On Saturday, July 20th 2019 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.
On Friday, July 19th from 6pm to 9pm Pacific Time, the Course Resources tool in CatCourses will be unavailable due to systems maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Alexander Street has officially transitioned to a new video interface as of July 10th. For the transitioning databases, this grants improved flexibility with new content types in the future, such as video and audio, and allows for cross-searching with other Alexander Street content.
Both UC systemwide and UC Merced licensed databases have transitioned and redirect to the new platform. Check it out via these links:
Twentieth Century North American Drama
On Friday, July 12th from 6pm to 9pm Pacific Time, the Course Resources tool in CatCourses will be unavailable due to systems maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Morgan & Claypool (M&C) Publishers Synthesis Series has begun making its ninth collection of lectures available online to UC Merced and other participating UC campuses. The basic format in the collections are 50 to 100-page electronic books that synthesize an important research or development topic, authored by a leading contributor to the field. These Lectures provide more synthesis, analysis, and depth than standard research journal articles.
The first 19 records for series nine lectures are now available with a full listing of titles here. These titles can be used as textbooks with concurrent usage and no DRM.
Beginning Friday, June 14th at 11pm through Saturday, June 15th at 3am Pacific Time, and again on Saturday, June 15th at 11pm through Sunday, June 16th at 3am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause sporadic interruptions and delayed response times for online catalog services. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
UC Merced patrons now have access to the second series of the Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection via EBSCO. This resource consists of digitized materials focusing on Hispanic American civil rights, religion, and women's rights from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Drawing from the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project" which strives to gather lost and rare documents and publications on Hispanic history and culture, Series Two features over 250,000 pages of manuscript content, over 100 newspaper titles, and over 400 books.
Check out this new resource here.
On Friday, June 28th from 5pm to 8pm Pacific Time, the Course Resources tool in CatCourses will be unavailable due to systems maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
The UC system has entered into a pilot for the use of protocols.io — an open access repository for research methods. Running for a three-year period from June 1, 2019 through May 31, 2022, the pilot removes all cost barriers, allowing UC researchers to test the uses of protocols.io for private collaboration and for use in classrooms.
By initiating this pilot, UC hopes to increase management and tracking of research methods on each campus, allowing for better reporting and more reproducible publications from researchers. Follow this link for more details about the pilot and protocols.io.
Nine UC campuses can now access the Maruzen eBook Library, a Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) program for Japanese ebooks. Over three thousand academic titles in Japanese are currently available to users, with more titles to be added biannually.
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