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- December 16, 2010Back to top
Library Holiday Hours and Hearst Room Closures
Happy Holidays from the UCSF Library! Please take note of our reduced winter hours and closures over the next few weeks.
December 20 - December 23: The libraries at Parnassus and Mission Bay will close early. See details.
December 24 - January 1: All locations will be closed. The Hearst Room will also be closed on Saturday, December 25 and Saturday, January 1.
January 2: The Parnassus Library will reopen at noon. See details.
Photo by Aya Padrón, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
- December 16, 2010Back to top
Scopus: Access Ends December 31
The UC libraries' trial access to Scopus, a medical abstract and citation database, will end on December 31, 2010.
The cancellation is a UC system-wide decision made after extensive review, evaluation, and comparison with competitors. Factors that led to this decision include existing widespread usage of comparable, high-quality databases; high ongoing license costs, without perpetual rights to the data; severe collection budget constraints, including cancellation of some important journal subscriptions; and relatively low usage throughout the trial period.
The UCSF community has found Scopus to be a useful resource, and the Library is investigating ways to license this resource for the UCSF campus. We will continue to support other citation indexes such as Web of Science and Google Scholar.
If you are interested in helping the Library retain this resource, please contact Julia Kochi, Director of Digital Library and Collections at the UCSF Library.
- December 15, 2010Back to top
New Titles in the Library's Collection
View recent acquisitions to the UCSF Library collection.
- December 13, 2010Back to top
TLC Opening Week Events, January 18 - 21
Mark your calendars! The week-long grand opening of UCSF's new Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) will take place from January 18 - 21, 2011. Located on the 2nd floor of the Campus Library, the Center will host four days of tours, demonstrations, and workshops to launch the interprofessional teaching and learning facilities.
During the Center's opening week, we invite you to stop by to see innovative teaching and learning in action and to find out how you can use these facilities to teach, to learn, or simply to be inspired!
For more information and a schedule of activities, visit the TLC website.