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Save the date + Registration Open: WEST Member Meeting Tuesday July 19, 1-2:30pm PT
WEST will hold its 2022 summer member meeting virtually this year on Tuesday July 19 from 1-2:30pm PT. Please register in advance for this meeting. Information for joining the meeting will be shared automatically after registering. At this member meeting […]
Moving On
I want to let you know that I’m planning to retire from the University of California on July 1, 2022, with my last working day sometime in late April. This seemed like the right moment since CDL was significantly reducing […]
eScholarship celebrates its 20-year anniversary!
The University of California’s eScholarship publishing and institutional repository program celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year, a milestone that provides us with an opportunity to reflect on how far UC has come in the work of open access library publishing […]
Updated WEST Policies – Access Policy, Disclosure Policy, and Validation Standards
In 2020 the WEST governance committees charged two working groups to review and, as necessary, revise key WEST policies. That work is now complete and the updated documents have been posted to the WEST website: WEST Access Policy WEST Disclosure […]
Ellen Finnie to retire September 2022!
With a heavy heart, I want to share with you news of an upcoming CDL transition: Ellen Finnie, CDL’s Director of Shared Collections, will be retiring as of September 1, 2022. As Director, Ellen has been working with teams at […]
Raiden van Bronkhorst Joins CDL
CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Team is excited to welcome our new software engineer, Raiden van Bronkhorst. Raiden will be working primarily on machine learning projects. Raiden is a recent cum laude graduate of Western Washington University (WWU) where he majored […]
SCP Update – April 2022
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in March 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 113 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 91 Getty Publications Virtual Library (Local-OA): 311 JSTOR Books DDA: 502 Link to the full reports: 2022-03-Total_Portfolio_Count_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections 2022-03-Collection_level_bib_records_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections Highlights […]
Announcing the WEST RapidILL pod
WEST is very pleased to announce the establishment of a new RapidILL pod for WEST members, called WEST. This new pod will help connect WEST RapidILL members to WEST-archived materials and facilitate connections between members that otherwise do not participate […]
CDL Job Opening: Assistant Director for Open Access Agreements
The Assistant Director for Open Access Agreements is responsible for stewarding California Digital Library activities related to publisher agreements for open access, including analysis, data and financial modeling, negotiations, implementation, administration, and assessment. Reporting to the CDL Director of Shared […]
Call for Cycle 11 Archiving Disclosures
The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders to submit records of all materials archived for WEST to CDL via the file upload tool in AGUA. WEST asks that members include records for […]