More News March 10, 2021

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 run through December 31, 2023. The contract with CSP is the first such agreement for a Canadian journal publisher.

The agreements achieve both of UC’s key goals for transformative open access journal agreements: controlling costs and providing for open access publishing in the full portfolio, including hybrid (subscription-based with open access options) and open access journals of The Royal Society, Canadian Science Publishing, and The Company of Biologists.

UC authors can now publish an unlimited number of research articles immediately open access. The CoB agreement covers all 10 UC campuses, while SCP and The Royal Society agreement are available to all campuses except UCSF. Under the agreement, the UC libraries will automatically pay the first $1,000 of the open access fee, or article processing charge (APC), for all included UC authors who choose to publish in a contracted journal.

Authors are asked to pay the remainder if they have research funds available to do so.

Authors who do not have research funds available can request full funding of the APC from the libraries, ensuring that lack of research funds does not present a barrier for UC authors who wish to publish open access in these journals.

By combining funding from the libraries with authors’ grant funds, the agreement provides a model for how research-intensive institutions can create a sustainable and inclusive path to full open access.

Publishers are exploring how to shift from subscription-based business models to models that make it easier and more affordable for researchers to publish their work open access.

The agreement also provides researchers on participating UC campuses with unlimited access to the full portfolio of Royal Society journals, Canadian Science Publishing journals, and The Company of Biologists’ journals and their archives.

For more detail about these agreements, please see:

• The Royal Society open access agreement
• The Company of Biologists open access agreement
• Canadian Science Publishing open access agreement

About UC’s Transformative Open Access Agreements:

Transformative open access agreements support UC’s mission as a public university and advance the global shift toward sustainable open access publishing by making more UC-authored research articles open to the world, while maintaining journal affordability. UC seeks to partner with publishers of all types, sizes and disciplines to jointly advance a worldwide transition to open access across the entire landscape of scholarly journal publishing. For more on these aims and principles, see UC’s Call to Action for Negotiating Journal Agreements at UC, the UC faculty Academic Senate’s Declaration of Rights and Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication, and UC’s priorities for publisher negotiations.

More News November 30, 2021

Over the past several months, UCR Library has acquired several major online resources.  These electronic resources make a wide variety of full text journals, magazine collections, and primary source collections available to UCR faculty, students, and researchers.  These exciting new acquisitions include:

Emerald Insight https://www.emerald.com/insight/

The Emerald eJournal Premier collection from Emerald Insight includes more than 300,000 full-text articles from 322 journals covering business, science & technology, engineering, social sciences, healthcare, public policy, and library science.  Emerald Publishing journals are double-blind peer-reviewed and reflect Emerald’s mission to inspire positive change in society and addresses real-world problems. 

Art Magazine Archives & Artforum

Art Magazine Collection Archive from Ebsco presents a collection of three leading art magazines — The Magazine ANTIQUES, ARTnews and Art in America — covering contemporary art, visual art, fine arts and more.  Research areas represented in these magazines include ancient art, architecture, art preservation, and contemporary art.  Articles and cover pages are fully indexed and advertisements are individually identified, making this a valuable resource for those studying visual arts, art history, and culture.

Access Art Magazine Archives via EBSCOhost: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&custid=s4138829&groupid=main&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ara

The Artforum (later Artforum International) archive from ProQuest is the digitized version of the leading magazine for coverage of contemporary international art, with content dating back to the magazine’s first issue in 1962 through 2020.  Artforum covers art in all media, from painting, sculpture, and installations, to body art video & audio art, and performance art.  Also covered are related topics such as architecture, film, fashion, music, and photography.

Access the Artforum Archive via ProQuest: https://www.proquest.com/artforum/advanced/arts/fromDatabasesLayer?accountid=14521

 

East India Company Archives: India Office Records from the British Library, 1599-1947

https://www.eastindiacompany.amdigital.co.uk/

The East India Company archives from Adam Matthew Digital offers access to a unique collection covering the entirety of classes IOR/A, B, C, D, E and G of the India Office Records held at the British Library, London.  Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.

From the Company’s charter in 1600 to Indian independence in 1947, East India Company tells the story of trade with the East; politics; and the rise and fall of the British Empire. It records the challenges of a globalising world and sheds light on many contrasting narratives – from records of powerful political figures, through to the lives of native populations and the individual traders who lived and worked at the edge of Empire.

For an overview of what is included in the archive, see https://www.amdigital.co.uk/primary-sources/east-india-company.

More News April 17, 2023

The UCR Library acquired access to several primary source archives from Gale and AM, formerly known as Adam Matthew Digital.

New resources from Gale:

• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive 

  Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the late 19th century. The archive consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts, and maps from many different countries covering the history of the slave trade.

• Native American Studies from Archives Unbound 

  Collection of primary sources and more sourced from the following archives:

  • Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries' Letters, 1833-1893

  • American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism

  • Meriam Report on Indian Administration and the Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the U.S.

  • The Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company

  • The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824

• Indigenous Peoples of North America, Part 2 

  Primary source collection for research into the cultural, political, and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The UCR Library has access to parts 1 & 2.

New resources from AM:

• Colonial Caribbean: Colonial Office Files from The National Archives, UK

  Stretching from Jamaica and the Bahamas to Trinidad and Tobago, Colonial Caribbean makes available materials from 27 Colonial Office file classes from The National Archives, UK. Covering the history of the various territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870, this extensive resource includes administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, minutes of council meetings, and details of plantation life, colonial settlement, imperial rivalries across the region, and the growing concern of absentee landlords.

• Confidential Print: Latin America

  This collection consists of the Confidential Print for Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Topics covered include slavery and the slave trade, immigration, relations with indigenous peoples, wars and territorial disputes, the fall of the Brazilian monarchy, British business and financial interests, industrial development, the building of the Panama Canal, and the rise to power of populist rulers such as Perón in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil.

• Empire Studies from AM Scholar 

  This collection offers a rich array of primary and secondary sources for the study of the British Empire. It features material on British colonial policy and government; perspectives on life in British colonies; the relationship between gender and empire; race; and class.

• Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive

  The Stationers’ Company Archive is one of the most important resources for understanding the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, and the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. Explore extremely rare documents dating from 1554 to the 21st century in this resource of research material for historians and literary scholars.

• Medieval and Early Modern Studies from AM Scholar 

  This collection provides a wide range of primary sources covering social, cultural, political, scientific, and religious perspectives from the 12th to early18th centuries. Document types include illuminated manuscripts, personal papers, diaries and letters, rare books, receipt books, and manuscript sheet music. The breadth of sources provided within this collection is extraordinary, from sources concerning the Black Death to the Restoration of the English monarchy and the Glorious Revolution.

• Medieval Family Life: The Paston, Cely, Plumpton, Stonor and Armburgh Papers

  Includes five major letter collections and associated manuscripts from fifteenth-century England, which take the user into the world of medieval families, businesses, relationships, trade, politics and communities. Medieval Family Life presents full-color images of the original medieval manuscripts of which these letter collections are constituted, alongside fully searchable transcriptions drawn from available printed editions.

• Medieval Travel Writing

  Medieval Travel Writing is an extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The core of the material is a collection of medieval manuscripts from libraries around the world, dating from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries and focusing on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. Texts include some of the most influential prose works of the late Middle Ages – notably the books of Marco Polo and ‘Sir John Mandeville’ – but also important items by lesser-known authors such as John of Plano Carpini and Odoric of Pordenone.

• Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive

  Nineteenth Century Literary Society makes available more than 1,400 items from the archive of the historic John Murray publishing company. Primary source materials span the entirety of the long nineteenth century and document the golden era of the House of Murray from its inception in 1768. Records digitized in this resource predominantly focus on the tenure of John Murray II and his son, John Murray III, as they rose to prominence in the publishing trade, launching long-running series including the political periodical Quarterly Review, and publishing genre-defining titles such as Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Austen’s Emma and Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.

• Race Relations in America

  Sourced from the records of the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, housed at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, this resource provides access to a wealth of documents highlighting different responses to the challenges of overcoming prejudice, segregation and racial tensions. These range from survey material, including interviews and statistics, to educational pamphlets, administrative correspondence, and photographs and speeches from the Annual Race Relations Institutes.

More News May 16, 2019

Digitization Services continuously works to digitize library collections in an ongoing effort to preserve and improve access to library holdings for use by students, faculty, and others.

The UCR Library utilizes the Calisphere digital collections platform to provide free online access to our unique and historically important materials for research, teaching, and exploration. There are currently more than 18,000 digital items from the UCR Library available on Calisphere, https://calisphere.org/UCR/collections/.

Below you’ll find brief descriptions and links to those digital collections that have been recently launched online.

 

Edith Hipkins collection of British artists' letters (MS 268)

This complete digital collection contains correspondence from numerous British artists, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, received and collected by British painter Edith Hipkins.

https://calisphere.org/collections/10001/

 

Samuel C. Evans collection on the Riverside Land and Irrigation Company (MS 001)

This complete digital collection contains documents pertaining to water rights and land ownership in Riverside and San Bernardino counties during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes materials pertaining to the Jurupa Ditch and Trujillo Ditch companies, the Riverside Land and Irrigation Company, and the Bandini Donation.

https://calisphere.org/collections/7007/

 

Tuskegee Airmen collection (MS 176)

This digital collection contains select images and oral histories pertaining to the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who served in World War II as part of the Unites States Army Air Corps.

https://calisphere.org/collections/23034/

 

University of California, Riverside, sound and video recordings (UA 373)

The collection consists of select audio recordings documenting various events held on the UC Riverside campus including the 1954 Dedication of the University of California College of Letters and Sciences at Riverside and on-campus lectures delivered by Ray Bradbury, Alex Haley, and others.

https://calisphere.org/collections/27299/

More News February 24, 2022

More News February 07, 2018

Entrepreneur-in-residence and UC Riverside instructor Jay Gilberg has enjoyed using the Creat’R Lab to mentor aspiring innovators who are part of the NSF I-Corps Startups for Innovators Program at UCR.

“I love helping people to achieve their dreams by creating a business,” Gilberg explained. “It’s important to nurture entrepreneurship in a university setting. The average person at a university is brighter and their ideas are more original and creative and perhaps more world-changing than the people who are just trying to create their own job.”

Through mentoring, he also wants to set the record straight on what the path to entrepreneurship really looks like. “There’s so much misconception and misrepresentation on TV about what goes into starting a business. You don’t start out doing something like Shark Tank,” Gilberg chuckled. “Startups are a lot of work. I’ve done a few of them, and it’s not for the lazy.”

In 2009, Gilberg sold his staffing industry company ABCOW Services, Inc., which he had built from the ground up and grown into an Inc. 500 company, a designation granted to the 500 fastest-growing, privately owned companies in the US over a five-year period. Currently, he owns a real estate business, in addition to his work with UC Riverside.

Gilberg sees the Creat’R Lab as the on-campus starting point for students who are interested in dipping a toe into UCR’s entrepreneurial culture, a place where people from all fields of study can mix and mingle to forge new relationships that support innovation, exploration, and collaboration.

Recently, Gilberg, Interim Director of EPIC (Entrepreneurial Proof of Concept and Innovation Center) Mark Leibowitz, and entrepreneur-in-residence Alexandra Orozco have decided to offer weekly “ask an expert” drop-in office hours in the Creat’R Lab’s Mentoring Room for students who think they have an idea worth exploring. In the near future, Gilberg hopes to see the Creat’R Lab enhance its technology to facilitate live group webinars with off-campus guest experts and distance mentoring.

If students enjoy their experience at the Creat’R Lab, then Gilberg says their next step in the entrepreneurial journey at UCR could be the Startups for Innovators workshop, which he teaches with Leibowitz to bridge the gap from theory to practice in business development.

UCR's NSF I-Corps program was established in 2017 thanks to a $500,000 five-year grant awarded to Associate Vice Chancellor for Technology Partnerships Rosibel Ochoa and Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development Gillian Wilson by the National Science Foundation. Before coming to UCR, Gilberg, Leibowitz and Ochoa had previously worked together at UC San Diego’s I-Corps site.

After completing the I-Corps workshop or other academic coursework, Gilberg explained, students can apply to work with either EPIC, which provides one-on-one mentoring with the entrepreneurs in residence, or ExCITE, a 6-12 month accelerator program that nurtures new technology startups and creates more high-tech jobs in the county of Riverside.

The Creat’R Lab opened in Orbach Science Library in April 2017.

More News September 18, 2019

In order to provide our Faculty and students with an up-to-date progressive library collections discovery interface, the UCR Library made a major transition to a new catalog interface last year.

While this new interface provides us with a robust system, including opportunities for innovative features in the future, there are a couple of known issues which the company supplying the interface is currently working on rectifying. One such issue affects your ability to view our full electronic journal and book holdings easily when you perform a search.

When the library owns both an electronic copy of a journal through its UC-wide subscription and a local print copy of an item, the system is not overlaying correctly and results in the appearance that we either do not have the electronic item or the electronic version appears far down in the list.

This does NOT affect journals which we have purchased locally.

Temporary solutions

First try clicking on the “available online” option from the facet menu on the left hand side; this will sometimes ensure the electronic journal is at the forefront, other times it remains further down the results list.

If you are looking for a specific e-journal, try our A-Z journals list at ucelinks.cdlib.org/sfx_ucr/az. 

If you are still unable to access the items you are looking for, please contact Carla Arbagey, Collection Strategist for Arts & Humanities and E-resources lead.

Ex Libris, the company, providing our catalog interface, has stated that this issue will be fixed in November 2019.

More News January 22, 2018

Rancho Mirage based novelist Michael Craft has generously donated his papers and professional archive to the UCR Library’s Special Collections department.

Craft has published 14 novels, including the highly acclaimed Mark Manning mystery series, three of which were honored as finalists for the Gay Men’s Mystery genre by the Lambda Literary Awards (Name Games in 2001, Boy Toy in 2002, and Hot Spot in 2003).

University Librarian Steven Mandeville-Gamble recently discovered Craft’s works, read every single book, enjoyed them immensely, and purchased a complete, partially autographed set for our Special Collections and University Archives.

Mandeville-Gamble and Director of Distinctive Collections Cherry Williams both felt that Craft’s papers would be an excellent addition to the library’s collections, expanding the list of notable authors’ papers that we currently hold while also diversifying the collection into a different and very interesting genre.

"Over the years, I'd been building a private archive of correspondence and such related to my writing, wondering what would become of it. So when UCR reached out, asking if I would consider donating my professional papers, it was an easy answer: an instant yes,” Craft said. “I’m truly honored to join the company of noted authors who are archived in the University of California’s library system.”

“The UCR Library is honored that Michael Craft has chosen UCR as the home for his literary papers,” Mandeville-Gamble added. “As a multiple award-nominated author of mystery fiction set in Chicago, Wisconsin, and the Coachella Valley, having his papers come to UCR helps ensure that the UCR Library is a key partner in preserving the cultural and literary history of the Inland Southern California region and in documenting the creative output of the people of this unique region.”

More News October 30, 2017

Special Collections & University Archives staff 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 UCR Library's newly processed archival and primary source collections. Check out the list below 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.

SCUA is open to the public on weekdays from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. Check here for closures or other changes to our regular hours.

For questions, email specialcollections@ucr.edu.

Newly Processed Collections – Fall 2017

More News July 22, 2020

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 UCR includes the journals, Science Core modules, Science Education Modules, and the Lab Manual.

“This provides the UCR campus with a tremendous amount of engaging and well-presented video content in subjects such as chemistry, the biological sciences, medicine, engineering, earth science, physics, psychology, and environmental sciences,” said Michele Potter, Collection Strategist for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

Filmed at the world’s top scientific institutions, JoVE videos bring to life cutting-edge experiments, enable replication of new research methods and technologies, and empower effective pedagogy for science concepts and laboratory methods. They also support quick in-depth comprehension of complex STEM subjects to increase student engagement and learning outcomes, and support innovative teaching initiatives such as blended learning and flipped classroom.

JoVE was co-founded by a stem cell lab researcher at Princeton University, Moshe Pritsker, shortly after finishing his Ph.D., transforming 450 years of scientific publishing tradition. A decade later, JoVE remains the first and only peer-reviewed scientific video journal, releasing more than 100 new videos every month.

The UCR Library’s subscription will run through September 2021. For more Information, contact Michele Potter.