Wed, Aug 26, 7:51 am | Data Curation & Management, Digital Scholarship, Research Services, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Sciences & Engineering, Services, Social Sciences, Technology
Advancing "open science" — the worldwide movement to increase the transparency and accessibility of publicly funded research — is one of UC Santa Barbara Library’s four strategic priorities. Yet, fostering reproducibility, data reuse and interdisciplinary collaboration can be challenging across a...
Tue, Aug 25, 10:57 am | Collections, Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Sciences & Engineering, Services, Student Success
Carmen Galaz García, an assistant teaching professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, completed her undergraduate degree in mathematics in Mexico, where specialized textbooks were prohibitively expensive. She recalls how important it was that professors...
Thu, Jul 23, 10:46 am | Digital Scholarship, Faculty, Geospatial Collection, Library Employees, Scholarly Communication & Open Access, Sciences & Engineering, Special Research Collections, Technology
Professor Ian Walker relies on a century of coastal history to better understand the future of California’s environment. To study vegetation loss on the Oceano Dunes in San Luis Obispo County and model subsequent dust pollution, the UC Santa Barbara geographer depends on an extraordinary historical...
Fri, Feb 20, 11:33 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
UCSB Library is committed to open research and teaching and supports faculty in using open educational resources (OERs) to create learning experiences with fewer technical, financial, and copyright deterrents. In celebration of Open Education Week 2026 (March 2-6), UCSB Library is highlighting a...
In celebration of Open Access Week 2025 (October 20-26), the UCSB Library spoke with Kate McDonald, Associate Professor in the History Department, about publishing her book Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan open access.
The UCSB Library is committed to...
Five-year agreement will deliver access to UC researchers and support sustainable open access for independent nonprofit publishers
The University of California (UC) and BioOne announced the signing of a five-year agreement to bring the flagship BioOne Complete aggregation to 9 UC campuses and the...
IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the University of California (UC) today announced a new transformative open access agreement that will accelerate publishing and expand access to high-quality research in physics and related disciplines. The three-year agreement will make it easier and more affordable for...
Thu, Feb 27, 10:09 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
UCSB Library is committed to open research and teaching and supports faculty in using open educational resources (OERs) to create learning experiences with fewer technical, financial, and copyright deterrents. In celebration of Open Education Week 2025 (March 3-7), UCSB Library is highlighting a...
Tue, Feb 11, 9:02 am | Faculty, Scholarly Communication & Open Access
The 10-campus University of California system (UC), 20 of 23 California State University (CSU) campuses, and 30 private academic and research institutions represented by the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) have reached a comprehensive four-year transformative open access...
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,...
