CDLINFO News
Shared Print Round-Up: Q3 2025
Happy Fall! Over the last quarter we’ve had several exciting updates, webinars, and articles from community members across shared print! Below is a roundup of shared print news and events from July through October. Late July, WEST held our annual […]
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 […]
Job Announcement: Technical Team Manager at the California Digital Library
Are you an experienced technical leader interested in managing an innovative team of diverse developers working on an array of development projects? Do you love working with technology and people? We want to talk to you! The University of California’s […]
New WEST Office Hours – Beginning October 9th from 10am-11am
We are pleased to share that WEST will now be holding recurring office hours on the second Thursday of the month, beginning in October! These office hours are intended to be times for any WEST member to come ask questions […]
Deselection Deep Dive: University of Wyoming’s Experience with the WEST Internet Archive Pilot
Written with Jamie Markus, Associate Dean of Library Collections, University of Wyoming. Setting the Stage In September of 2024, WEST launched a pilot to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot involved […]
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 […]
SCP Update – September 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in August 2025 UC eScholarship Theses and Dissertations: 1126 US Government Documents: 654 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 379 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 194 JSTOR Books: 97 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – August 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 August 2025 Content and Collections […]