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Yearly WEST Contacts Review
WEST has recently sent an email to all Primary Contacts asking them to review and, if necessary, update their contacts for various WEST and AGUA activities. This ensures that WEST is sending communications to the appropriate staff at each member institution, and that no members are inadvertently left out of any activities due to outdated […]
ACRL Top Trends – Collaborative collections and shared print
The 2021–22 ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee recently released its top trends in academic libraries, which includes collaborative collections and the rapidly expanding shared print community. The Committee highlights shared print’s status as a change agent helping libraries balance “their mission to preserve the scholarly record in an era of changing usage, limited funding, […]
Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – May 2022
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 May 2022! New Content and Collections During May a variety of new content was added to Merritt, ranging from high-resolution […]
SCP Update – May 2022
Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in April 2022 ACM Digital Library Complete: 251 Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 52 JSTOR Books DDA: 597 Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals Online: 923 (NEW) Collection level records: 4 Link to the full reports 2022-04-Total_Portfolio_Count_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections 2022-04-Collection_level_bib_records_of_CDL-Managed_Electronic_Collections Highlights on Other Activities Continued to make progress on […]
Welcome Devin Smith, new part-time Application Programmer on the PAD team
We are delighted to announce that Devin Smith has joined the Publishing, Archives, and Digitization group as a part-time Application Programmer, starting today, May 16, 2022. Devin will be working closely with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on Open Access and OSTI reporting related projects. Devin will be part of a team that is responsible for […]
A warm welcome to Zainab Olaosebikan, Director of Finance & Operations!
Please join me in extending a very warm welcome to Zainab Olaosebikan, CDL’s new Finance & Operations Director. In her role, Zainab will oversee all aspects of CDL operations, including its financial activities, audit and compliance, contracts and grants, and human resources. Zainab comes to CDL from the UCSF School of Medicine, where, as its […]
Save the date + Registration Open: WEST Member Meeting Tuesday July 19, 1-2:30pm PT
WEST will hold its 2022 summer member meeting virtually this year on Tuesday July 19 from 1-2:30pm PT. Please register in advance for this meeting. Information for joining the meeting will be shared automatically after registering. At this member meeting the WEST Project Team will share brief program updates. The Project Team is also working […]
Moving On
I want to let you know that I’m planning to retire from the University of California on July 1, 2022, with my last working day sometime in late April. This seemed like the right moment since CDL was significantly reducing the time I would be able to spend on the ARK Alliance. In the next […]
eScholarship celebrates its 20-year anniversary!
The University of California’s eScholarship publishing and institutional repository program celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year, a milestone that provides us with an opportunity to reflect on how far UC has come in the work of open access library publishing and to consider all the work there is yet to do. The eScholarship repository platform […]
Updated WEST Policies – Access Policy, Disclosure Policy, and Validation Standards
In 2020 the WEST governance committees charged two working groups to review and, as necessary, revise key WEST policies. That work is now complete and the updated documents have been posted to the WEST website: WEST Access Policy WEST Disclosure Policy WEST Standards for Issue and Volume Level Validation What are the big changes? The […]