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Doing Research With Integrity: Strategies to Avoid Plagiarism


October 25, 2016


It's Integrity Week 2016! In collaboration with the Office of Student Life, Office of Student Conduct, the UC Merced Library will be leading a workshop on how to do research with integrity, focusing on strategies to help avoid plagiarism.

CDL, Harvard Library and UCLA Library to Create Platform for Web Archiving


October 24, 2016


A partnership between the CDL, Harvard Library, and UCLA Library has been awarded funding to create Cobweb, a collaborative collection development platform for web archiving.

Archiving the web comprehensively and thematically can exceed the technical and financial ability of any single library. To ensure that the limited resources of archiving programs are used most effectively, it is important that curators know something about the collection development priorities and holdings of similarly-engaged institutions. Cobweb will do this by supporting three key functions: nominating, claiming, and holdings. The nomination function will let curators suggest web sites relevant to specific areas; the claiming function will allow archival programs to indicate they intend to capture some portion of nominated sites; and the holdings function will allow programs to show which sites that have actually been captured.

How would Cobweb work? Imagine a fast-moving news event...

Cognitive Science Society Proceedings Hosted at eScholarship


October 24, 2016


The UC Merced Library recently began working with cognitive science Professor Michael Spivey to bring the Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society’s Annual Conference to eScholarship, UC’s Open Access publishing platform.

Archiving Initiative


October 18, 2016


University News highlights the one-year pilot project to assess UC Cooperative Extension records at three offices. This exciting archiving initiative is intended to make the documents and history of UC Cooperative Extension available to scholars. See "UC Merced Chosen to Lead Agricultural Archiving Project" for details.

NTIS Discontinues Digital-On-Demand Services


October 18, 2016


As of October 1, 2016, the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL), a repository for technical reports from government agencies produced by the NTIS, has discontinued it digital-on-demand services, where users could request reports that were not available in full text to be digitized and made available in the database. Should you have questions or need assistance, please contact Jim Dooley, Head of Collections Services for further details.

Banned Books Week


September 28, 2016


Visit our Banned Books Week book display located on the second floor right across from the elevators.The books featured in this display have either been banned or attempted to be be censored. Celebrate your freedom to read and check these books out!

Update Regarding Library Collections


September 23, 2016


A variety of exciting electronic resources have been added to the Library’s collection.
After a lengthy impasse, the University of California Libraries and publisher Taylor & Francis have reached an agreement regarding its journal package. As result, access to nearly 3,000 journals has been reestablished. The UC Libraries have also signed a license with Cambridge University Press to acquire ebooks published from 2016 to 2018. Finally, Zoological Record, a database that includes content on biodiversity, the environment, taxonomy and animal biology is now available to UC Merced researchers.
For more details on these resources, check out Library Notes in the latest issue of Panorama.

Library Liaisons


September 12, 2016


This fall, the UC Merced Library launches a new program designed to foster communication between the campus’s faculty members and the library.

Course Resources


September 12, 2016


The UC Merced Library’s Course Resources service allows faculty members to place course-related materials in the library for a two-hour loan or electronically through CatCourses.

New Interface & Functionality Available in RefWorks


September 6, 2016


ProQuest has upgraded its RefWorks product. For users who wish to try the new version, look for soft launch link after logging into RefWorks. Visit the RefWorks Upgrade page for more information.

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