New ebooks in the Synthesis Digital Library series

Synthesis Digital Library Update for July 2012 Articulatory Speech Synthesis from the Fluid Dynamics of the Vocal Apparatus by Stephen Levinson (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Don Davis (GD/Electric Boat), and Scot Slimon (GD/Ele… more »
Aug 30, 2012 | Categories: New Resources | jmckenzie

Universal return debuts

The Library is pleased to announce the public launch of our universal return service. Thanks to this new service, library borrowers are now able to return most circulating materials to any library location, and are no longer required to walk each item b… more »
Aug 27, 2012 | Categories: News & Events | bquigley

DMPTool for data management plans

Need to write a data management plan for a grant application? Give the DMPTool a try! This tool walks you through agencies' data management plan templates providing guidance, suggested answers, and additional resources for each question. The DMPTool cur… more »
Aug 27, 2012 | Categories: Featured Resource | bquigley

SPIE announces Gold Open Access Program

Beginning January 2013, authors (or their institutions) can pay to make articles in SPIE journals open access under the Creative Commons CC-BY license.  The fees are based on the type and length of article with the cost of a Letter estimated to be about… more »
Aug 22, 2012 | Categories: News & Events | jmckenzie

Recent Acquisitions lists restored

Production of our Recent Acquisitions lists has resumed. These lists contain titles cataloged or recataloged during the last 60 days, and they can be viewed online or via RSS feeds. If you have subscribed to any of these RSS feeds, you should be seeing… more »
Aug 22, 2012 | Categories: News & Events | bquigley

ScienceDirect downtime on August 25

Elsevier's ScienceDirect is expected to be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, August 25 for approximately 19 hours: 4:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. more »
Aug 22, 2012 | Categories: Problems & Down Time | bquigley

Welcome Week library tours

Several science libraries are offering library tours this week to welcome new (and returning) students to campus. Bioscience & Natural Resources Library (2101 VLSB) Tue., August 21, 2:15 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Wed., August 22, 11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Thu.… more »
Aug 21, 2012 | Categories: News & Events | bquigley

Library workshops

The Engineering Library is offering several drop-in workshops open to all students. No registration required. Location: Engineering Library Training Room Tuesday 8/21 10:00 ?10:30 AM Citation Management 10:30 ? 11:00 AM E-Resourc… more »
Aug 21, 2012 | Categories: News & Events, Tips & Updates, Workshops | lngo

ProQuest downtime August 18-19

ProQuest databases will be down for maintenance from 7 p.m. Saturday, August 18 until 7 a.m. Sunday, August 19. This outage will affect a number of our databases including the following (partial list): Agricola Digital Sanborn Maps Dissertations a… more »
Aug 16, 2012 | Categories: Problems & Down Time | bquigley

AGU ebooks now available

We now have access to AGU Digital Library Books (1956-2012) thanks to a one-time purchase by the California Digital Library. The collection includes 17 book series and 580 book titles. Eventually, these ebooks will appear in OskiCat; in the meantime, yo… more »
Aug 08, 2012 | Categories: New Resources | bquigley

LBNL Library now in OskiCat

You may have noticed a new library location in OskiCat - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL)! On July 30, over 17,000 records from the LBNL Library were added to our library catalog. What does this change mean for you? Campus patrons can now req… more »
Aug 03, 2012 | Categories: News & Events | bquigley

ACS Symposium Series (e-books)

Developed from the American Chemical Society technical divisions? symposia, these peer-reviewed books covers a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, pol… more »
Aug 03, 2012 | Categories: Featured Resource | jloo