Performing arts students and faculty at UCR can now access more than 1,200 resources thanks to the library’s new subscription to DigitalTheatre+. The world’s leading platform for digital performing arts, Digital Theatre+ features videos, study guides, teaching tools, and reference and research materials including backstage insights, practitioner interviews, written analysis, and more than 450 productions...
After more than two years of negotiations, this morning the University of California announced a transformative open access agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher. This successful outcome is the result of UC’s faculty, librarians and university leadership coming together to stand firm on our goals of making UC research freely available to all...
Effective March 10, 2021, UC authors can make their research freely available for anyone to read through three new transformative open access publishing agreements with The Royal Society journals, Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), and The Company of Biologists (CoB). These new, cost-neutral agreements will apply retrospectively to articles accepted after January 1, 2021 and will...
UC Library Search will replace Melvyl as the UC-wide library discovery tool on July 27, 2021. It will be directly accessible from the local UCR Library website. Melvyl debuted in 1981, before most of our current students (and some faculty) were born. Melvyl revolutionized the UC Library system, allowing researchers to find books at other...
The UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, as final exams can breed a lot of stress -- not to mention the added pressures and isolation they experience during a pandemic. This is the reason why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief (FWSR) event series: to serve and support...
From Feb. 8 - 11, 2021, the inaugural UC Love Data Week offered training on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation to approximately 700 members of the University of California community. Kat Koziar, Data Librarian, represented UC Riverside in a collaborative effort across the ten UC campuses and the California Digital Library (CDL) to...
Finding and borrowing resources from libraries across the UC system is about to get easier! On July 27, 2021, the libraries on all 10 University of California campuses will be connected through UC Library Search, a unified discovery and borrowing system. The enhanced features of UC Library Search will replace Melvyl as the UC-wide library...
When Class of 2019 alumnus Matthew Diep first enrolled at UC Riverside to double-major in accounting and public policy, becoming a children's book author was not on his to-do list. However, a missed opportunity in another campus department led him to apply for a student employee position at the UCR Library, which became the catalyst...
The Fujimoto Transcripts project has made a treasured library resource even more accessible to a global audience. The diaries of Japanese Americans, Toranosuke (George) Fujimoto and George Fujimoto Jr. constitute one of the most valuable and unique collections housed in the UCR Special Collections & University Archives. Toranosuke, born in 1882, kept a diary from...
The first-ever UC GIS Week was a resounding success thanks to the ingenuity and passionate support of the UCR community, according to Geospatial Information Librarian Janet Reyes. COVID-related event cancellations in 2020 inspired UCR to pivot from planning a UCR-only GIS Day event to participating in the inaugural UC GIS Week virtual conference. Reyes and...
On Jan. 21, UC Riverside professor Jennifer Doyle and internationally recognized artist Nao Bustamante will discuss the genesis of Bustamante’s multi-media exhibition, Soldadera. This virtual presentation will be the fourth installment of the UCR Library’s series, Faculty Profiles in Research, Art and Innovation. Dr. Romina Robles Ruvalcaba, assistant professor of history at UC Merced, will...
Starting January 4, 2021, UC authors can make their research published in Springer journals freely available to anyone through a new agreement between Springer Nature and the University of California. The first phase of the transformative open access agreement will support UC authors whose articles are accepted by journals in the Springer portion of the...
The UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, as final exams can breed a lot of stress -- not to mention the added pressures and isolation they experience during a pandemic. This is the reason why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief (FWSR) event series: to serve and support...
On Tuesday, December 1, UC Riverside will host its third annual Day of Giving, a unique, online fundraising opportunity that lasts only 24 hours. For our 2020 Day of Giving, the UCR Library has chosen to highlight the Students First Fund. There are two ways you can help. One: Post on social media about the...
Who could have predicted that a connection between two scholars would one day establish a crucial pillar of the Sikh Studies program here at UC Riverside. Considered one of the greatest historians of his time, New Zealand scholar Dr. William Hewat “Hew” McLeod (1932-2009) demonstrated a life-long commitment to critical scholarship that set him aside...
The University of California geospatial community announced that the inaugural systemwide UC GIS Week conference will be held online from Nov. 17-19, 2020. The event will be hosted virtually through Zoom. All talks are free and open to the public. GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to...
The UCR Library has been looking for ways to improve the user experience in the online catalog, particularly for patrons searching for newspapers. The library is currently beta testing a dedicated Newspaper Search on the library's website, as a direct result of user feedback regarding difficulties in searching our newspaper content. Patrons will see a...
On Thursday, Oct. 8, the UCR Library will host an online event with special guest, award winning film and television writer and UC Riverside Professor Stu Krieger. WHAT IF: Professor Stu Krieger and Professor Erith Jaffe-Berg discuss Krieger's counter-factual history novel THAT ONE CIGARETTE is the third installment of the Faculty Profiles in Research, Art...
The UCR Library buildings remain closed during Fall Quarter 2020 to protect the health of the essential employees who are working on the premises to meet the teaching and research needs of our undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and researchers. Although this means that students won’t be able to enter the Rivera or Orbach Libraries...