What is Open Access and Why is the World Bank's Open Access Policy So Significant?
The World Bank will be adopting an Open Access Policy as of July 1, which will make World Bank research freely available online without charge or restrictions, making a wealth of knowledge available to anyone in the world. To underpin this new Open Access policy, the World Bank recently launched the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) as its new home for all of the Bank’s research outputs. In addition, to facilitate use of online content, the Bank became the first major int
City as a Canvas
The Altantic Monthly's "Cities: Place Matters" blog recently highlighted the work of Michael Wallace, a mapping enthusiast and Baltimore 8th grade science teacher.
Wallace uses his smartphone to track the route of meandering bicycle rides. The resulting GPX-tracks form drawings when viewed on top of Google Maps.
The same technique can be used track everything from your workouts to scientific field work.
Stanley K. Sheinbaum Collection Now Available for Research
Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books May 3, 5pm, HSSB 6020
Openness may seem self-evident as a principle of library policy, but libraries have often been closed and the world of knowledge in general has been fenced off by commercial interests intent on making profit at the expense of public good. Commercialization and democratization run through the history of copyright right up to the present, when Google Book Search dramatized the need to strike a proper balance between private profit and public good. The Digital Public Library of America will redress that balance by making the cultural heritage of America
Attention Faculty & Staff: Important Information About Your UCSBnet ID and Password
This only affects faculty and staff whose accounts were activated prior to August 2011. It does not affect students.
eScholarship Book Publishing Solutions Webinar May 3, 2pm, Library Room 1575
The UCSB community is invited to attend a webinar on eScholarship's new print and ebook distribution services, which they are collaborating with Lulu.com on. The services are available to all UC departments and academic units. View the presentation at the Library, or register here to view independently.
MIL Head to Discuss Chinese Research
Spatial@UCSB, as part of its regular lunch time series, ThinkSpatial, will be hosting a research presentation by MIL's director Jon Jablonski. As part of a 2011 Fulbright exchange to the Wuhan University School of Information Management (武汉大学信息管理学院), Jablonski surveyed Chinese students to determine if libraries were an important part of the campus landscape.
The presentation is Tuesday, May 8 at 12:00pm in Ellison Hall room 5824.
Have a Suggestion for the Next UCSB Reads Book?
Read any good books lately? The UCSB Library wants your book suggestions for our 2013 UCSB Reads Program.
The ideal book is intellectually engaging, appeals to a wide range of readers, and presents issues that generate discussion on broader themes. Oh -- and it can't be too long! A good length is around 250-300 pages.
If you have a book you'd like to nominate, send an email to ucsbreads [at] library [dot] ucsb [dot] edu.
Studying Urban Change: the LA Riots 20 years later
After a jury acquitted 3 white and 1 Hispanic Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King, an event caught on videotape, civil unrest caused millions of dollars in property damage to neighborhoods in the South Central section of LA. This set of aerial photographs shows almost the entire city on May 5, 1992. Clearly visible burned out buildings and debris offer striking evidence of the extent of the unrest.
Launch of the Directory of Open Access Books
OAPEN is pleased to announce the launch of the Directory of Open Access Books, a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.
