1. Go to Settings
2. Select WiFi
3. Select the WiFi Network to which you are connected
4. In the WiFi Networks window, tap on the arrow to the right of your WiFi network name
5. Your IP Address selection should be DHCP
6. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen to HTTP Proxy
7. Select "Auto"
8. In the URL box, type: http://proxy.lib.berkeley.edu:7777/proxy.pac. Be sure to include "http://" and do not insert any empty spaces before or after the URL
9. Open Safari. When you come to a UC- or UCB-licensed resource, you will be asked to CalNet authenticate
10. When you are done, return to Settings and turn the HTTP Proxy to "Off"

Does this work? Not work? E-mail your comments or suggestions to Debbie Jan at djan@library.berkeley.edu.

• PubMed Tools, such as Single Citation Matcher and Topic-Specific Queries (formerly "Special Queries"), as well as the MeSH and Journals Databases are now located at the bottom of the main search screen.
• Gone are Citation and Abstract Plus displays; both have been incorporated into the revised Abstract display. Here you will find a citation's MeSH terms, Related Articles, and more.
• Looking for History, Limits, and field searching? You need to click the Advanced Search link to the right of the Search box to find these.
• Selecting Send to: and Display options has also changed.

The new interface includes more changes than those listed above. Lots of details, with screen shots included, may be found in this NLM Technical Bulletin article. Please note that PubMed functionality has not changed, only display.

Check it out!

What do you think?

Gifts from UCB student parents are being used to fund the Saturday hours. All subject-specialty libraries across campus will resume their Saturday hours by mid-November.

The actions of UCB students, such as the Teach-In that took place at the Anthropology library on October 9-10, also contributed to this change. Thank you!

Open Access is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. OA is gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers throw their weight behind it.

OA Week starts today and there are several events at UC Berkeley:

"Take Control of your Publications with eScholarship," a presentation by Catherine Mitchell, Director, CDL Publishing Group

Monday, October 19, 12:30 pm -1:50 pm

Location: 140 Boalt Hall

Monday, October 19, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Building 

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Live Webinar from the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) featuring representatives from five different publishers discussing the promise and perils of OA publishing. Participants include: Pierre de Villiers (African Online Scientific Information Systems), Matthew Cockerill (BioMed Central), David Hoole (Nature Publishing Group), Mark Patterson (Public Library of Science - PLoS), Saskia Franken (Utrecht University Library)

Tuesday, October 20, 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Location: Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library Seminar Room

2101 Valley Life Sciences Building 

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Mike Eisen, "The Future of Open Access Publishing." An OA week talk by Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and co-founder of the Public Library of Science (PLoS).

Tuesday, October 20, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location: Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library Seminar Room

2101 Valley Life Sciences Building

** Arrive early and get a PLoS t-shirt!! ** 

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Townsend Center Speculative Lunch series, "Academic Writing and Publishing 2.0: eJournals, Blogs, Wikis, Tweets"

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:00 pm

Location: Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall


This is an informal brown bag lunch series focuses on Digital Technology in Humanities Scholarship. Beverages provided by the Townsend Center.

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Coming soon:

"Article-level Metrics at PLoS - What are they, and why you should care," a talk by Dr. Peter Binfield, Managing Editor of PLoS ONE, an open access journal.

Monday, November 9, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

127 Dwinelle Hall

This event is co-sponsored by the UCSF Library. 

Notable winners include: 

BIOLOGY PRIZE: Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu, and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, for demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas.

MEDICINE PRIZE: Donald L. Unger, of Thousand Oaks, California, USA, for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand — but never cracking the knuckles of his right hand — every day for more than sixty (60) years.

PEACE PRIZE: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.

PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.

Details on these and the other winners, as well as links to the research articles and patents that led to their award, are on the Improbable Research web site. Also there are past years' winners, including several from the University of California.

From the FAQs: 

How much will it cost? It's free!

Who is eligible? All alumni are eligible, whether they've ever used RefWorks before or not!

Need help setting up an account? Contact the Public Health Library!

• Sets a standard of knowledge and skills in public health
• Encourages life-long learning
• Adds credibility to public health profession
• Increasing public health awareness
• Fosters environment of a professional community

Registration for the 2010 exam recently opened.

The Public Health Library has two resources that will help you!

CPH exam quick reference review, call no. RA430 .H65 2009

CPH study guide : certified in public health, call no. RA430 .A87 2008 (on reserve at the Circulation Desk)

Good luck!