Collection Changes and Alternative Access
While UC Libraries are making targeted reductions to shared licensed resources due to systemwide budget constraints, UCLA Library is simultaneously working to lessen those impacts on the UCLA campus
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Why Reductions Are Necessary
The University of California is facing budget deficits, funding uncertainties and rising costs. As a result, UC Libraries must reduce spending on shared licensed resources and content. UCLA Library is working to minimize impacts and restore selected resources. Here’s what’s changing and how to get what you need.
What's Changing
UC Libraries, led by the UC Council of University Librarians (CoUL)(opens in a new tab), enacted a 3.7% reduction in systemwide shared licensed content (about $1.75 million).
View the current list of cancelled resources and alternative access options(opens in a new tab). UCLA Library is working to mitigate systemwide cuts for local access where budgets allow and restore selected cancelled resources through negotiations. The list may change as renegotiations continue.
How to Access What You Need
Our goal is to provide access to essential materials for UCLA students, faculty, researchers and clinicians. To access something you need, please try the following:
Use our Interlibrary Loan Service to borrow articles, chapters or books from other libraries at no cost.
Explore freely available, open-access materials(opens in a new tab) through resources such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)(opens in a new tab) and UC's eScholarship(opens in a new tab) institutional repository.
Ask us for help! Some cancelled platforms provide indexing only, not full-text, and full-text may still be available elsewhere. Ask us for assistance in locating a specific title or a suitable replacement among the millions of resources available via UCLA Library.
If you are still unable to find what you need, please email collections@library.ucla.edu.
How Decisions Were Made
These changes were charged by the UC Council of University Librarians (CoUL)(opens in a new tab) and guided by a collaborative, systemwide process involving the UC Libraries' Shared Content Leadership Group (SCLG)(opens in a new tab) and the California Digital Library (CDL)(opens in a new tab).
The goal was to protect core access, ensure equity across campuses and maintain the long-term sustainability of UC's shared digital collections.
To make reductions fair and strategic, UC Libraries prioritized:
Preserving full-text access by first cutting indexing and abstracting tools
Canceling resources with high cost-per-use within their discipline
Distributing reductions equitably across disciplines
Choosing full UC-wide cancellations rather than removing individual campuses or downsizing packages
Aligning decisions with contract timing and workloads
These principles reflect UC Libraries' commitment to act collectively to maintain access to core resources and support our academic and research missions.