Category: Shared Collections
Melvyl Central Index Update
It’s July 2014, and time for the biannual addition of new databases released by OCLC to Melvyl’s Central Index. Currently, CDL adds databases to the all instances of the Melvyl Central Index for resources managed by CDL and licensed by […]
New Licensed Resource – Scientific American
All UC campuses now have access to Scientific American; some campuses may have already had access via local subscriptions. [All campuses; on the Nature Publishing platform. SCP has distributed the catalog records.] Scientific American is the world’s premier magazine of […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – JSTOR Global Plants
Seven campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside and San Diego) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to JSTOR Global Plants. http://uclibs.org/PID/264382 [B, D, I, LA, M, R, SD; on the JSTOR platform. SCP has distributed […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: July 2014
The major distributions for serials last month were for Open Access (488 titles), ScienceDirect (52 titles), JSTOR (50 titles), and ASME (49 titles) with those from ASME being the first distributions for that package. For monographs, our major distributions included […]
Big Strides for the Elephant – HathiTrust Mid-Year Update 2014
2014 has been a great year for the HathiTrust Digital Library, and the year is only half over! Milestones In February, HathiTrust surpassed 11 million volumes in its collection. Close to 4 million of these are in the public […]
CDL purchases Nature Chemistry and Nature Nanotechnology backfiles
CDL purchased two Nature backfiles for systemwide access with last-minute end-of-year funds that became available – the complete backfile (Volume 1, 2009 through 2013) for Nature Chemistry, and the Volume 1, 2006 backfile for Nature Nanotechnology. Nature Chemistry has been […]
It Takes a Village to Digitize a Library: UC Davis’ Mass Digitization Project Concludes
A year ago, UC Davis began sending out-of-copyright books and journals to be digitized as part of UC’s partnership in the Google Books Library Project. The UC Davis team has sent more than 36,290 books to be digitized and […]
Announcing AGUA – WEST’s decision-support information center!
WEST is proud to announce AGUA, the information center where WEST members and Archive Holders can review archiving proposals and make local archiving decisions online. The first release will go live next week. This first release includes the ability to: Review […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – ASME Digital Collection
Eight campuses (UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD, and UCSB) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the ASME Digital Collection (on the Silverchair platform). The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is the premier professional […]
Roles and Responsibilities of an Archive Holder
WEST is excited to invite more members to act as Archive Holders this cycle. WEST believes strongly in the importance of the distributed model for serials print archiving. WEST currently has 20 Archive Holders and will invite 40 more members […]