Do you have an article you want to publish? Are you trying to decide where to place it? This workshop will examine how journals are ranked for impact (including some of the controversies about ranking systems), and your rights as an author. Are you confu… more »

 arXiv.org, a Library supported resource, is an open access, moderated repository for scholarly articles in the scientific disciplines of physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, and statistics. arXiv was starte… more »

The Melvyl catalog will be down for maintenance from 11pm on Saturday, October 22 to 3am on Sunday, October 23. OskiCat will still be available during this time. more »

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance from 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 22 to 7 a.m. on Sunday, October 23. The following products will be unavailable during this time: Legacy ProQuest platform products, ProQuest Historical Newspape… more »

The 2011 Ig Nobel Prize winners were awarded at the 21st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, on September 29, at Harvard University. Ceremony videos and more are available at improbable.com/ig/2011, and complete details on the winners, with links to th… more »

The UCB Science Libraries IM reference service will be unavailable on Friday, October 21st. This popular service is normally available Monday-Friday from 1pm-5pm; the service will resume regular hours on Monday, October 24th. Immediate chat reference… more »

The Knovel University Challenge has begun! Answer 3 questions correctly for a chance to win an iPad, cash or cool stuff.   You have until (midnight) December 1st to submit your answers.  All entries with a total of 3 correct answers in the same difficu… more »

After the announcement that Dr. Saul Perlmutter had won the Nobel prize in Physics, on Tuesday, October 4th; there was a lot of celebrating in the Phsyics Department at UC Berkeley and at LBNL.  If you were lucky to get a seat in Room 1 of Le Conte Hall… more »