Wed, Nov 20, 8:18 am | Digital Scholarship, Faculty, Graduate Students, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
New tool enables UC authors to look up journals covered by UC’s open access publishing agreements
The University of California (UC) has launched the Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT), a new service designed specifically for UC authors to easily determine if a journal qualifies under one of UC’...
Tue, Nov 19, 2:24 pm | Gifts & Donors, Special Research Collections
UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections (SRC) is often cited as a source in research papers, album releases, and monographs, but rarely does it appear in films. SRC recently made its film debut in a provocative documentary, Monkey on a Stick: Murder, Madness and the Hare Krishnas, directed by...
Fri, Nov 15, 9:06 am | Art & Architecture, Collections, Faculty, Gifts & Donors, Music, Services, Student Success, Technology
The new Sara Miller McCune Arts Library will open to the public on Monday, December 2.
The creation of this thoughtfully designed and vibrant new space with state-of-the-art technology on the main Library’s 1st floor Mountain Side was made possible by the generosity of philanthropist, arts lover,...
Thanks to generous support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, UC Santa Barbara Library recently completed a project to digitize portions of its historical sound recording collection of recordings made by Columbia Records in Italy between 1923 and 1950. During this golden age of Italian...
Tue, Nov 12, 4:39 pm | Gifts & Donors, Special Research Collections
At the intersection of Hollywood’s Golden Age and the rugged spirit of the American West stands the Carey family, a long line of entertainers who profoundly shaped the film industry in the 20th century and significantly contributed to the history and evolution of the Western cinema genre. The...
Fri, Nov 1, 9:32 am | UCSB Reads
The UC Santa Barbara Library and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor are pleased to announce the selection of the 2025 UCSB Reads book, The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay.
Now in its 19th year, UCSB Reads is an award-winning program that brings the campus and Santa Barbara communities...
New requirements from funding agencies and publishers to improve the reproducibility of scientific results, and to ensure that data and code products of grant-funded research are "Fair, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)," have sparked an open science revolution. While the benefits of...
Wed, Oct 16, 8:41 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
In celebration of Open Access Week 2024 (October 21 - 27), the UCSB Library spoke to Mark Clemente, the Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager at California Digital Library (CDL), about the University of California's Transformative Agreements with scholarly journal publishers.
The UCSB Library...
Thu, Sep 19, 9:09 am |
Memorandum of understanding signed for four-year agreement that will empower more UC authors to share their scholarship openly with the world
The University of California (UC) and Taylor & Francis today announced a memorandum of understanding for a four-year read and publish agreement that will...
The new Arts Library is opening in late fall quarter.
Art & Architecture and Music print collections are inaccessible for public browsing until the opening of the Arts Library but can be requested via UC Library Search.
Music CDs (XCD) and LPs (XL2) now circulate outside of the Library with a...
