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For Times We Can't Imagine (2010-2020)
Guest Commentators:
Jim Clifford and Donna Haraway
Student Commentators:
We will also be joined by Class of 2020 graduate Nirupama Chandrasekhar (history/literature) and current undergraduate student Stephen Yogi (history)
Wednesday, July 15, 4:30-6:30pm PST
Details and Registration Information
Co-sponsored by the UCSC Alumni Association and the UCSC Library
The University of California has reached a transformative open access agreement with Springer Nature, the world’s second-largest academic publisher. See the press release here.
UC authors: link here for more details about how the deal will impact you.
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HathiTrust has taken an important step to open up copyrighted material in their digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. As their libraries are approved for the service, UC faculty, students, and staff will have access to digitized books in HathiTrust that represent UC’s physical holdings. This emergency, temporary service expands access significantly beyond the millions of digitized public domain volumes currently available via HathiTrust.
To take advantage of this temporary expanded access:
You will have 60 minutes of access to an in-copyright book during the session. If you remain active in the book during the session, access time will be extended. You are not able to download the book in any way; you may only read it online in an active session while using HathiTrust. This access model is intended to address the unique access needs of this moment while still protecting the author’s rights.
It is important to note that this is a temporary service. Emergency access will end when regular access to UC library’s physical collection is restored.
HathiTrust’s Top Three Tips for Users:
If you have questions or concerns, please submit them to feedback@issues.hathitrust.org.
Quickly and easily find online library materials!
What changed?
Searching from the library homepage search box now defaults to our new "Available Online" scope. This will retrieve online library resources such as ebooks, articles, streaming audio or video, and more.
This change supports remote learning and instruction by increasing the efficiency of discovering online materials.
Want to see physical library materials in your search results?
Select the "Everything" option from the dropdown menu on the library homepage to retrieve results for both physical and online items.
Both the McHenry Library and the Science and Engineering Library will be closed until further notice. Services that involve accessing or exchanging physical items will not be offered. All patron-facing services will focus solely on online or remote options. More information about resources and contacts are available at the Library Remote Access webpage.
See more campus information on the impact of the COVID-19 virus.
In keeping with the campus announcement to extend remote instruction and its related activities through the end of spring quarter, and in support of the health and well-being of the campus community and the library staff, the University Library expects that library buildings will remain closed through spring quarter. There will be no access to the physical collection while the building is closed. The University Library is committed to supporting the success of remote instruction and is making as much of its collection and services accessible online as it can.
Remote Access to Course Content
Library Support for Remote Instruction
The University Library has adapted its teaching support services for remote instruction and we are ready to work with you and your students. Instructors may reach out to research@library.ucsc.edu with questions. Visit the Digital Scholarship web page for up to date information about library services to support remote instruction.
Questions?
Librarians are available by email, chat, and virtual appointments to assist.
UC Santa Cruz's Regional History Project is proud to announce the publication of Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a masterful two-volume history weaving together first-person accounts of the campus's evolution, from the origins of an audacious dream through the sea changes of five decades. More than two hundred narrators and a trove of archival images from Special Collections & Archives contribute to this dynamic, nuanced account.
Accompanying the publication of Seeds of Something Different is a companion website featuring additional selections from the University Archives. Learn more about the book, the companion website, and how to purchase your copy of Seeds.
When: May 29th, 1:30–3:30pm
What: Lightning talks highlighting student research
Where: This will be a Zoom event. Register here.
At UC Santa Cruz, students are engaged in creative, critical research using digital tools and platforms. The Digital Scholarship Research Symposium provides students an opportunity to present their digital projects in a professional setting and to allow them a venue to show their project in its functioning form, allowing them to engage in a scholarly setting with their colleagues, faculty, and other academic professionals and receive meaningful feedback about their projects. This iteration of the Digital Scholarship Symposium would continue to provide an opportunity to share finished projects through a platform on the DSC website and focus on lightning talks with a Q&A session and a digital showcase of their projects.
Join us to explore public-facing, media-rich, critically engaged, and creative student research.
Schedule will include:
Opening remarks by Elizabeth Cowell, Richard L. Press University Librarian Presidential Chair
3–7 minute lightning talks by UCSC students
Special lecture and round table events hosted by the DSC.
Apply to Present
Are you a student at UCSC? Have you created a digital project? Join us as a presenter!
We invite all undergraduate and graduate students engaged in creative, critical research using digital tools and platforms to submit proposals for a digital lightning round presentation. Presentations will be 3–7 minutes depending on the number of participants.
The Digital Lightning Rounds will be supplemented with an online exhibit that allows students to highlight the interactivity of their work by sharing live digital projects. We encourage you to submit live projects or project prototypes when possible. Classroom work is welcome: you can submit a proposal for individual or group work as long as all authors are represented on the project.
Each presentation will include:
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until 5/22 or until full.
Applications for the 2020-2021 CART Fellowship Program are now open!
In the Center for Archival Research and Training, graduate students can:
Learn more about the Center for Archival Research and Training. Contact CART Archivist Alix Norton at alix.norton@ucsc.edu with any questions and to submit your application. Apply by Monday, May 18th for first consideration.
Thank you for your interest. All usability sessions are now full.
Please check back for future opportunities.
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.
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
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.
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
Digital Scholarship Workshops—in the Digital Scholarship Commons Lab(ground floor, McHenry Library)except where noted:
Center for Archival Research & Training (CART) Commons Workshops:
Workshops co-sponsored with the Literature Department:
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
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
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.
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.
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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:
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:
Refreshments will be provided.
Email gravier@ucsc.edu to RSVP.
Thank you for your interest. All currently scheduled sessions are now full.
Please consider joining us for a future study.
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.
S&E will be closed this Saturday for public safety while we lift heavy equipment onto the roof.
McHenry Library will be open normal hours from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
S&E Library will reopen on Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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The UC faculty and librarians are holding strong to their twin objectives of expanded access to UC author research through open access and reducing the overall costs of our Elsevier agreement.
How Does this Impact You?
Connect with us if you have questions or need help: research@library.ucsc.edu
Textbook costs got you down? Your University Library can help!
Earlier this year, we shared some exciting changes that will make it easier and more affordable for UC authors to publish open access with Cambridge University Press. Those changes are now live.
Visit the Office of Scholarly Communication site for more details and information about the process.
Something new is happening on the Lower Level of Science and Engineering. Rumblings of rumors suggest that 3D printers might be coming to the library... and they are right! The Digital Scholarship Innovation Studio opened this Fall.
Following the success of the work in the Digital Scholarship Commons, the DSI will be a space in Science and Engineering that expands the work of the library to support the 3D lifecycle. The DSC and the DSI are integrated programs 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. The DSI pilot program will open with access to three Ultimaker 3 3D printers for all UCSC affiliates. That's a lot of threes!
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $165,000 grant to a UC Berkeley-led team of legal experts, librarians and scholars who will help humanities reserachers and staff navigate complex legal questions in the cutting edge field of data mining.
To: UC Santa Cruz Community
From: Elizabeth Cowell, University Librarian
Kimberly Lau, Chair, UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate
Re: Elsevier access suspended
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January, but until now the publisher continued to allow access to 2019 articles via ScienceDirect. As of today (July 10, 2019) UC’s direct access to new Elsevier articles has been discontinued.
What is affected: Members of the UC community no longer have direct access to:
What is not affected: Articles published before 2019 in most Elsevier journals (covering about 95% of historical usage) should continue to be available via ScienceDirect.
The systemwide faculty Senate has encouraged stakeholders across UC to use alternative access methods or contact their campus library for assistance in obtaining articles, and to refrain from any new independent subscriptions to Elsevier journals at this time. “By ‘holding the line,’” the Senate leadership writes, “the UC can help change the system of scholarly communication for the betterment of all.”
How to get the articles you need
Information about other ways to access Elsevier articles is available on the library’s website and summarized below. There are several options — plus, the library is always here to help.
What happens next?
We will be carefully evaluating the impact of losing access to new articles on ScienceDirect over the coming months, and will do our best to ensure that you have access to the articles you need. Meanwhile, UC is hoping to reenter formal negotiations with Elsevier if the publisher indicates that they are willing to discuss a contract that integrates our goals of containing costs and facilitating open access to UC research.
If you have any questions or need help accessing an article, please don’t hesitate to contact the library at any time.
The McHenry Library tour features the Global Village Café, the Library Services Desk, the Information Commons for online research and study, the Digital Scholarship Commons, Special Collections & Archives, group study rooms, outdoor reading porches, and how to get research help.
The Science & Engineering Library tour highlights the Library Services Desk, the Information Commons for online research and study, the Active Learning Classroom, group study rooms, the HSI STEM Hub, the Video Game Room, and the new Digital Scholarship Innovation Studio.
On both tours,you will also learn about library cards, borrowing course textbooks, and borrowing Chromebooks and Dell laptops. Tours run approximately 15–20 minutes, and meet just inside each library’s entrance. Join us!
Tour Schedule:
Friday 9/20:
McHenry Library 11am, 1pm, 3pm
Science & Engineering Library 1pm
Monday 9/23:
McHenry Library 11am, 1pm, 3pm
Science & Engineering Library 1pm
Tuesday 9/24:
McHenry Library 11am, 1pm, 3pm
Science & Engineering Library 1pm
Wednesday 9/25:
McHenry Library 11am, 1pm, 3pm
Science & Engineering Library 1pm
Thursday 9/26:
McHenry Library 11am, 1pm, 3pm
Science & Engineering Library 1pm
Friday 9/27:
McHenry Library 11am, 1pm, 3pm
Science & Engineering Library 1pm
McHenry Library and Science & Engineering
June 24 - Aug 30, 2019
Monday - Thursday 8am-8pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday - Sunday McHenry Library Only 12pm-5pm
Closed Thursday July 4th for Independence Day
August 31 - September 25, 2019
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Closed Saturday & Sunday
Closed Monday September 2nd for Labor Day
See the hours page for more details.
In June, the University of California Santa Cruz joined its sister UC campuses in taking an important step towards the goal of making all scholarly journal literature freely available to the world by endorsing the international open access (OA) initiative, OA2020. Led by the Max Planck Digital Library, OA2020 is a global alliance committed to new models of scholarly publishing that ensure outputs are open and re-usable and that the costs behind their dissemination are transparent and economically sustainable.
See the full news item in the UCSC Newscenter.
The UC Systemwide Library Catalog received an upgrade and a new URL on June 17.
This update called "Melvyl Discovery" includes many improvements to the user interface. The new site is available now live at https://ucsc.on.worldcat.org/discovery.
Two things to note for current Melvyl users:
Set up an Account
To save items into a personal list on the new Melvyl Discovery site, first create an account in the new system. Click the Sign In button at the top, right of the new Melvyl Discovery home page. On the subsequent screen, click the Create Account link and fill in the information requested. Once successfully logged into your Melvyl Discovery account, the Sign In button at the top of the screen changes to the given name provided.
Note: Your Melvyl account works only in the specific campus instance in which it was created.
Creating & Saving to a Personal List
Although is it not possible for Personal Lists attached to old Mevyl (aka WorldCat Local) accounts to be automatically ported into the new interface, users can easily import lists to their WorldCat Discovery accounts using the instructions below.
Importing Lists to the new Melvyl WorldCat Discovery
Additional information on other list options, such as emailing items from My Personal Lists, citing multiple items from My Personal Lists, and more is available from the OCLC Help Pages .
UC Santa Cruz is about to begin renovation of the third floor of the Science & Engineering Library.
In March 2018, the University Library received a $5 million gift from an anonymous donor to renovate the top floor of the Science & Engineering Library. The floor will be named in honor of Professor Emerita of Astronomy and Astrophysics Sandra Faber, one of the campus’s most distinguished scholars.
This generous gift will allow the campus to create safe, attractive, comfortable, and convenient study environments designed to support academic success. The renovated space will be quieter, better ventilated, and much better equipped with AC/USB power in seating areas. The renovation will create seating for more library patrons, and provide separate zones for focused, quiet study, and for small group collaboration. Work will begin in the summer with a reopening planned at the start of winter quarter. Here is a brief project timeline:
This generous gift also gives us the opportunity to update the furniture on the third floor — much of it is more than 25 years old — with selections that better support the needs of modern students and researchers. We are working with a variety of vendors to find the best options and value. We have already installed some sample pieces on the third floor of S&E and more will be added. We encourage you to visit, see for yourself, and leave us your feedback. If you prefer, you can leave us feedback online.
In the spirit of transparency, the University Library will issue three more news flashes to keep students, faculty, and staff fully apprised of our progress. The next two will update you on the work in progress. The fourth and final announcement will celebrate the completion of the work and re-opening of the third floor. These features will be published in the quarterly Library Newsletter and included in campuswide newsletter, Tuesday Newsday. If you have not yet signed up for the newsletter, please consider doing so to receive future updates. You can subscribe up here.
These updates will also be published on the News and Events section of the University Library’s website and on the Science & Engineering Library Renovation Blog.
July 18th is UCSC’s Disposition Day, an annual event that encourages the safe and secure disposal of confidential university records.
This occasion also provides an opportunity to transfer campus historical records to University Archives. Such records may include UCSC administrative records or other materials documenting UCSC history, campus life and culture. Specific guidelines about the types of material suitable for University Archives can be found here.
Think you may have a collection that should be housed in the University Archives? Let’s talk! Email us at speccoll@library.ucsc.edu to start the conversation.
We will be closed Thursday, July 4, 2019 for Independence Day.
We will return to regular summers hours on Friday, July 5th.
Agreement is UC’s first with a major publisher and Cambridge’s first in the Americas
The University of California and Cambridge University Press have entered into a transformative agreement that will advance the global shift toward an open access future for research.
Read the details on the University of California Office of Scholarly Communiication site.
The Koret Scholars Undergraduate Research Slam celebrates the accomplishments of this year's Koret fellows. The program provides funding and workshops for undergrads with unique research projects and their faculty or graduate student mentors. This year marks an exciting partnership between the University Library and the Koret Program: Three of the sixty-five fellows are also Digital Scholarship Fellows with the Digital Scholarship Commons. These three fellows will be presenting their research and creative projects as digital exhibits.
Presentations include:
And More!
For more details and the schedule, view the event on our library calendar.
Writing an article? Get help managing your citations, PDFs, and more with Zotero.
Come to drop-in hours for Zotero at the Graduate Student Commons on the first Friday of each month (except January) at 1:00pm.
Learn more and download Zotero.
Email research@library.ucsc.edu for more information.
Learn how to avoid common mistakes and plagiarism, and get practical tips for improving MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style citation in your research papers from Westside (Oakes) Writing Center tutors.
Free pizza provided by the Library Student Advisory Council. Open to All Undergraduates.
The Digital Research Symposium will take place May 24th from 10-12 in the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC).
If your project is digital in nature, we’d love to have you apply. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The earlier you apply the better your chances are of receiving your preference of equipment and presentation style.
Thank you for your interest. We have concluded these sessions.
Stay tuned for future opportunities.
Wednesday May 29, 2019
2:00-3:00pm
Graduate Student Commons
Between open access policies, and journal copyright transfer agreements, it's hard to know how to share your scholarship.
*Please note no legal counsel will be in attendance but we can help with referral.
Applications for the 2019-2020 CART Fellowship Program are now open! The application deadline has been extended to Tuesday, May 14th, 2019.
In the Center for Archival Research and Training, you can:
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Where can you find articles on any topic, free books for your classes, group study rooms, and 24/7 research help? The Library offers all this and more! Whether you’re returning or new, the library is here to help you succeed.
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Tuesday May 14, 2019
2:00-3:00pm
Graduate Student Commons
Two new exhibits are now on display at McHenry Library:
Education and the Avant Garde: How Fluxus Artists Shaped the Arts at UC Santa Cruz
This exhibit looks at some highly experimental creative campus undertakings in the late 1960s and the library collections that reflect them. It includes an "instant class kit" created as part of a campus report on art education, publications by the College Five Graphic Arts Guild, photographs of a campus Shakespeare production that included a geodesic dome by Buckminster Fuller and costumes designed by comic book artist Jack Kirby, and more.
Exhibit Event:
When: Thursday, May 9th, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Where: McHenry Library, 3rd Floor Gallery
New Twists on Old Tales: 1000 Years of Handmade Books
On display in the Special Collections Reading Room cases
This exhibit was curated by undergraduates in HAVC 135: The Art of the Book (taught by the Library's former head of Special Collections, Beth Remak-Honnef). The students present facsimiles of iconic medieval manuscripts alongside modern artists' reflections on similar subjects and book forms.
The Human Book: Chronicles of Successful Alumni will feature speaker Jacob Martinez on April 22nd.
When: Monday, April 22nd from 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Where: S&E Library, Ching-Yi Dougherty Reading Room
Life after college can seem intimidating. Do you want a chance to talk with someone who used to face similar fears when they were a UCSC student?
Join us for speaker Jacob Martinez, the Founder and Excutive Director of Digital NEST and Oakes College alum (Ecology and Evolution, 2005).
Bring your questions and join the conversation! Free snacks provided.
McHenry Library was happy to host the UCSC women's basketball team for their bookclub discussion of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's book Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship on and off the Court.
Womens Basketball Bookclub from UCSC Learning Technologies on Vimeo.
While we did make progress, particularly in the past few weeks, toward defining a model for open access publishing of UC research, Elsevier was ultimately unwilling to meet UC’s key goal: securing universal open access to UC research, as stated in UC’s faculty-driven principles on scholarly communication, while integrating open access publishing fees and subscription fees into a single cost-controlled contract.
The Academic Senate today also expressed its support for UC’s position with regard to the Elsevier negotiations.
In the end, cost, in particular, proved to be an insurmountable challenge. For example, Elsevier’s most recent proposal did not include any cap on the total amount UC faculty could end up paying in article publishing fees. Their model also would not have allowed us to fully subsidize article fees for authors who lack the funds themselves. To meet UC’s goal of open access publication for all UC authors, Elsevier would have charged authors over $10 million per year in addition to the libraries’ current multi-million dollar subscription. The university is not willing to accept a deal that increases Elsevier’s profits at the expense of our faculty. As a result, the University of California will not be signing a new contract with Elsevier at this time.
While we do not know exactly when, Elsevier is expected to begin limiting UC’s access to new articles through its online platform, ScienceDirect, possibly very soon. This will mean some changes to how UC scholars access certain Elsevier journal articles.
What content will — and won’t — be affected
If you use Elsevier articles in your research, here are the most important things to know:
If you are in doubt about why you can’t reach a particular article, please email research@library.ucsc.edu.
Interested in updates?
Find the latest information on the Office of Scholarly Communication’s website
If you have any questions or need help accessing an article, please don’t hesitate to email the library research@library.ucsc.edu at any time.
Join tutors from the Westside (Oakes) Writing Center to learn how to avoid common mistakes and get practical tools for improving MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style in-text and bibliography citations in your research papers.
Get tips on avoiding plagiarism, learn ways of keeping track of ideas, and about campus and online resources.
When: 5:15 - 6:30pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Where: McHenry Library, Room 2353
Free pizza! Sponsored by the Library Student Advisory Council. Open to all undergraduates.
McHenry Library and Science & Engineering
March 22 - March 31, 2019
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Closed Saturday & Sunday
Closed Thursday, March 28th for staff in-service training
Closed Friday, March 29th for Cesar Chavez Day
Spring quarter hours begin April 1, 2019
See the hours page for more details.
McHenry Library and the Science & Engineering Library will be closed on Thursday, March 28 to allow library staff to attend in-service sessions.
Friday, March 29 the libraries will be closed for Cesar Chavez Day.
See the library hours page for more information.
"Depth-of-Field: Translating the Benefits of Virtual Reality from the Laboratory to the (Higher-Ed) Classroom" with Matt Cook
Please join us for this event in the David Kirk Digital Scholarship Commons (ground floor) from 4–6pm in McHenry Library.
Increasingly accessible Virtual Reality technologies allow course content to be presented in context, at human scale, and responsive to the wide range of body-centered interactions. These representational characteristics, which define our engagement with real-world objects and environments, have been shown in the literature to improve performance on activities that overlap significantly with target learning outcomes across multiple disciplines. Yet, relatively few curricular interventions have made full use of VR (or have published on the results of such integrations). This talk will use case studies and associated implementation strategies to explore and narrow this gap in the research literature, thereby empowering participants to begin thinking about their own VR-based course integrations.
This event is co-sponsored by UCSC University Library, The Humanities Institute of UC Santa Cruz (THI), and The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL).
Join recent U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Santa Cruz book artist Felicia Rice in an exploration of the powerful role that poetry and art can play in conversations about the pressing issues of immigration, belonging, and home. Herrera and Rice will be joined in this community conversation by representatives of local groups working on social justice and immigration issues, including local filmmaker Brenda Avila-Hanna. Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to contribute to a collaborative piece collecting community stories. See more information on the campus events calendar.
Where: Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
When: Wednesday, March 6 at 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Sponsored by: UC Santa Cruz University Library, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Moving Parts Press, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, and the following UC Santa Cruz partners: Research Center for the Americas, Oakes College, and the Department of Latin America & Latino Studies.
Join us in the DSC to celebrate one of our very own geeky pleasures: Board Games! Our day will be jam-packed for a day of board games talks and open gameplay in the DSC.
The event is open to all. Board games will be provided, along with knowledgeable faculty and librarians available to help you learn something new or rediscover an old favorite. You are also welcome to bring your own board games to play in the space during the open play time. See more information.
We hope to see you there!
Schedule
10:00
DSC opens
10:30
When Board Games Go Digital: how analog games translate to virtual tabletops, Kristy Golubiewski-Davis
Have you ever wondered just how good a board game is on your phone or in Virtual Reality? Kristy will walk through some examples of board games that have made the jump and talk about what makes a good virtual tabletop, and what ends up as a virtual flop.
11:30
We’re All In This Together: Teaching and Learning through Tabletop Play, Elizabeth Swenson
Elizabeth Swensen discusses educational affordances and strategies in board games and how to design tabletop experiences for learning and social impact.
12:30 - 2:30
Open Game Play / break
2:30
Japanese Board Games in the Postwar Shōwa Period, Nathan Altice
This presentation draws on new archival and historical sources to survey the major developments in Japanese board games in the postwar Shōwa era (1945–89), including the import of American games, the unlikely emergence of Japan’s wargame culture, and the structural foundations of the ancient Japanese game of sugoroku.
3:30
Open Play
5:00
DSC closes
Working Group Charged with Investigating Systemwide Integrated Library System
The Council of University Librarians has charged a working group to investigate how the UC Libraries might license a single, shared, systemwide Integrated Library System (ILS). An ILS is the system which allows our library to manage the acquisition of material, items borrowed by patrons, bills paid, as well as a variety of other library management related tasks.
The UC-wide group is currently working on the request for proposal (RFP) phase of this project.
More details including the project charge, timeline, and other documents are located on the UC Systemwide ILS Page.
Wednesday February 6, 2019
1:00-2:30pm
Graduate Student Commons
Refreshments will be provided.
The Journal Survey portion of this process is closed. Thank you for participating.
We will review the results of the survey and will work with COLASC (Committee on the Library and Scholarly Communication) to communicate recommended next steps.
More information about the 2018-2019 Journal & Database (Serial) Cancellation Process can be found: Journal & Database (Serial) Cancellation Review Process 2018-2019
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