The Public Health Library offers reference service Monday through Friday, 10am-12 and 2pm-5. Other libraries on campus offer reference services at various other times, including Saturdays and weekday evenings. You can also chat with a UC reference librarian until 9pm on Sunday through Thursday. This, and other reference chat services, are described on our Reference Services web page.  Don't hesitate to get that thorny question answered whenever and wherever you can!

The Public Health Library has all of the books currently in the series Understanding Public Health. Most of them are also available online via ebrary. A few of the 20 titles available are:

• Analytical models for decision making
• Environmental epidemiology
• Health promotion theory
• Principles of social research
• Economic evaluation

You can search the catalog (Melvyl or Pathfinder) for the series. All are also listed, with call numbers and links to the online versions, near the bottom of our What is Public Health? web page.

The grant application is due....you are chasing an elusive citation for a paper you are about to submit....or...

If you need to get at an article in a hurry, and it is NOT available either online or at any UCB library, you may want to take advantage of the Public Health Library's Expedited Article Request Service!

This service is available to UC Berkeley School of Public Health faculty, academic staff, and graduate students only.  Urgently needed articles from journals that are neither online nor at a UC Berkeley library, but ARE at UC San Francisco, UC Davis, or UC Santa Cruz may be obtained using this online form. Articles typically arrive at our Circulation Desk in 1-3 business days. Complete details may be found on the online form.

If the article requested turns out not to be available, we will notify you, and you can then try UCB's Interlibrary Borrowing Service (ILB) if you wish. If the article is at the Stanford Library, we recommend you use the Research Library Cooperative Program (RLCP). (Please note that ILB and RLCP may also be used for items other than journal articles.)

Global Health, November 18, 1:00-2:30 pm, 450C Moffitt Library.

Global Health via EBSCO is a database newly available to UCB.

Does your research require that you find material FROM or ABOUT other countries?

• Global Health contains information from journals, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents, theses and electronic only publications from more than 125 countries [PubMed: journal articles only, from 70 countries]
• Global Health coverage = 26% North American sources; PubMed = 57% North American sources
• Has citations from journals in over 50 languages (All citations have English abstracts, however) [PubMed: 40 languages]
• Over 40% of the database is not duplicated in PubMed or other sources
• More coverage of nutrition, environmental health, medical entomology, and tropical medicine than PubMed

In this hands-on session, we will cover basic searching, using subject terms for more advanced searching, creating alerts, and more. No preregistration required; bring your Cal ID to enter Moffitt Library.

All graduate students are eligible to apply for funding through the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) which supports faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication ... Say "Yes!" to open access!

An 18-month pilot program initiated in January 2008, BRII subsidizes, in various degrees, fees charged to authors who select open access or paid access publication. The pilot will also yield data that can be used to gauge faculty interest in — as well as the budgetary impacts of — these new modes of scholarly communication on the Berkeley campus. Thus far, four out of 26 recipients have been graduate students. Interested? Instructions here!