Elevate Your Research Data Workshops August 30, 2019 Take your research to the next level with workshops geared towards enhancing your research publications and exploring new research and data tools. All workshops will take place in KL 361. |
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Cite Right: Citation Management Workshops August 30, 2019 Cite Right: Citation Management Workshops will discuss the citation management tools available to you so you can decide how best to organize citation information and generate your own bibliographies. |
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Research Data Management Workshop Series August 30, 2019 Research Data Management Workshop Series: Co-sponsored by the Office of Research Development and the UC Merced Library |
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Research Starters August 29, 2019 Join us for one or more of our 20 minute Research Starters the week of September 16th. These will all be hosted in KL 361. See each event for details and to RSVP. |
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MUSE in Focus: Addressing Gun Violence August 28, 2019 UC Merced patrons now have access to Project MUSE’s “MUSE in Focus: Addressing Gun Violence”. Providing free access to more than a dozen journal articles and books focused on understanding and preventing gun violence, the collection was created in hopes of informing policymakers as well as educating researchers and other concerned citizens with evidence-based work on the topic. |
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Congressman Costa Visits the CARA Project Author: Donald Barclay August 28, 2019 On August 27, 2019, Congressman Jim Costa paid a visit to the Library’s Digital Curation and Scholarship Center to see for himself the work we are doing on CARA, the California Agricultural Resources Archive. |
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ProQuest Congressional Redesign July 24, 2019 Beginning July 24th, ProQuest will launch their redesigned ProQuest Congressional interface. This redesign hopes to simplify retrieval of information by students unfamiliar with government content, while preserving the ability to perform complex queries as desired. Databases such as ProQuest Congressional and ProQuest Digital Bills and Resolutions will move to this interface. |
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New Resource: Superstar Journals Database July 17, 2019 UC Merced patrons can now access the Superstar Journals Database. Containing 7,470 full-text Chinese journals and more than 1,200 core journals, coverage spans from 1949 to the present. |
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Alexander Street Video Platform Enhanced July 10, 2019 Alexander Street has officially transitioned to a new video interface as of July 10th. For the transitioning databases, this grants improved flexibility with new content types in the future, such as video and audio, and allows for cross-searching with other Alexander Street content. |
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Elsevier Access Suspended July 10, 2019 The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January, but until now the publisher continued to allow access to 2019 articles via ScienceDirect. As of today, July 10, 2019 UC’s direct access to new Elsevier articles has been discontinued. |