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Last week, IEEE announced a partnership with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the AVS to include five of their applied physics journals in IEEE Xplore. As you are searching IEEE Xplore, you may encounter articles from these five journals...

ProQuest and CSA databases will be unavailable due to platform maintenance this weekend for approximately 12 hours starting at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 27...

OskiCat, the new UC Berkeley library catalog, is tentatively scheduled to go live on Wednesday, June 24. It will replace both Pathfinder and GLADIS.A couple disruptions resulting from the migration:The Library Privileges Desk will be closed on June 22-23...

The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library will be closed Monday, June 15-Friday, June 19 to prepare for a major renovation project. The book drop will remain open to return items. The library will reopen with its regular summer hours, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, on Monday, June 22...

After consulting with all the contributing campuses, the California Digital Library has cancelled the article index, Applied Science & Technology Fulltext.  It indexes more than 400 English language journals, magazines, and trade publications in aeronautics, civil engineering, computer science,...

Every summer, the Library and the Office of Educational Development send new freshmen a list of books suggested by faculty and staff from across campus. This year they have selected Best Books about Science as the topic to coincide with the Year of Science 2009...

The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library will be closed Wednesday, May 27-Friday, May 29 to prepare for a major renovation project. It will reopen June 1 though the mezzanine level will not be accessible until June 5.Original post blogged on b2evolut

The libraries have released a video preview of OskiCat, our new library catalog, coming this summer. Finding items in the UC Berkeley Libraries is about to get easier ... watch the preview now to find out how.Original post blogged on b2evolution.

While the science and engineering libraries will maintain their normal hours during finals, the Moffitt Library and Gardner Stacks will be open for a 24-hour study hall beginning at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, May 12. These extended hours run until 2 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20...

UC Berkeley licenses the ChemKnowledge System from Thomson Micromedex, a suite of databases and resources that together, provide a huge amount of information on chemical hazards. Anyone working in toxicology, hazardous waste, or occupational health should check this out...

Coming in Summer 2009: OskiCat, the new UC Berkeley library catalog, will replace Pathfinder and GLADIS, offering more contents and convenient new features.What should you do to prepare?Return library materials you no longer need.Check your inventory on GLADIS and renew any items you still...

Date: Wed, May 6, 2009.Time: 1 p.m.–4:30 p.m.Location: Bioscience & Natural Resources Library (2101 VLSB) Trainers: Dr. Trey Lathe and Dr. Mary Mangan, OpenHelix, LLCThis is a hands-on computer workshop on the UCSC Genome Browser presented by OpenHelix, LLC...

INSPEC, the premier database for physics, computing science, information technology and electronic engineering is moving from Ovid to the ISI Web of Knowledge platform...

arXiview is a new iPhone app written by Dave Bacon, Physics Professor at the University of Washington. As posted on the arXiview website, you can: browse arXiv categoriessearch arXiv by author, title, full text, without category restrictions...

We have received several reports of problems accessing MathSciNet. The library has reported the problem, and we are working on resolving the issue, but we do not have an estimate of when access will be restored...

Informaworld, the platform for Taylor & Francis' electronic journals and encyclopedias, will be unavailable due to essential maintenance on Friday, April 10 for approximately 8 hours starting at 4:00 p.m.Original post blogged on b2evolution.

The Nano Song - a collaborative effort by a group of UC Berkeley students and researchers including Patrick Bennett, David Carlton, Molly Felz, Nola Klemfuss, Glory Liu, Ryan Miyakawa, Stacey Wallace, and Angelica Zen - was the recent winner of the "What is Nano?" Video Contest sponsored by the...

The 2009 edition of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is now available for download at the UC distribution site...

ScienceDirect, the platform for Elsevier's electronic journals and books, will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, April 4 for approximately 9 hours starting at 3:00 p.m.Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Many of the 4,000 titles listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) are from small publishers that are "fragile when it comes to financial, technical and administrative sustainability." These journals publish fulltext scientific and scholarly articles in all subjects and languages, and...

 The UC Berkeley Libraries will be launching a new catalog named OskiCat in May. Gone will be the days of Pathfinder and Gladis!Be a part of Cal history with this chance to design the logo for the new OskiCat catalog...

On February 12, 2008, Harvard Arts and Sciences Faculty voted unanimously to adopt a policy that makes them the first university in the U.S. to mandate open access to its faculty members’ research publications...

The libraries will have reduced hours during Spring Recess, March 21-29. Most libraries will be closed over the weekends, and all libraries will be closed on Friday, March 27 for the Cesar Chavez Holiday. »  Library hoursOriginal post blogged on b2evolutio

The libraries will have reduced hours during Spring Recess, March 21-29. Most libraries will be closed over the weekends, and all libraries will be closed on Friday, March 27 for the Cesar Chavez Holiday. »  Library hoursOriginal post blogged on b2evolutio

In late May, the UC Berkeley Library will be launching a new catalog named OskiCat. OskiCat will replace the Pathfinder and GLADIS catalogs and will feature enhanced search and circulation functionality that faculty, students, and staff have requested...

As part of our deal for 20,000+ ebooks from Springer, library users can now take advantage of their MyCopy print-on-demand service. Through the MyCopy service, you can order your own personal softcover copy of many Springer ebooks for $24.95 (including shipping & handling)...