Mon, Feb 10, 8:16 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The University of California (UC) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) are pleased to announce a novel multi-year Subscribe to Open (S2O) agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC corresponding authors to publishing open access with ASM.
Under this new agreement,...
Fri, Feb 7, 8:02 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Effective January 1, 2025, the University of California (UC) and the open access publisher Copernicus Publications entered into a 1-year open access agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish in Copernicus journals. The new agreement with Copernicus expands...
Tue, Jan 14, 1:44 pm | Art & Architecture, Collections, Faculty, Gifts & Donors, Music, Services, Student Success, Technology
Culminates multiyear effort to unite Library collections and services in central, state-of-the-art space
This article was originally published in UCSB’s The Current.
The newly opened Sara Miller McCune Arts Library at UC Santa Barbara culminates a multiyear effort to unite library collections and...
Wed, Nov 20, 8:18 am | Digital Scholarship, Faculty, Graduate Students, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
New tool enables UC authors to look up journals covered by UC’s open access publishing agreements
The University of California (UC) has launched the Journal Open Access Lookup Tool (JOLT), a new service designed specifically for UC authors to easily determine if a journal qualifies under one of UC’...
Fri, Nov 15, 9:06 am | Art & Architecture, Collections, Faculty, Gifts & Donors, Music, Services, Student Success, Technology
The new Sara Miller McCune Arts Library will open to the public on Monday, December 2.
The creation of this thoughtfully designed and vibrant new space with state-of-the-art technology on the main Library’s 1st floor Mountain Side was made possible by the generosity of philanthropist, arts lover,...
New requirements from funding agencies and publishers to improve the reproducibility of scientific results, and to ensure that data and code products of grant-funded research are "Fair, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR)," have sparked an open science revolution. While the benefits of...
Wed, Oct 16, 8:41 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
In celebration of Open Access Week 2024 (October 21 - 27), the UCSB Library spoke to Mark Clemente, the Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager at California Digital Library (CDL), about the University of California's Transformative Agreements with scholarly journal publishers.
The UCSB Library...
Thu, Sep 19, 9:09 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
Memorandum of understanding signed for four-year agreement that will empower more UC authors to share their scholarship openly with the world
The University of California (UC) and Taylor & Francis today announced a memorandum of understanding for a four-year read and publish agreement that will...
The interface of the database list on the Library homepage will change on Tuesday, September 17. Library website users who click on the “Articles & Databases” button or the “Articles & Databases” link in the main navigation menu will be redirected to the new interface, https://guides....
Mon, Jul 15, 7:48 am | Faculty, Gifts & Donors, Sciences & Engineering, Special Research Collections
The UC Santa Barbara Library has acquired the faculty papers of Nobel Laureate and notable professor emeritus Herbert Kroemer (1928–2024). The collection was donated by his daughters, Ursula Leimbach and Angela Sherwin, and contains research and teaching papers, ephemera and digital materials...
