Dream Lab Hex
Tue, Aug 23, 2:53 pm | DREAM Lab
The Data, Research, Exploration, Access & Methods (DREAM) Lab, formerly known as the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, is a Library initiative to help UCSB scholars learn new skills, access specialized computational resources, and build data collections. Established in 2016 and led by...
Dream Lab Hex
Tue, Aug 2, 12:46 pm | DREAM Lab
The Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory at UCSB Library is now DREAM Lab. Our mission hasn’t changed: We support data-intensive research, experimentation and learning with new technologies, and access to advanced computational methods for students, faculty, and staff across the campus. Our new...
This is What Open Access Looks Like!
The University of California announced two new open access publishing agreements today. The first supports open access publishing with the technical professional organization IEEE, which is among the largest publishers of UC research. The other is an extension of UC’s 2020 agreement with Springer...
UCSB Reads 23 Sneak Peek book covers
Fri, Jun 24, 1:17 pm | UCSB Reads
The UCSB Reads selection committee is pleased to announce its shortlist of titles under consideration for UCSB Reads 2023. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction titles that explore subjects ranging from racism in science, fast food and civil rights, urban design, Black women’s history, and...
Sage cover images
The University of California has entered into a two-year transformative open access agreement with SAGE Publishing. The agreement runs from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2024, and covers open access publishing and reading access to SAGE’s hybrid and fully open access journals. The agreement...
Library Award for Undergraduate Research Logo
On June 2, 2022, six students were recognized at the fourth annual Library Award for Undergraduate Research (LAUR) ceremony. The awardees demonstrated deep engagement with the Library’s collections, resources, and services while producing a scholarly or creative work. To be eligible for the award,...
Self Help Graphics image
Wed, Jun 1, 5:29 pm |
The California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, also known as CEMA, consists of a wide array of collections that represent the cultural, artistic, ethnic, gender, and racial diversity that characterizes California’s population. Overseen by curator Angel Diaz, the primary source materials...
Rendering of library building looking toward SRC
Wed, Jun 1, 5:22 pm | Special Research Collections, Faculty
UC Santa Barbara is the proud home of some of the most cutting edge and prominent research, supported by faculty members who are leaders in their respective fields. In an effort to preserve decades of this institutional knowledge and impact, Special Research Collections (SRC) places particular...
Henri Temianka
Fri, May 27, 11:35 am | Special Research Collections
In 2018, the Henri Temianka Audio Preservation Lab (the “Lab”) and its supporting endowment, the Henri Temianka Audio Preservation Fund, were established at the UC Santa Barbara Library by Drs. Daniel Temianka and Zeinab Dabbah. The Lab, named after the renowned violinist and leader of the Paganini...
Illustration of simple web pages showing link rot and perma.cc snapshot of web content
Did you know that most links on the web become non-resolvable after 100 days and that about 70% of news-related links disappear within a day? Even if this alarmingly short lifespan is news to you, we bet you’ve probably encountered a 404 error before (if not multiple times), meaning that the...

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