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Bobcat Art Show: Call for Artists!

Fri, January 22, 2016 4:45 PM

Apply for the 2016 Bobcat Art Show today! Deadline to apply is Thursday March 10, 2016.

It’s time to get creative. All UC Merced students, faculty and staff are welcome to participate in the areas of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture/mixed media, and digital media. For more information, visit Arts UC Merced Presents. 

The show this year will take place April 4 to May 3, 2016, in the UC Merced Art Gallery and UC Merced Library.

Sponsored by the UC Merced Art Gallery, the UC Merced Library and UEP.

New Library Buoys

Fri, January 22, 2016 1:30 PM

Over winter intersession, the UC Merced Library acquired 25 new, very colorful Buoy style stools to provide additional seating options for library users. The Buoys have a playful contemporary design that encourages movement and activity but perhaps more importantly, they are portable! Each one weighs just under 20 pounds, so move them around to create your own study or collaborative work area. The Buoys can be found on the top 3 floors of the Library. 

New mobile version of UC-eLinks

Wed, January 13, 2016 3:00 PM

Starting January 12, 2016, the California Digital Library will enable a mobile-optimized version of UC-eLinks for most mobile devices. Mobile versions are available for these UC-eLinks interfaces:

* UC-eLinks full menu window

* UC-eLinks banner (i.e., direct linking in a frame where you bypass the full menu window)

* A-Z ejournal lists

Enabling the mobile version of UC-eLinks is the final step in a transition to a more simplified template begun in June 2015. CDL will continue to advocate for more responsive design interfaces that will automatically adjust to the size of your screen.

 

 

Science/AAAS Redesign

Wed, January 6, 2016 12:45 PM

On 12 January 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will launch a redesigned website that will make it easier to access, read, and share articles from its journals using a responsive web design that provides an optimal viewing experience across a range of devices from desktop to mobile phones. The new, streamlined design has more accessible article content, one-click article references, sharing tools, and much more.

Visit Science Online and check it out.

Access to ProQuest Databases

Wed, January 6, 2016 12:30 PM

On Saturday, January 16th, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability of its databases products. The maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM Pacific Time and will last for eight (8) hours.  This will impact some databases on the ProQuest platform such as RefWorks and ProQuest Congressional.

Therapy Dogs Visit

Thu, December 10, 2015 10:00 AM

Therapy Dogs will be visiting the Library on Thursday December 10th, from 10:00am to 2:00pm in KL355. Take a break from studying and come join them for some relaxing, tail wagging fun.

This program is program supported by your Health Fee.
Questions? Contact Health Services at 209.228.2273

Date: December 10, 2015

Time: 10:00am-2:00pm

Location: KL 355

ScienceDirect to cease support of Internet Explorer 8

Thu, December 3, 2015 1:00 PM

Following Microsoft’s directive to focus support on newer, officially-supported IE browser versions, ScienceDirect will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as of January 1, 2016. ScienceDirect encourages users to update to more recent versions of IE, Chrome or Firefox browsers for optimal ScienceDirect access.

Visit the ScienceDirect Blog for more details.

Access to the Arts & Sciences XIV Collection Through JSTOR

Mon, November 30, 2015 2:30 PM

 

Through the California Digital Library, a number of UC campuses including UC Merced now have access to the Arts & Sciences XIV Collection from JSTOR. This collection adds more than 140 journals devoted to the study of culture and communication to the platform. Drawn primarily from the fields of Archaeology, Literature, Communications Studies, Political Science, and Education, these journals span 17 countries, 23 disciplines, and date back to 1839.

Selected titles include:

* Journal of African Archaeology

* Discourse & Society

* Bulletin of the Asia Institute

* Science Progress

* Journal of Technology Studies

See more details at: http://about.jstor.org/content/arts-sciences-xiv

New SAGE Knowledge platform

Fri, November 6, 2015 10:00 AM
As of November 4th, SAGE Knowledge migrated to its new platform. Incorporating customer and user feedback, the new platform hosts videos alongside traditional book and reference content and works equally well on desktop, tablet and mobile views. The new platform also offers improved discoverability of content and more intuitive navigation. 
For more details, check out their FAQs.

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