1. INTRODUCTION
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is a distributed, retrospective print journal repository program. Under the WEST program, participating libraries consilidate and validate print journal backfiles at major library storage facilities and at selected campus locations. Rice University has participated as a WEST archive holder since 2012 and became an archive builder in June 2012 for the second year of the initial grant period. The volumes covered by the project typically start with the earliest held and extend through 2005, though in some cases later volumes may be included.
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