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Call for Volunteers for WEST 2020 Working Groups –Disclosure & Validation Standards and Resource Sharing
At the 2019 WEST Strategic Planning Session, WEST governance committee members created a set of strategic recommendations to guide WEST through the coming years. Among the recommendations were to create a number of working groups to review and investigate specific […]
SCP Update – March 2020
SCP posted the distribution statistics report for the month of February 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 […]
Martin Haye is moving on, but not too far!
After almost 17 years designing, implementing, and maintaining innovative publishing technologies for the CDL and UC, Martin Haye is moving to the other “side” of the application equation. As of February 1, 2020, Martin begin transitioning into the Infrastructure and […]
New Resource: BungeiShunju Archives
Bungei Shunjū is one of the most popular and influential monthly literary magazines in Japan for almost 100 years. Since founded in 1923, the magazine has been a central venue for numerous contemporary writers to publish their essays, debates, and […]
4.5 Million UC Volumes Digitized & UC’s Most Popular Full View Books in HathiTrust for 2019
The University of California Libraries recently contributed the 4,500,000th digitized book from their collections to HathiTrust Digital Library–a tremendous achievement resulting from 15 years of continuous digitization work. The vast majority of these millions of volumes were generated via the […]
CDL Open Access Appointments: Welcome Ellen Finnie and Tran Ha!
We are delighted to announce two stellar new appointments on the CDL Collection Development Program’s open access team effective March 2020. It is our great pleasure to announce that Ellen Finnie will be joining CDL as Open Access Publisher Agreements […]
SCP Updates – February 2020
SCP posted the distribution statistics report for the month of January 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 […]
Rosemont Shared Print Alliance updates – new introductory video!
As part of WEST’s participation in the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance, the project team would like to share the following updates with members. The Rosemont Alliance is a federation of shared print programs that retain their decision-making autonomy, but seek […]
HathiTrust Roundup: New Outreach Tools, Webcasts, and Research Center Workshops for HathiTrust Member Libraries
HathiTrust Digital Library has expanded its support resources with a new patron engagement toolkit; a set of member webcasts to share best practices and lessons learned; and a spring offering of HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) workshops. HathiTrust Member Toolkit HathiTrust’s […]
EXTRA SESSION ANNOUNCED: New 2019 WEST Assessment informational webinar session – February 6, 2-3:30pm PST
The WEST project team will host an additional informational webinar session to present the findings of the 2019 WEST Assessment and review the outcomes and recommendations of the in-person strategic planning session held in October 2019: Thursday February 6, 2020 […]