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WEST Members Meeting at ALA Annual in New Orleans, LA – Please RSVP if you plan to attend!
The ALA Annual WEST Members Meeting is scheduled to occur on Sunday, June 24, 2018, from 1:00-2:30pm (CT) in the Marriott Convention Center Hotel, Blaine Kern E&F.. Please RSVP to our poll (found here) (https://doodle.com/poll/gwr32beffxbgkgui#table) if you plan to attend. Please list […]
CDL Job Opening for UC3 Product Manager (EZID) / Research Data Specialist
The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded at the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being published and accessed. Since then, CDL has built a strong portfolio […]
WorldCat Discovery beta: More precisely link to author names
The WorldCat Discovery installation on May 31, 2018 included the following new features and enhancements. The running list of release notes can be found at https://help.oclc.org/Discovery_and_Reference/WorldCat_Discovery/Release_notes. (Note that many of these enhancements do not have an impact on Melvyl since […]
Letter to the Community: CDL and Dryad Partnership
CDL has invested considerable effort researching and building exemplars in research data management and data publishing. Like most institutions, we have had varying levels of success, especially when it comes to adoption and reach. While we have tried to convince […]
Morgan & Claypool Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences – Collection 4 is available
Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers has two full-text series of short books acquired as a Tier 2 purchase: Synthesis and Colloquium. The Colloquium Digital Library of the Life Sciences is now in its fourth collection and continues to span biological, […]
New Request (ILL/DDS) security feature debuts
On Monday, May 21st, a new security feature was implemented in Request (UC’s interlibrary loan and document delivery service). The feature prevents the user from entering an email address other than a UC campus email address OR any email address […]
WEST Outlines Policy to Guide Vetting of Rosemont Decisions
As a participating program in the Rosemont Shared Print Alliance, WEST is represented on both the Alliance’s Executive and Operations Committees. The decision-making model of the Alliance is based on building consensus among the participating programs and as a part […]
Save the Date: “Choosing Pathways to OA” Working Forum, Oct 16-17
On behalf of all ten campuses of the University of California Libraries plus the California Digital Library, we wish to share the below invitation for an October 16-17 working forum. Full details below, and on our site Choosing Pathways to […]
New Tier 2 Resource: Fūzoku Gahō
Thanks to the contributions of 7 campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, San Diego and Santa Barbara), Fūzoku Gahō is now available to users at all ten campuses and UCOP through JapanKnowledge at https://japanknowledge.com/library/. http://uclibs.org/PID/302248 All UC campuses; on the […]
New Tier 2 Resource: The Oriental Economist Digital Archive
Thanks to the contributions of 3 campuses (Berkeley, Merced, and San Diego), the Oriental Economist is now available to users at all ten campuses and UCOP through JapanKnowledge at https://japanknowledge.com/library/. http://uclibs.org/PID/302155 All UC campuses; on the JapanKnowledge Lib platform Note: […]