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New E-Resource: Press Enterprise Digital Collection (1878-Current)
The UCR Library recently acquired full access to the Press-Enterprise historical newspaper in digital format, via NewsBank.
The Press-Enterprise digital collection contains full access to the newspaper from 1878 to today, including important local and regional historic information, and includes photographs, images, and advertisements. UCR students, faculty, staff, and researchers can access the digital collection here.
ICYMI: You no longer need to use the Campus VPN to access our e-resources (like the Press-Enterprise Digital Collection) from off-campus. We've implemented OpenAthens and as a result, you can access the UCR Library’s licensed resources with our Central Authentication Service (CAS), using just your UCR NetID and password—no extra steps needed. Find out more about OpenAthens here.
History
The College of Letters and Science Library (later renamed to the Tomás Rivera Library) was one of the original five buildings at UCR. Designed by Graham Latta and Carl Denny, the building was completed in December 1953 and opened when classes began at UCR in February 1954. The original 33,000 volume collection consisted of the Citrus Experiment Station library and materials compiled by Edwin T. Coman Jr., UCR's first University Librarian, to support the university's undergraduate teaching program.
Support the UCR Library at Rare Books Palm Springs
The UCR Library's Special Collections & University Archives is thrilled to be a cultural partner for Rare Books Palm Springs.
This antiquarian book festival is brought to you by Rare Books LA and will be held May 20 - 21 at The Hotel Zoso, located in the heart of Palm Springs' vibrant downtown with shopping, dining, and galleries right outside the door.
The proceeds from the opening night cocktail reception will benefit a variety of charitable organizations, including the UCR Library’s Special Collections & University Archives!
Opening night tickets are $25, include a glass of wine, and 100 percent of the proceeds benefit our Special Collections & University Archives when you purchase them using this special Eventbrite link.
All state and local health regulations will be followed, so face masks and proof of vaccination or negative Covid test may be required.
We hope to see you there!
Rivera Welcomes New Business Librarian
UCR Library is pleased to welcome a new Business Librarian Swati Bhattacharyya to the Rivera Reference team.
Swati joins us from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where she has led the business school’s library since 1994. She holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in information studies and technology from Syracuse University, a Master’s degree in computer applications from Indira Gandhi National Open University, and an Associateship in documentation and information science from the Indian Statistical Institute.
Swati’s primary responsibilities will be to liaise with students and faculty in the School of Business and Anderson Graduate School of Management, serve as the subject specialist for business and economics, and participate in the ongoing projects and services of Rivera Reference.
Drive-up book return now available on West Campus Drive
Beginning Mon. May 24, patrons can return UCR Library resources quickly and conveniently, without needing to pay for parking.
The UCR Library has installed a new drive-up book return that is clearly visible from West Campus Drive on the south end of Lot 1, near the blue emergency call box.
When the library launched its Contact-Free Curbside Delivery program in June 2020, patrons could pick up physical library materials, despite the COVID-19 pandemic-related closure of both library buildings. This central afternoon contact-free pick-up service still required most patrons to park in order to return their items outside of specified hours.
The idea of a drive-up book deposit manifested from faculty and students' requests, primarily from those located on the west side of campus, right before the pandemic. The need for this service gained importance with the advent of curbside delivery and planning for increased patrons in fall quarter 2021. Patrons frequently want contactless drop-off, convenient drop-off hours, and reduced cost through not needing to pay for parking to return items.
This drive-up book return will provide a user-friendly and simple way for all UCR faculty, students, and staff to return library materials, even after the campus reopens.
Teaching Information Literacy @ UCR
UCR Library contributes to the development of information literacy through engaging course-related instruction, embedding in extracurricular experiences, and in close collaboration with campus resources for excellence in teaching. As experts in IL instruction, the Department of Teaching and Learning also offers a suite of services for developing IL teaching and assessment across campus. An evolving resource, this IL Teaching Toolkit highlights:
Grant Support
The UCR Library is an active participant in getting grants for the University and its researchers.
The campus-wide Proposal Development Collaborative Group includes a librarian who coordinates information for research grant proposals about library services supporting data management, open access, proposal development, and funder requirements.
New California-wide transformative open access agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS)
We are very pleased to announce the University of California’s transformative open access agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS), the fourth largest publisher of scholarly journal articles by researchers in the UC system.
Through this agreement UC-affiliated corresponding authors will receive support for open access publication in ACS’ portfolio of over 75 premier chemistry journals.
The agreement is ACS’ first consortial “read and publish” agreement in the United States, and the first such partnership between UC, the California State University system libraries, and 25 members from SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium), a resource-sharing group of private academic institutions.
Through this agreement, the institutions will redirect subscription expenditures to help cover open access publication charges for their affiliated authors — enabling hundreds of researchers at nearly 60 institutions across California to publish open access at a discounted rate in any ACS journal.
What the agreement means for UC authors: Under the agreement, all UC corresponding authors who choose to publish open access in an ACS journal can do so by paying a single, discounted APC (article processing charge) of $3,000. Authors who do not have research funds available to pay the $3,000 APC can request full funding of the APC from the UC libraries, ensuring that lack of research funds does not present a barrier for UC authors who wish to publish open access with ACS.
The agreement will apply to articles accepted from January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2025, but the workflow will be in place July 1, 2022. For articles accepted between January 1 and July 1, 2022 ACS will reach out to authors to ask them retrospectively about this choice.
UC affiliated scholars and students will also have full reading access to all ACS publications.
"Free and open access to academic research is critical to the acceleration of new discoveries," says Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, university librarian and professor at UC Berkeley, and co-chair of UC’s negotiation team. "This unique partnership will give Californians and people around the world unprecedented access to the knowledge created by our institutions as we seek to solve some of the world's most pressing environmental, health and scientific problems."
You can find the ACS press release here.
For detailed information about the ACS agreement visit the UC web pages (with FAQs) or contact Tiffany Moxham, AUL for Content and Discovery.
George Brown Papers Now Open for Research
On Thursday, November 17, 2016, UCR Library announced the opening of the George Brown Papers for scholarly research.
A private reception held on the first floor of Tomás Rivera Library honored Congressman George Brown’s life and work and recognized how his legacy will continue to serve future generations through this collection. Attendees included Brown’s widow, Marta Macias Brown, who had worked extensively with library employees to help make this collection available to the public.
“The wealth of materials in the papers will prove a fantastic resource for researchers interested in public policy, local history, the legislative process, and a number of economic, environmental, and social issues,” stated Collections Management Librarian Jessica Geiser. Geiser was first hired as a project archivist for the George Brown collection in September 2014. She led a team of students that documented their two-year long effort to organize and catalog this extensive assortment of primary source materials.
The collection includes over 1,000 boxes of professional and personal papers, photographs, audiovisual and digital materials, memorabilia, and more. Geiser and her team put great effort into ensuring easy access to the collection through the online finding aid. Resources on federal science and technology policy, environmental protection efforts including water and air pollution regulation, alternative fuel and energy development, land preservation and protection efforts, and climate change prevention are housed on the fourth floor of Rivera Library in Special Collections & University Archives. Materials are available for review in the reading room.
University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble remarked, “George Brown was a great example of someone who could collaborate across party lines while working toward the greater good, which serves as a wonderful reminder of what is needed most during times of great change, like those we are currently experiencing.”
In many ways, Brown was a visionary whose contributions were ahead of his time. Brown was elected to the United States House of Representatives to represent the Los Angeles region from 1963 to 1971, and the Inland Empire from 1973 until his death in 1999. Noteworthy accomplishments during Brown’s 34-year tenure include the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Office of Science Technology Policy, scholarships for veterans, and Section 8 housing for low-income citizens.
Rise, Serve, Lead! America’s Women Physicians
View the National Library of Medicine (NLM) produced Rise, Serve, Lead! America’s Women Physicians in the Orbach Library.
The traveling banner exhibition and companion website highlight the lives and achievements of women physicians in the U.S. who have made a difference through their medical practice and research, work as activists, service as administrators, and mentorship to the next generation of doctors. Rise, Serve, Lead! includes a selection of the women featured in the 2003 NLM exhibition Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, encouraging today’s audiences to connect with the work of these pioneers.
The companion website showcases the biographies of more than 300 women doctors who have made their mark on the profession. The online exhibition also includes an education component with a K-12 lesson plan about first woman doctor Elisabeth Blackwell, and a digital gallery that features a curated selection of fully digitized items from the historical collections of the NLM, which are also available in their entirety in NLM Digital Collections.
The National Library of Medicine produced this exhibition and companion website. The request for hosting this exhibit was submitted to NLM by our Medical Librarian Elisa Cortez resulting in the UCR Library being chosen as a host institution.
| Event | Rise, Serve, Lead! America’s Women Physicians |
| Location | Orbach Science Library, 1st Floor (atrium area) |
| Dates | Tuesday, January 9 - February 17, 2024 |
| Hours |
View this exhibit during the Library's operating hours. Please note, we will be closed on Monday, January 15. For library hours, visit library.ucr.edu/about/hours or view below. Monday - Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. |
| 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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