hosted two webinars aimed to support members in WEST archiving activities and the use of decision support services. The webinars featured the newly developed On Demand Collection Comparison Report in AGUA. […]
WEST Cycle 6 Disclosures Complete
In July, WEST Archive Holders and Builders completed disclosures of archived materials for Cycle 6. The WEST Project team received 34 disclosure files. Overall, we estimate that Cycle 6 archiving activity added 2,742 titles to the WEST Archive. Both supporting […]
Compendex has a new look
In August, Compendex (on the Engineering Village platform) launched an updated interface, refreshed to improve usability. According to the vendor’s information, “the new user interface will keep all the current navigation and high quality functionality, using a modern interface experience. […]