Read the Fall 2025 edition of the Library Newsletter.

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.

If you access library resources using saved links or bookmarks with "oca.ucsc.edu" in the URL or use the Zotero Browser Extension and are getting proxy errors, please read on—this message is for you!

The OCA proxy service (login.oca.ucsc.edu) was discontinued on December 31, 2024. This service has been replaced by OpenAthens, a new authentication system that uses CruzID. Links in UC Library Search were updated last summer, so if you're accessing resources directly through UC Library Search, you're all set.

The new agreement between IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the UC Libraries provides funding for authors to publish open access in IOPP’s journals for three years from the start of the 2025 calendar year.

Through a new Subscribe to Open (S2O) partnership with BioOne, UCSC researchers will have reading access to all 219 BioOne Complete titles. Pending a successful pilot, meaning enough institutions subscribe to BioOne, 71 titles will be made open access (OA), resulting in increased exposure of publications for UCSC authors. 

The start date for the NIH revised Public Access Policy is now July 1, 2025 (moved up from December 31, 2025). The changes for authors with publications based on NIH-funded research include the discontinuation of embargoes and the timing of deposit to PubMed Central. 

Key points about these changes for authors: