Announcements

Dryad–a data repository for UC Davis researchers

Less than two years ago I wrote a blog post about UC Davis researchers receiving access to a campus instance of the Dash data repository. We added this service to support open data sharing to advance research and to help meet funder and publisher data sharing requirements. So why ...

September 26, 2019 • Vessela Ensberg

Open Access Publishing with Cambridge University Press Begins Today

If you have submitted an article for publication in a Cambridge University Press journal in 2019, you now have the opportunity to make that article open access — freely available for anyone, anywhere to read — without any cost to you, thanks to a new ...

September 19, 2019

Getty Foundation Awards UC Davis DataLab $274,500 to Advance Groundbreaking Image Recognition Technology

The DataLab at the UC Davis Library, led by executive director Carl Stahmer, has been awarded a two-year, $274,500 grant by the Getty Foundation to tackle one of the thorniest problems in image recognition: building a tool to search for and identify images that are similar — though not ...

September 11, 2019 • Jessica Nusbaum

Physical Sciences and Engineering Library to Remain Closed Until Summer 2020

The Physical Sciences and Engineering Library (PSEL), which has been temporarily closed since June 14 to allow for asbestos abatement and installation of fire sprinklers and fire alarms as part of the QMAP Renovations and Seismic Retrofit project, had been scheduled to reopen on September 23 in time for Fall Quarter. ...

September 10, 2019

Time to Renew Your NY Times Access

Last summer we proudly announced that the UC Davis Library now offers all members of our campus community free online access to The New York Times. Our campus-wide license continues, but if you are faculty or staff, you need to re-authenticate yearly to maintain access — so if you signed ...

August 6, 2019

Tips for How to Access Elsevier Articles

Last week, Elsevier discontinued the University of California’s access to 2019 articles, and older articles in some of its journals. Articles published before 2019 in the vast majority of journals used by UC scholars continue to be available via ...

July 15, 2019

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