Category: Shared Collections
New WEST Archive Holders Orientation Webinar
In Archive Cycle 4, WEST welcomed several more institutions to act as Archive Holders. Thank you to both our new and existing Archive Holders (now totaling 32!) for their commitment to retain print journals! To help members better understand the […]
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online transition to new platform
Three campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, and San Diego) participatie in a Tier 2 license for access to six (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish; plus Arabic for UCB only) of the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online. The 3 participating campuses have […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: March 2015
I’m very pleased to share the news that Becky Culbertson has been named a recipient of the annual Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award. The ALA press release highlights many of her contributions to the field, the benefits of which are well […]
UC Davis, CDL to Lead Major Project to Build Open Access Financial Model
(Davis, CA) – The University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library (CDL) will lead a major new project, with an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to help define the future of Open Access to scholarship. […]
Introducing JACS — Journal Archiving Campaigns to the RLFs
The UC Shared Print Strategy and Operations Teams are pleased to announce a new service: Journal Archiving Campaigns to the RLFs (JACS). Journal archiving campaigns provide a coordinated approach to selecting, depositing, consolidating and preserving print journal backfiles at the Regional Library […]
SCP’s Becky Culbertson receives Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that Becky Culbertson, part of CDL’s Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) based at UC San Diego, is a recipient of the 2015 Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award. The award will be […]
UC Monthly E-Resource Usage Reports Are Now Available Via MPSInsight for Libraries
Monthly COUNTER usage reports for UC Libraries Systemwide licensed e-resources from 2010 to the present are now available via a link to MPSInsight for Libraries (formerly ScholarlyStats). ScholarlyStats was the brand name and platform under which MPS’s library statistics reporting […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Red Book Online
Six campuses (Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and San Francisco) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to Red Book Online. http://uclibs.org/PID/268676 (D, I, LA, R, SD, SF; on the Silverchair platform) Red Book® Online includes […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: February 2015
Our major monograph distributions for last month included titles for Early English Books (4,334 tiles), Springer (2,702 titles), SuperStar (520 titles), IEEE (130 titles), YBP/Ebrary DDA (121 titles), CRC Press (78 titles), Apabi (66 titles), and Wiley (60 titles). For […]
Update Delivered at ALA Midwinter 2015 WEST Member Meeting
The ALA Midwinter WEST Member Meeting took place on Sunday, Feb. 01, 2015 from 1-2:30 pm in the Hilton Chicago (Continental C). Thank you to everyone who braved the snow storm to join us! If you were unable to attend, please find […]