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.

Punctum Books: Experimental Publishing & Unconventional Scholarlship- A Talk with Eileen Joy

Thu, September 26, 2019 4:05 PM

Punctum Books: Experimental Publishing & Unconventional Scholarship- A Talk With Eileen Joy

Monday, October 21, 2019

2:00 - 3:00pm

COB 2-295 (Digital Humanities Lab)

Following the talk, Eileen Joy will be available for drop-in office hours to discuss publishing.

This event is open to all faculty and students.

Open Access Week is co-sponsored by the UC Merced Library and the Center for the Humanities.

Visit the event page for more details about Punctum Books and Eileen Joy.

MIT Press Direct eBooks

Wed, September 25, 2019 11:45 AM

UC campuses now have access to MIT Press Direct eBooks, a broad range of books from MIT Press’ front- and backlist publications. Almost 3,000 ebooks will be available by the end of 2019, DRM-free (users may print and download PDFs by chapter) with unlimited simultaneous user access. Subject coverage includes titles in the arts and architecture, biomedical sciences, business, digital humanities and new media, economics, education, engineering, environmental science, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, and more.

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Congressman Costa Visits the CARA Project

Wed, August 28, 2019 2:50 PM

Author:

Donald Barclay

August 27, 2019 was a remarkable day at UC Merced. Our Interim Chancellor Nathan Brostrom led 2400 new students across the Scholars Lane Bridge and through the Beginnings sculpture. In the Library, over 100 students and faculty joined us as we celebrated the official re-opening of our refurnished fourth floor. And Congressman Jim Costa paid a visit to the Library’s Digital Curation and Scholarship Center to see for himself the work we are doing on CARA, the California Agricultural Resources Archive.

Costa views items from the archives

As the representative to the U.S. Congress for a heavily agricultural district, Congressman Costa expressed his keen interest in, and strong support for, CARA. Among the items he viewed were the first annual report of the county agent of Merced (1917) and the narrative report of 1918 documenting the formation of the irrigation district, fire protection districts, as well as a campaign to eliminate jackrabbits in the county.

Congressman Costa was accompanied by District Representative Gabe Hulbert (UC Merced, Class of 2018).

On the day following his visit, Congressman Costa’s Facebook page included the following statement:

I had a fascinating visit at the UC Merced library where they are currently digitizing thousands of Valley agriculture documents dating back to 1913. With funding from a grant from the National Archives, they plan to save nearly 180,000 pages of reports and 2,000 photos!

We were delighted to host Congressman Costa and extend an invitation to have other Central Valley leaders in politics and agriculture pay us a visit.

Fourth Floor Library Renovation

Fri, September 20, 2019 8:50 AM

The library's 4th floor opened fall 2019 and offers students an additional 232 seats for individual study with AC and USB power. Several seating configurations are available but all are intended to promote quiet study space. The project was made possible with funding from multiple campus partners. View the full story for details and images of this newly renovated space.

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