On Wednesday, August 8th from 3am to 5am Pacific Time, the Fulcrum platform will be undergoing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent interruptions and delayed response times for ACLS eBook content,. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope this interruption will create minimal disruption to our users’ research.
The fiber network that links UC Merced to the internet is currently being repaired due to damage incurred by construction. The campus is completely without internet connectivity and online library resources may also be inaccessible. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope for resolution of this issue by this evening. For status updates, please visit https://it.ucmerced.edu/status.
Things are heating up at the UC Cooperative Extension Archive! July marks the start of our $308,900 three year grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for “A Century of Impact: Documenting the Work of the Cooperative Extension in California's Counties.” Over the next three years, we will appraise, process, and digitize historical material from 20 county offices, with the goals of:
We have been busy this year, below is a brief overview of what we have been working on in 2018.
We have an ambitious schedule planned for the rest of 2018, with our focus on:
Join us next month for a video about how to use collections guides in the Online Archive of California.
OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER can include textbooks, supplemental materials, teaching materials, test and question banks, and more!
Using OER allows students to have materials before the first day of class and to have access to materials 24/7 from any internet connection. The use of OER removes financial obstacles to course materials and allows instructors to customize materials to match their teaching style and learning needs of their students.
The UC Merced Library and the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) are collaborating to offer the Zero-Cost Course Materials Grant to support the adoption of OER and use of UC Merced Library licensed electronic resources to reduce textbook and learning materials costs to $0.
Faculty with successful proposals will start planning in Fall 2018, with zero-cost materials first used during the 2019 spring semester. The Zero-Cost Course Materials Grant is a 3-year pilot program.
An information session will take place on Thursday, September 13, 2018 from 12 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. in KL 371 and via Zoom.
More information about OER and the Zero-Cost Course Materials Grant
Beginning Saturday, August 4th at 11pm through Sunday, August 5th at 3am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent 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.
As of July 26th, ProQuest will roll out redesigned basic search and search results pages. These improvements will put a focus on source types to help retrieve more relevant results from across the platform.
Some of these improvements will include:
A new horizontal source type limiter above the basic search box to help users limit their results to the content types most relevant to their research.
Help panels to provide search guidance at the point of the most need.
“You are searching…” statements to show which databases are being searched along with the top source types contained within those databases.
For more details on this release, visit the ProQuest platform release news page.
Beginning Saturday, July 21st at 9pm through Sunday, July 22nd at 3am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent 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.
Beginning Saturday, July 14th at 4:30pm through Sunday, July 15th at 5am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent 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.
First impressions count, maybe now more than ever. But what if those impressions are based on lies?
People’s willingness to believe even the most outrageous “information” they get is so remarkable that researchers have been studying this phenomenon — more recently given the current political divide in America — and trying to explain why facts don’t sway people’s beliefs.
It’s better to learn to critically evaluate information as it comes at you, argues UC Merced Deputy University Librarian Donald Barclay, whose new book “Fake News, Propaganda and Plain Old Lies” is being released Friday, June 29.
On Saturday, June 16th at 11pm through Sunday, June 17th at 2:30am Pacific Time, OCLC will be performing systems maintenance which may cause intermittent 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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