On Monday, August 26th 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.
From Thursday, August 22nd at 5pm to 9pm Pacific Time, the Course Resources tool in CatCourses will be down for server maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
Beginning Friday, August 9th at 5:30pm through Saturday, August 10th at noon Pacific Time, the Office of Information Technology will upgrade the wireless network in buildings north of Scholar’s Lane Bridge, including the Library. The wireless network will be unavailable during this time frame (wired connection will still be available). We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
On Tuesday, July 30th 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.
Beginning July 24th, ProQuest will launch their redesigned ProQuest Congressional interface. This redesign hopes to simplify retrieval of information by students unfamiliar with government content, while preserving the ability to perform complex queries as desired. Databases such as ProQuest Congressional and ProQuest Digital Bills and Resolutions will move to this interface.
Some improvements included in this redesign:
Search results organized by Content Type to guide users to the best results.
A streamlined Advanced Search layout with duplicate entry points to content removed.
Search by Number enhanced with clearer navigation and page organization.
Search results relevance revised to emphasize content types.
Congress in Context featured more prominently on the page to illustrate what was going on during each Congress, including information on House and Senate leadership and partisan composition.
For more information, visit ProQuest’s redesign webpage.
On Friday, August 2nd 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.
UC Merced patrons can now access the Superstar Journals Database. Containing 7,470 full-text Chinese journals and more than 1,200 core journals, coverage spans from 1949 to the present. A variety of disciplines, including engineering, agronomy, social science, culture, education, philosophy, and medicine, are represented in this collection. Major academic journal coverage within the package focuses on social sciences and humanities, with unique titles in the fields of science and technology rounding it out.
Check it out here.
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:
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