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The Public Domain Expands February 1, 2019 As of January 2019, the public domain in the United States expanded for the first time in 20 years. Since the Sonny Bono Copyright Act of 1998, 1923 had been the cut-off year in which books published in the United States could be assumed to be out of copyright. On this January first, the cut-off year advanced by a year to 1924. Without future copyright law changes, the cut-off year will continue to increase by one every January first until 2073. |
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Elsevier Journal Negotiations: 2/28 Update December 18, 2018 February 28, 2019: The University of California announced this morning that they are ceasing negotiations with Elsevier. UCOP has published a press release and the Academic Senate has published a letter to faculty discussing its decision.
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New Platform for Several Gale Databases November 15, 2018 Several of the UC-licensed Gale databases are now live on the Artemis platform, while others will be transitioned based on Gale’s schedule. The new platform incorporates several new features and tools, such as term frequency (the frequency of search terms within sets of content to identify themes), cross-search capability (ability to search across the content of related products in a single environment) and downloadable OCR (materials are keyword and full-text searchable via optical character recognition). |
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New via Request: Request a Book Chapter October 29, 2018 The CDL Resource Sharing Team and ILL Operations Advisory Group have announced a new feature available via Request: request just a book chapter. Patrons no longer need to re-input the bibliographic information into a Citation Linker form in order to only request a book chapter via interlibrary loan. |
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HathiTrust Extends Non-Consumptive Research Tools to Copyrighted Materials October 10, 2018 Since 2011, HathiTrust Research Center has been developing tools to utilize text and data mining methodologies using the HathiTrust collection. Until now, this service has been available mostly in the portion of the collection that is out of copyright, with copyrighted item access restricted. |
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Works of Photographers Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones Now Online Author: Sarah Sheets September 19, 2018 Thousands of images by photographers Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) and Pirkle Jones (1914–2009) are now digitized and available on Calisphere, UC Santa Cruz University Library Digital Collections and the Digital Library of America (DPLA). |
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Thousands of Historic California Legislative Publications Available for Access Author: Sarah Sheets September 19, 2018 A joint effort between CDL’s Mass Digitization Team, the California Office of Legislative Counsel, and librarians at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and the California State Library has resulted in 4,000 volumes of historic California Legislative materials being digitized and made open access in HathiTrust and Google Books. |
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Flipster Digital Magazines Author: Breanna Wright August 28, 2018 The Library has partnered with ASUCM to provide the UC Merced campus community with digital magazine subscriptions through Flipster. You can read your favorite magazines from anywhere and on any device. Before you get started, make sure you are connected to the UC Merced campus wifi or VPN. On-campus Visit Flipster using your web browser or download the Flipster app on any of your devices; the app is available on the Apple Store and Google Play Store. You can also check out an iPad mini configured with the Flipster app from the 2nd floor Library Services Desk. Off-campus To read magazines when off-campus, you’ll need to download the campus VPN first. Once you’re connected to the VPN, you can follow the instructions above for reading on-campus. Offline ... |
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ProQuest Platform Interface Enhancements Author: Sarah Sheets July 26, 2018 As of July 26th, ProQuest will roll out redesigned basic search and search results pages. These improvements will put a focus on source types to help retrieve more relevant results from across the platform. |
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SpringerProtocols to Transition to New Springer Nature Experiments Author: Sarah Sheets June 7, 2018 On July 25th, the SpringerProtocols platform will be deactivated and transitioned to Springer Nature Experiments. |
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