June 8, 2016
WEST Reaches 500K Volumes
Posted On: June 8, 2016 Member libraries of the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST)— which includes the UC San Diego Library and other UC libraries—have reached a major milestone in …
Research & Collections
April 20, 2016
Artist & Alumna Joyce Cutler-Shaw, ’72, Gives Back to the Library
Posted On: April 20, 2016 Most visitors to Geisel Library first learn about artist Joyce Cutler-Shaw’s work when viewing her intriguing calligraphic installation, Alphabet of Bones, in the Library’s Special …
April 10, 2016
Open Access Publishing Workshop (for Grads, Postdocs) – April 26
Posted On: April 10, 2016 Is Open Access Publishing right for you? Expand the reach of your scholarly work Workshop for Postdocs and Graduate Students Tuesday, April 26, 2016 …
March 21, 2016
SCOAP3 Publishes 10,000th Open Access Article
Posted On: March 21, 2016 SCOAP3 celebrates the publication of its 10,000th Open Access article. Since the start of its operation in 2014, the initiative has supported Open Access publication …
March 8, 2016
Social Media Data Now Available via Crimson Hexagon
Do you use social media posts as a data source? The Library is piloting (through September 30, 2017) a subscription to Crimson Hexagon, a web-based library of social media posts …
February 29, 2016
Book publishing that’s Open Access and high quality? Consider Luminos from UC Press.
Posted On: February 29, 2016 UC San Diego authors in the market for a publisher should consider Luminos, the Open Access (OA) publishing program for scholarly monographs from UC Press. …
February 18, 2016
Papers of SAIC Founder J.R. Beyster to Shed Light on Entrepreneurial Success
Last December, in honor of the one-year anniversary of J. Robert Beyster’s passing at the age of 90, the Beyster family donated Bob Beyster’s Papers to the UC San Diego …
January 28, 2016
February Workshops – PubMed, SciFinder, Citation Management
Here are next month’s Library Workshops (complete list for winter 2016). Classes are free and registration is encouraged. Note the location of the workshop, either the Geisel or Biomedical Library …
December 4, 2015
A social networking site is not an open access repository
Posted On: December 4, 2015 “What’s the difference between ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and the institutional repository?” “I put my papers in ResearchGate, is that enough for the open access policy? From …
November 6, 2015
Lingua – editors and editorial board resign
Posted On: November 6, 2015 All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s policies …