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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.
- November 18, 2010Back to top
Cross-Database Search to Be Decommissioned
The Library has been running a pilot of UCSF Cross-Database Search, a tool that retrieves results from many journals and databases simultaneously. This two-year pilot will come to an end on December 31, and the service will not be continued at this point in time due to cost and low usage.
If you've used Cross-Database Search and would like to provide feedback, or you would like to be notified if we offer a similar product in the future, please contact us.
- November 8, 2010Back to top
New Titles in the Library's Collection
View recent acquisitions to the UCSF Library collection.
- November 3, 2010Back to top
Music in the Library: The Matt Small and Steve Adams Duo
Matt Small is hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a gifted San Francisco bassist and composer whose alluringly original music draws on a rich range of classical, jazz, and indigenous music.” Small currently leads three distinct ensembles: The Crushing Spiral Ensemble, Matt Small’s Chamber Ensemble, and The Bedlam Royals. Saxophone and flute player Steve Adams teaches at Mills College and is a member of the Rova Saxophone Quartet.
There will be light refreshments and free chair massages (first-come, first-served).
Wednesday, November 17, noon-1 p.m.
Lange Room
Free admissionPresented by Campus Life Services Arts & Events and sponsored by the Sarah B. Childs Fund.
- October 22, 2010Back to top
Improved UCSF Library Catalog
We have refreshed the UCSF Library Catalog. In addition to better design and layout, you will notice new features like:
- Visual icons indicating type of material – web, print, etc.
- Permanent links for individual items
- A new search tab for course reserves
- Additional sorting options
- Advanced search tab where you can apply limits before searching
Take a look at the new Library Catalog. If you have questions about using the catalog, Ask Us.
- October 20, 2010Back to top
TLC Opening Week Events, January 18 - 21
You are cordially invited to visit UCSF's new Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) during our week-long grand opening, 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.
- October 15, 2010Back to top
UCSF Library Marks Open Access Week, October 18-24
Join the UCSF Library as we participate in the third annual Open Access Week from October 18-24. Learn about the benefits of open access publishing, which provides peer-reviewed journal articles free of charge on the web, making them easier to cite and to utilize in subsequent research.
At UCSF, we'll host information tables during the lunch hour in Saunders Court on October 19, at Genentech Hall on October 20, and at the SFGH Barnett-Briggs Library on October 21. We'll be giving out free cookies, buttons, t-shirts, and more -- so stop by and talk to us about how to change scholarly publishing.
Read more about Open Access Week in UCSF Today. You can also watch the Open Access Week 2010 Kick-Off Event, with a keynote by Dr. Harold Varmus (Dr. Varmus's remarks begin 7 minutes into the video).