June 11, 2023
New Popular Science Books – Summer 2023
A lot of new arrivals for our popular science reading collection, including The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science, Vitamin C : a 500-year …
Tag Archive: Science & Engineering
June 6, 2023
New Encyclopedias: Chemistry, Electronic Materials, and Medicine
The UC San Diego Library recently purchased these Elsevier major reference works: Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd edition covers fundamental principles, recent discoveries, and significant applications of elements and their compounds, …
December 2, 2022
New Popular Science Books for the Winter Break
Looking for some reading over the coming winter break? Check out the latest titles added to our Popular Science Collection (Geisel 2 West Wing). The books on the guide all …
July 27, 2022
New UC Open Access Agreements with IEEE and Nature
Update as of October 4, 2023: UC will end the open access publishing portion of its agreement with IEEE effective January 1, 2024, due to low author participation. Funding for …
June 21, 2022
Popular Science Reading – Summer 2022
Here are some titles that we have added to the Popular Science Collection this spring. You can browse the new titles, as well as anything on order. If there’s a …
June 6, 2022
SciFinder “Classic” Interface Retirement – July 31
On July 31, the University of California’s access to the “classic” SciFinder interface will be retired. SciFinder-n (or SciFindern), which was introduced in 2020, will be the only SciFinder access …
May 17, 2022
New California-Wide Transformative Open Access Agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS)
Today, the University of California (UC) announced a transformative open access agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS), the fourth largest publisher of scholarly journal articles by researchers in the …
March 18, 2022
UC Pilot Agreement Offers Discount on Open Access Publishing with Wiley in 2022
On March 15, 2022, Wiley and the University of California announced a one-year pilot agreement that makes it more affordable for UC authors to publish open access in Wiley journals, …
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 …
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 …