While in-person services are suspended, get tips for using library services remotely with our new guide.

Interested in how you might use podcasting in your teaching, research, or other creative activity—especially in this challenging moment of remote learning and communication?

Join Digital Scholarship Librarian Daniel Story for this Zoom workshop for a brief overview of the landscape of podcasting and a longer practical introduction to the software GarageBand and Audacity.

Registration is required.

Date: Friday, April 10, 2020
Time: 1:30-3:00pm
Location: Zoom 

Interested in how you might use podcasting in your teaching, research, or other creative activity—especially in this challenging moment of remote learning and communication?

Join Digital Scholarship Librarian Daniel Story via Zoom for a brief overview of the landscape of podcasting and a practical introduction to the tools and workflows that will help you get started. No experience required; questions welcomed.
 

Registration is required.
 

This Zoom session will be recorded and may be made public at a later date. You can communicate your questions via chat if you do not wish to be part of the recording, and there will be a brief Q&A period at the end that will not be recorded.
 

You will be asked to do a short registration when you login to the call. This information helps us better tailor future events. All but the name field is not required.

Date: Friday, April 3rd 
Time: 1:30-2:30pm
Registration: https://calendar.library.ucsc.edu/event/6636841?hs=a
Location: Zoom https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/580682734

Interested in applying to be a CART Fellow for 2020-2021? Come to this information session to ask questions about the CART program, talk with former CART Fellows, and get to know the archival collections that next year's cohort will arrange, describe, and preserve.

This will be a remote session, available via Zoom. Call-in details will be provided to registrants closer to the date.

CART Commons programs are hosted by Special Collections & Archives, University Library, in collaboration with the Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART).

CART Commons fosters a sense of community for UC Santa Cruz graduate students involved in archival research. Gatherings include hands-on archival explorations and informal presentations alongside opportunities to consider questions related to primary source research practices. Please visit the CART Commons website to learn more and join the CART Commons Mailing List.   

Date: Friday, April 10th
Time: 2:40pm - 3:45pm
Location: Zoom
 

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This newest exhibit featuring unique materials from the Grateful Dead Archive will explore how the members of the band and the global Dead Head community took inspiration from one another in creating an image-rich, worldwide art practice that, like the band’s music, scrambled perceived standards and norms. 

The creative works presented in When We Paint Our Masterpiece reveal a world full of variety when it comes to design practices, international traditions, visual icons, and art forms. There has been space for all of these patterns and visions in the community of fans and fellow artists that blossomed around the band, and that community of creators continues to thrive today. This exhibit explores  the mutual appreciation among fans as well as between fans and the band. 

On view starting February 6th through 2020.

This free exhibit is open to the public during McHenry Library hours.

UC and Elsevier 
After formal negotiations stalled in February 2019, UC and Elsevier have remained in informal conversations and are looking forward to continuing that dialogue. UC and Elsevier plan to hold a meeting to explore reopening negotiations within the first quarter of 2020. 

Over the past year, Elsevier has signed other transformative agreements, and we are hopeful that this suggests that the publisher is ready to discuss deals that align with UC’s goals.

In the meantime, learn more about how the Library can help you find the Elsevier articles you need.

Share your views: Members of UC’s academic community are encouraged to participate in a short 3-minute poll to gauge the impact of the loss of immediate access to current Elsevier content via ScienceDirect.

Wiley and Springer Nature
UC is in negotiations with Wiley and Springer Nature to renew contracts that expired on Dec. 31. In each case, UC and the publisher have a shared desire to reach a transformative agreement that combines UC’s subscription with open access publishing of UC research. Both publishers have extended UC’s access to their journals, under the terms of their previous contracts, while negotiations are underway. 

New agreements: Association for Computing Machinery and Journal of Medical Internet Research

UC has announced two new publisher agreements, each with a different model to provide financial support for UC researchers who choose to publish their work open access. 

• UC was one of four major research institutions to enter into an open access publishing agreement with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Under the three-year agreement with this society publisher, the UC libraries will pay to retain access to ACM’s journals and other publications, and to ensure that UC researchers’ articles will be made openly available at the time of publication at no cost to the authors.
• As part of a new two-year pilot with JMIR Publications — a native open access publisher of more than 30 digital health-related journals including its flagship Journal of Medical Internet Research — the UC Libraries will pay the first $1,000 of the open access publishing fee for all UC authors who choose to publish in a JMIR journal. Authors who do not have research funds available can request financial assistance from the libraries for the remainder of the costs, ensuring that lack of research funds does not present a barrier for UC authors who wish to publish in JMIR journals. 

Each agreement expands UC’s portfolio of options for its authors who wish to make their research open access. As UC’s first such agreements with a native open access and a society publisher, respectively, the two new pilots exemplify the university’s commitment to finding ways to work with publishers of all types and sizes to advance open access to UC research. 

Cambridge University Press: Agreement now fully implemented
After an initial kickoff phase in 2019, UC’s first transformative open access agreement, with Cambridge University Press, is now fully in effect. Starting this month, when UC corresponding authors submit their accepted manuscript for publication with Cambridge, they will be prompted to consider making their article open access. The open access fee will be discounted by 30%, and the UC Libraries’ $1,000 subsidy will be applied automatically. Authors who have research funding available will be asked to use those funds to pay any remaining amount, under a cost-sharing model designed to enable the UC Libraries to stretch their available funds and help as many authors as possible. As with UC’s agreement with JMIR, if an author does not have research funds available to pay the remainder of the open access publishing fee, they can request that the libraries pay their portion, as well. Learn more about the agreement and what it means for you if you publish with Cambridge.

More to Come
Conversations with other publishers are also in the pipeline, and we will keep you apprised when there are major developments or new agreements to share.

If you have questions about any of these open access publishing agreements or negotiations, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at research@library.ucsc.edu.

The six-month renovation project on the third floor of the Science & Engineering Library is now wrapping up. We've created a new space we hope you'll really like. There is all new furniture, abundant AC and USB power, and four new group study rooms. Come see for yourself.

If you have comments or suggestions, please direct them to Greg Careaga, gcareaga@ucsc.edu

Join your UCSC librarians for this quarter's series of workshops—at a variety of locations and times—with the research needs of graduate and undergraduate students in mind!
Learn more and register!

Get Organized! Ease Your Research Workflow with Zotero

• 1:30–2:30pm, Thursday, 9 January, Graduate Student Commons
• 7–8pm, Wednesday, 15 January, online via Zoom 
• 1:15–2:15pm, Thursday, 16 January, Room 2353, McHenry Library
• 5:20–6:20pm, Tuesday, 11 February, Active Learning Classroom, Science & Engineering Library

Digital Scholarship Workshops—in the Digital Scholarship Commons Lab(ground floor, McHenry Library)except where noted:

• Manage Your Research Data with DMPTool & Dryad
  1:30–2:45pm, Tuesday, 14 January
• 3D Printing Terrain
  1:30–3:30pm, Friday, 17 January
• Getting Started with Network Analysis
  1:30–2:30pm, Tuesday, 21 January, DSC VizWall
• Tools & Strategies for Your First Group Work Project
  2–3pm, Tuesday, 28 January
• Workshop: Intro to Network Analysis with Net.Create
  1:30–3pm, Tuesday, 4 February
• Talk: "A Deeper History of Data-Driven Advertising"
  12–1pm, Tuesday, 18 February, DSC VizWall

Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) Commons Workshops:

• Guest Speaker: Professor Ben Breen (History)
  2:40–3:45pm, Friday, 21 February, Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (3rd floor, McHenry Library)
• Digital Scholarship and Primary Sources
  2:40–3:45pm, Friday, 13 March, Digital Scholarship Commons (ground floor, McHenry Library)

Workshops co-sponsored with the Literature Department:

• Developing and Refining Your Syllabi for Research Projects
  3–4pm, Tuesday, 21 January, Room 620, Humanities I
• Publishing Your Work
  2:30–4pm, Thursday, 5 March, Room 202, Humanities I

Questions? Contact research@library.ucsc.edu

The Digital Scholarship Commons, on the ground floor of McHenry Library, houses the Media Collection, DSC Lab space, VizLab, Viewing and Listening rooms, and space for collaborative work and study. 

During the Winter and Spring 2020 academic quarters, the DSC will pilot new, longer open hours:

Sunday 10:15am-11:45pm
Monday-Thursday 8:15am-11:45pm
Friday 8:15am-7:45pm
Saturday 11:15-6:45pm

The new hours start on Monday, January 6, 2020! 

The Science & Engineering will be closed from Saturday, February 15th through Monday, February 17th to facilitate upgrades to power and safety for the library's new air handling units.

McHenry Library will be open normal hours on Saturday and Sunday but both libraries will be closed for the President's Day holiday on Monday, Feb. 17.  See the hours page for full details.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

The Human Book is a Library speaker series for every UCSC student. We know that life after college can seem intimidating. As a response, we are bringing one alum to campus every quarter for our Human Book event. The event will give current students a chance to listen to someone who used to face similar challenges when they were a student at UC Santa Cruz years ago. The alum will talk about how they surmounted these obstacles and ultimately built a successful career. There will also be ample time to ask questions. Bring your questions and join the conversation!

Our featured speaker, Stevenson alumna Stephanie Foo (‘08 modern literature) is a 2019-2020 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow
Awards: Nominated for Best Writing, Special Class, and Best Short Format, Special Class, for This American Life: Videos 4 U
Outstanding Directing, Special Class for This American Life: Videos 4 U

Tuesday, February 11, 2020
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library

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​Friday, January 10, 2020 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Digital Scholarship Innovation Studio Science & Engineering Library

Join us in the Digital Scholarship Innovation Studio on the lower level of the Science & Engineering Library to learn about the new 3D printers we have in the library. You can learn how to use the printers to print your own project for free or request that we print something to add to our checkout pool. The DSI pilot program will open with access to three Ultimaker 3 3D printers for all UCSC affiliates. The DSI is associated with the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) on the ground floor of McHenry. The programs are geared towards helping you get your digital scholarship up off the ground by providing access to equipment, software, and programs that support your ability to experiment and innovate.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Manage Your Research Data with DMPTool & Dryad
January 14, 2020 1:30-2:45pm
McHenry Library, Digital Scholarship Commons

Journal publishers and funders are increasingly requiring accessible research data as a necessary component of reproducibility. Attendees will learn data management planning requirements and how to publish research data using the DMPTool and Dryad data publishing platform.

The workshop is appropriate for all disciplines. Faculty, staff and graduate students are encouraged to attend.

Please Register for this free Workshop

• Bring your laptop for hands-on opportunities. Or, preregister for a DSC computer password.

Instructors: 
Daniella Lowenberg is the Research Data Specialist and Product Manager for Dryad and Project Lead for Sloan Foundation funded by the Make Data Count initiative.

Maria Praetzellis is the Product Manager for Research Data Management initiatives at the California Digital Library.

Mon - Thurs:    8am - Midnight
Friday:              8am - 8pm
Saturday:          11am - 7pm
Sunday:            10am - Midnight

See the hours page for full details.

The renovations of the Science & Engineering Library will create a comfortable and beautiful study environment to support academic success. The renovated space will be for different types of study, students support, and collaboration.

Learn more about this project

The collection of Hayden V. White Papers is newly processed and openly available for research in the Special Collections & Archives reading room. The collection includes White’s research files, correspondence, drafts of writings and publications, teaching files, and conference files, in both paper and digital form.  The collection guide can be viewed on the Online Archive of California.

Hayden V. White (1928-2018) was a literary critic, historical theorist, and University Professor at UC Santa Cruz who made contributions to the study of narrative theory, historiography, and hermeneutics throughout his academic career. A central thread of White's research throughout his career was questioning how historical events are constructed through writing and discourse. White was instrumental in forming and formalizing the department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and also taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, the University of Rochester, UCLA, and UC Berkeley.

The new exhibit showcasing this collection, entitled “Archival Research as Penance”: The Papers and Library of Hayden V. White, opens on Friday November 1st from 10:30am to 12pm in the Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, and will be on display until March 20th, 2020. The exhibit was curated by CART Fellows and History of Consciousness graduate students Patrick King and Christian Alvarado.

Details and registration information.

Read the full Fall 2019 Library Newsletter.

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Interlibrary Loan services are provided at no cost to all UC Santa Cruz students, staff, and faculty.

Use the barcode on your UC Santa Cruz ID to request journal articles, books, and media items that aren't locally available from libraries around the world. 

Learn how to use our Interlibrary Loan service.

A world of research awaits you with Interlibrary Loan! 

The library will have extended hours for finals December 1 - 12, 2019.

Dec. 1     8am - 2am
Dec. 2     8am - 2am
Dec. 3     8am - 2am
Dec. 4     8am - 2am
Dec. 5     8am - 2am
Dec. 6     8am - Midnight
Dec. 7     8am - Midnight
Dec. 8     8am - 2am
Dec. 9     8am - 2am
Dec. 10   8am - 2am
Dec. 11   8am - 2am
Dec. 12   8am - 2am

Please see the library hours page for our complete schedule.

Join your UCSC librarians for a newly expanded series of workshops—at a variety of locations and times—with the research needs of graduate students in mind!

An Interactive Introduction to Storymaps
1:30–3pm, Tuesday, October 29th (Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library)

CART Commons: An Archival Research Learning Community for Graduate Students 

CART Commons: Conducting and Using Oral Histories
2:40–3:45pm, Friday, November 8th (Special Collections Reading Room, McHenry Library)

CART Commons: Digitized Primary Sources in the Wild
2:40–3:45pm, Friday, November 22nd (Special Collections Reading Room, McHenry Library)

CART Commons gatherings include hands-on archival explorations and informal presentations alongside opportunities to consider questions related to primary source research practices. Learn more and register. 

Sharing Your Scholarship: What, Where, When, and How
4–5pm, Thursday, November 14th (Room 240, Physical Sciences Building) 

Both McHenry and the Science and Engineering Libraries will close at 5:00pm on Wednesday, November 27, and the buildings will be closed all day Thursday and Friday November 28-29 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

We will return to normal hours on Saturday, November 30.

Dryad is an open-source, research data curation and publication platform. UC Santa Cruz is a proud partner of Dryad and offers Dryad as a free service for all UC Santa Cruz researchers to publish and archive their data.

Datasets published in Dryad receive a citation and can be versioned at any time. Dryad is integrated with hundreds of journals and is an easy way to both publish data and comply with funder and publisher mandates.

Check out published datasets or submit yours at: https://datadryad.org

Making Data Publishing as Easy as Possible:

• In addition to supporting datasets as part of a journal submission, Dryad now also supports datasets being submitted independently
• Data can be uploaded from cloud storage or lab servers 
• Datasets can be as large as 300GB
• Datasets can easily be updated or versioned at any time in our process
• Standardized data usage and citation statistics are updated and displayed for each published dataset 
• Data can be submitted and downloaded through our new REST APIs

University Library: Research Data Management

Santa Cruz and the Loma Prieta Earthquake, 30 Years On

The 6.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked the greater Bay Area in 1989 is known to many simply as the San Francisco earthquake. 

But its epicenter was near the Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains -- much closer to Santa Cruz

Come see the visual exhibit:

What: 10/17/89: Santa Cruz and the Loma Prieta Earthquake, 30 Years On
Where: VizWall, Digital Scholarship Commons, Ground Floor, McHenry Library 
When: Now through October 29th, 2019

Photo Credit: Loma Prieta Earthquake. View of Pacific Avenue. Alexander Lowry, UCSC Library Special Collections & Archives

Join us Monday, November 18th at 6:30 in McHenry Library Room 2353 for a Library Student Advisory Council orientation meeting. 

The Library Student Advisory Council (LSAC) serves the campus by:

• Advising on the design and implementation of University Library policies and services affecting students
• Offering student perspectives on library issues
• Gathering input from other UCSC undergraduate and graduate students
• Representing the University Library at campus events and meetings
• Advocating for the University Library to campus constituencies

Refreshments will be provided.

Email gravier@ucsc.edu to RSVP.

McHenry Library and the Science & Engineering Library will be closed on Monday, November 11th for Veterans Day.

See the library hours page for more information.