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Faculty Author Series with Teaching Professor, Faculty Associate, and Interim Director of CETL Eileen Camfield


April 8, 2025


Join us for our Faculty Author Series featuring Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies Teaching Professor, Faculty Associate for Writing and Pedagogy, Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL), and Interim Director of CETL, Eileen Camfield on Tuesday, April 8 at noon in KL 232.

Abrescy-Kranich Award 2025 Announcement


March 13, 2025


Join us on March 21 at 2:00 pm to celebrate the 2025 Carter Joseph Abrescy & Larry Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence recipients, Diana Muñoz and Maya Manesh.

Text: Faculty Author Series with Dr. Heather Bortfeld.
Faculty Author Series with Dr. Heather Bortfeld


March 11, 2025


Join us for a Faculty Author Series talk featuring Dr. Heather Bortfeld on Tuesday, March 11 from noon to 1 pm in Kolligian Library 232. Dr. Bortfelt will discuss her new book, Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Visiting Author: Deborah Taffa


February 3, 2025


Join us for a captivating reading and discussion featuring Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán/Laguna Pueblo), author of Whiskey Tender (HarperCollins).

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Introduction to Python


January 29, 2025


This three-day workshop series teaches the fundamentals of research computing in Python.

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Updated "Starting Your Research Series" Library Tutorials
Author: Bronwen K. Maxson


January 13, 2025


The UC Merced Library provides the Starting Your Research Series tutorials that cover introductory library skills. These tutorial modules are available to instructors for integration into your CatCourses sites and include titles such as Developing a Research Question, Searching in Databases, Citing & Managing Your Research, and Information Privilege & Accessing Information. 

Text: Faculty Author Series with Dr. Kit Myers
Faculty Author Series with Dr. Kit Myers


January 3, 2025


Join us for a Faculty Author Series talk featuring Dr. Kit Myers on Wednesday, February 5 from 10:30 am to noon in Kolligian Library 232. Myers will discuss his recent book, The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States.

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Request Spring 2025 Library Instruction
Author: Bronwen K. Maxson


January 2, 2025


UC Merced librarians offer instruction sessions to support undergraduate and graduate students in their completion of course assignments requiring library and information/data research skills. We offer sessions in-person and online options depending on your course delivery mode. 

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Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT) Now Available


January 1, 2025


With the Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT), UC authors can search for a journal title to determine if there is full open access fee coverage or a discount.

Taylor & Francis Open Access Agreement

September 20, 2024


January 1, 2025


Effective January 1, 2024, the University of California (UC) and Taylor & Francis entered into an agreement that provides financial support to UC corresponding authors who publish open access in Taylor & Francis journals. Authors at all ten UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) are eligible for this support.

The UC libraries will cover open access publishing fees, also known as article processing charges (APCs), in full for UC corresponding authors who publish open access in Taylor & Francis journals. This agreement has two goals: (1) to support UC’s mission as a public university by making more UC-authored publications open to the world, and (2) to...

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