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Britt Foster
Britt’s key responsibility is providing strategic direction, planning, and implementation of UCR Library’s instructional program. Also a collaborative development of existing and new approaches to information literacy instruction, instructional design, pedagogic methods, and advanced online synchronous, asynchronous, and dual modality learning.
Director of Teaching and Learning
Orange Roots
The University of California, Riverside Library invites you to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition, titled, “Orange Roots: The Remarkable Story of Two Trees, a Pioneer Town, and the University of California, Riverside.”
The welcome reception in honor of the exhibition’s opening will be held at the library, from 2-4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited so we encourage you to register if you wish to attend.
The reception will include a talk by Susan Straight, professor of creative writing at UCR, and a citrus-tasting station where guests can sample different varieties of citrus fruits. The citrus-tasting station will be organized by Tracy Kahn, UCR’s Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection Endowed Chair. Free parking will be available. Those interested in attending should RSVP using the link below.
In honor of Homecoming and Discover Day, the University of California, Riverside Library invites you to join us for a curator-led tour of the "Orange Roots" exhibition. This tour will be held at Rivera Library from 12-1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19, and led by exhibit curator and librarian Krista Ivy. The tour is free and open to the public, but space is limited so we encourage you to register if you wish to attend.
The exhibition will showcase the remarkable history of Riverside’s citrus heritage, from its early, pioneer days to the establishment of UCR. It will feature photographs, historical documents, and other memorabilia from the UCR Library Special Collections & University Archives, the UCR Citrus Variety Collection, the UCR Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, the Riverside Metropolitan Museum, and the Riverside Public Library.
The exhibition will remain on display at the Tomás Rivera Library through June 2017.
Political Campaign Buttons
This exhibit is a selection of political buttons related to presidential elections from our Harold and Barbara Durian Collection of Political Buttons.
These campaign buttons are just a small sampling of what the Harold and Barbara Durian Collection of Political Buttons has to offer. The full collection consists of over 200 original and replica political buttons from the 1870s to 2016 and includes state elections and other ephemera—not just presidential buttons. The collection is open to researchers in Special Collections & University Archives on the 4th floor of the Tomás Rivera Library.
| Event | Political Campaign Buttons |
| Location | Tomás Rivera Library, 1st Floor, (left of the Library entrance) |
| Dates | Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - Tuesday, November 26, 2024 |
| Hours | Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 12 a.m. NOTE: We are closed during UCR observed holidays. |
| Parking | Free Visitor Parking is available on Fridays, starting at 12:00 PM through 6:00 AM Monday morning in the unreserved spaces of the following parking lots/structures:
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UC reaches open access agreement with Elsevier
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 and transforming scholarly communication for the better.
The new four-year agreement will go into effect on April 1, 2021, restoring UC’s direct online access to Elsevier journals while accomplishing the university’s two goals for all publisher agreements:
(1) Enabling universal open access to all UC research; and
(2) Containing the excessively high costs associated with licensing journals.
These goals directly support UC’s responsibility as a steward of public funds and its mission as a public university to make its research freely available. The agreement with Elsevier will significantly increase the number of articles covered by UC’s open access agreements.
What the agreement means for the UC community
- Reading access: Effective April 1, UC will regain access to articles published in Elsevier journals the libraries subscribed to before, plus additional journals to which UC previously did not subscribe.
- Open access publishing in Elsevier journals: The agreement will also provide for open access publishing of UC research in more than 2,500 Elsevier journals from day one. The Cell Press and Lancet families of journals will be integrated midway through the four-year agreement; UC’s agreement is the first in the world to provide for open access publishing in the entire suite of these prestigious journals.
- Library support for open access publishing: All articles with a UC corresponding author will be open access by default, with the library automatically paying the first $1,000 of the open access fee (also known as an article publishing charge or APC). Authors will be asked to pay the remainder of the APC if they have research funds available to do so.
- Discounts on publishing: To lower those costs even further for authors, UC has negotiated a 15 percent discount on the APCs for most Elsevier journals; the discount is 10 percent for the Cell Press and Lancet families of journals.
- Full funding support for those who need it: To ensure that all authors have the opportunity to publish their work open access, the library will cover the full amount of the APC for those who do not have sufficient research funds for the author share. Authors may also opt out of open access publishing if they wish.
The economics of the deal
As with UC’s other recent open access agreements, the Elsevier agreement integrates library and author payments into a single, cost-controlled contract. This shared funding model enables the campus libraries to reallocate a portion of our journals budget to help subsidize authors’ APCs — assistance that makes it easier and more affordable for authors to choose to publish open access.
Even with library support, authors’ research funds continue to play a critical role. This funding model only works if authors who do have funds pay their share of the APC.
In the other open access agreements UC has implemented, we are already seeing a significant proportion of authors paying their share of the APC. If this promising trend continues, UC can blaze a path to full open access that is sustainable across ever more publishers.
Partnering with publishers of all types and sizes
Meanwhile, the university continues to forge partnerships with publishers of all types and sizes. In addition to Elsevier, UC also signed open access agreements with three more not-for-profit and society publishers this month — The Company of Biologists, The Royal Society and Canadian Science Publishing. These agreements are in addition to those secured previously with Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, society publisher ACM, and native open access publishers PLOS and JMIR.
Ultimately, UC’s goal is to make it possible for all authors to publish their work open access in whatever journal they choose — providing broad public access to the fruits of UC’s research. This month, we have made a tremendous stride in that direction. We know that this has been a lengthy process and we thank you for your patience and support as we worked to reach this outcome.
If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Tiffany Moxham, Associate University Librarian for Content and Discovery, at any time.
Finals Week Stress Relief: Winter 2019 Event Series
It’s hard to believe that Winter Quarter 2019 is already drawing to a close, but suddenly we find ourselves with Finals Week only days away.
UCR Library is committed to creating a supportive atmosphere for our students, as final exams can breed a lot of stress. That is why we present our Finals Week Stress Relief event series at the end of every quarter.
These events give library employees an opportunity to get to know our students better, and for our students to let off steam together in a safe and fun way.
This quarter, we have crowd favorites returning to the line-up, such as the Therapy Fluffies, R'Finals Study Jam, and Surprise Snack Giveaway, as well as a few new activities.
Finals Week Stress Relief will kick off on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. The full event schedule will include:
Wednesday, March 13
- Therapy Fluffies with The WELL & Active Minds (Rivera & Orbach) – 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Need a Hand (Warmer)? with the Creat'R Lab (Orbach) 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. *while supplies last
Thursday, March 14
- Pi Day (Rivera & Orbach) - 3:14 p.m. *while supplies last
Friday, March 15
- Surprise Snack Giveaway (Rivera & Orbach) *while supplies last
Saturday, March 16
- Cookie Break (Rivera & Orbach) - 3:00 p.m. *while supplies last
Sunday, March 17
- R'Finals Study Jam with the Academic Resource Center (Orbach) - 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
- Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Wellness (Orbach) - 9:00 p.m. *while supplies last
Monday, March 18
- Burritos Fix Everything with ASPB (Rivera) - 3:00 p.m. *while supplies last
- Snack Wagon with ASUCR (Orbach - 5:30 p.m. & Rivera - 6:00 p.m.) *while supplies last
- Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Wellness (Orbach) - 9:00 p.m. *while supplies last
Tuesday, March 19
- Finals Are Nacho Problem (Orbach) - 3:00 p.m. *while supplies last
- Snack Wagon with ASUCR (Orbach - 5:30 p.m. & Rivera - 6:00 p.m.) *while supplies last
- Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Wellness (Orbach) - 9:00pm *while supplies last
Wednesday, March 20
- Crochet Your Stress Away (Orbach) - 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. *while supplies last
- Snack Wagon with ASUCR (Orbach - 5:30 p.m. & Rivera - 6:00 p.m.) *while supplies last
- Late Night Snacks with the Provost & Student Wellness (Orbach) - 9:00pm *while supplies last
Thursday, March 21
- Snack Wagon with ASUCR (Orbach - 5:30 p.m. & Rivera - 6:00 p.m.) *while supplies last
In addition, there is a contest to win a VIP Study Room for Sunday, March 17 from 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Details for the contest are available on the UCR Library's Facebook page.
Volunteers are always welcome to help run the events.
Any library staff that are interested in volunteering should contact Sahra Missaghieh Klawitter or Elisha Hankins to find out how to get involved.
Library to forgive Replacement Fees during Amnesty Period
The UCR Library will offer a Replacement Fee Amnesty Period from Monday, June 17 through Sunday, June 30, 2019.
Users who return late items (with the exception of Reserve or Recall Fines and Fees) during the Amnesty Period will have all Replacement Fees waived completely.
We are offering this Amnesty Period as part of the transition to the library's new Fines & Fees structure that will go into effect on July 1, 2019.
Note: Replacement Fees previously paid for lost items are not eligible for refund during the Amnesty Period.
Please log into your secure UCR Library account portal to see whether you have any outstanding balances due, so that you can take advantage of the Amnesty Period from June 17-30, 2019.
Should you have any questions about your account, please contact library-billing@ucr.edu
Darren Furey
As Director of Acquisitions, Description, and Discovery, Darren provides vision and leadership to the team that manages UCR Library resources from the moment they are purchased until they’re available to patrons. This includes ordering and receiving new books and materials, processing payments, and ensuring these resources can be easily found through UC Library Search. ADD is also responsible for describing and organizing the Library’s digitized collections, making them easily accessible on platforms like Calisphere.
Director Acquisitions, Description, and Discovery
Newly Processed Collections - Spring 2020
Special Collections & University Archives employees are constantly working to process recently acquired collections and make those materials ready for use by students, faculty, and researchers.
Each quarter, we will provide a list of the UCR Library's newly processed archival and primary source collections. Check out this list to see if there are any items that fit your research area, or share with a friend!
Below you'll find brief descriptions and links to the finding aids or collection guides for each new collection. To use any of these materials, simply click the "Request Items" button at the top to submit a request, and log in with our Special Collections Request System. For more on conducting research in Special Collections, see this page.
Per the County of Riverside Public Health mandate, SCUA will be closed until April 3, 2020, at least. Check here for updates throughout the COVID-19 closure.
For questions, email specialcollections@ucr.edu.
Newly Processed Collections - Spring 2020
Kenneth Turner papers (WRCA 246)
Assorted materials and documents relating to water rights including Tahoe basin, Hetch-Hetchy, and Glen Canyon Dam.
Sierra Club El Dorado Project (WRCA 239)
Collection contains environmental impact statements, correspondence, and court pleadings relating to the El Dorado project (No. 184) of the American River in California.
Homer Aschmann papers (UA 123)
Homer Aschmann was a professor of geography and one of the founding faculty of UCR. This collection contains articles, biographical essays, slides, notes, and other materials pertaining to his academic tenure.
Martin Barnes was a professor of entomology and plant pathology and a member of the founding faculty at UCR. This collections contains articles, slides, newsletters, correspondence, and other materials related to his research.
James M. Wallace papers (UA 341)
James Wallace’s long academic career started at the Citrus Experiment Station and he continued on as a founding faculty member at UCR. He was a renowned expert in citrus virus diseases and this collection contains a variety of materials related to his research career.
This collection contains reports, correspondence, minutes, and other materials documenting the operations of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCR.