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2025 WEST Member Meeting Recap: Why WEST Now? Protecting our foundations in times of turmoil and uncertainty
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us Thursday, 7/24/2025, for our annual WEST Member Meeting! For those of you who were not able to attend, or for those who’d like to review some of the presentations or […]
Shared Print Round-Up: Q2 2025
Over the last quarter we’ve had many exciting updates, webinars, and articles from community members across shared print! Below is a roundup of shared print news and events from March through June. In March, Liz Hayden, Associate University Librarian for […]
New and Continuing Resources and OA Investments Fiscal Year 24-25
FY24-25 New and Continuing Resources CDL is pleased to announce new and continuing resources recently acquired by the UC Libraries for systemwide use by UC students and faculty. The selection of these resources was a collaborative effort involving all ten […]
SCP Update – July 2025
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in June 2025 CathayPlay (Local-L): 435 JSTOR Books: 357 CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 203 Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete: 134 Oxford Scholarship Online Complete: 118 Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles […]
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 […]
Education Research Index
ProQuest has released a new free database called Education Research Index, which is available to all UC campuses. Education Research Index includes ERIC + a new Supplemental Education Index, and users can search them together or separately at ProQuest. UC […]
Sustaining the ARK Ecosystem
Since their inception, CDL has been home to the ARK (Archival Resource Key) community. ARKs were originally developed at CDL to support persistent access and durable citation of information objects. From the early release of the Noid software in 2004 […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – June 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 June 2025 Content and Collections […]
June 2025 UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Posted!
The June 2025 UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter has been posted. Learn about new developments and current happenings underway at HathiTrust and check out the new articles in our help center: Discover the quirk in a library science classic! […]
WEST Internet Archive Pilot – Report and Recommendations Now Available!
Last Fall (2024), WEST launched a pilot with the Internet Archive and six WEST member libraries to amplify and support library collaborative strategies for print collection management and preservation. Specifically, the pilot involved coordinating the donation of duplicate copies of […]