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SCP Update – July 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in June 2025 CathayPlay (Local-L): 435 JSTOR Books: 357 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 203 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 134 Oxford Scholarship Online Complete: 118 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles […]
AP Images Collection to be Discontinued
University of California users have had multiple ways to access Associated Press (AP) content over the years, including both the AP Images Collection at EBSCOhost, and the newer AP Newsroom platform, a standalone site, through EBSCO. In 2019, UC’s main […]
Education Research Index
ProQuest has released a new free database called Education Research Index, which is available to all UC campuses. Education Research Index includes ERIC + a new Supplemental Education Index, and users can search them together or separately at ProQuest. UC […]
Sustaining the ARK Ecosystem
Since their inception, CDL has been home to the ARK (Archival Resource Key) community. ARKs were originally developed at CDL to support persistent access and durable citation of information objects. From the early release of the Noid software in 2004 […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – June 2025
Merritt is a digital preservation repository from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that enables the UC community to manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. Welcome to the Merritt service update for June 2025 Content and Collections […]
June 2025 UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Posted!
The June 2025 UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter has been posted. Learn about new developments and current happenings underway at HathiTrust and check out the new articles in our help center: Discover the quirk in a library science classic! […]
WEST Internet Archive Pilot – Report and Recommendations Now Available!
Last Fall (2024), WEST launched a pilot with the Internet Archive and six WEST member libraries to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot involved coordinating the donation of duplicate copies of […]
Reminder & Agenda: WEST Summer 2025 Member Meeting – Why WEST Now? Protecting our foundations in times of turmoil and uncertainty
WEST is holding its summer 2025 member meeting virtually on Thursday July 24 from 10-11:30am PT / 11am-12:30pm MT / 12-1:30pm CT / 1-2:30pm ET. Please register in advance. The meeting will be recorded. The meeting will include a panel […]
ASU Gap Filling Pilot – Final Report and Recommendations Now Available!
In Fall of 2022, Arizona State University (ASU) began work on a gap filling pilot project with WEST. This pilot project was intended to both increase the completeness of select medium and high risk level (formerly referred to as Silver […]
A Fond Farewell to CDL’s Judy Dobry
When Judy Dobry, CDL’s Discovery and Delivery Technical Team Manager, came to CDL, she brought with her three library cards, a promise made at her interview presentation to “bring sexy back” to discovery and delivery systems and experience building 10 […]