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. Please note that UC Berkeley library users have access to the full-text of these journals on AIP Scitation, not IEEE Xplore. If you find one of these articles on IEEE Xplore, use the UC-eLinks button or DOI link to access the full-text on AIP Scitation.

The five highly-cited journals, with their links on AIP Scitation, are:

• Applied Physics Letters (AIP)
• Journal of Applied Physics (AIP)
• Review of Scientific Instruments (AIP)
• JVST A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films (AVS)
• JVST B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures (AVS)

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. The following products will be affected:

• Agricola
• Digital Sanborn Maps
• Dissertations & Theses
• Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
• Engineered Materials Abstracts
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
• GeoRef
• Metadex
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
• PsycINFO
• ...and other ProQuest and CSA databases.

OskiCat, the new UC Berkeley library catalog, is tentatively scheduled to go live on Wednesday, June 24. It will replace both Pathfinder and GLADIS.

Services that will be disrupted due to the migration include:

• The Library Privileges Desk will be closed on June 22-23. During this time, we will not be able to create new library accounts, renew existing library accounts, clear blocks from patron records, or update patron information.
• We will not be able to check out or check in materials on the existing system after 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 22. As a result, most of the materials in the science libraries will be Library Use Only on Tuesday, June 23.

If all goes well, OskiCat will launch and circulation services will be available as normal on Wednesday, June 24.

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.

The Institute of Transportation Studies Library will also be closed Monday, June 15-Monday, June 22. The library will reopen with its regular summer hours, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, on Tuesday, June 23.

After consulting with all the contributing campuses, the California Digital Library has cancelled the article index, Applied Science Fulltext.  It indexes more than 400 English language journals, magazines, and trade publications in aeronautics, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, fire and fire prevention, mathematics, mechanical engineering, metallurgy, robotics, space science, and textiles.

In addition to budgetary pressures, the reasons include falling usage and that much of the content is available via other article indexes.  To find general science articles and access technical trade publications, use Academic Search Complete.  For environmental science topics, use Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management.

Access to Applied Science Fulltext will end on June 30, 2009.