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 …
Research & Collections
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 …
November 23, 2020
Preview the New Web of Science
UC San Diego faculty, students and staff can now access a “preview” version of the new Web of Science that will go live next summer. Just go to the button on …
October 5, 2020
UC San Diego Library Celebrates International Open Access Week 2020
The UC San Diego Library is celebrating the 10th Annual International Open Access Week (October 19–25, 2020) with two webinars that address this year’s theme, “Open with Purpose: Taking Action …
September 22, 2020
AccessEngineering – McGraw-Hill Handbooks, Textbooks, Videos
The UC San Diego Library has licensed McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering (https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/) for a 3-year trial. AccessEngineering content: 830+ books Engineering handbooks, textbooks, and other reference works from McGraw-Hill, including Perry’s Chemical …
June 16, 2020
SciFinder-n at UC San Diego
UC San Diego now has SciFindern (or SciFinder-n), the new, streamlined SciFinder interface from CAS (Chemical Abstract Service) that covers the chemical literature, indexing millions of journal articles, patents, substances, …
June 16, 2020
Springer Nature Transformative Open Access Agreement and Elsevier Update
We are pleased to announce that the University of California (UC) has reached a transformative open access agreement with Springer Nature, the world’s second-largest academic publisher. Under the agreement, all …