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Using Flipster to Read Your Favorite Magazines Online- 20 Minute Workshop

Thu, October 17, 2019 2:20 PM

Using Flipser to Read Your Favorite Magazines Online

Two workshop offerings:

Join us for this short workshop to explore digital magazine content available to you via Flipster.

What is Flipster?

A digital magazine newsstand made possible to you thanks to funding from ASUCM.
Access to sixteen magazine titles including Do It Yourself, Wired, The New Yorker, and Vogue.
Downloadable content available via the app which can be read without an internet connection.

Access Alert - ProQuest

Thu, October 17, 2019 10:05 AM

On Saturday, October 19th from 9am to 12pm Pacific Time, ProQuest’s Ebook Central and LibCentral will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. Ebooks via these platforms may not be available during these times. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

Access Alert - Web of Science

Thu, October 17, 2019 4:00 AM

Web of Science will undergo scheduled maintenance Thursday, October 17th from 4am-4pm Pacific time. During this time, access may be intermittent. We apologize for any inconvenience.

UC Merced Library and Campus Partners Promote Open Access- Open Access Week 2019

Wed, October 16, 2019 10:00 AM

open access week 2019 with icons of globe, lock, brain

Article: Events at UC Merced Highlight Transition to Open Access of Research Articles By Michelle Morgante, UC Merced

Open Access Week Events

Monday, Oct. 21- Eileen Joy- Punctum Books- COB 2- 295

2:00pm-3:00pm

This event is open to all- more details available on the event site.

Tuesday, Oct. 22- Daniel Russell, Google Senior Ressearch Scientist- KL 232

12:00pm-12:50pm

Registration is required- Lunch provided.

Friday, Oct. 25- Movie Night- The Internet's Own Boy- KL 397

3:00pm-5:30pm

This event is open to all- more details available on the event site.

Thursday, Nov. 14- Professor Michael Dawson, Editor-in-Chief of "The Journal of Biogeography"- publishing workshop- Half Dome 180

10:30am-3:00pm

Registration is required.

Movie Night- The Internet's Own Boy

Wed, October 9, 2019 4:05 PM

Movie Night- The Internet's Own Boy

Film Start Time: 3:00 pm (runtime ~ 2 hours)

An open discussion will follow the film.

Location: KL 397

Light refreshments provided. All are welcome and registration is appreciated, but not required.

View our events calendar for more Open Access Week events and library workshops.

Access Alert - ACLS Humanities

Tue, October 8, 2019 3:05 PM

On Thursday, October 10th from 3am to 5am Pacific Time, the Fulcrum platform which currently hosts the ACLS Humanities eBook collection will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance. ACLS eBooks may not be accessible during this time frame. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.

A Guide to Success in Scientific Publishing

Mon, October 7, 2019 12:00 PM

For researchers who are about to embark on, or in the process of, publishing their first work or those who are interested in learning more about the publishing process, Dawson will share his unique perspective as an author, reviewer, and associate editor across diverse disciplinary and multi-disciplinary journals. The Editor-in-Chief also welcomes enquires from more senior researchers who are interested to learn more about publication and other opportunities at the journal (contact: mdawson@ucmerced.edu).

Instructor: Michael N Dawson: Editor-in-Chief- Journal of Biogeography

Date: November 14, 2019

Time: 10:45am - 3:00pm

NEW! Location: KL 473

An Open Access Week Event.

Registration is required to attend this workshop. Registration is currently closed.

The Joy of Search: Research with Open Content

Fri, October 4, 2019 9:30 AM

The Joy of Search: Research with Open Content

Speaker: Daniel M. Russell- Google's Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness

Time: 12:00pm - 12:50pm

Location: KL 232

Length: 50 Minutes

Lunch will be provided, space is limited.

Registration is now open.

An Open Access Week Event.

New Dryad Platform

Fri, September 27, 2019 12:55 PM

This past May, in an effort to drive adoption by meeting researchers in their existing workflows and encourage further promotion of UC’s repositories by publishers, CDL announced its formal partnership between itself and Dryad, an international disciplinary repository for data curation. This partnership has now launched the new Dryad Platform focused on the features which best support the researching community’s ever-changing needs. Some of these new features include:

Support of datasets as part of a journal submission or submitted independently

Uploading of data from cloud storage or lab servers

Updating or versioning of data at any time in the process

Updating and display of standardized data usage and citation statistics for each published dataset

The new Dryad platform is just the beginning for the partnership to make data publishing both robust and seamless. Integrations with other publishing platforms, as well as data analysis and computing spaces are currently in process.

To find out more, visit CDLINFO.