Santa Barbara County’s history is rich and diverse, shaped by families, organizations, and communities whose everyday stories — captured in home movies, family photographs and personal records — rarely make it into traditional archives. The Santa Barbara Community Archives Project (SBCAP) is...
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...
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...
Thu, Jul 23, 8:21 am | Data Curation & Management, Digital Scholarship, Humanities, Research Services, Services, Social Sciences, Student Success, Undergraduate Students
When Samuel Liu noticed workplace friction among fellow Resident Assistants (RAs) at UC Santa Barbara’s San Nicolas Residence Hall, he decided to investigate. As a senior majoring in Communication and Sociology, Liu turned his personal and professional observations into an award-winning independent...
Thu, Jul 23, 8:12 am | Area Studies, Collections, Digital Scholarship, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Graduate Students, Humanities, Research Services, Social Sciences, Student Success, Undergraduate Students
Generations of researchers who rely on primary sources faced a frustrating hurdle. Conducting original historical research typically required traveling to distant archives, navigating cost-prohibitive interlibrary loans or adjusting a project’s scope based on access to sources. For students engaged...
A new $484,455 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will support the next phase of the University of California Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network as they work to make OSPOs a permanent part of the UC system. With this new funding, the UC Santa Barbara Library’s Open Source Program (OSP...
Mon, Jan 13, 4:24 pm | Data Curation & Management, Digital Scholarship, Graduate Students, Research Services, Sciences & Engineering
Picture students divided into groups in a classroom, each group intently focused on a pile of Lego® building bricks. You’re probably picturing children at an elementary school, but in this particular case, they are graduate students at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC...
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’...
The University of California has been awarded a grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support the development of a UC-wide network of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs). This award leverages the work of the Open Source Program Office at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and funds a collaboration of UC...
Tue, Apr 16, 11:51 am | Collections, Digital Scholarship, Gifts & Donors, Grants, Special Research Collections
UCSB Library has been awarded a $349,993 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the American Record Corporation (ARC) Access Initiative of the American Discography Project. The NEH has now awarded six grants totaling more than $2 million in support of UCSB’s Discography of...
