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...
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...
Tue, Jun 7, 8:17 am | Social Sciences, Sciences & Engineering, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Digital Scholarship, Collections, Faculty, Humanities, Graduate Students
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...
Thu, Jun 2, 3:50 pm | Student Success, Undergraduate Students
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tue, May 24, 10:13 am |
CEU Press and Liverpool University Press are pleased to announce that nine University of California (UC) campuses, including UC Santa Barbara, have signed up through the California Digital Library (CDL) to their Opening the Future collective funding programs. Under the terms of the deal, these nine...
Mon, May 16, 1:50 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Faculty
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...
