Library facilities will be closed until further notice, but see Teaching and Learning Continuity for help with remote instruction and learning.
We are ending our RefWorks subscription on 30 June 2020. If you rely on RefWorks and have information you want to keep, now is the time to export that information
Micromedex is a drug database often compared to LexiComp. It is a complex set of drug information resources packaged together, and it provides depth and breadth in the search for
The HathiTrust.org Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) has opened up copyrighted material in the HathiTrust digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. UC
Do you have questions about how to get help from the library during the closure? We’re here for you! Drop into the library via Zoom to hear about teaching and
Remote online access to reliable scholarly research is essential during the Coronavirus crisis, and many publishers are responding by lifting access restrictions to some or all of their content. These
Keeping up with developments on scientific information about this evolving crisis is challenging. Here are some recommended sources. LitCovid LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about
UCSF Library plans to end our subscription to RefWorks on 30 June 2020. Why is this happening? UCSF Library has a long-standing subscription to RefWorks. In the last two years we have received
I am pleased to announce that Micquel Little has been appointed Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Research and Learning. She holds a BA and MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh
Good news for the adventurous of you who use Zotero as a reference manager and Safari as a browser. There is now a beta-version of Zotero ready for download that
The new PubMed is now available. The functionality of the new PubMed is very similar to what you are used to, although we think you will find it easier to
Elsevier recently reached its first ‘transformative’ read and publish agreement with a U.S. academic institution, Carnegie Mellon University, located in Pittsburgh, PA. Under the agreement, CMU will have access to
The UC Office of the President is inviting comments through December 15 on its proposed revision to the existing Presidential Policy on Copyright Ownership for UC employees (links below). This is the
Having a clear and detailed methods section in research journal articles is one the most effective approaches to improve research reproducibility. Reproducibility is a focus of open research as a
By Kristin Dolan, Research Development Office, and Anneliese Taylor, Library Would you like to know how your research program productivity stacks up against other investigators’ outside of UCSF? Thanks to
The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database is a new database available to the UCSF community. It is a great database for finding evidence-based practice resources. Upon reviewing this database, I
OK, here is the situation. You have a Word document with a nice list of references at the end. You want to add those reference to your reference manager (programs
Celebrate with Us! UCSF is celebrating National Library Week by hosting a traveling pop-up table every day this week. We are promoting our services and resources, and best of all,
What is it? Unpaywall is a web browser extension that scours the internet for a free, legal, and full-text version of that pesky paper you thought you couldn’t access. The