October 21, 2021
Popular Science Reading Fall 2021
A lot of new titles for the Popular Science Collection have arrived in time for the start of the academic year. And now with added browsing (since the building is …
Research & Collections
October 1, 2021
Celebrating International Open Access Week 2021
“It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” Textbook and course material affordability continues to be an obstacle to many students’ academic success. Open access initiatives encourage equitable distribution …
September 8, 2021
Q&A with Audrey Geisel University Librarian Erik T. Mitchell on the Full Reopening of the UC San Diego Library
UC San Diego is making plans for a safe and gradual return to full campus operations this fall. To ensure the ongoing safety and well-being of everyone in our campus …
August 9, 2021
Access to Copyrighted Items via HathiTrust Ends September 7
When the Library closed in March 2020 and we were unable to circulate physical materials, HathiTrust — in response to the COVID-19 emergency — initiated the Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). This service …
July 7, 2021
New Web of Science
The new Web of Science interface that has been available as a “preview” since last fall is now the default interface. The “classic” interface can still be accessed from the …
May 4, 2021
Popular Science Reading – May 2021
Our first update to the popular science collection in…well, a while. You may not be able to physically browse the whole collection, you can at least browse the latest titles. …
March 16, 2021
University of California Reaches Open Access Agreement with Elsevier
After more than two years of negotiations, the University of California (UC) has reached a transformative open access (OA) agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome …
March 10, 2021
Three New UC Open Access Agreements Signed this Week
The University of California Office of Scholarly Communications has just announced three new open access agreements this week. The agreements are with Canadian Science Publishing, Company of Biologists and Royal …
February 16, 2021
UC Library Search: New Systemwide Library Discovery Tool to Launch Summer 2021
NEW UC Library Search Tool Finding and borrowing resources from libraries across the University of California (UC) system is about to get a lot easier! On July 27, 2021, the …
February 12, 2021
New Data Curation Service for Dynamic Datasets
Do you or your data manager spend a lot of time responding to requests for your research data? The UC San Diego Library has a solution: a new service to …