Category: Shared Collections
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. […]
Update Delivered at ALA Annual 2017 WEST Member Meeting
WEST members met during the June ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Over 20 representatives of WEST member institutions were able to attend – hailing from California to Missouri. During the meeting, the WEST Project Team updated attendees on archiving progress, […]
SPIE Digital Library moves to new platform
The SPIE Digital Library is migrating from the Silverchair platform to a new SPIE Digital Library platform on Tuesday, August 15, 2017. Features of the new platform include improved search functionality, expanded taxonomy, full text HTML proceedings and eBooks, enhanced […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2017
SCP has posted the distribution statistics report for the month of July [xlsx]. 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. […]
LexisNexis Academic Becomes Nexis Uni
The national transition from legacy LexisNexis Academic to its completely reengineered successor Nexis Uni™ is now under way, and all UC campuses are among the first wave of migrating subscribers with IP-based access to Uni already activated. UC retains dual […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – North-China Daily News
Five campuses (Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara & Santa Cruz) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers and Hong Lists (1850-1951). http://uclibs.org/PID/296530 (I, LA, SD, SB, SC; on […]