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Coming Soon: UC Library Search


March 18, 2021


UC Library Search will replace Melvyl as a single, UC-wide library discovery tool on July 27, 2021.

UC reaches open access agreement with Elsevier


March 16, 2021


After more than two years of negotiations, this morning the University of California announced a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome is the result of UC’s faculty, librarians and university leadership coming together to stand firm on our goals of making UC research freely available to all and transforming scholarly communication for the better.

The new four-year agreement will go into effect on April 1, 2021, restoring UC’s direct online access to Elsevier journals while accomplishing the university’s two goals for all publisher agreements:

(1)    Enabling universal open...

New and Improved Library Chat Service: LibChat


March 15, 2021


The 24/7 library chat service has been improved to add even more features to better serve students, faculty and staff.

Storymapping Project Underway with Merced County 4-H
Author: Rebecca Gourevitch


March 2, 2021


UC Merced Library announces an exciting new partnership with the Merced County 4-H Club. After acquiring the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) archives, a key objective has been to share this incredible resource with the community. With this aim in mind, we developed the 4-H StoryMapping Project.

One Library Search with the Power of Ten


February 8, 2021


Finding and borrowing resources from libraries across the UC system is about to get easier! We are pleased to introduce UC Library Search.

Tracing Agricultural History in the Archives
Author: Emily S. Lin


February 5, 2021


The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Records for Merced County span well over one hundred boxes of documents and photographs and have a physical footprint of about 70 linear feet in the UC Merced Library. So how do you know what you can find in the archives? And why would someone want to access the archives?

UC Merced Library Participating in UC Love Data Week with Series of Workshops


January 27, 2021


UC Love Data Week, February 8-12, provides workshops and presentations about data management, security and preservation to all members of the UC Community. UC Merced Library is offering workshops and presentations as part of this week's events.

Spring 2021 Library Workshops


January 26, 2021


The Library and the Spatial Analysis and Research Center (SpARC) have developed a full schedule of workshops for students, faculty and staff for the spring 2021 semester. View our events calendar for the full lineup and to register now.

UC Reaches Open Access Agreement with Springer Nature- A Letter to the Academic Community from University Librarian, Haipeng Li


January 20, 2021


The open access agreement with Springer Nature allows UC authors to publish their research freely across Springer Nature journals.

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Faculty Author Series: Dr. Sidra Goldman-Mellor


January 5, 2021


Join us for a faculty author talk with Dr. Sidra Goldman-Mellor on February 11, 2021 (this event is rescheduled from April 2020). Dr. Goldman-Mellor will discuss her research and recent article focused on the effects of emergency department presentation and suicide and mortality risk.

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