More News January 09, 2017

UCR Library is currently running a patron-driven acquisition pilot program for the expanded collection of Alexander Street Press streaming videos.

With Alexander Street Press videos, library users can create clips and playlists, quote directly from the video transcript, and discover new content for use in teaching and research.

With this resource, UCR Library can provide our patrons with access to high quality academic films available nowhere else. The collection includes more than 34,000 unique videos that span a broad range of subjects, with more than 7,000 exclusive titles that are offered only by Alexander Street.

Content spans many subject areas, including anthropology, counseling and therapy, business, documentary and feature film, education, history, fashion, music and dance, news and current affairs, and drama.

Publishers in the collection include Sony Pictures Classics, BroadwayHD, Milestone Films, BBC, Bloomberg, Canal+, CRM Learning, Discovery, CBS, HBO, Janus Films (Criterion Collection), Kantola, Medcom, National Geographic, NBC Universal, Opus Arte, Royal Anthropological Institute, First Run Features, and many more.

The trial runs until January 25, 2017. To access the trial, please visit: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/.

UCR Library encourages all users to share this link with their fellow UC Riverside students, faculty, and other researchers.

If you would like to provide feedback, please send your comments to Carla Arbagey, Electronic Resources Librarian, carlar@ucr.edu.

More News May 14, 2021

The UCR Library remains committed to supporting our students as they prepare to take their spring quarter final exams.

This is the reason why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief (FWSR) event series. This quarter, like this past fall and winter quarter, we took a different approach due to the continuing campuswide COVID-19 closure.

Our FWSR committee curated an extensive list of free, online activities that we hope R'Students will enjoy, including:

• Virtual Therapy Fluffies (including live webcam videos from various wildlife organizations and aquariums)
• Story Time with two of the UCR Library's staff team
• Guilty pleasures
• Escape rooms
• Relaxation
• Virtual tours
• Fun and educational videos
• And campus resources to support student wellness.

In addition to the web-based activities, the FWSR committee is hosting three interactive Zoom events or games plus a social media contest where students will have opportunities to win gift cards, UC Riverside souvenirs, and other prizes. Please RSVP to save your seat using the links below:

• Bingo - Tuesday, June 1 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
• Therapy Fluffies - Wednesday, June 2 at 12 p.m. Co-sponsored by The Well's Active Minds.
• Kahoot! - Thursday, June 3 at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 6 p.m.
• Instagram contest - Tuesday, June 1 - Friday, June 11, starting at 9 a.m. each weekday. Co-sponsored by UCR HUB Programs.

Visit the Finals Week Stress Relief activities page and click on each of the category tabs at the top of the page to see all the options.

More News September 09, 2016

The Multimedia Library has closed, effective 6:00 pm on Friday, September 9, 2016.

The materials and services formerly in the Multimedia Library are being moved to the Rivera Library and will be available to library users starting on Monday, September 19.

The first floor of Rivera Library will house most media titles in open stacks, shelved and secured appropriately to facilitate browsing.

Media reserve and streaming services will continue via the request system on the library website. Media on reserve will be available behind the Rivera circulation/reserves desk. (Please see http://library.ucr.edu/instructional-support/put-materials-on-course-reserves for details.)

Individual viewing stations and designated bookable group study rooms in Rivera Library will house audio-visual equipment and gaming equipment used for classes.

Here are the new service and collection locations:

• The VHS collection has been moved to Rivera Library and is now in its new location on Rivera first floor.
• The Multimedia DVDs and CDs will be moved to Rivera first floor.
• The Multimedia book drop closed on September 9 and will be moved to Orbach Library.
• The Xerox copier/scanner/printer formerly in the Multimedia Library has been moved to Rivera first floor.
• Six Multimedia Library viewing stations have been moved to Rivera first floor, and one is being moved to Special Collections (Rivera fourth floor.)
• Four group study rooms in Rivera (second floor) are being repurposed as two group viewing rooms and two group gaming rooms, with the equipment from the Multimedia Library. These will be “bookable” beginning on September 19.

More News August 10, 2017

The UCR Library is delighted to announce that Cindi Tompkins has joined the UCR Library as our new Director of Organizational Design and Human Resources.

Cindi will be located in Library Human Resources on the first floor of the Tomas Rivera Library, reporting to Steven Mandeville-Gamble, University Librarian.

Cindi earned her Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Finance degree from California State University, San Bernardino.

Most recently, Cindi served as the Human Resources Director for the County of San Bernardino.

More News September 23, 2019

Graduate and undergraduate students who use GIS (geographic information systems) and remote sensing are invited to enter a GIS Day poster contest sponsored by UCR Library and campus partners.

GIS Day provides an opportunity for people to learn about geography and the uses of GIS. This year, UCR is observing GIS Day on Thursday, Nov. 14.

Acceptable formats

Printed posters measuring 36” x 48” will be accepted.

Collaborations are allowed, as are multiple entries. Please note that for group entries, a prize will be awarded to the first author listed if that entry wins.

How to enter

Prior to entering, students must submit an abstract by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, October 31 for review and approval by the GIS Day Planning Committee.

The form to submit an abstract can be found at bit.ly/2019gisday-poster. For questions, contact Geospatial Information Librarian Janet Reyes at janet.reyes@ucr.edu, or call her at (951) 827-6421.

The committee will notify prospective entrants by Friday, Nov. 1 whether their abstract was accepted or declined.

Students whose abstracts were accepted must submit a PDF of their poster, and make arrangements for having it printed, by 2:30 pm on Thursday, Nov. 7. Poster printing fees at the Orbach Science Library poster printing service (ORB Room 121) are waived for the contest. Successful applicants will receive more details with their acceptance notification.

Poster display

From Tuesday, Nov. 12 through Friday, Nov. 22, the entries will be displayed in the Orbach Science Library atrium.

From 2:30 - 3:30 pm on Thursday, Nov. 14, entrants will have the opportunity to explain their posters and answer questions.

The contest’s first, second, and third-place winners will be announced at 3:45 pm on Nov. 14 at the poster display.

Contest prizes will include a variety of items.

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More News June 17, 2019

Melvyl’s long-awaited switch to WorldCat Discovery, the Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) newer discovery user interface, launched on Monday, June 17, 2019.

Melvyl is the discovery platform for the University of California libraries.

As the world's largest library catalog, WorldCat helps users find items in libraries close to them and makes the UCR Library’s resources more visible to people on the Web.

What does it mean to faculty, students and staff to make the switch?

Library users will see a new interface. WorldCat Discovery has made many improvements in the user experience, including:

• newer technology infrastructure, which supports ongoing expansion and increased operability with other services
• interface automatically adapts to user devices, including smartphones, notebooks, laptops and desktop computers, to give people the same experience regardless of device. A new search algorithm delivers more relevant search results than the previous interfaces
• Library staff can better support interlibrary loan, reference and collection development

Technically, what does it mean to make the switch?

Basically, it’s changing URLs. Users  who have Melvyl URLs listed on a department or course website or course management system will need to update their links or bookmarks.

The updated link for UC Riverside users is: https://ucr.on.worldcat.org/discovery

How to switch to WorldCat Discovery

Change your bookmark or website linked URLs that point to WorldCat Local to point to WorldCat Discovery anytime before August 9, 2019.

In the meantime, try WorldCat Discovery and report any problems directly to CDL at melvylops@cdlib.org.

What happens to personal lists on WorldCat Local?

Although it is not possible for personal lists attached to WorldCat Local accounts to be automatically ported into WorldCat Discovery, users can easily import lists from either WorldCat Local (or WorldCat.org) accounts to their WorldCat Discovery accounts using OCLC’s instructions here.

Looking ahead

CDL will continue to publish updates in CDLInfo News: Melvyl. Feel free to email the CDL Melvyl Operations Team if you have any questions.

For the latest information, see the CDL WorldCat Discovery Beta website.

More News February 13, 2025

Effective February 4, 2025, this agreement provides access to OUP’s world-leading journals and support for UC authors to publish open access in nearly 500 OUP journals at reduced or no cost.

The 10-campus University of California system (UC), 20 of 23 California State University (CSU) campuses, and 30 private academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a comprehensive four-year transformative open access agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP). The agreement begins this month and will provide affiliated researchers with access to OUP’s world-leading journals and support for publishing their work open access.

“This partnership between UC, CSU and SCELC demonstrates the power of collaboration across diverse institutions,” said Mark Hanna, Associate Professor of History at UC San Diego and chair of the UC faculty Academic Senate’s systemwide committee on library and scholarly communication. “By joining forces, we are advancing open access and amplifying the global impact of California’s scholarship. I’m excited to see this significant step forward, which reflects our shared commitment to creating a more accessible, equitable, and sustainable future for scholarly communication.”

This major agreement harnesses the resources of research institutions, private liberal arts colleges, comprehensive universities, and special libraries across California by redirecting existing library subscription funds to support authors publishing open access. The agreement enables authors at the participating institutions to publish articles using an open access license at reduced or no cost in more than 500 hybrid and fully open access OUP journals. Authors with grant funds available will pay a discounted open access publishing fee across OUP’s hybrid and fully open access journals. Authors who do not have grant funds available will be able to publish open access in hybrid journals at no cost to them.  

“As a catalyst for transformative change in scholarly communication, SCELC is dedicated to forging agreements that empower libraries and their researchers,” said Teri Oaks Gallaway, SCELC Executive Director. “By working with Oxford University Press, we are not only expanding access to high-impact research but also driving a more sustainable and equitable publishing future for our member institutions.”

Transformative agreements provide a way for institutions to maintain access to scholarly content available only through subscription, while supporting the transition to open access publishing by their affiliated researchers. Institutions are, in effect, redirecting their expenditures on subscriptions to cover the open access article publication charges. Through this agreement, thousands of researchers at 60 institutions will be eligible for financial support when they choose to publish open access in OUP journals.

"CSU libraries are delighted to provide our students and faculty with access to more OUP journals than ever before and the opportunity to openly publish their research," said Ann Roll, Director of Systemwide Digital Library Content at the CSU Office of the Chancellor. "Through transformative and collaborative work with our partners at UC and SCELC, CSU research can be shared openly and CSU students will have the OUP resources they need for their success, all at a sustainable cost to CSU libraries."

The aim of this transformative agreement is to make it easier and more affordable for authors from SCELC, CSU and UC institutions to publish open access rather than behind a paywall, while also controlling the participating institutions’ journal expenditures. Like other transformative agreements at UC, CSU and SCELC, this agreement aligns with the institutions’ missions and contributes to the global shift towards sustainable open access publishing by making more research and scholarship from California freely available to the world.

The agreement demonstrates how innovative, diverse, multi-institution cooperation can play a vital role in the open access movement by ensuring that researchers at academic institutions of all types can fully engage in the benefits of open access publishing.

“We are delighted to reach this agreement with the California universities,” said Alastair Lewis, Sales Director, OUP. “The negotiations for this agreement have been positive and constructive, and we are really excited to expand access to our world-leading journals and open access publishing across these universities.”

More Information

Learn more about the agreement by reading the agreements FAQ's from the University of California's Office of Scholarly Communication. You can also reach out to the UCR Library's Collection Strategist for STEM Michele Potter with any questions. 

More News December 01, 2017

This month in 4 to Explore, your Special Collections librarians and archivists have selected four new items and placed them on hold in the reading room.

Here's what you can see this December in 4 to Explore:

1932 Diary
December resolutions by a young woman

John Donne
1633 first edition of the collected poems

Mexican Inauguration Photos
Beautiful 1920 album of President Álvaro Obregón

The California Water Atlas
Published by the state in the 70s to make government data accessible

Why you should try 4 to Explore:

Special Collections materials are kept in closed stacks, which means you can’t see the shelves and browse. You also can’t check things out and take them home. So, 4 to Explore is a great way to experience first-hand some of the collections that truly make the UCR Library unique.

4 to Explore will give you the chance to visit a reading room, like the ones that are used for archival research or by rare book scholars, and to get a sampling of our collections without having to submit a request ahead of time.

You’ll be asked to show photo ID and to check your bags – but don’t worry! Our UCR Library staff will explain everything to you when you arrive.

We will also have rotating exhibits of items from the collections on display.

Where to find 4 to Explore:

Department: Special Collections & University Archives

Where: Take elevators to 4th floor of Rivera Library

Hours: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm, Monday - Friday

Bring: Photo ID

Don’t bring: Food or drinks

Who: Everyone is welcome. 4 to Explore is more of an individual experience, but we can usually accommodate up to two people using the same item at the same time, so feel free to bring a friend.

What to expect: Staff will help you sign in and feel comfortable in the reading room. It should take about 5-10 minutes for you to get up to the 4th floor and get settled. Then you can stay and enjoy as long as you like!