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:

• 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.

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?

• In July, Elsevier shut off access to articles published in 2019 and to the backfiles of some journals we did not have perpetual rights to. 
• The UCSC Research Librarians and Interlibrary Loan staff are ready to help you access the articles you need. 

Connect with us if you have questions or need help: research@library.ucsc.edu

Textbook costs got you down? Your University Library can help!

• Check out our Library Course Reserves guide to see how we can help.
• Check out our Affordable Textbooks guide for other money-saving tips.

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. 

Find out more

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:

• 2019 articles in all Elsevier journals
• Older articles in certain journals (download the list)

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.

• Use the interlibrary loan (ILL) request form. Any request for content no longer licensed through Elsevier will automatically be placed into a rush queue. ILL requests made in Melvyl or via UC-eLinks will also be expedited.  
• Use tools like Google Scholar, Unpaywall and Open Access Button to quickly find open access copies, when available.
• Email the corresponding author listed in the abstract to request a copy.
• We are here to help. Contact our Interlibrary Loan staff at ill@ucsc.edu so we can best facilitate your needs.

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:

 

• If you have an account in the current Melvyl system, it won't transfer to the new Melvyl Discovery System but you can set up a new one using the Sign In button on the new site.
• If you have lists of research sources saved in the current Melvyl system, they won't transfer to the new system automatically, but the library has posted instructions for importing lists on our website.  Be sure to transfer your lists by the end of life date for the old Melvyl, August 9, 2019.

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

1.  Search for the items you want to include in a list.
2.  Click the Save button to add the citation to the list.
3.  When finished, click My Items in the upper right corner to display the list.
4.  Click on the Create List button.
5.  Provide a List Name (required) and List Description (optional).
6.  Select a Privacy preference.
   
   a. Shared: A permalink is generated for others to view, cite and share the list. Changes to the list are updated in real time after the page is refreshed.
   
   b. Private: The default value, no permalink is created and the list is only visible to its creator.
7.  Click Save.

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

1. Log in to your existing account in Melvyl.
2. Click your login name in the upper right corner to view your profile and links to your personal lists.
3. Click a list name to view its details.
4. Click the Export to CSV link.
5. Save the file where you can find it later.
6. Go to the new Melvyl (aka WorldCat Discovery) and log on to your account.
7. Click your account name to display a drop-down menu and select Import My Lists.
8. Provide a List Name (required) and List Description (optional).
9. Click the Choose File button to locate the file to be imported.
10. Once the filename is displayed, click Import list to begin the import process.
11. You will receive a message that the list was successfully imported.
12. The list will be added to My Personal Lists.  To view your lists, select My Personal Lists from the drop-down menu in the upper right corner.

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:

• Fall 2018: The campus approved the renovation project and timeline.
• Fall 2018: The campus and library worked with master architect EHDD to develop the project’s Request for Proposals (RFP).
• Winter 2019: The campus solicited RFPs from qualified design/build teams. Two teams of creative, talented, and enthusiastic builders and architects submitted proposals.
• Spring 2019: The design/build team of Roebbelen and Ratcliff was awarded the contract for the project.
• Spring/Summer 2019: Design and construction documents will be reviewed and approved by Capital Planning and Space Management.
• Summer/Fall 2019: The third floor of S&E Library will be closed for renovation.
• January 2, 2020: A new, vibrant third floor will open!

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.

More details