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New eBooks in Engineering & Computer Science (Synthesis Series) November 9, 2016 The Synthesis Series, from Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers, is a collection of ebooks that synthesize and analyze important research or topics in the areas of engineering and computer science. The editors of each ebook are prominent researchers in the field. These books can be particularly valuable to students or researchers who are new to a specific research area and can be used as textbooks. Sample series include Quantum Computing, Computer Vision, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The publisher has started offering its seventh collection of lectures, and 24 new titles are available to download in PDF format. All ebooks in the series are available through Melvyl and through the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science Collection (Morgan & Claypool Publisher) in our database listing. For more details, check out our article in the Library Notes section of November 16th’s Panorama. |
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Request Update November 7, 2016 When placing multiple requests in a single search session, users no longer have to re-enter their information such as their UCMnetID. |
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Could subscriptions for academic journals go the way of pay phones? November 4, 2016 Deputy University Librarian, Donald Barclay, explains the OA 2020 (Open Access) initiative and discusses whether this proposed model might work. View the complete article in The Conversation 25 October 2016. |
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eScholarship Resources November 4, 2016 eScholarship is an scholarly publishing service made available by the California Digital Library (CDL). |
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Library Receives Rosetti Collection and Leads Agricultural Archiving Project November 2, 2016 A collection of works by poet and playwright Ana Rossetti is now part of the library, and UC Merced now leads an archiving project that documents the history of UC Cooperative Extension. Check out the full article in the latest issue of Panorama. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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