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 …
Research & Collections
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 …
February 11, 2021
Collections as Data
The UC San Diego Library’s Digital Collections website is presently home to over 120,000 research data sets, images, documents, video and audio recordings. While the datasets make scientific data open-source …
February 9, 2021
Doing Our Part to Share and Preserve Research Data at UC San Diego
Just as your research discoveries should be shared with the world, so should the data supporting those discoveries. Don’t have a discipline-specific repository for your data sharing needs? Not a …
January 28, 2021
Rare Ethnographic Sound Recordings Digitally Available at the UC San Diego Library
More than 1,200 hours of rare sound recordings, which is roughly equivalent to 50 days, were captured and preserved thanks to the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings …
January 4, 2021
UC’s Open Access Publishing Agreement with Springer Nature Launches
As of January 4, 2021, University of California (UC) corresponding authors will benefit from the university’s transformative open access agreement with Springer Nature, making it easier and more affordable to …