Beginning Friday, March 22nd at 10pm through Saturday, March 23rd at 1am 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 has recently subscribed to the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) Bioengineering module and JoVE Lab Manual for Introductory Biology.
JoVE Bioengineering presents scientific research on bioengineering concepts such as production of biomaterials, bioprocessing techniques, and the fields of bioMEMs and biosensing. JoVE Lab Manual for Introductory Biology provides access to curriculum-focused instructional video resources filmed in top academic labs across the United States focused on introductory biology. Along with the Library’s other JoVE modules, these new peer reviewed scientific journals provide access to videos of scientific experiments from top laboratories, allowing scientists, educators and students to see the intricate details of experiments rather than read them in text articles.
Access this new content via the above links or via the Library's A-Z Database listings.
The Literature Online (LION) database has transitioned to the main ProQuest platform and is now cross-searchable with other ProQuest resources. Access to the legacy site will continue until July 1, 2019 to provide users time to try new features on the main ProQuest platform while continuing use of the previous site. The legacy version of the database will be fully decommissioned as of August 1, 2019.
Moving Literature Online to the main ProQuest platform allows users to cross-search content with ProQuest journals, Early European Books, Historical Newspapers, Dissertations, archival magazine collections and more. Improved filtering facets let users find more relevant content, offering better ways to narrow search results. The platform also offers prominent content types, including criticism resources, primary works, reference resources, video, and audio.
More information is available in the ProQuest LibGuide on Literature Online (LION).
Beginning Saturday, March 9th at 9pm through Sunday, March 10th 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.
Start your research off right by attending the Research Starters workshop series! The series consists of five short 20-minute workshops that will prepare you to dive into your research with confidence. The series will be offered twice, the first time they'll be offered will be on March 14th and 15th and the second time on March 18th and 19th.
RSVP is appreciated but not required.
March 14
March 15
March 18
March 19
View all workshops on our events calendar, here.
Beginning Saturday, March 2nd at 11pm through Sunday, March 3rd at 1:30am 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.
“Do you want to test your knowledge of California agriculture?” we asked visitors at the World Ag Expo last week. Young and old, students and seniors, teachers and parents, journalists and farmers, the confident and the hesitant, drew near and took part in our quiz game. Their task? To match three pictured items to the appropriate California county: Humboldt, in the North; Merced, in the Central Valley; and Ventura, in southern CA. As some participants guessed lemons in Humboldt, avocados in Merced, and timber in Ventura, we prompted them to consider regional geography and climate.
When we revealed the answers, visitors learned about the Klamath beetle, introduced by UC Cooperative Extension advisors and entomologists in Humboldt in the 1940s to combat a weed that had taken over 150,000 acres of rangeland and posed a danger to grazing livestock. The solution employed by UC scientists was the first, and highly successful, case of using a biological control against an invasive species in the state. They also learned that Humboldt County is the leading producer of timber in California, and has historically been an important producer of livestock and dairy products.
Participants learned about the significance of sweet potato production in Merced County, as well as figs, and tomatoes, introduced by Italian immigrants. They learned that Ventura is the leading producer of lemons in the state, and of the value of avocados and nursery plants produced there. Given that many were not aware of the range and scale of agriculture across California, we directed them to CARA, to explore the history and research involved in the development of agriculture in the state.
We were delighted we had the opportunity to be part of the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources presence at the Expo, and to help promote the work of UC Cooperative Extension, which has had such historic impact on the state. One school teacher from the Central Valley was so taken by our game that she wanted to share it with her students. As CARA develops, we want to continue and expand this kind of community engagement, so people can know and appreciate what grows here.
Melvyl Switching to WorldCat Discovery
Melvyl’s long-anticipated transition to WorldCat Discovery, OCLC’s newer discovery user interface, will happen this summer preceding the end-of-life date for WorldCat Local on August 9, 2019. Each UC campus will choose a switch over date after the end of their academic year allowing patrons to have a consistent user experience for the duration of the spring term. Although differences in the user experience are not substantial, Worldcat Discovery does come with some advantages.
Stay tuned for more details as to UC Merced’s switch over date.
As of January 2019, the public domain in the United States expanded for the first time in 20 years. Since the Sonny Bono Copyright Act of 1998, 1923 had been the cut-off year in which books published in the United States could be assumed to be out of copyright. On this January first, the cut-off year advanced by a year to 1924. Without future copyright law changes, the cut-off year will continue to increase by one every January first until 2073. This will place tens of thousands of works each year into the public domain which Americans may then may read, share, translate, or reimagine.
HathiTrust was prepared for this event. They created a collection of over 53,000 works including novels, poems, journals and musical scores published in the United States in 1923 that now are available, a substantial expansion of the public domain.
Over 14,000 volumes of HathiTrust’s 1923 Collection were digitized from the University of California Libraries. These newly opened UC volumes include compositions by Béla Bartók and Ernest Bloch; novels by Edith Wharton, P.G. Wodehouse, Aldous Huxley, and Dorothy Richardson; poems by W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, and Edna St. Vincent Millay; and works by Albert Einstein and Woodrow Wilson. The complete works of playwright Oscar Wilde, the collected works of naturalist W.H. Hudson, and the complete short stories of Joseph Conrad are also included.
Beginning Saturday, February 2nd at 11pm through Sunday, February 3rd at 1:30am 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.
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