As a reminder, these office hours are held on the second Thursday of every month, from 10am-11am PT, and are intended to be times for any WEST member to come ask questions or discuss what they’re working on for WEST with the WEST Project Team and other WEST members. Our hope is that this can be another resource to support your work in WEST and that this will provide a place for us to come together and learn from each other as a community in a more informal setting.

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in November 2025

Taylor & Francis eBooks Complete 287
UC eScholarship Theses and Dissertations 153
Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles 2025 77
Oxford Scholarship Online Complete 46
California documents (CalDocs) 21
JSTOR Books 11

Link to the full reports (UC login required)

2025-11-Total Portfolio Count of CDL-Managed Electronic Collections
2025-11-Collection level bib records of CDL-Managed Electronic Collections

Highlights on Open Access

UC Catalogers may use this form to request that individual open access monographs be added to the Alma Network Zone (NZ) by SCP following the Guidelines for Adding OA Monographs to the Network Zone (NZ). This is a two-year pilot project starting January 2025 and ending in December 2026.

Highlights on other activities

World Bank clean up: Last year, the World Bank eLibrary (a subscription product) was discontinued and materials made available on alternative open access platforms. CDL has removed the eLibrary collections for Publications & Policy Research Working Papers from the NZ, which had continued linking issues after the platform sunset. All World Bank materials found at their Open Knowledge Repository website are already discoverable through the CDI from this OKR collection in the NZ.

CDL will be working to clean up resources in the NZ related to systemwide cancellations. We ask for your patience while we review & complete this work.

Report an Alma/Primo VE problem: This page outlines how and when campuses should report access issues to CDL. This page can be found under CDL’s Report a Problem page under “Report a SILS (Alma or Primo VE) Problem”

To this end, the WEST Project Team collaborated with 4 WEST member institutions over the past eight months to create a series of Deselection Deep Dives, aimed at presenting the “What, So What, and Now What” of member’s deselection projects. Here’s a roundup of all of the Deselection Deep Dives we published this year for easy reference: 

Deselection Deep Dive: Graduate Theological Union’s Library Alteration Project
Written with Beth Kumar (Director of Library Services, GTU)

Deselection Deep Dive: San Diego State’s Journal Review Story
Written with Wil Weston (Head of Collection Development & Resources Sharing Librarian, San Diego State University)

Deselection Deep Dive: University of Wyoming’s Experience with the WEST Internet Archive Pilot
Written with Jamie Markus (Associate Dean of Library Collections, University of Wyoming)

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)

It’s been a pleasure working with members of the WEST community on these and we are so grateful for your generosity in sharing your stories. I’m excited to see what we accomplish together next!

Bibliography of British and Irish history database from Brepols. Campuses included: UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, and UCSF.  Access will end January 1, 2026 to this database.

De Gruyter ResearchNow journals (formerly Bepress) subscription collection from De Gruyter. Campuses included on the current subscription were: UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, and UCSD. Access to new and non-perpetual coverage will end January 1, 2026. 

Three EBSCOhost databases – cancellations with access ending January 1, 2026 include:

• LGBT Life – All UC campuses were included
• Music Index Online – Campuses included UCI, UCR, UCSD, UCSB, and UCSC
• RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals – Campuses included UCD, UCLA, UCSB, and UCSC

Compendex & Inspec at Engineering Village (Elsevier). Access to the current content subscription at the platform will end January 1, 2026.

• Compendex subscribers included UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSB, UCSD, and UCSF
• Inspec subscribers included UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSC, and UCSD

*Access to previously purchased backfile content in these collections will remain for select UCs.

Knovel ebooks (Tier 2) access will end January 1, 2026, at the Knovel platform.  Campuses included UCB, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCR, UCSB, and UCSD.

Global Financial Data (Fineaon) access will end January 1, 2026. Campuses included UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, and UCSD. 

NOW journals (Tier 2) access to current and non-perpetual coverage will end January 1, 2026. Campuses included on the current subscription were: UCB, UCI, UCLA, and UCSD. UCM and UCSC had previously subscribed to titles in this package.

Three Thieme Resources

• Science of Synthesis database access will end January 1, 2026. Campuses included UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCM, UCSB, UCSC, UCSD, and UCSF.
• Thieme Connect Journals All UCs had selected titles at this platform, and access to current and non-perpetual coverage will end January 1, 2026.
• Thieme MedOne Education (ebook database) access will end January 1, 2026. Campuses included UCD, UCI, UCSF, and UCLA.

TransTech (Scientific.net) (Tier 2) access will end January 1, 2026 to current and non-perpetual journal coverage. Campuses on the journal subscriptions included UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, and UCSD. Several campuses were purchasing new books in the Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering series yearly as well, which are no longer being purchased.

CDL will continue to share information to the campuses through CDLinfo, SCLG, email announcements, and other channels about any future cancellations. Additional details about these cancellations have been shared with SCLG member representatives.  Please feel free to reach out to your SCLG representative or CDL with any questions about Tier 1 and Tier 2 cancellations. 

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 reports in PDF format might be preserved and accessed. In this article, Kris Kasianovitz, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library at UC Berkeley, guides us through current unprecedented threats to government information and what librarians can do (and are doing!) to help ameliorate the situation.

Scopes Trial Centennial: HathiTrust Doesn’t Monkey Around with Primary Sources
One hundred years ago this summer, the Scopes Monkey Trial became a huge media sensation. HathiTrust’s collection offers hundreds of public domain primary resources that capture the voices of the times, including the trail’s protagonists, reporters, editorialists, historians, and even the banned textbook John T. Scopes used to teach evolution.

In addition to the articles, the newsletter provides updates on recent happenings at HathiTrust.

The session will be recorded and posted to the WEST website following the event. We hope to see you there!

Register in advance for this meeting: 

https://UCOP.zoom.us/meeting/register/opsqQmIWSxCx2x7WS2qK8Q

As a reminder, these office hours are held on the second Thursday of every month, from 10am-11am PT, and are intended to be times for any WEST member to come ask questions or discuss what they’re working on for WEST with the WEST Project Team and other WEST members. Our hope is that this can be another resource to support your work in WEST and that this will provide a place for us to come together and learn from each other as a community in a more informal setting.

HathiTrust, the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), and the California Digital Library (CDL) are excited to partner on a pilot to enable greater cross-program collaboration in shared print. All three organizations are committed to fostering the technical and social infrastructure to enable an exchange of services, data, and resources within the shared print eco-system.  Approximately 40 libraries are members of both HathiTrust and WEST, which includes all 10 University of California Libraries.  

Shared Problem, Shared Solution

While there is considerable overlap amongst the libraries who retain print collections on behalf of the HathiTrust, WEST, and UC shared print programs, there is no easy way for libraries to see their own commitments and those of their partners across all three programs. The goal of this pilot is to successfully ingest and make available HathiTrust monographic shared print data in AGUA, a web-based service that currently supports serial shared print workflows for WEST and the University of California Libraries, which will allow the libraries and program staff to track and manage commitments on one platform. 

Jo Anne Newyear-Ramirez, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources at UC Berkeley and 2025 chair of the WEST Executive Committee, who also served on the 2015 HathiTrust Print Monographs Archive Planning Task Force reflects, “By aligning the efforts, this partnership is poised to enhance the sustainability, visibility, and impact of shared print across all three organizations. Member libraries will benefit from the ability to view and manage commitments for HT, WEST, and UC programs.”

By first focusing on adding monograph commitments data from HathiTrust, the three organizations will provide libraries with a one-stop platform to access data on their own commitments (both serial and monograph) and those of partner libraries. This sets the stage for harmonizing shared print workflows, timelines, and decision-making to reduce the workload on libraries that participate in or wish to participate in multiple programs.  

Michael Brewer, Senior Information Resources Officer at University of Arizona, current member of HathiTrust Program Steering Committee (PSC), and 2025 past chair of the WEST Executive Committee, says the pilot will “demonstrate to the broader shared print community that collaborative work across membership organizations to develop infrastructure toward meeting national needs is not only possible, but also makes good sense.”

Discovering Shared Print Community Needs

Over the past year, HathiTrust, WEST, and CDL gathered information by reviewing technical landscapes, scoping use cases, collecting stakeholder input, and writing functional requirements. They also established a cost-share model and sustainability plan. The partners approved the pilot proposal this summer and will begin in January 2026.

If the pilot results in successful integration of HathiTrust data into AGUA, the three organizations plan to pursue additional collaborative efforts. Ideal scenarios would include developing improved processes for systematically tracking and updating commitment data; analyzing monographs to identify and establish new commitments; making digitization decisions for items not yet in the HathiTrust collection; identifying commitments geographically; and expanding initiatives to support government document retention.

With a decade of perspective on the issues, Jo Anne Newyear-Ramirez is optimistic. 

“I see this pilot as the beginning of a broader shift toward more cohesive, data-driven shared print practices. By pooling resources and aligning infrastructure at a national scale, we can create greater efficiencies, reduce duplication, and significantly streamline the management of shared print data. The lessons we learn here will help shape future collaborations and improve how libraries steward print collections at scale.”

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HathiTrust 
WEST
California Digital Library 

 JSTOR Forum

Dual access at both platforms began on November 20, 2025, and will continue at least through January 16, 2025.  Library staff can work with and manage their collections through either platform, and changes will appear through either account. It is recommended that staff use this time to try out the new platform and test your workflows and features you would normally use. Account access will work through either platform. 

JSTOR Forum: https://forum.jstor.org/ 

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services: https://stewardship.jstor.org/

With the new product, all UCs will migrate to the Tier 2 level by default. The Tiers are described here.  New functionality will include: The ability to preserve up to 1 TB of content with Portico, and the ability to upload up to 250 audio & video hours per year.  Campus accounts will continue to maintain 5 TB of storage.

Supporting Resources:

• Main support site
• A guide to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services for Forum participants
• Preservation: Getting Started
• YouTube Playlist – training videos
• JSTOR Forum email discussion list (now supports JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services)
• JSTOR also offers regular webinars, so watch this space for upcoming webinars & recordings.

Highlights on Titles Cataloged for CDL-Managed Electronic Collections in October 2025

UC eScholarship Theses and Dissertations: 812
Airiti Books (華藝中文電子書) (Local-L DDA): 770
US Government Documents: 743
Oxford Scholarship Online Complete: 359
JSTOR Books: 314
CNPe-Reading (易阅通) (Local-L DDA): 267
Wiley Online Library Frontlist All English Titles 2025: 63
Sage Journals All Titles: 23
CloudRead Chinese Contemporary Newspaper Database (Local-L): 22
Apabi Shu zi bao zhi (Local-L): 21
California documents (CalDocs): 17

Link to the full reports (UC login required)

2025-10-Total Portfolio Count of CDL-Managed Electronic Collections
2025-10-Collection level bib records of CDL-Managed Electronic Collections

New Collections added and activated

CDL has begun receiving titles for the OSO 2026 frontlist and has loaded them to the NZ.

IET 2025 books were added to the NZ for participating campuses.

Highlights on other activities

SEG Digital Library is transitioning to the GeoScienceWorld platform (see CDLinfo article). Links should automatically redirect; however CDL is monitoring updates to the Alma collections.

CDL will be working through any upcoming cancellations of resources and making changes as needed to Alma collections. Watch for more news from CDL via CDLinfo and other email announcements.

There are updates to the workflow for UC theses and dissertations. The document describes how students submit ETDs, how CDL processes them in eScholarship and Merritt and how ETD records are updated.