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WEST Members’ Virtual Meeting on Monday, June 22, from 1-2:30 pm PT – Registration open!
WEST will hold its summer members’ meeting virtually outside of the ALA Annual virtual conference this year on Monday, June 22, from 1-2:30 pm PT. Members do not need to be registered for ALA in order to attend the members’ […]
Partnership for Shared Book Collections – Save the Date: Webinar: Best Practices for Shared Print Programs | Wednesday, June 3rd at 1pm
This will be the first official Partnership event since UC Libraries Shared Print Program joined the federation. The coordination and development of best practices for shared print is an opportunity to align existing programs, pave a smooth way for new […]
EarthArXiv announces new partnership with California Digital Library to host earth sciences preprint service
The Advisory Council of the EarthArXiv preprint service for earth sciences is pleased to announce a partnership with the California Digital Library (CDL) that will support EarthArXiv’s mission, future growth, and long-term sustainability. Core to this partnership will be the […]
New PubMed is here
On Tuesday, May 19th, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) officially switched to the new version of PubMed. SCP has already updated PIDs to point to the new version, retaining UC’s ‘otool’ extension so that the UC-eLinks button will display […]
SCP Update – May 2020
SCP posted the distribution statistics report for the month of April 2020. This monthly report shows net increase or decrease of titles from CDL licensed and selected open access collections. They are color coded as: Net Increase (Green) — Net […]
AMS Journals and Monographs move to a new platform
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journals and Monographs will be moving to a new web platform, date TBD. http://uclibs.org/PID/431494 According to the banner on the AMS website, “Unfortunately custom saved searches can’t be preserved; check your settings now so you […]
Alexander Street Press & Chadwyck-Healey databases move to ProQuest platform
In March 2020, individual Alexander Street Press (ASP) and Chadwyck-Healey (CH) literature collections became available on the main ProQuest platform and are cross-searchable with other relevant literature and multi-disciplinary content on the platform. According to the transition FAQ, the new […]
New Resource: ProQuest Historical Newspaper (HNP) and History Vault (HV) EBA Pilot
The ProQuest Historical Newspaper (HNP) http://uclibs.org/PID/241398 and History Vault (HV) http://uclibs.org/PID/431313 pilot plan is available to all ten UC campuses through 4/30/2021 and includes access to the online collections: 52 Historical Newspapers (US and International titles), and 45 History Vault […]
UC Request Software Offers Links to HathiTrust’s Emergency Temporary Access to Copyrighted Books
In order to help UC faculty, students, and staff at all ten University of California campuses get electronic content as quickly as possible, the Request program has integrated access to copyright protected material via HathiTrust’s Emergency Temporary Access System (ETAS). […]
Call for Cycle 9 Archiving Disclosures – Due June 30, 2020
The WEST project team recently sent out a call for WEST Archive Holders and Builders to submit metadata records describing the journal backfiles archived during WEST Cycle 9. Back in September 2018, WEST members committed to titles for archiving during […]