Tag: resource_change
Newsbank Access World News Upgraded
With the recent renewal of Access World News, all of the UC campuses now have systemwide access to an upgraded version of the collection: Access World News Research Collection 2022 Edition. The UC campuses also retain access to the existing […]
Oxford History of Western Music Moves to Oxford Academic
The UC campuses all have access to The Oxford History of Western Music, a collection of 5 reference works spanning the history of Western classical music from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, by musicologist Richard Taruskin. These works have […]
ASTM Digital Library: New Platform
At the end of June 2025, ASTM International (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials) announced their ASTM Digital Library has migrated from their Compass platform to their new Silverchair platform. ASTM Digital Library includes their books & manuals, […]
Airiti ebooks: New platform
On September 2, 2025, Airiti upgraded their Airiti iRead eBooks platform. Six UC campuses have books at Airiti (UCB/LBL, UCI, UCLA, UCSB, UCSC, UCSD). The Airiti eJournals platform (TEPS) is not impacted. New Site Features Upgraded full text search functionality […]
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 […]
New Presses at De Gruyter and De Gruyter Brill Merger
New ebook packages at De Gruyter The UCs have recently purchased titles from several University Presses at De Gruyter, which are new for systemwide access. These collections were purchased on behalf of all 10 UC campuses: University of Chicago Press […]
Alloy Phase Diagram transitions to Materials Platform for Data Science
ASM International’s Alloy Phase Diagram Database has recently transitioned to a new platform, now under the name Materials Platform for Data Science (MPDS). Subscribers of the Alloy Phase Diagrams at MPDS remain the same: UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, and […]
Package changes (January 2025)
Global Financial Data changes Global Financial Data, Inc. will officially become Finaeon, Inc. on January 1, 2025. Eight UC campuses subscribe to Global Financial Data database: (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, LA, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz). Users will […]
Historical Newspapers Online and Palmer’s Index to the Times
Earlier in 2024, ProQuest sunset the Chadwyck-Healey database titled Historical Newspapers Online and Palmer’s Index to the Times, previously found at http://historynews.chadwyck.com. Over the years, ProQuest has worked to migrate databases found on the Chadwyck-Healey platform over to the main […]
ProQuest History Vault Moves Platforms
ProQuest has announced that all History Vault collections will migrate to the main ProQuest platform (https://search.proquest.com/), from the previous standalone History Vault site (http://hv.proquest.com/). Dual access at both platforms began June 26, 2024 and will last through January 8, 2025. […]