New Library Hours Beginning April 1st

Beginning spring quarter, Monday, April 1st, Library hours will change in an effort to support scheduling 8am classes in registrar-managed classrooms inside the McHenry and Science & Engineering Libraries. 

Our standard schedule will be: 
Monday - Thursday: 7:30am - 11:30pm 
Friday: 7:30am - 8:00pm 
Saturday: 12:00pm - 8:00pm 
Sunday: 10:00am - 11:30pm 

See the library hours monthly calendar for future hours.

Wiley Open Access Publishing Agreement Renewed

Open access publishing support will continue for articles in Wiley journals for three more years. UC’s agreement with Wiley to provide funding for open access publication is renewed with the same terms through December 31, 2026.

What’s new is that 48 California libraries, in addition to the University of California system, are part of this agreement, so we are expanding OA opportunities for authors across the state.

Frontiers Open Access Publishing Agreement: Pilot of Twenty Journals in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sustainability

Open access publishing support for 20 humanities, social science, and sustainability Frontiers journal titles is now available for UCSC authors. The agreement is a pilot that began on August 1, 2023 and goes through July 31, 2024.

The way this open access publishing agreement works is that the full cost of the article processing charge (APC) (i.e., open access fee) is covered by the UC Libraries for the following 20 journals:

Check Your Email: Presidential Open Access Policy Email Notifications Starting Up

Starting September 14, 2023, email notifications from the UC Publication Management System are going out to authors who are covered by the UC Presidential Open Access Policy. This is the same system that Senate Faculty have been using since the implementation of the UC Open Access Policies.

In addition to faculty, the UC Publication Management System will now also notify UCSC authors in the following categories: 

New CART Exhibitions Opening June 15th

The Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) is pleased to announce the opening of this year’s exhibitions curated by the 2022-2023 graduate fellows. These two exhibitions feature the Ingeborg Gerdes Photographs and Papers, as well as the Florence Wyckoff Papers, the William H. Friedland Papers, the William MacKenzie Papers, and the California Farm Research and Legislative Committee Records.

 

IARPA Babel Igbo Language Pack

Item Name: IARPA Babel Igbo Language Pack IARPA-babel306b-v2.0c
Author(s): Nikki Adams, Aric Bills, Judith Bishop, Thomas Conners, Anne David, Eyal Dubinski, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Ketty Gann, Mary Harper, Alice Kaiser-Schatzlein, Michael Kazi, Nicolas Malyska, Jennifer Melot, Akiko Onaka, Shelley Paget, Jessica Ray, Fred Richardson, Anton Rytting, Sinney Shen
LDC Catalog No.: LDC2019S16
ISBN: 1-58563-895-1

Expanded UC open access publishing agreement with Wiley

The University of California announced today an expansion of the university’s open access agreement with Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers. Building on the success of a 2022 pilot agreement at five UC campuses, including Santa Cruz, researchers at all 10 UC campuses will now receive funding support to publish open access, making significantly more UC research freely available to people around the world.

 

What the agreement means for UC authors