October 15, 2019
Popular Science Reading – October 2019
With the start of the new academic year, here are some recent additions for the popular science collection. You can find these and the rest of the ~600 books on the …
Research & Collections
October 8, 2019
Access and Publishing Updates: Important Developments That Unfolded This Summer
Fall may just be getting underway, but there were some important developments this summer regarding access to and publishing in scholarly journals. Here are the most important things to know. …
September 25, 2019
Geisel’s 1st Floor Media Desk Closes in Preparation for Single Service Point Model
As part of the next phase of the Geisel Library Revitalization Initiative (GLRI), the UC San Diego Library is moving toward a single service point to make it easier for …
September 22, 2019
International Year of the Periodic Table – Other Representations
In this post, we’ll highlight other representations of the periodic system. “Developing a Modern Periodic Table: From Spirals to the Stars” highlights a few of these representations, including a 3D …
July 26, 2019
International Year of the Periodic Table – Women and the Table
The first name that comes to mind is most likely Marie Skłodowska Curie, for her pioneering research in radioactivity, her co-discovery of the elements radium and polonium, and her Nobel Prizes. …
July 10, 2019
Elsevier Access Suspended
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January, but until now the publisher continued to allow access to 2019 articles via ScienceDirect. As of today, …
June 27, 2019
Elsevier to Restrict Access to Journals in Early July
As you may know, the University of California (UC) has been out of contract with the publisher Elsevier since January but, so far, the publisher has continued to provide access …
June 17, 2019
Popular Science Reading – June 2019
Need some summer reading? Start with some of our latest popular science books. You can find these and the rest of the ~500 books on the main (2nd) floor in …
June 4, 2019
Melvyl Debuts Enhanced User Interface Design
Melvyl, the UC San Diego Library’s connection to library collections worldwide, is getting a new and improved look and feel on Wednesday, June 26! Melvyl is a library collections discovery …
June 3, 2019
International Year of the Periodic Table – Lothar Meyer
Here we’ll highlight some articles and posts about Julius Lothar Meyer, whose first table of the elements was published five years before Mendeleev’s. Yet it’s Mendeleev’s name that is most …