Month: July 2014
Merritt Service Update: June 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities UCLA Storage. We are working with the new UCLA storage service in order to include it as part of the Merritt storage service, so that we’ll have replication at both SDSC as well as […]
DMPTool Service Update: June 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities The transition to the new version of the tool has gone very smoothly. We’ve found and fixed a few bugs (and are still working on a couple of them), but for the most […]
It Takes a Village to Digitize a Library: UC Davis’ Mass Digitization Project Concludes
A year ago, UC Davis began sending out-of-copyright books and journals to be digitized as part of UC’s partnership in the Google Books Library Project. The UC Davis team has sent more than 36,290 books to be digitized and […]
Announcing AGUA – WEST’s decision-support information center!
WEST is proud to announce AGUA, the information center where WEST members and Archive Holders can review archiving proposals and make local archiving decisions online. The first release will go live next week. This first release includes the ability to: Review […]
EZID Service Update: June 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities After consultation with groups of EZID clients, including UC campus representatives, non-UC EZID clients, and internal CDL clients, the EZID team prepared our 2014-15 roadmap, which is now available for review: https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/DataCite/EZID+Roadmap+2014-15. We thank […]
New Tier 2 Licensed Resource – ASME Digital Collection
Eight campuses (UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD, and UCSB) began participation in a Tier 2 opportunity for access to the ASME Digital Collection (on the Silverchair platform). The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is the premier professional […]
Roles and Responsibilities of an Archive Holder
WEST is excited to invite more members to act as Archive Holders this cycle. WEST believes strongly in the importance of the distributed model for serials print archiving. WEST currently has 20 Archive Holders and will invite 40 more members […]