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Self-registration now available for all new library cards
October 21st, 2009 by Phoebe AyersIn addition to the student self registration service implemented last year, UC Davis faculty and staff can now activate their library privileges online.
You can register from work or home. Log in at http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/register using your Kerberos ID and password. Your employee ID card will be activated for library privileges within one working day. Your ID card is your library card, and the barcode number (starting with 2117..) is your library card number.
As always, staff at the circulation desks are available to assist with any problems you may encounter in the registration process.
PSE Library moving into Shields by 2011
October 21st, 2009 by Karen AndrewsThis is an important update on the future of the UC Davis Physical Sciences & Engineering Library.
To meet its budget reduction goals, the UCD Library will downsize from 4 to 3 locations. By July 1, 2011, the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library collections, staff, and services will be integrated into the Shields Library, primarily on the 3rd floor. You may view the full UC Davis Office of Research, Management and Planning recommendations for the General Library.
To make space for the move, much of the biological and agricultural sciences collection, currently on 3rd floor of Shields Library, will be relocated and integrated into the Carlson Health Sciences Library building to form a health, life sciences, and agriculture collection. This redistribution of science collections will optimize the amount of unique print library materials that can be kept on campus.
We are developing criteria for what will stay on campus and what will go to the NRLF (Northern Regional Library Facility, the UC Libraries storage building in Richmond.) NRLF staff provide rapid web delivery of journal articles, while books and journal volumes are delivered to campus in 2 days. In the fall, we will share the criteria for storing items and seek broad input.
This outcome is a difficult one for all of us, and we will work with you to continue providing the best possible configuration of collections and services that you have come to expect from the PSE Library staff.
Comments may be sent to Karen Andrews at: klandrews@ucdavis.edu. I welcome your comments.
Open Access publishing event, October 20
October 19th, 2009 by Phoebe AyersThe California Digital Library has some new and wonderful electronic publishing services that you may want to use!
Representatives are coming to campus tomorrow as part of Open Access Week events to describe ways you can disseminate your research, hold on to your rights as authors, and preserve your scholarly output for the ages… all for free. Everyone is welcome to attend this presentation.
What: “Take Control of Your Publications with eScholarship”, presented by Catherine Mitchell, director of the California Digital Library Publishing Group at the University of California
When: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Where: Shields Library, Second Floor Instruction Room (turn left off the stairs)
About:
- Keep your copyright
- Reach more readers
- Publish when you want
- Protect your work’s future
- …all with no fees
eScholarship offers a robust open access publishing platform that enables departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship, including:
- Journals
- Conference Proceedings
- Books
- Working Papers
- Postprints
- Seminar/Paper Series
Initiated in 2002, eScholarship now houses over 30,000 publications with more than 9 million full-text downloads to date. The rate of usage of these materials has grown dramatically in the past 7 years, now often exceeding 170,000 downloads per month.
Come learn how you can get started publishing with eScholarship today!