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Welcome Chris Groskopf, our new Discovery and Delivery Tech Team Manager Chris Groskopf is an interdisciplinary technologist who enjoys solving curious problems. He has spent most of his career working in journalism, at publications including the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and FiveThirtyEight. More recently, Chris spent two years at the Centers for […]

Welcome Chris Groskopf, our new Discovery and Delivery Tech Team Manager

New content: Updates to Women and Social Movements in the United States UC users now have access to updated content from 2021-2024 in the database Women and Social Movements in the United States Since 1600. These updates provide new and unique content within the journal and primary source archival materials, and adds […]

New content: Updates to Women and Social Movements in the United States

WEST Program Refresher – New Demo of On Demand Comparison & Analytics Reports! On January 22nd  WEST hosted an hour-long webinar that provided a refresher on the WEST program and an info session on WEST Archiving.  The first half of the webinar covered the history of WEST as well as the vision, mission, […]

WEST Program Refresher – New Demo of On Demand Comparison & Analytics Reports!

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – January 2026 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 January 2026 Content and Collections  […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – January 2026

International Water Association Publishing ebooks   The University of California users now have access to 2002-2025 ebooks from the International Water Association (IWA).  Term access (not perpetual) to these books has been granted by the publisher, in association with the UC’s journal access.  From IWA […]

International Water Association Publishing ebooks

Advancing Open Monograph Opportunities at UC: New Pathways for the Future Photo by Caleb Jones on Unsplash The University of California (UC) Libraries have released a new report, Advancing Open Monograph Opportunities at UC, outlining a values-based framework, key recommendations, and practical strategies for advancing open access (OA) monograph publishing. Developed within UC, the […]

Advancing Open Monograph Opportunities at UC: New Pathways for the Future

Open Access for UC-Authored Monographs – A UC Libraries Pilot Project Photo by Katerina on Unsplash Starting in 2025, UC Libraries are supporting several projects intended to broaden access to University of California research and scholarship by making UC-authored books open access.  Following on successful efforts to open UC-authored journal articles, these projects will enable […]

Open Access for UC-Authored Monographs – A UC Libraries Pilot Project

SCP Update – January 2026 The SCP Update is a compilation of the collaborative efforts of CDL Acquisitions, the Shared Cataloging Program, the Electronic Resource Services Manager and other members of Shared Collections and the California Digital Library. Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic […]

SCP Update – January 2026

About The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research and funding organizations.

ROR is completely and perpetually free -- as in, it costs you nothing to use. Read more about ROR's "business" model to learn how this is made possible by @crossref.bsky.social, @datacite.org, and @caldiglib.bsky.social. ror.org/about/#busin...

WEST Office Hour – January 8th, from 10am-11am PT WEST will be holding its monthly office hour on January 8th, from 10am-11am PT! This month we will start with a demo of the location review functionality in AGUA, but as usual, all topics are welcome! If you have any […]

WEST Office Hour – January 8th, from 10am-11am PT

SCP Update – December 2025 The SCP Update is a compilation of the collaborative efforts of CDL Acquisitions, the Shared Cataloging Program, the Electronic Resource Services Manager and other members of Shared Collections and the California Digital Library. Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic […]

SCP Update – December 2025

Deselection Deep Dives Recap and Roundup The WEST Executive Committee and Operations and Collections Council members requested that the Project Team explore ways to showcase members’ specific journal review stories, as a way to highlight how members are employing WEST in managing their collections, and hopefully […]

Deselection Deep Dives Recap and Roundup

Eresource Cancellations as of January These systemwide CDL-managed Tier 1 and Tier 2 resources have been cancelled at the systemwide level, with a subscription end date of December 31, 2025:   Bibliography of British and Irish history database from Brepols. Campuses included: UCB, UCD, UCI, […]

Eresource Cancellations as of January

Preserving Born-digital Government Information & Revisiting the Scopes Trial with Primary Sources – The latest UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Now Posted! The latest UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter has posted, it features these new articles: Preserving Born-Digital Government Information: What Librarians Can Do A query from a faculty member led CDL’s Digitization team on a quest to discover where government […]

Preserving Born-digital Government Information & Revisiting the Scopes Trial with Primary Sources – The latest UC Libraries HathiTrust Help Center Newsletter Now Posted!

WEST Program Refresher Webinar – January 22, 9-10am PT WEST is hosting a one-hour program refresher for all current members on Thursday, January 22nd from 9am-10am PT. This webinar will include information on WEST’s history, vision and mission, key features, membership, governance, and collaborations. This session will also provide […]

WEST Program Refresher Webinar – January 22, 9-10am PT

WEST Office Hour – December 11th, from 10am-11am PT WEST will be holding its monthly office hour on December 11th, from 10am-11am PT! The theme will be the upcoming AGUA pilot project with HathiTrust and California Digital Library, but as usual, all topics are welcome! If you have any […]

WEST Office Hour – December 11th, from 10am-11am PT

New Pilot Initiative to Enhance Shared Print Collaboration Across Libraries                                      HathiTrust, the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), and the California Digital Library (CDL) are excited to partner on a pilot to enable […]

New Pilot Initiative to Enhance Shared Print Collaboration Across Libraries

JSTOR Forum Becomes JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services  JSTOR Forum, the backend tool used by library staff to host, catalog, and publish archival collections (primarily image collections) to the JSTOR platform has upgraded to the new platform: JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. This resource is used by staff at 9 […]

JSTOR Forum Becomes JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

SCP Update – November 2025 The SCP Update is a compilation of the collaborative efforts of CDL Acquisitions, the Shared Cataloging Program, the Electronic Resource Services Manager and other members of Shared Collections and the California Digital Library. Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic […]

SCP Update – November 2025

Online Archive of California (OAC) update In July 2025, CDL launched an upgraded version of the Online Archive of California (OAC), completely rebuilt with community-supported open source technologies. This upgrade is a major milestone in OAC’s decades-long commitment to public service, and provides a new footing […]

Online Archive of California (OAC) update

SEG Digital Library Moves to GeoScienceWorld On December 1, 2025, the SEG Digital Library, from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, will migrate to the GeoScienceWorld (GSW) platform. Eight campuses have a current subscription through CDL: UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSD, UCSB, and UCSC.  The subscription […]

SEG Digital Library Moves to GeoScienceWorld

JRNL Has Moved! Earlier this month, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) announced that they have taken over as stewards of the Journal Retention and Needs Listing program (JRNL) from the University of Florida, Smathers Libraries, who had developed and maintained JRNL since […]

JRNL Has Moved!

Celebrating Member Contributions: New Members Send Files as Part of Call for Unarchived Holdings At the beginning of September, we invited all WEST Members to submit files of MARC bibliographic and holdings data for your print serials collections to seed our next collections analysis and make comparison data available to all WEST members.  This […]

Celebrating Member Contributions: New Members Send Files as Part of Call for Unarchived Holdings

University of California introduces new leader for Systemwide Library Facilities Today, the UC Berkeley Library and the UC Libraries are introducing the inaugural leader for the University of California’s Systemwide Library Facilities, which collectively preserve and share millions of treasures held by the constellation of libraries across the UC system. […]

University of California introduces new leader for Systemwide Library Facilities

Deselection Deep Dive: University of California Berkeley’s Experience with the WEST Internet Archive Pilot Written with Jo Anne Newyear Ramirez, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, University of California Berkeley & Jesse Silva, Scholarly Resources Strategy and Federal Government Information Librarian, University of California Berkeley Setting the Stage In September of 2024, WEST launched […]

Deselection Deep Dive: University of California Berkeley’s Experience with the WEST Internet Archive Pilot

WEST Office Hour – November 13th, from 10am-11am PT WEST will be holding its second office hour on November 13th, from 10am-11am PT! It will focus on the next steps in the WEST Collections Analysis process, but as usual, all topics are welcome! If you have any questions or […]

WEST Office Hour – November 13th, from 10am-11am PT

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – October 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 October 2025 Content and Collections  […]

Merritt Digital Preservation Repository – October 2025

SCP Update – October 2025 The SCP Update is a compilation of the collaborative efforts of CDL Acquisitions, the Shared Cataloging Program, the Electronic Resource Services Manager and other members of Shared Collections and the California Digital Library. Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic […]

SCP Update – October 2025

Shared Print Round-Up: Q3 2025 Happy Fall! Over the last quarter we’ve had several exciting updates, webinars, and articles from community members across shared print! Below is a roundup of shared print news and events from July through October. Late July, WEST held our annual […]

Shared Print Round-Up: Q3 2025

CDL Public Statement on Signing the Barcelona Declaration California Digital Library (CDL) is proud to formally sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and commit to supporting and participating in open, transparent and community-governed research information systems. The values articulated in the Barcelona Declaration – openness, tran

California Digital Library is proud to formally sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social and commit to supporting and participating in open, transparent and community-governed research information systems cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2025...