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Wednesday May 29, 2019

2:00-3:00pm

Graduate Student Commons

Free Registration

Between open access policies, and journal copyright transfer agreements, it's hard to know how to share your scholarship.

• We will provide easy ways to know what to share where, when and how.
• Bring your papers/posters/etc to upload!
• We will help you to upload your articles, look at your favorite journals' copyright agreements, or answer any other questions about sharing your work.

*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:

• Get hands-on, paid experience in archival processing in an academic library
• Enhance your research skills in archives and primary sources
• Help make archival collections more discoverable and accessible to researchers
• Learn about different library and archives career options
• Get experience curating a public exhibit
• Learn about innovative digital tools that you can use in your research and teaching
• Make connections with graduate students from different disciplines and interests

Learn more about CART

How to apply:

• Contact CART Archivist Alix Norton at alix.norton@ucsc.edu with any questions and to submit your application 
• Apply by Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 for first consideration

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.

Try out the new Library Search tool on our homepage for one stop shopping across catalogs, databases, and online indexes to find the most relevant results from the Library’s diverse holdings. Take a look at our helpful Library Search Guide for more tips, features, and shortcuts.

Need to write a research paper?  Check out our Start Your Research guide for tips and advice on defining a topic, locating scholarly articles and books, advice on selecting sources you want to use and help on citing sources correctly

Simply put: the Library is your key to success!

Read the full Winter 2019 Library Newsletter.

Subscribe to the newsletter to have it delivered directly to your email inbox!

Tuesday May 14, 2019

2:00-3:00pm

Graduate Student Commons

Free Registration

• Learn about the best practices and tools you can use for practical data management and a happier future you.
  
   
• Start working now to ensure a future where you are secure in the existence, understandability, and reusability of your data.
  
   
• Time will be provided during the final 30 minutes to answer questions about your specific needs.
  
   
• Librarians with experience managing data from science, social science, and humanities projects will be on hand to provide support and tips.

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.

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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:

• Most Elsevier articles published in 2018 or earlier will still be accessible via ScienceDirect. Because UC’s prior contracts included permanent access to previously published content, you will still be able to get immediate access to the full text of most articles via Elsevier’s ScienceDirect backfiles, just as you have in the past.
• Open access articles in Elsevier journals are also unaffected. Many authors choose to pay an open access fee (called an article processing charge, or APC) when they publish, so it’s always worth checking to see if the article you’re seeking is available open access from the journal’s website or elsewhere online (see tips on how to search for open access versions).
• Elsevier e-books and other products licensed by UC (e.g., Reaxys) are covered under separate contracts and remain available as before.
• What is affected: At some point, Elsevier may begin to turn off UC’s direct access to articles with a 2019 publish date and the backfiles of certain journals (download list). However, open access versions of many of these articles are available. You can also submit a request and the UCSC Interlibrary Loan Staff will help you get a copy of the final, published version of an article.

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

Free Registration

• Learn about five basic tools and techniques you can use for practical data management and a happier future you.
  
   
• Start working now to ensure a future where you are secure in the existence, understandability, and reusability of your data!
  
   
• Time will be provided during the final 30 minutes to answer questions about your specific needs.
  
   
• Librarians with experience managing data from science, social science, and humanities projects will be on hand to provide support and tips.

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