To download ebooks for offline reading from EBSCO, you must now use Thorium Reader – EBSCOhost will present a passphrase to copy to open the ebook in Thorium.
This app replaces Adobe Digital Editions for offline reading.
To download an entire ebook from EBSCO for offline reading, you will need to:
As part of its work to meet the campus-wide budget reductions, the University Library has had to cancel a number of locally-subscribed journals. We know these decisions have an impact on your teaching and research. We want to hear about how these decisions have affected your research and teaching.
Did you publish in your dream journal or receive a rejection from a journal? Did you learn something about publishing while going through the process? We want to hear from you!
Stories will be recorded and shared as a podcast. If you have a publishing story, please share details about your publishing experience with the library. Authors will be selected based on the needs of the project to collect a range of publishing stories. We will interview eight authors.
Some users are experiencing issues accessing ebooks from ProQuest's Ebook Central.
The error message states, "Sorry, your institution does not allow access to ProQuest Ebook Central from your current IP address. Please contact your librarian."
The library's Digital Collections website has been upgraded! Our new site provides a better experience for finding and using online materials from the library's Special Collections & Archives.
Our site features a variety of collections including:
To download ebooks from ProQuest Ebook Central, you must now use the Ebook Central Reader App – a faster, simpler way to download and read full ebooks from Ebook Central on your personal device.
This app replaces Adobe Digital Editions.
To download an entire ebook from Ebook Central, you will need to:
The University Library is thrilled to introduce Anna Ijiri Oehlkers as the recipient of the 2025-2026 Fellowship in the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART).
Anna is going into her third year as a PhD student in Visual Studies, where her main research area surrounds world's fairs and expositions. Prior to her graduate work, she worked at several museums, including the Peabody Essex Museum, the MIT Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Many researchers use the Online Archive of California (OAC) to access descriptive information about archival collections across the state, including at UCSC. We are excited to announce that the California Digital Library recently upgraded this site, which they have completely rebuilt adapting community-supported open source technologies. If you'd like to familiarize yourself with the new OAC, this quick start guide includes helpful video tutorials. Happy research!
On August 5, the UCSC Library will transition to the new EBSCOhost user interface (UI). All EBSCOhost databases—including Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, ebooks hosted on EBSCO, and more—will have a new UI. This means a new look and feel, plus a few minor changes to functionality. The new user interface is designed to be more modern and user friendly, while also introducing new features such as personalized dashboards and the ability to save resources and searches.
The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.
The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.
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