The California Digital Library (CDL) has posted an article outlining both resources and open access (OA) investments for 2025-2026 for use by UC faculty, students, and staff. Three systemwide groups, involving all 10 UC campus libraries, collaboratively selected resources.
The Joint Steering Committee for Shared Collections (JSC), the Shared Content Leadership Group (SCLG) and the Project Transform Working Group (PTWG) used guiding principles to identify resources of “high value to the UC system”.
Central funding, rather than local campus funding, has been used to license these resources. In addition, the California Digital Library (CDL) has made contributions.
Selected resource highlights include the availability of
- two additional bibliographies, Legal History and Marketing, added to Oxford Bibliographies Online. Campuses have access to all 48 subject areas.
- all Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) subjects for 2026. See titles including The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being in Higher Education (First Edition) and the Oxford Handbook of Climate Action with Paul Almeida (UC Merced) as editor.
- seven additional disciplines in Oxford Research Encyclopedias for access to a total of 31 disciplines. Additional disciplines include Migration Studies, Sociology, and Physics.
- almost 3,000 new book titles from various publishers, including the new Hopkins Book Collection, on the Project MUSE platform.
- 2026 frontlists for University of California Press, Duke University Press, Stanford University Press, University of Chicago Press titles on the De Gruyter platform.
Updates to scholarly communication investments are also summarized. Open Access Initiatives include pilot projects focused on “the opening of UC-authored monographs” whether those are new or previously published titles. UC Libraries are also contributing to some Diamond Open Access (OA) journals.
For full details, view New and Continuing Resources and OA Investments Fiscal Year 25-26 by Lisa Moske (July 24, 2026).
