Skip to main content

Resources For UCOP Staff

Selected resources with access for UCOP staff

Licensed Content

Below is a curated list of selected licensed resources that may be of interest to UCOP staff. The
use of licensed resources follow the terms of the CDL negotiated agreements, which can be
viewed at our Redacted Licenses page.

These platforms grant access to a wide range of freely available content.

  • DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
    A directory for finding open access journal content from thousands of journals. CDL and the UC system are supporters of DOAJ.
  • OAPEN Library
    Hosts over 40,000 open access ebooks. CDL is a supporting member of OAPEN on behalf of the University of California system.
  • PubMed Central
    PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

HathiTrust

UC is a founding member of the HathiTrust Digital Library collaborative, which contains 18+ million digitized books and serials from across 60+ contributing institutions. UC has contributed over 4.7 million volumes to HathiTrust since 2008, accounting for approximately 25% of the entire collection. Much of the content in HathiTrust is in the public domain and thus freely available to read worldwide. Learn how to take full advantage of this unique resource. As UC members, UCOP staff are eligible to download the full text of public domain books by logging into HathiTrust with their UCOP credentials.

Details for access at UCOP

Off-Site and UCOP Wireless Access

In addition to the resources and services that are available while physically connected to the UCOP network, most are also available off-site via UCOP’s VPN service. See Off-Campus Access FAQ for information on UCOP’s VPN service. Note: Use of UCOP’s VPN service is also necessary to access UC-licensed resources when connected to the Internet via UCOP’s guest wireless network.

Tips for Searching at Vendor Platforms

While every vendor platform offers different functionality, it is common to be able to conduct a search and limit your search results to “only content I have access to” or “licensed / available content” within the search filters. UC does not always have access to every resource on a platform, only what has been purchased or subscribed to, and using these features may help users find what is available to them.

While each UC campus has a library catalog, the online resources available differ from campus to campus, and UCOP will not have access to all of the materials that each campus library has access to. In many of the campus library catalogs, the URLs are configured specifically for users at that campus, and may not work for UCOP or other UC users.

UC Berkeley Library Card Access

UC Berkeley Library Cards

Select UCOP staff working on behalf of Berkeley as part of their primary job are eligible for library privileges. To determine eligibility, the UCOP employee completes the online application which is forwarded to their supervisor for verification of eligibility.

Once approved, the employee is given a library card number and PIN to access online resources. Once a borrowing account has been established, UCOP staff may access UCB-licensed resources remotely. A current government-issued ID such as a driver’s license or passport must be presented at the Privileges Desk (Doe Library, Floor 1) to pick up a borrowing card in order to check out printed materials.

Access is granted for up to one year at a time, ending on June 30th. Annual renewals may be requested using this same process, which means that UCOP staff members who currently have valid UCB library cards set to expire on July 1 will need to complete the online application per the instructions above for the library card to be renewed for another year.

Questions about UCB library card eligibility and procedures should be sent to the Privileges Desk at privdesk-library@berkeley.edu.

For more information about borrowing, see https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/borrow-renew. For more information about using the UC Berkeley Library, see http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/

  • Other Services & Resources at CDL

  • Open Access Scholarly Publishing

  • eScholarship Platform

  • eScholarship is the open access scholarly publishing platform and institutional repository for the University of California. Home to 90+ journals and 500,000+ scholarly works viewed over 200 million times since its inception, eScholarship enables UC faculty, students, and staff to openly share their research with a global audience. The Advancing Faculty Diversity Program, the Research Grants Program Office, and the California Health Benefits Review Program are just a few of the UCOP programs with a presence in eScholarship. Learn more about how your department’s work could be supported by eScholarship’s publishing and repository services.

  • Systemwide Open Access Publisher Agreements

  • The UC libraries negotiate agreements with scholarly journal publishers to reduce the amount authors must pay when they choose to publish open access. UCOP authors of scholarly articles are eligible to publish under these agreements if they are the article’s corresponding author.

  • Primary Source Collections: Calisphere

  • Calisphere offers free digital access to over two million historically important artifacts – including photographs, letters, oral histories, and musical recordings – contributed by all ten UC campuses as well as hundreds of libraries, archives, and museums throughout the State of California. Explore digitized materials from the rich collections managed by California’s cultural heritage institutions.

  • Other CDL Services

  • See the California Digital Library (CDL) website for more information on all of CDL’s resources and services.

  • Questions or problems to report?

  • If you have questions about any of CDL’s services and resources, please contact CDL.