History & CRES Faculty
Notes from Your UC Merced Library Liaison
Hello
This latest newsletter has information relevant for both your teaching and research needs.
The deadline for the Zero Cost Course Materials Grant, May 20, is coming up quickly. To learn more about the grant, register for the information session that will be held on April 25. You can also catch it online via Zoom. If you're teaching summer sources, the priority deadline for requesting materials through the library's Course Resources Program is May 1.
The library has continued to offer a number of workshops related to managing research data and disseminating research findings. Register for the Data Storage Solutions and Shiny App workshops that will be held, respectively, on April 22 and 26.
Related to the open access movement, the the library is hosting a talk and panel discussion with the editor of PLOS One on April 29. Although the event is related to the sciences, anyone with an interest in open science or publishing in an open access journal is welcome to attend.
You may also be interested in learning about the library's work to digitize materials from historical AIDS archives, Yosemite National Park, and the UC Cooperative Extension offices around the state.
As always, you can reach me by emailing ldavis23@ucmerced.edu or calling 209.285.7742.
Though National Library Week (April 7-13) has come and gone, as a tribute, please enjoy the photograph of the Merced County Free Library in 1915. The image was digitized by the California State Library.
Zero-Cost Course Materials Grant Information Session
The library and the Center for Engaged Teaching & Learning (CETL) are requesting proposals for the 2nd year of the Zero-Cost Course Materials Grant. The ZCCM grant supports the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) and use of library licensed materials to reduce costs for our students and promote universal access to course materials. The aim of this initiative is to boost student success by removing some of the financial barriers preventing our student from obtaining needed educational materials.
All faculty and lecturers are encouraged to apply for the ZCCM grant by May 20.
An information session for the grant will also be held in person and via Zoom:
Thursday, April 25
12pm - 1pm
KL 361
To register and/or find the Zoom link, visit libcal.ucmerced.edu/event/5347007
For more information about the grant, including the links to the application materials, visit libguides.ucmerced.edu/oer/zero_cost_course_materials_grant
Summer 2019 Course Resources Priority Deadline
Course Resources is a service offered by the library to make course-related materials available to your students. The Course Resources service includes locating and scanning materials and then posting the materials to CatCourses. Electronic materials are made available to your students through CatCourses, while print materials are made available at the library for a 2-hour loan period.
The library offers digitization services for AV materials, including eligible DVDs. Audio and video content digitized by the library is made available in CatCourses through the Kaltura Canvas tool.
The priority deadline for Summer 2019 courses is May 1.
For more information, including how to make your requests, visit library.ucmerced.edu/research/instructors/courseresources
Data Storage Solutions Workshop
This is a 50-minute library workshop aimed at faculty and graduate students, which will focus on the best policies for data storage and possible data storage options for both small and large amounts on research data.
The workshop is the last of a five-workshop series on data management.
- Creating Effective Data Management Plans
- Cataloging and Metadata Workshop
- Learning About Data Sharing
- How to Choose a License
- Data Storage Solutions
Monday, April 22
1pm - 1:50pm
KL 360
To register for the workshop, visit libcal.ucmerced.edu/event/4909228
Create a Shiny App Workshop
This is a one-day workshop aimed at teaching graduate students, post-doctoral students, and faculty how to create an interactive Shiny app to share their research findings with a broader audience. Shiny is an R package that allows people to build interactive web apps straight from the R program. The apps can be shared online, embedded in documents, or used as interactive dashboards. They are valuable as supplemental materials to publications or as interactive components of presentations and can help scientists present their research to a broader audience. They can apps also serve as teaching tools for bringing complex course material to life. For examples of Shiny applications, visit the Show Me Shiny gallery.
The workshop will be led by Dr. Katie Coburn, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation with the UC Merced Library, and Ph.D. candidate Sonja Winter, graduate student in Quantitative Psychology at UC Merced. Throughout the day, they will introduce attendees to different components of the Shiny environment. At each step, attendees will have the opportunity to apply what they learn to a Shiny app using either their own data or data that is freely available in online repositories, such as Dash and ICPSR. By the end of the day, each attendee will leave with their own interactive Shiny app.
Attendees who are completely new to Shiny should try to attend the entire workshop if possible. More experienced attendees can opt to skip the first half.
Coffee and pastries/fruit will be provided. Lunch will be served.
Friday, April 26
9am - 4pm
- 9am - 12pm: Getting Started with Shiny
- 12:30pm - 4pm: Make Shiny Shine
KL 397
To register for the workshop, visit libcal.ucmerced.edu/event/5197192
Advancing Open Science at PLOS One Talk & Panel
PLOS One Editor-in-Chief Joerg Heber will be visiting UC Merced for a talk and panel discussion. Anyone with an interest in learning more about open science or publishing in an open access journal like PLOS One is welcome to attend.
Dr. Michael Dawson and Dr. Michael Scheibner, professors in UC Merced's School of Natural Sciences, and Dr. Jing Yan, post-doctoral researcher, will be joining Dr. Heber for the panel discussion.
Joerg Heber studied physics at the University of Erlangen. Having obtained a PhD in Semiconductor Physics from Imperial College London in 2000, Joerg went on to postdoctoral positions at Bell Laboratories and the University of Marburg. In 2005 he joined what is now Springer Nature as a manuscript editor at Nature Materials, and moved on to Nature Communications in 2012. Having held several managerial positions there, he became the journal’s Executive Editor in 2015. In 2016, Joerg was appointed PLOS ONE’s Editor-in-Chief.
Monday, April 29
11am - 1:30pm
- 11am - 12pm: "Advancing Open Science at PLOS One"
- 12pm - 12:30pm: pizza lunch & conversation
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm: panel discussion with audience Q&A
KL 360
To register for the presentation & panel discussion, visit libcal.ucmerced.edu/event/5340127
Digitizing the Past
The library has done a tremendous amount of digitization work in the last few years. For questions about this work, please contact Emily Lin, Head of Digital Curation and Scholarship, at elin@ucmerced.edu.
The NEH-funded AIDS historical archives digitization project will be wrapping up in May, though more work may continue with additional funding. Collections that have been digitized so far can be found in the following Calisphere collections:
"The Future of... Heritage and Culture" features the UC Merced Library's work to help digitize materials from Yosemite National Park.
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