The following services will be unavailable from 1 a.m. through as late as 4 a.m. on Saturday, June 2, while we perform scheduled maintenance: OskiCat, the UC Berkeley library catalog (including searching, request, and renewal functions). UCB call n… more »

Synthesis Digital Library Update for April 2012 Activity Theory in HCI: Fundamentals and Reflections by Victor Kaptelinin (University of Bergen and Umea University) and Bonnie Nardi (University of California, Irvine). (Human-Centered Informatics… more »

UCSF faculty have unanimously voted to make current and future scientific articles electronically available freely to the public.  This new policy gives the university a nonexclusive license to distribute peer-reviewed articles and requires UCSF faculty… more »

All the UC Berkeley libraries will be closed Monday, May 28 for the Memorial Day holiday.» Library hours more »

All services provided by OCLC, most importantly the Melvyl catalog, will be unavailable during system maintenance from 11 p.m. on Saturday, May 19 through 3 a.m. on Sunday, May 20.For a list of the databases affected, search "OCLC" in our Electronic Res… more »

The National Technical Reports Library, our go-to source for technical reports from government agencies, introduced a new user interface this week. NTRL 3.0 features: Faceted search results Limit search to only full-text items Expansion… more »

  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… more »

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 u… more »

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 »

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): Digi… more »

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… more »