Several of our research databases and e-journals will undergo major changes starting July 1.

• Expanded Academic ASAP will no longer be available. Replacing it as a general-purpose article database will be Academic Search Complete.
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• All Blackwell Synergy e-journals and other Wiley-Blackwell online products will be combined onto a single Wiley InterScience platform.
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• America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts will be changing vendor platforms and user interfaces, from ABC Clio to EBSCO.
  

For more information on specific databases, follow this link and search on the vendor's name or database title.

Our catalogs, e-journals list, and Electronic Resource Finder should still be effective for locating and linking to these sources. If you experience problems, please let us know.

Surveys taken in 1987, 1997, and 2007 show what Cal students were reading for pleasure at the time. 

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GLADIS, the command-line telnet version of the UC Berkeley library catalog, will be down for maintenance from 6pm to 9pm on Tuesday, June 10. During this time, the Pathfinder and Melvyl catalogs will still be operating, but the following will be unavailable:

» Availability information for UCB items.
» Melvyl's Request function (for UCB patrons).
» BAKER, NRLF, and Stanford Request functions in Pathfinder.
» Interlibrary Service request through the library website.
» Library proxy server for off-campus access to electronic resources (though these should still be available through VPN).

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