Resources

Do you need to make supplemental course materials available to your students?

Course resources is a service the Library offers to make course-related materials available to your students. Print materials can be made available at the Library for a 2-hour loan period upon request. 

Would you like to make video materials available to your students?

The Library offers digitation services for AV materials, including eligible DVDs. Video content digitized by the Library is made available in CatCourses through the Kaltura Canvas tool. 

Requests can be submitted at any time and will be processed in the order they are received. For more information and to submit a request, see our Course Resources guide. 

Due to ongoing budget cuts, the UC Merced Library will be canceling our subscription to BrowZine, and its browser extension, LibKey Nomad, effective July 1, 2025.

UC Merced began subscribing to BrowZine in 2021. BrowZine allows users to create lists of articles to read and to track new material in selected journals through app notifications. It also integrates with RefWorks, EndNote, and Mendeley.

Our decision to cancel was not taken lightly; the current budget situation has necessitated cuts to resources that have been valuable to Library users.

Please reach out to us with any questions at library@ucmerced.edu. 

4/28/25 Edit: This is an evolving situation. We learned today in an email from Matthew Soldner the Acting Director of IES, that the "U.S. Department of Education, on behalf of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), has renewed its contract with AEM Corporation to continue the work of ERIC." When more details are known, we'll post a new news story. In the meantime, other updates below have been given a date in bold.

In March 2025, the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Help Desk made the following announcement to journal publishers, which was subsequently forwarded to institutions subscribing to the ERIC database (available from EBSCO and linked in the University Library’s A-Z Databases list. ERIC is also available from ProQuest and at eric.ed.gov):

“The Department of Education is working with the Department of Government Efficiency to ‘reduce overall Federal spending’ and ’reallocate spending to promote efficiency’ (EO 14222). As a result, the number of records added to the ERIC collection will be significantly reduced going forward. The number of actively cataloged sources will be reduced by approximately 45% starting April 24, 2025. Subject matter was not considered during the process to identify which sources would be made inactive.  Please note that all records currently in ERIC will remain available.” 

This is a developing situation, and UC Merced Library does not yet know the full extent of the list of journal titles no longer included in ERIC. Education Source, a different database from EBSCO, includes many journal titles in ERIC; however, it’s not known at this time if these journal titles are among those being removed from ERIC. Title Lists for this database can be viewed on EBSCO's website and a librarian can help you determine where journals are indexed.  

Both ERIC and Education Source are crucial resources for anyone researching issues in Education, Psychology, Sociology, Public Health, and other social science disciplines. The impact on researchers will be significant.  

Here’s what we know: 

• Journal availability in ERIC will be reduced from approximately 1,200 to 700 titles by April 25, 2025.  
• Journals cut from ERIC will not have new content added to those databases.  
• Records currently in ERIC will remain searchable, but full-text access may be suspended. 
• Currently grassroots efforts have identified some of the journals being removed from ERIC's indexing and journal editors can submit their journal for inclusion on this list.  
• 4/28/25: An archived version of ERIC, called ERICA, has been made available through efforts of the Data Rescue Project. See our "Looking for U.S. Federal Data?" online guide for a link and details.

We do not currently know: 

• Whether the removal of journal titles from ERIC will be permanent. 
• What criteria is being employed to remove those titles. 
• If the full text of articles will be removed from ERIC on the ProQuest platform too.
• Whether the 45% cuts to ERIC will be deeper. A 4/21/25 article from The Hechinger Report suggests the reduced budget proposal has not yet been approved.

UC Merced Library is committed to supplying researchers, faculty, and students with the most up-to-date information possible. If we learn more about the journal titles removed from ERIC, we will update this press release.  

Please contact us at library@ucmerced.edu with any questions or to request assistance.

The Library is pleased to announce a new module about academic integrity is available in Canvas Commons for CatCourses. The module empowers students to put together the four pieces of academic integrity – the scholarly conversation, academic honesty, attribution & citation, and copyright & fair use – to reflect and make connections to their own lives. The module supports students in understanding their responsibilities in being part of a research university. It includes a final assessment that can be graded. The module, licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, was adapted from a module that Librarian, Bronwen Maxson, helped develop, and tailored for the needs of UC Merced in collaboration with Librarian, Olivia Olivares, the Teaching Commons, and in consultation with the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities.

The Library’s module was designed as a student onboarding module for Spark courses to enrich the first-year experience at UC Merced. To locate this module, log in to Canvas Commons via CatCourses and search for "Bobcats Live With Academic Integrity: Academic Conduct at UC Merced," from there you can download or import the module. Interested Spark instructors can reach the Teaching Commons for more information and for assistance embedding the module into a CatCourses site.