Month: June 2014
WEST Phase 2 Systems Development Update
WEST is currently developing additional systems functions to support archiving activities, including a graphical user interface (or “dashboard”) to the existing print journal collections analysis system. The collections analysis system facilitates regional/group decision-making about “what to archive next?” among a […]
The Shipment that Launched 3.6+ Million Digitized Books: NRLF Celebrates Major Accomplishment
In October 2006, NRLF (Northern Regional Library Facility) sent the first shipment of UC books to Google to be digitized. This shipment launched the University of California’s participation in the Google Books Library Project which has since digitized more than 3.64 […]
UC Libraries Statement on Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Digital Library Appellate Court Ruling
The University of California Libraries join with our HathiTrust colleagues in welcoming the decision by the Second Circuit of the US Court of Appeals that key services of the HathiTrust Digital Library – digitization for the purpose of full-text searching […]
Strategic Planning for WEST beyond 2016; Achieving Sustainability
The WEST Executive Committee and Operations and Collections Council convened in person in Oakland, CA on June 3rd to initiate a strategic planning process to achieve sustainability by 2016, when WEST becomes a fully member-supported program. The committees carefully reviewed […]
EZID Service Update: May 2014
Recent Enhancements, News, and Activities As a result of an upgrade announced in April to N2T, EZID’s backend storage system and ARK resolver, for the first time ever all of EZID’s identifiers and native resolution capabilities are being securely […]
Working with Resource Vendors on Web Accessibility
UC Berkeley Web Accessibility Evangelist and chair of UC’s Electronic Accessibility Leadership Team (EALT), Lucy Greco serves on a working group to improve the accessibility of Elsevier’s products. Elsevier ScienceDirect is consistently one of UC’s most heavily used (and costliest) […]
Data Management Planning Tool More Responsive to Researchers’ Needs
The University of California and several partners have released a new version of a free tool that helps researchers and their institutions create effective data management plans required by the federal government. The DMPTool v2 aids researchers with this critical […]