The UC Santa Barbara Library and La Casa de la Raza have reached a new accord that signals another milestone in the preservation of local community history.
At a public reception July 11 at La Casa de la Raza, representatives from the library and from La Casa signed an agreement that will ensure...
Tue, Jul 23, 10:24 am | UCSB Reads
This summer, read along with the UCSB Reads Committee as they work to select the UCSB Reads 2020 book.
The UCSB Reads Committee has announced the five titles that make up the short list for 2020 consideration. The selections are (in no particular order):
1. "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin
2...
Mon, Jul 22, 12:47 pm | Collections, Faculty, Graduate Students, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
In April 2019, University of California (UC) and Cambridge University Press announced that they had entered into a transformative open access agreement that will give UC authors who publish with Cambridge the opportunity to make their research freely available and advance the global shift toward an...
Fri, Jul 5, 10:59 am | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
An ambitious project to develop new and innovative open access publishing models just got a major funding boost from Research England, and UC Santa Barbara is among the principal partners.
The $3.6 million, three-year project (to be funded with £2.2 million from Research England and £600,00 from...
Melvyl, the UCSB Library's connection to library collections across the UCs and around the world, is getting a new and improved user interface starting Monday, June 17. Melvyl is a discovery platform designed for the UC system that offers the ability to search and request hundreds of millions of...
Mon, Jun 3, 2:42 pm | Student Success
Beginning June 2 and ending June 13, Late Night Study will begin at 6PM. During Late Night Study, the Library is only open to UCSB students, faculty, and staff.
A UCSB Access ID Card is required in order to enter the Library during Late Night Study. Until midnight, just tap your Access Card at the...
Wed, May 22, 7:04 pm | Technology
Some Library users have reported receiving "phishing" emails that seem to come from the UCSB Library. The subject line of the email reads "Library Access Renewal Notification." The body of the message warns that users will lose access to Library services if they do not renew their Library account....
Thu, May 16, 11:32 am | Student Success, Undergraduate Students
For undergraduate scholars and researchers, the UC Santa Barbara Library plays a key role in their academic success. Every day — and in countless ways — students tap into the library’s vast resources and services.
“Our undergrads conduct legitimate research and are in every way functioning as young...
Thu, Apr 25, 4:58 pm | Events, UCSB Reads
What Thi Bui first set out to do was to turn a graduate school oral history project into something more accessible outside academia. Safe to say: she succeeded wildly.
That oral history became the basis for “The Best We Could Do,” Bui’s illustrated memoir documenting her family’s escape from...
Mon, Apr 22, 3:18 pm | Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Public research university, publicly available research. Sounds logical, but that’s not always — or even often — the way it goes. UC Santa Barbara, and the University of California at large, aim to change that.
Affirming its belief that research generated at a public institution should indeed be...
