Category: Shared Collections
Licensed Resource Change: Science of Synthesis 4.0 Platform Now Available
Thieme has announced the availability of the new Science of Synthesis (SoS) 4.0 platform. Access will be provided to both the new (SoS 4.0) and old (SoS 3.10) platforms through January 31, 2014. http://uclibs.org/PID/96558 The new version of SoS has […]
WEST Executive Committee Election Results
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is governed by an Executive Committee that oversees the operation and development of WEST and works to integrate WEST with related archiving programs nationally and internationally. WEST carried out elections for the Executive Committee […]
SCOAP3 Open Access Publishing Initiative to Go Live on 1 January 2014
Thanks to the hard work and steadfast commitment of hundreds of libraries and individuals across the globe, SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, will soon become a reality. This ground-breaking initiative will make a large […]
Reminder – WEST ALA Midwinter Meeting: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
ALA Midwinter is fast approaching; if you plan to attend the WEST Member meeting on Sunday, January 26, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in MAR-Franklin 08, please RSVP. You can RSVP to our poll (found here) by submitting your name and institution. There is no […]
Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) Monthly Update: November 2013
A couple of announcements regarding the Airiti Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) package, first, ongoing problems with the ability of Airiti to provide the DDA records for the campuses necessitated SCP take over the process. Instead of each campus separately acquiring […]
WEST at ALA Midwinter 2014 in Philadelphia: Please RSVP if you plan to attend
There will be a WEST Member meeting at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia, Sunday, January 26, 2014 from 1-2:30 pm in MAR-Franklin 08. WEST members are encouraged to attend to hear updates about the program. We hope to see you there! […]
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 & […]