On Saturday, April 20th from 5am to 1pm Pacific Time, the ASTM Compass platform will be performing systems maintenance which may cause an interruption in accessibility. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
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On Saturday, March 16th from 6am to 11am Pacific Time, IEEE Xplore will be performing systems maintenance which may cause an interruption in access to the database. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Beginning at 2pm Pacific Time on Friday March 1st, the Fulcrum platform will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. The outage is expected to last approximately 3 hours and may affect access to ACLS Humanities Ebooks and University of Michigan Ebook collections. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
On Sunday, October 1st from midnight to 1am Pacific Time, ExLibris will be performing systems maintenance which may cause an interruption in online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
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On Saturday, July 22nd beginning at 10pm Pacific Time, ExLibris will be performing system reindexing which will cause an interruption in online catalog services through Sunday evening. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
LitCovid is an open access literature hub compiling the most comprehensive collection of international research papers so far on the new coronavirus disease COVID-19. Created via the support of the US National Institutes of Health’s intramural research programme, LitCovid is updated daily with newly published articles. LitCovid hopes to provide timely insight from the scientific literature into the biology of the virus and the diagnosis and management of those infected.
America’s Historical Newspapers via Readex are now available with enhanced interfaces. These enhancements are available for a number of databases including Early American Newspapers Series 1 and 2, African American Newspapers, California Historical Newspapers and Hispanic American Newspapers. Patrons will still have the option of using the previous interface via a link in the banner at the top of each database’s homepage through May 2019.
New features available in the redesigned interface include enhanced database selection, the ability to show fewer or more results per page, and citations instantly created and exported in all major formats. Upcoming enhancements will include an enhanced mapping function and a My Collection Tools addition.
Check out the new interfaces via the above links or the Library’s A-Z database listings.
Thousands of images by photographers Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) and Pirkle Jones (1914–2009) are now digitized and available on Calisphere, UC Santa Cruz University Library Digital Collections and the Digital Library of America (DPLA). More than 6,000 negatives by the artists were digitized through a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz and CDL. UCSC selected three groups of images to digitize from the collection of 12,000 photographic prints and 30,000 negatives by the artists: A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers (1968-1969), a collaboration by Baruch and Jones on the group; The Death of A Valley (1956), a collaboration between Jones and Dorothea Lange that documented Monticello, a town in Berryessa Valley that disappeared underwater after the completion of the Monticello Dam; and additional photos focusing on San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, including Walnut Grove: Portrait of a Town (1964) another collaboration between Baruch and Jones.
Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones were part of the first class to attend a new photography program at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) founded by Ansel Adams just after World War II. Other faculty included photographers Minor White, Dorothea Lange, and Imogen Cunningham.
Their digitized photos grant an in-depth look into California in the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s, chronicling rural and urban life, most often outside the mainstream, and portraying poverty, upheaval, everyday life, and change. Images range from the landscapes of the Central Valley, to the Black Panthers’ political rallies, to the experience of agricultural workers, yet they frequently focus on children or the interaction between people and animals.
A note: some images may have titles and other metadata that is incomplete, inaccurate or may reflect historical biases and terminology. Many of the images are titled “untitled” because they were never printed or displayed by the photographers. In these cases, the UC Santa Cruz library listed descriptive information from the donor’s inventory in the SubSeries Title field to provide context about the subject of the photographs.
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