Beginning Friday, November 30th at 11pm through Saturday, December 1st at 12:30am 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.
Several of the UC-licensed Gale databases are now live on the Artemis platform, while others will be transitioned based on Gale’s schedule. The new platform incorporates several new features and tools, such as term frequency (the frequency of search terms within sets of content to identify themes), cross-search capability (ability to search across the content of related products in a single environment) and downloadable OCR (materials are keyword and full-text searchable via optical character recognition).
Currently, the Gale databases available via the Artemis platform include 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection and Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Try out the databases on the Artemis platform by clicking the “New Experience Available! Try It Now” links on the existing platform.
This month’s blog post is the second video in our series on how to use and search UC Cooperative Extension Archival materials online. This video walks you through using Collection Guides on the Online Archive of California, OAC. Next month’s video will be on locating digitized content in Calisphere.
The Carter Joseph Abrescy and Larry Kranich Library Award was established in 2017 to recognize outstanding undergraduate research at UC Merced. The award recognizes students who demonstrate effective use of library and information resources, as well as an understanding of the research process and growth in research practices. A committee of faculty and librarians will review applications and select awardees. A total of $1,000 will be awarded each year; no more than two awards of $500 each will be awarded in a given year.
All student applicants must be currently enrolled as undergraduates at UC Merced and be in good standing with the University (2.0 GPA). Students can submit applications for work produced individually or by a team. Projects or papers may be in another language, but all accompanying materials, including the reflective essay, must be in English. Students applying for the award must contact the course instructor about having submitted a course paper or project; the selection committee may contact the course instructor.
Selected recipients must allow deposit of work in eScholarship, the University’s institutional repository; attend the library’s Undergraduate Research Award Reception; and work with the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships to receive the award.
Information Sessions will be held in November:
For questions or more information about the award, please contact Lindsay Davis at libraryaward@ucmerced.edu.
The CDL Resource Sharing Team and ILL Operations Advisory Group have announced a new feature available via Request: request just a book chapter. Patrons no longer need to re-input the bibliographic information into a Citation Linker form in order to only request a book chapter via interlibrary loan. Now, the choice to “Email a scan of a single chapter” allows loaning by chapter title or specific page numbers, including any bibliographic information associated with that content. This enhancement to the Request form allows for easier requesting of book content and expedites fulfillment by UC ILL staff.
On Saturday, October 27th beginning at 9am Pacific Time, ProQuest’s Ebook Central and LibCentral will be unavailable for approximately 90 minutes 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.
Beginning Saturday, October 20th at 7pm and continuing intermittently through Sunday, October 21st 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.
Since 2011, HathiTrust Research Center has been developing tools to utilize text and data mining methodologies using the HathiTrust collection. Until now, this service has been available mostly in the portion of the collection that is out of copyright, with copyrighted item access restricted. Now, with the development of a landmark HathiTrust policy and an updated release of HTRC Analytics, the complete 16.7-million-item HathiTrust corpus is available for non-consumptive research, such as data mining and computational analysis, including items protected by copyright.
This work has been several years in the making, realizing a primary goal of HathiTrust to facilitate the widest possible lawful research and educational uses of the HathiTrust collection.
For more details on this milestone, read the complete HathiTrust blog post here.
What is Open Access?
Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge.
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.
OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered.
Learn more about Open Access this week by attending any of our Open Access Week events or stopping by our table outside of the Lantern on Tuesday, Oct. 23 between 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
View or download the flyer here.
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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2 p.m.- 2:50 p.m.
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2:30 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
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12 p.m. -12:50 p.m.
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10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
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1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Celebrate World Food Day and taste regional specialties from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador as Dr. Keske shares excerpts from her book, 'Food Futures', that explores the origins, present-day complexities, and future of the Newfoundland and Labrador food system. She will also discuss the impact that Central Valley food production has internationally, even in seemingly obscure regions.
Dr. Keske will also be giving away 2 copies of her book during the event!
Sponsored by the UC Merced Library and the Blum Center.
Tuesday, October 16
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
KL 232
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