September 15, 2015
Peer Review Week Sept 28 – Oct 2
Posted On: September 15, 2015 “Peer review is a subject that – despite the fact that most researchers continue to trust it – divides opinion in the wider scholarly community. …
Research & Collections
July 27, 2015
Heavy Metal Bugs and Cigarettes: New Data Collections
Did you know that in 2008, the smoking prevalence among young adults in California declined to 13.4 ± 0.9 percent from the peak in 1999 of 18.8 percent? Or that …
May 11, 2015
‘San Diego Welcomes the World’ Salutes Centenary of Panama–California Exposition of 1915
San Diego Welcomes the World, an exhibition of materials from the Library’s Special Collections & Archives, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, which commemorated the opening of …
April 28, 2015
Archive for New Poetry Previews Audio Clips from Blackburn Collection
Join us for this “virtual reading” that will feature newly digitized recordings from the large archive of poetry readings created by poet and translator Paul Blackburn [1926-1971]. Blackburn played an …
April 1, 2015
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Inland Empire Libraries on April 24
If you like books, libraries, architecture, and science fiction, you might want to sign up for an all-day tour Friday, April 24, with UC San Diego’s University Librarian, Brian Schottlaender, …
March 10, 2015
"Germans in the Pacific World" Examines Influence of Explorers
Germans in the Pacific World, an exhibition of materials from the Library’s Special Collections & Archives, traces the trajectories of German explorers, missionaries, entrepreneurs, and others, who ventured into the Pacific …
January 21, 2015
New Open Access Programs from UC Press
University of California Press Expands into Open Access with Innovative Journal and Monograph Programs UC Press today announces Collabra and Luminos, two new open access programs for journal and monograph …
October 22, 2014
What Is Open Access? / Being Open As an Early Career Researcher
From Erin McKiernan, Being Open As an Early-Career Researcher, presented UT Austin, October 17, 2014, and earlier this year at SPARC. And from PhD Comics, Open Access Explained.
October 20, 2014
Open Access Week
Oct 20-26 is International Open Access Week “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use …
October 19, 2014
Generation Open: The Value of Openness – Graduate Student Event, 10/24
Are you an advocate for free access to publications, education materials, and data? Then you’re an advocate for Open Access! The theme of Open Access Week this year (October 20–26) …