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WESTERN REGIONAL STORAGE TRUST (WEST) ANNOUNCES PRINT ARCHIVING MILESTONE September 26, 2012 The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a partnership to create a distributed retrospective print journal repository in the Western United States, has completed its first round of print journal archiving under a 3-year program jointly funded by WEST members and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
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Metadata →Data about Your Data: Why it's Important to Describe Your Research Well and How to Create It September 21, 2012 In this presentation you will learn how documenting your research process and describing your data will benefit your research and facilitate further discovery and reuse. |
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Teaching With Data August 10, 2012 Working with data sets and performing data analysis have become increasingly important not only in research across disciplines, but also in the workforce. |
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) eBook Collection July 26, 2012 All UC campuses now have access to the Royal Society of Chemistry eBook Collection, 1968-2012. This collection is a definitive point of reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences. More than 1,000 books spanning 40 years have been brought together, digitized as pdf files and made fully searchable. The result is a comprehensive overview of research and opinion in a multitude of areas of chemical science. |
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Databases Moving to ProQuest Platform July 18, 2012 This summer (2012), PsycINFO and many other databases are changing from their current platforms to the ProQuest platform. This means that these databases will look a little different – but you will still be able to use them and access their resources. |
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ILL Request System Down this Weekend July 12, 2012 UC Merced Library users will not be able to request items through Interlibrary Loan, or check their ILL Requests account this weekend. The California Digital Library (CDL) is migrating the system to new servers beginning at 5:00 pm on Friday, July 13th. |
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UC-eLinks to Indicate Peer-Reviewed Journals July 9, 2012 Within the next two weeks, UC-eLinks users will see a new icon in their campus’ UC-eLinks A-Z ejournal list to indicate peer reviewed journals. The icon looks like a document with a magnifying glass. |
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences X July 2, 2012 The UC Merced Library now has access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences X. With a minimum of 125 titles available by the end of 2013, the JSTOR Arts & Sciences X Archive Collection features broad coverage in Business and the Social Sciences. Sociology, Education, Public Policy & Administration, and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine are all represented in this collection. |
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Library Research Poster Award Winner Announced May 14, 2012 Congratulations to Greg Dachner, winner of the $100 prize for the 2012 Undergraduate Library Research Poster Award. Greg participated in the Research Poster Competition sponsored by the UCM Office of Research, with his poster entitled "Influence of Obstacle-based Language upon Spatial Navigation". |
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Free Textbooks? April 18, 2012 We often hear stories of students who don't buy their textbooks because they feel they can't afford them. While we understand the hard economic realities of being a college student, we also know that students ultimately hurt themselves when they don't have easy access to reading materials for their classes. It's true, textbooks are expensive, but that may change in the near future. In fact, FREE TEXTBOOKS are already being used on many college campuses. |
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