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...
On Monday, Sept. 28, the UCR Library will launch Ask a Student, a chat service to help new and returning UC Riverside students navigate campus and get timely assistance from fellow UCR students. Ask a Student will be available Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; students can submit questions by email outside...
Fifty-five hours. Fifty-five hours was the time that the UCR Library had to convert its operations to a completely-remote mode—from when the Riverside County Public Health Officer’s order to close all county campuses due to the COVID-19 crisis was received at close of business on Friday, March 13, 2020, to the moment it went into...
UC Riverside Library is continuing its focus on expanding access to heavily demanded electronic content with a new local license to the Journal of Visualized Experiments ( JoVE). JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science videos with the mission to improve scientific research and education, according to the company’s website. Content available to...
The UCR Library staff and African Student Programs collaborated to create a guide for the UCR community on the Black Lives Matter movement. The guide provides general sources and research information about the Black Lives Matter movement and related social justice issues. It includes websites, books and e-books, streaming videos, podcasts, databases, and more. It...
On Thurs., Aug. 6, the UCR Library’s new series Faculty Profiles in Research, Art and Innovation will welcome Clifford E. Trafzer, Distinguished Professor of History and Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs. During his presentation, Fighting Invisible Enemies Among Southern California Indians 1900-1950, Trafzer will discuss how Southern California Indian communities combined Western and...
UC’s negotiating team continues to communicate with Elsevier. While progress remains slow, there are a number of recent developments that we hope may give fresh impetus to these discussions: COVID-19 As a recent Los Angeles Times column laid out, the need for access to research has never been clearer. In fact, many publishers, including Elsevier...
On June 16, 2020, the University of California announced a transformative open access publishing agreement that will make more of the university’s research freely and immediately available to individuals and researchers across the globe. The deal furthers the global push for open access to scientific research by bringing together UC, which accounts for nearly 10...
Each spring, the UCR Library typically hosts a Student Employee and Staff Appreciation Picnic to honor the people who serve the UC Riverside community through their work at the library. Due to the COVID-19 closure, we were not able to hold the celebration this year, nor could we recognize the 22 library student employees who...
Photos from the Jay Kay Klein papers in Special Collections were featured in a June 12, 2020 article and gallery by Cosplay Central writer Brian Jacks. The story, These Photos From The 1966 World Science Fiction Convention Prove Cosplaying Is Timeless: Photographer Jay Kay Klein covered the Cleveland event filled with costumed fans, was published...
After almost three months’ closure, starting Monday, June 15, 2020, you can now check out books from the Rivera and Orbach Libraries’ circulating collections via drive-up Contact-Free Curbside Delivery. Pick-up is Monday through Friday from 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. at the Rivera Library loading dock. To use this service, submit a paging request from the...
On Thurs., June 25, bestselling authors and UC Riverside professors Dr. Nalo Hopkinson and Prof. John Jennings will be the featured guests at an online event titled, Afrofuturist Comics: Sankofa and the Black Speculative Re-Imagination. Hopkinson and Jennings will discuss their most recent publications, House of Whispers Vol. 1: The Power Divided (The Sandman Universe)...