On July 24, 2013, the Academic Senate of the University of California passed an Open Access Policy.  The policy ensures that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge.  Articles will be available to the public via eScholarship (UC’s open access repository) in tandem with their publication in scholarly journals. Previously, publishers had sole control of the distribution of these articles.

Fencing is being erected around the Library this week to mark off the construction site in preparation for groundbreaking. Please note that the Library remains open despite the large fence surrounding the perimeter. The fencing will be completed by the end of this week and will remain in place for the duration of the 2.5 year building project. Entrance to the Library is through the main (West) doors only during this time. A map of the site perimeter can be found here.

In the late eighteenth century the British East India Company became the dominant foreign power in the Indian subcontinent following a series of

LandScan is the finest resolution global population distribution data available and represents an ambient population (average over 24 hours) at 1km resolution (30"x30"). Annual datasets for the years 2000 through 2011 can be accessed via a web map or downloaded in their entirety.

More information is available on the Library's LandScan database information page.

July 26 is the deadline for entering works into the first annual UCSB Art of Science Competition, which is being organized by the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships at CNSI and the Schuller Lab. The Library will be displaying the competition finalists in its first floor gallery.