Added Resources
New resources have been acquired by the UC Libraries for systemwide use. Resources for consideration were prioritized through feedback from all UC campuses and the work of the Joint Steering Committee for Shared Collections (JSC) and the Shared Content Leadership Group (SCLG).
The following resources are available to the UC Merced Library due to this systemwide effort. Access to these items will be made available through UC Library Search and/or our A-Z Databases listing.
Purchases
- Duke University Press ebooks (2024 frontlist), via De Gruyter Platform
- Duke University Press ebooks backfile & archive (1964-2013), via De Gruyter Platform
- University of California Press ebook collection, (2024 front list), via De Gruyter Platform
- Oxford University Press, Oxford Bibliographies Online, covers 29 subject areas
- Oxford University Press, Oxford Scholarship Online, ebook frontlist (2024) via Oxford Academic Platform
- Project Muse 2024 Complete Collection, 2,400+ ebooks from university presses
- Artforum Archive, ProQuest
- History Vault, ProQuest (Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records: Module 1)
Subscriptions
- Kanopy BASE (2024)
- Historical Newspapers, ProQuest (five newspapers for FY2024-2025)
- History Vault, ProQuest (five collections for FY2024-2025)
Scholarly Communication Investments
These initiatives are to develop “open content and infrastructure in support of UC scholarship and teaching.”
Memberships
- DOAB/OAPEN (through June 2027)
- Open Education Network (OEN) (2024)
- Opening the Future (2024) – supports OA books from Liverpool University Press and Central European University Press. UC Merced is participating in CEUP’s History package.
Funding / Subscribe to Open
- Open Book Collective & University Press Supporter Programs (through June 2027) – supports OA monograph publishing
- SciPost (2024) – open repository publishing infrastructure
- Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) (2024) for Cultural Anthropology
- International Water Association Publishing (IWAP) (2024) for ten Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals and four gold open access journals
- Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journals Expanded Package (MPX) for five Subscribe to Open (S2O) journals + additional journals
- MIT Press / Direct Open (D2O) (2024)
Definitions
Frontlist: a collection of newly published titles.
Subscribe to Open (S2O): an approach to convert subscription journals to OA without relying on articles processing charges. *UC Libraries are subscribing to these journals to make them available to any reader.
Gold OA: The first publication of a scholarly work as an OA journal or monograph. In contrast, Green OA refers to a scholarly work that is made available through an institutional or disciplinary repository. This is also known as self-archiving. Gold and Green are two ways to make research outputs open access.
CDL News Announcement
For further details about available resources, the decision-making process, and the funding source, visit the full announcement “New and Continuing Resources and OA Investments Fiscal Year 23-24” at the California Digital Library.
