Public Health Grads
Notes from Your UC Merced Library Liaison
Welcome to Fall 2018
Hello, Public Health graduate students!
Now that the fall semester is half-way through, I'd like to take some time to introduce myself. My name is Lindsay Davis, Instruction and Outreach Librarian. Previously, I was the UC Merced Library's Social Sciences liaison, which included Public Health, but I am now specifically the Public Health liaison.
As your liaison, I can help answer questions related to library services and keep you up to date with events, tools, and resources that can help with your research and teaching needs. I will occasionally send and forward email messages. You can also reach me by emailing ldavis23@ucmerced.edu or calling 209.285.7742.
In the Library, I work in the Research and Learning Services unit. My core responsibilities involve developing learning materials and objects and working with instructors to embed information literacy into courses; designing lesson plans and teaching research skills as a guest instructor; providing research assistance; and collaborating with Student Affairs programs for instruction and research services. You can read a little more about my background and interests by visiting my library profile.
Open Access Week
Open Access (OA) is a growing international movement that uses the internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge.
OA literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.
OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered.
Learn more about Open Access this coming week by attending any of the Library's Open Access Week events or stopping by the Library table outside of the Lantern on Tuesday, October 23 between 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Creating Effective Data Management Plans Workshop
Preparing a data management plan is not only a requirement for many funding agencies but also encourages successful handling of collected data across a project’s lifecycle and beyond. This workshop will explore strategies on creating effective and successful plans.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
2:00pm - 2:50pm
KL 360
Register here
Data Carpentry Two-Day Workshop
Data Carpentry aims to help researchers by teaching them computing skills in order to work more effectively with data. This comprehensive two-day workshop covers concepts and tools that workshops participants can then apply to their own research and workflows.
Thursday, November 1 & Friday, November 2, 2018
8:00am-5:00pm
KL 371
Register for Day 1 here
Register for Day 2 here
UC Merced Library
Email: ldavis23@ucmerced.edu
Website: http://library.ucmerced.edu/
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