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New Library Buoys January 22, 2016 Over winter intersession, the UC Merced Library acquired 25 new, very colorful Buoy style stools to provide additional seating options for library users. The Buoys have a playful contemporary design that encourages movement and activity but perhaps more importantly, they are portable! Each one weighs just under 20 pounds, so move them around to create your own study or collaborative work area. The Buoys can be found on the top 3 floors of the Library. |
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New mobile version of UC-eLinks January 13, 2016 Starting January 12, 2016, the California Digital Library will enable a mobile-optimized version of UC-eLinks for most mobile devices. Mobile versions are available for these UC-eLinks interfaces: |
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BioOne Complete licensed for all UC campuses January 13, 2016 All UC campuses now have access to BioOne Complete, formerly BioOne.1 and BioOne.2. This gives UC users access to all 200+ BioOne journal titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences, including titles such as Zoological Science, Madroño, Geodiversitas, Zoosystema, Journal of Ethnobiology, and Pacific Science. |
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Science/AAAS Redesign January 6, 2016 On 12 January 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will launch a redesigned website that will make it easier to access, read, and share articles from its journals using a responsive web design that provides an optimal viewing experience across a range of devices from desktop to mobile phones. The new, streamlined design has more accessible article content, one-click article references, sharing tools, and much more. |
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Access to ProQuest Databases January 6, 2016 On Saturday, January 16th, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability of its databases products. The maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM Pacific Time and will last for eight (8) hours. This will impact some databases on the ProQuest platform such as RefWorks and ProQuest Congressional. |
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Luminos Open Access Model for Book Publishing December 14, 2015 The University of California Press recently announced its first five scholarly monographs published through Luminos -- its Open Access publishing program for books. This new digital publishing program operates on a model of shared financial support with titles funded through UC Press contributions, funds from Luminos Member Libraries, and a title publication fee provided by authors. Excess revenues are used to build a waiver fund for use by future authors. Luminos provides authors the opportunity to increase their readership, especially by global audiences, due to the open access designation. |
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Digitization of Faculty Member’s Costume Designs December 7, 2015 The UC Merced Library is involved in an ongoing project to digitize approximately 2,000 illustrations of costume designs by School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Professor Dunya Ramicova. |
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ScienceDirect to cease support of Internet Explorer 8 December 3, 2015 Following Microsoft’s directive to focus support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions, ScienceDirect will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as of January 1, 2016. ScienceDirect encourages users to update to more recent versions of IE, Chrome or Firefox browsers for optimal ScienceDirect access. |
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Access to the Arts & Sciences XIV Collection Through JSTOR November 30, 2015 Through the California Digital Library, a number of UC campuses including UC Merced now have access to the Arts & Sciences XIV Collection from JSTOR. This collection adds more than 140 journals devoted to the study of culture and communication to the platform. Drawn primarily from the fields of Archaeology, Literature, Communications Studies, Political Science, and Education, these journals span 17 countries, 23 disciplines, and date back to 1839. Selected titles include: See more details at: http://about.jstor.org/content/arts-sciences-xiv. |
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New SAGE Knowledge platform November 6, 2015 As of November 4th, SAGE Knowledge migrated to its new platform. Incorporating customer and user feedback, the new platform hosts videos alongside traditional book and reference content and works equally well on desktop, tablet and mobile views. The new platform also offers improved discoverability of content and more intuitive navigation. |
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