Category: Shared Collections
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: April 2015
The major monograph distributions were for Naxos (7485 titles), Naxos Jazz (1327 titles), Knovel (1182 titles), Materials Research Society (288 titles), MIT Press (219 titles), IEEE (197 titles), SPIE (135 titles), EBSCO (118 titles), and CRC Press (94 titles). For […]
Announcing WEST’s new FAQ!
WEST has revised its FAQ! The new WEST FAQ includes the following three sections: The Who, What, Where and How of WEST Accessing WEST Archives The Call for Holdings and Contributing Volumes to a WEST Archiver Holder Thank you to […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – Loeb Classical Library
Five campuses (Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Santa Barbara) are now participating in a Tier 2 license for the digital Loeb Classical Library, which was recently made available online by Harvard University Press. http://uclibs.org/PID/270639 (B, I, LA, R, SB; […]
New Licensed Resource – Nature Plants
All UC campuses now have access to Nature Plants on the Nature.com (NPG) platform. Nature Plants is a new systemwide license in 2015. After numerous faculty requests across a number of campuses, the UC Bio/Ag and Health & Life Sciences […]
Cycle 5 Collections Analysis Currently Underway
In the fall, 86 members submitted files for 109 OCLC symbols, totaling 2.4 million records. With those records, approximately 30,000 journal backfiles were identified for cycle 5 collections analysis – which is currently underway. WEST’s existing six Archive Builders will continue […]
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 […]