MIT CogNet is a resource for information in brain and cognitive science. It includes searchable electronic access to the most up-to-date editions of ten reference works in the brain and cognitive sciences published by The MIT Press. Among these are: The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, The Visual Neurosciences, The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th ed. and The Handbook of Multisensory Processes. The full text of six MIT Press journals and abstracts from other major journals in the subject areas of brain and cognitive science are also found here. Additionally, the full text of over 400 books and conference proceedings are available. MIT CogNet is continually being updated.

The Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library, located on the 2nd floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB), will be closed from May 12th through June 10th, 2012, due to construction. We expect to reopen on June 11th. We will be unable to page any materials, but books can be returned at any time in the book-return drop located on the south side of VLSB (lower level).

To request that materials be placed on course reserve, please use our Course Reserves Form. Other requests may be sent to Norma Kobzina or Elliott Smith at bios@library.berkeley.edu.

We apologize for the inconvenience but are looking forward to seeing you in our renovated library.

Norma Kobzina, Interim Head
Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library

What do you want from your library?

The UC Berkeley Library is considering many changes to hours, services, and library locations. We want to know what is important to you and to other Cal students, faculty, and staff. It only takes a few minutes.

For more information on "Re-envisioning the Library" and to take the survey: http://tiny.cc/ucblib

Research databases branded ProQuest, CSA Illumina, and Chadwyck-Healey will be down for maintenance from 7 p.m. Saturday, May 5 until 7 a.m. Sunday, May 6.

This outage will affect a number of our databases including the following (partial list):

• Digital Sanborn Maps
• Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts)
• Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
• Environmental Science and Pollution Management
• ERIC via CSA
• GeoRef
• Historical Newspapers
• PAIS International
• PsycInfo
• Sociological Abstracts

Synthesis Digital Library Update for March 2012

• The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever by William Jones, University of Washington. (Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Series)
• Mobile Robotics for Multidisciplinary Study by Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. (Control and Mechatronics Series)
• Privacy in Social Networks by Elena Zheleva (LivingSocial), Evimaria Terzi (Boston University), and Lise Getoor (University of Maryland, College Park). (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)