Category: Shared Collections
HathiTrust – Cool Happenings in July
HTRC Awarded Grant to Build Cool Tool Exciting news for the HathiTrust Research Center! In July, HTRC was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore the “Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm.” The […]
WEST invites title nominations for deep backfiles to hold in place
Does your library have a deep print journal backfile you would be willing to archive in place on behalf of the region? WEST would like to invite member libraries to nominate moderately held deep backfiles for archiving in place. This […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: August 2014
I’m pleased to announce that on August 1st, Kate Garvey-Clasby was promoted to a Library Assistant V position. Being the successful candidate for the posted position, Kate’s responsibilities for batch processes will increase and she now will be able to […]
WEST Strategic Planning Progress – Initial Recommendations for Change, 2016 and beyond
On June 3rd, the WEST Executive Committee and Operations and Collections Council convened to review member feedback from the recent program assessment and plan for WEST’s future beyond 2016. A final report with outcomes from that meeting is available on […]
New Licensed Resource — Statista
http://uclibs.org/PID/224553 (All campuses; on the Statista.com platform) All campuses have access to a new resource, Statista. Statista.com is a statistics portal that integrates data on over 60,000 topics from over 18,000 sources into eye-catching charts and graphs that can be […]
New Licensed Resource – Sixth National Population Census of China Database
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to the Sixth National Population Census of China Database. B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC and SD; on the CNKI platform. http://uclibs.org/PID/264368 (Chinese version) http://uclibs.org/PID/264437 (English version) Note: At […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIII
Nine UC campuses (all except UCSF) now have access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIII. http://uclibs.org/PID/1980 (B, D, I, LA, M, R, SB, SC, SD; on the JSTOR platform) JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIII includes 125 Titles (by 2016) in […]
WEST Update Delivered at Member Meeting at ALA Annual 2014
The ALA Annual WEST Member Meeting took place on Sunday, June 29, 2014 in LVCC-N120. Following a presentation from the WEST Project Team, we had an excellent Q&A session. Thank you to everyone who joined us! If you were unable to attend, please […]
Emily Stambaugh speaks on “Moving Shared Print to the Network Level” at ALA Annual 2014
The ALA Annual 2014 Print Archive Network (PAN) meeting on June 27 was followed by a session titled, “Looking to the Future of Shared Print,” co-sponsored by the Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). […]
New Licensed Resource – Nature Reviews
UC campuses now have access to the six Nature Reviews journals listed below. [All UC campuses; on the Nature Publishing platform. SCP has distributed the catalog records.] Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology http://www.nature.com/nrclinonc/index.html Nature Reviews Endocrinology http://www.nature.com/nrendo/index.html Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & […]