The ARTstor Digital Library offers many excellent resources to support Latin American Studies, encompassing materials from the Pre-Columbian era through the Spanish conquest, and from Cuba's revolution in 1959 to images of Carnaval in Brazil in 2008.
The 2010 Journal Citation Reports are now available. JCR provides a combination of impact and influence metrics and millions of cited and citing journal data points that comprise the complete journal citation network of Web of Science.
The 2010 JCR includes:
JCR present quantitative data that supports a systematic, objective review of the world's leading journals.
For more information, please contact the library.
Web of Science users will see a new interface and enjoy many great new search features the next time they log in to the database. On July 17th, the new Web of Science became the primary platform for this popular search tool. New features include:
Visit See What's New! @ Web of Science for more information.
Register for live WebEx training with a Web of Science representative.
View recorded training at your own pace:
The New Features
Cited Reference Searching
Citation Reporting and the H-Index
Web of Science Search Tips
Citation Sources in the Web of Science
The California Digital Library (CDL) has recently acquired several new databases which are available through the UC Merced Library:
17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale platform)
Represents the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library. Includes more than 1000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.
19th Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale platform)
Provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers. Emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life.
Archives Unbound: Global Missions and Theology (Gale platform)
1800 - 1899. Documents nineteenth century religious missionary activities, practices and thought in the United States through personal narratives, organizational records and biographies of the essential leaders, simple missionaries and churches.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences IX (Available in JSTOR)
With a minimum of 150 titles available by the end of 2012, the Arts & Sciences IX Collection widens JSTOR’s coverage in business and the social sciences. Journals from over 25 countries provide outstanding international diversity, and rare materials bring unique depth to the collection, with research covering archaeology, anthropology, sociology, business, economics, population studies, and political science.
Pravda Digital Archive
1912-2009. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pravda originated as an underground, daily workers' newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TTL) Online
The largest dictionary of the Latin language encompassing the use of Latin from its origin to the 7th century A.D.
Please contact the Library if you have any questions about these or other resources.
Have you ever had trouble finding images for a power point presentation? Use our images databases to help spice up your presentation. On our homepage you can find our images databases by scrolling over the "Doing Research" tab and clicking on the "Databases" link. Once on the Databases page, select "by format" from the "find databases" section. Once you are on the "databases by format" page, select "images," this will take you to a page listing the various databases you can use to search for the perfect image for your presentation.
Curious about SCR? Here is what you need to know.
SCR stands for Supplemental Course Resources. This is an excellent tool for instructors to digitize their resources and make them available for students on UCMCROPS or any other network. Instructors only need to submit this form to the second floor Services Desk of the Library, with attached course syllabus and the item to be digitized, and then wait until they are posted on CROPS. The item will be mail back through the on-campus system, unless otherwise noted on the SCR request form.
You don’t have to worry about whether or not you are abiding by copyright laws; the Library will make sure copyright is followed in this process. Remember, you can’t copy large portions of books; however you can scan a few parts. For more on our textbook policy, see here.
For more information see this FAQ.
Do you have a research project that needs a book or two? An easy way to get an idea of what books you may want is to look for books by subject. There are a couple ways to do this.
The online method is to go to our website. There is a Quick Search bar near the top of the page, with many different search tabs on top of it. You can search just our UC catalog or you can search all the UCs using Next Gen Melvyl, and get those books through ILL. If you are using our catalog, then there is a drop-down menu where you can select to search by subject. Next Gen Melvyl has an “Advanced Search” button at the bottom you can use to search by subject.
It is good to note our library uses the Library of Congress Classification system. This means that books of like subject will be near each other. For example, books whose call number begins with a ‘Q’ are science books, while ‘P’ books are literature and language books. Therefore an easy way to find books of a certain subject would be to simply find that subjects letter, and find that section of the library. This site shows the Library of Congress Classification system, however you can also find this on the side of the bookshelves, as well as what floor each section is on.
Hi all.
Have you ever had an article that you knew citation information about and need to have it right away? Of course you have! You're a student, staff or faculty who is always in search of expanding your knowledge base!
Requesting articles through our Interlibrary Loan system is a quick and easy process that can yield the results you're looking for.
To begin, navigate on your favorite web browser to the UC Merced Library's homepage.
From there, mouse over "Doing Research" and go down to "Interlibrary Loan (ILL)".
Go down to #3 which reads: Have a citation? Fill out one of these UC-eLinks Citation Linker online forms to request materials.
Click on "Article Request".
This will bring you into the UC-elinks Citation Linker page. From here, we only require the Journal Title and Date, but the more information you have the better.
Once you plug everything in, click "Continue". This will bring up a new window with various options to attain the journal. If possible, you can "Get it Online" if we have access to that journal (if it is available online we will more than likely have access), or "Find a Print Copy" where another Library will print out the journal and you can pick it up at the Service Desk on the 2nd Floor of the Kolligian Library.
This is also a great resource for other materials than just journal articles.
If you backtrack to the Interlibrary Loan page on the library's website you'll see that back under #3, you can request a book, book chapter, a dissertation, government documents, even a video.
If you have any more questions about the article request process through our Interlibrary Loan system, or any other general questions don't hesitate to ask any of the students at the Service Desk or Help Desk in the Library.
-Ross
Have you felt frustrated trying to find an "available" book in the stacks? Did you feel tricked by the online library catalog, which stated that the book was not checked-out?
Be freed from these negative feelings by approaching a library assistant at the services desk! There are a few reasons why you might not have found the book, and what you can do about them.
-The book may have been returned and scanned, but not re-shelved. If this is the case, your library assistant can check the to-be-shelved area (only accessible to staff) for your book.
-It is also a possibility that a patron had picked up the book earlier and misplaced in the library. If this is the case, you can check back tomorrow to see if it was re-shelved. Your library assistant can also look in the stacks with you or put in a claims-return-form for other students to search for the book.
-If you do not urgently need the book, you can use the Next Gen Melvyl search engine. You will be able to request your resource from other libraries free of charge. The library assistants can help you with ordering the books if you are having trouble- just ask!
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