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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  […]

CDL Job Opening: Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing

The Assistant Director for Systemwide Licensing is responsible for stewarding the California Digital Library activities related to systemwide licensing for digital scholarly content, on behalf of the University of California ten campus library system. Reporting to the CDL Director of […]

SCP Update – August 2025

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in July 2025 National Academies Press: 979 JSTOR Books: 541 US Government Documents: 395 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 151 Oxford Scholarship Online Complete: 89 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles […]