The University of California launched the UC Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network in 2024, a groundbreaking initiative funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create a UC-systemwide network of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) and revolutionize open source practices in academia. All UC Davis faculty, researchers, staff and...| UC Davis Library
Interested in broader outreach? Check off your availability label. Aggie Experts now has availability labels to indicate your preference for these activities. Located on your profile in the name banner, edit the “Open to:” tag to check off any and all of these options. Federation Faculty are now included in...| UC Davis Library
The UC Davis Library and Office of Research encourage UC Davis researchers and scholars to utilize eScholarship, the University of California's open access repository and scholarly publishing platform to preserve and disseminate their research. Managed by the California Digital Library on behalf of the ten UC campus libraries, eScholarship offers...| UC Davis Library
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is one of many health science databases available through the UC Davis Library and uniquely provides comprehensive coverage of nursing and allied health literature. Frequent UC Davis users may have noticed in June 2025 that the database has a new look...| UC Davis Library
Earlier this summer the Library launched Aggie Experts, a UC Davis expertise discovery platform developed to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, provide a coherent picture of the research being done at the university, and reduce administrative workload for faculty. Thanks to a collaborative effort between the Library, Academic Affairs, and Information and...| UC Davis Library
UC Open Access Week 2025| library.ucdavis.edu
UC Carpentries Workshop Series| library.ucdavis.edu
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More than 60,000 pieces of archival material, including photographs, ledger books, and other media, make up a new library collection established in the name of Beaulieu Vineyard, or BV, at the University of California, Davis. As part of the UC Davis Library’s world-class wine collections, the Beaulieu Vineyard Records will...| UC Davis Library
Celebrating Dr. Blaisdell| library.ucdavis.edu
Announcing the 2025-26 Spurrier-Winiarski Wine Writer-in-Residence Award | library.ucdavis.edu
Celebrate Archives Month With Us| library.ucdavis.edu
Warren Winiarski, grape grower, winemaker, land preservationist and philanthropist, has committed $3.3 million to help us build the world’s most comprehensive collection on wine writers. We are honored and grateful to have his support. Winiarski’s gift in support of the UC Davis Library’s wine writer collections was inspired by his| UC Davis Library
Join us for October 20-24 for UC Open Access Week workshops, talks, and more.| UC Davis Library
The library is pleased to introduce four extraordinary undergraduate students joining the library as paid interns for the 2025-2026 academic year: Made possible by generous donor support, this new program will empower our interns to lead meaningful projects. They will help shape the future of the library, ranging from analyzing and visualizing data and measuring […]| UC Davis Library
We are now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Library Graduate Student Prize! Graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research. Sponsored by the UC Davis Library, the prize is in its third year and recognizes graduate student researchers who use the library to create outstanding scholarship with the […]| UC Davis Library
Happy American Archives Month! Throughout October, libraries and other organizations around the nation highlight the importance of historical records and the work of archivists. Our own Archives and Special Collections Department has planned several events in recognition of Archives Month — we invite you to join us! October 1 is World Postcard Day! Stop by […]| UC Davis Library
Like all campus units, the UC Davis Library is facing significant budget cuts. To help address the savings targets we have been assigned by campus, the library has made the difficult decision to discontinue the Davis Open Access Book Fund. The last day to apply for funding for open access...| UC Davis Library
With candor and veracity, this exhibit displays how queer communities across the United States are using visual art and poetry to render themselves larger than life, resist erasure, and make their indelible mark on history. "Making Our Mark" features over two dozen queer works and draws primarily from Archives and...| UC Davis Library
Over 3,000 rare books and pamphlets and scarce serial titles. Established in mid-1990s as a result of a gift of gay and lesbian books, pamphlets, and serials. Additional gifts and purchases have been added to the collection since then. Special Collections has a strong collection of gay and lesbian books,...| UC Davis Library
About 400 volumes. While examples of fine printing and the book arts have been a part of the Blanchard Rare Book Collection since its inception, this collection was established in 2010 in order to bring together some books, particularly some of the smaller and more fragile examples of the “book...| UC Davis Library
11.8 linear feet Collected published poetical works of three or more poets. 1955- avant garde anthology collection 8.9 linear feet Single poems, often including graphics, meant for display. 1955- avant garde broadsides collection 147.4 linear feet Poetry written between the end of World War II and 1980, encompassing the San...| UC Davis Library
New and returning students can learn about UC Davis Library resources with these 8 tips for fall quarter 2025.| UC Davis Library
A traveling exhibition of nearly 90 works by labor photographer and journalist David Bacon offering a window into the lived experiences of farmworkers launches on Saturday, Sept. 13, at the University of California, Davis. Organized by the UC Davis Labor and Community Center in partnership with the artist, the exhibition shines a light on the […]| UC Davis Library
Journalist, essayist and author Meg Bernhard, the inaugural recipient of the Spurrier-Winiarski Wine Writer-in-Residence Award, spent her three-month residency at UC Davis digging deep into the library’s wine archives to source material for her next project. Centered around climate and wine, Bernhard’s work has appeared in The New York Times...| UC Davis Library
Aggie Experts is Now Open to the Public| library.ucdavis.edu
We are pleased to offer grants to support travel costs for scholars interested in using our distinctive collections in Archives and Special Collections and/or our Food and Wine collections. The UC Davis Library intends to award four grants of $2,500 each to be used in 2026. Applications are due October 30, 2025. Recipients will have […]| UC Davis Library
Blaisdell Medical Library is kicking off its 20th anniversary early with a special celebration this week in honor of the late Dr. F. William Blaisdell, open to UC Davis Health badge holders. Dr. Blaisdell was born August 30, 1927, and would have turned 98 on Saturday, August 30. The F. William Blaisdell, M.D., Medical Library was […]| UC Davis Library
The UC Carpentries Coding and Data Management 2025 Workshop Series, open to all University of California students, staff, and faculty, will take place online September 15-25. This nine-day workshop series is an opportunity for the University of California community to learn foundational concepts and skills in R (RStudio), Python (Jupyter Notebook), an introduction to the Unix Shell, Version Control with Git, SQL, OpenRefine, and Tidy Data. Whether you are a data novice or just looking to brus...| UC Davis Library
UC Open Access Week 2025| library.ucdavis.edu
UC Open Access Week 2025| library.ucdavis.edu
Celebrate Archives Month With Us| library.ucdavis.edu
UC Open Access Week 2025| library.ucdavis.edu
Walking through the hillsides of San Luis Obispo County, Libbie Agran didn’t just see vineyards. She saw history — much of it untold, and much of it, she feared, at risk of being lost forever. She fell in love with San Luis Obispo’s wine country on a quintessential Central Coast...| UC Davis Library
As we wrap up the third year of the library’s five-year strategic plan (2022-27), we are excited to share our progress to date in implementing the priorities identified in our plan, and some of the next steps we’ll be focusing on in the year ahead. Priority 1 • Buildings &...| UC Davis Library
The Library is excited to launch a paid internship program for undergraduate students!| UC Davis Library
How do queer communities take charge of their own stories – beyond what is officially recorded in historical documents and the mainstream? The new exhibit in the main lobby of Shields Library, in front of Archives and Special Collections, answers this question. The exhibit “Making Our Mark: Queer Visual Art...| UC Davis Library
The role of digital books in higher education took a dramatic leap forward during the COVID-19 pandemic, when universities — and libraries — had to rely almost exclusively on digital materials. Many user expectations that formed during that period have stuck. Now, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning...| UC Davis Library
We are pleased to announce the 2025 winners of the library's Lang Prize! Now in its ninth year, the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research recognizes students who make exceptional use of library resources and services, such as primary source materials and special collections, online databases and journal...| UC Davis Library
What do an axolotl, pinot noir and childcare have in common? They all have been researched at UC Davis. And now it’s easier than ever to find these experts and thousands more.| UC Davis Library
This selection of books, gathered to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, provides a snapshot of recent scholarship in the field of Asian American Studies. It is a small sample of the diversity of work produced by this dynamic field. These titles are available in our catalog and through interlibrary loan using UC Search.| UC Davis Library
The UC Davis Library is pleased to announce that UC Davis students, faculty, researchers and staff can now access e-books from the library’s catalog on their mobile devices with The Palace Project app, an e-reader for iOS and Android phones and tablets. Through a two-year pilot program, members of the...| UC Davis Library
UC Davis Health badge required for entry. Located in Sacramento, the F. William Blaisdell, M.D., Medical Library (often called Blaisdell Medical Library or BML) serves the faculty, staff, students and clinicians affiliated with UC Davis Health and supports the curricula of the UC Davis School of Medicine and the Betty...| UC Davis Library
Over the course of this academic year, we have expanded the library’s collection of self-published music by American composers who may not have consistent access to formal publishing channels. Music scores were incorporated in our collections to enrich the library’s breadth of contemporary American concert music and provide a representative...| UC Davis Library
Year Three Update on the Library’s Strategic Plan| library.ucdavis.edu
The UC Davis Library’s Digital Collections (digital.ucdavis.edu) provides online access to digitized or born-digital materials from the UC Davis Library, with a focus on materials in the library’s Archives and Special Collections. The newly released version of the digital collections site offers more browsing options, easier access to collection-level information, and a book-style reading interface for text-based content — making it easier to explore, discover and cite materials in the ...| UC Davis Library
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting three women who have made their mark in California wine. MaryAnn Graf, Zelma Long, and Merry Edwards are all trailblazing winemakers who paved the way for other women to enter the historically male-dominated industry. | library.ucdavis.edu
The Lang Prize recognizes undergraduate students whose research projects make extensive use of library resources, services or expertise and help to advance the students’ understanding of the academic research process.| UC Davis Library
Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize: Maria Cruz (Ph.D. Candidate, Public Health Sciences), Tara Pozzi (Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology), and Mikhaila Redovian and Kirsten Schuhmacher (Ph.D. Candidates, English). In its second year, the Library Graduate Student Prize is awarded to graduate student researchers who have used...| UC Davis Library
If you are thinking about applying for the library’s 2025 Lang Prize for undergraduate library research, take inspiration from our recent interview with 2019 Lang Prize recipient and UC Davis alumna Angelika Joseph ’19.| UC Davis Library
Through its focus on the Northern California food movement (1970s to 1990s), the UC Davis Library supports research, teaching, and learning about a rich and complex chapter in California’s social, cultural and agricultural history. Northern California and the Central Valley were the birthplace of a national conversation about the food we eat, how it is produced and the lives of the people who grow and sell it. The voices of immigrants and farm workers, scientists and researchers, community ...| library.ucdavis.edu
January 12 is National Pharmacist Day, which allows us to acknowledge the unique and vital contributions of pharmacists at UC Davis Health within the Medical Center and across education and training programs in the School of Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.| UC Davis Library
