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SCOAP3 Widens Open Access In Particle Physics Research

January 22, 2014



The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced that the SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) initiative will begin on January 1, 2014. SCOAP3 will make a large number of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics widely available via open access. This will not cost authors anything, and they will retain copyright. Additionally, licenses will enable wide re-use of information.

UC Library Reprints Service

November 26, 2013



The UC campus libraries are happy to announce the re-launch of the University of California Library Reprints website. Through our partnerships with the Internet Archive and Google, the UC Libraries have digitized hundreds of thousands of public domain books from our collections.

Introduction to UC Open Access Policy

November 25, 2013



The California Digital Library has produced a 90-second video to introduce the recently-passed University of California Open Access Policy.

New Access to Journals in Ecology and Botany Through JSTOR

November 19, 2013



JSTOR’s Ecology & Botany Collection II expands coverage of Ecology & Botany Collection I, and broadens the scope in the areas of biological and plant sciences. By 2016 the collection will include at least 80 journals from key institutions, such as the California Botanical Society; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Naturhistorisches Museum; Società Italiana di Patologia Vegetale, Ecological Society of America, and International Association for Plant Taxonomy.

Priority Deadline for Library Supplemental Course Resource Requests

November 6, 2013



Do you need to have supplemental course materials scanned and posted to your UCMCROPS site for Spring courses? Supplemental Course Resources (SCR) is a service offered by the Library to make additional course materials available to your students online through UCMCROPS.

"Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxogpraher" Film Screening

October 27, 2013



As part of the Library's current digital exhibit ("Simplicity/Complexity: Digital Works by Ryan Hoover), you are invited to a screening of Thom Anderson’s extraordinary 1975 documentary “Eadweard Muybridge: Zoopraxographer”.

SPARC Open Acess Webinar - TODAY

October 21, 2013



Join us in the library today at noon for a SPARC Webinar - Open Access: Redefining Impact. This kick-off event for International Open Access Week will be a panel discussion focused on how Article Level Metrics are redefining scholarly impact.

Open Access Week Schedule of Events

October 18, 2013



Check out the list of events offered during the International Open Access Week. October 21-27, 2013.

Digital exhibit opens Oct. 10th 2013

October 8, 2013



On Oct. 10th, 2013 the UC Merced Library will host our very first exclusively digital exhibit -"Simplicity/Complexity: Digital Works by Ryan Hoover"

The DLM Lab Tour exhibit series continues

September 25, 2013



The UC Merced Library is pleased to announce the next lab in our DLM: Lab Tour exhibit series -MESA Lab (Mechatronics, Embedded Systems, and Automation Laboratory)!

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