Category: Shared Collections
SCP’s New PID Service
One of the tools used by the Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) is the PID (Persistent Identifier) Service, which allows SCP to create PIDs for systemwide-licensed resources. PIDs act as substitute URLs for a resource and the PID service allows SCP […]
Managing the Print Archiving Process: Building a WEST Archive
Winter is a busy time of year for WEST. In addition to gathering holdings data for cycle 4 collections analysis, our Archive Builders are also building cycle 3 print archives to hold in storage. Your institution may have recently received […]
Updates from beyond WEST: Shared Print at the 2013 Charleston Conference
At the Charleston Conference, two shared print groups, the Maine Shared Collections Strategy (MSCS) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s (CIC) Shared Print Repository, presented on their projects, goals and activities. In “Data to Decisions: Shared Print Retention in Maine,” […]
New Licensed Resource – JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection II
UC campuses now have access to the JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection II as part of the CDL consortial license; on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR Ecology & Botany II The Ecology & Botany Collection II expands coverage of Ecology & […]
K-Theory now available through Portico
The academic community lost access to the mathematics journal K-Theory on the SpringerLink platform when the editorial board resigned in 2007 and founded a new journal, Journal of K-Theory, published by Cambridge University Press. Access to the original K-Theory content […]
HathiTrust October 2013 Update
There are a number of exciting announcements from HathiTrust this month: Zephir, a new bibliographic data management system developed for HathiTrust by the California Digital Library was released. HT announced its intention to become a replicating node in the Digital […]
Emily Stambaugh speaks on "Reinventing Shared Print" and provides update on UC Shared Print and WEST
The OCLC Collective Insight Series event, “Getting off the Island: Collaborating to Create Boundless Collections,” was held at Loyola Marymount University on October 15, 2013. The interactive program explored current and future opportunities to share print and electronic collections across […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – SAE Digital Library
In October 2013, five campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and Riverside) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the SAE International Digital Library of Technical Papers: http://uclibs.org/PID/255206 SAE, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers, […]
Licensed Resource Transition: AP Images
AP Images Collection (Tier 1; AP Images continues to be hosted by the Associated Press and although distributed and licensed by EBSCO, is not hosted on the EBSCO platform.) http://uclibs.org/PID/6955 The Associated Press recently performed a visual update of the […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update — October 2013
Last month there were only a couple of significant serial distributions, for Open Access serials (121 titles) and SuperStar (77 titles). The major monograph distributions were for the Alexander Street Press Classical music library (2385 titles), SuperStar (289 titles), Wiley […]