The SciFinder Scholar client has been updated for OS 10.5 (Mac Leopard). The update can be downloaded from the UC SciFinder Scholar site. The reason for this update is only to fix compatibility issues with OS 10.5 (Leopard). There are no new features… more »

Springer recently announced the publication of the 5000th volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), the popular book series for computer science research. From the press release: Since it was established in 1973, LNCS has provided the computer… more »

A few works have been released recently connected to the history of mathematics and statistics at UC Berkeley. It began last year with Professor Calvin Moore's Mathematics at Berkeley: A History (AK Peters, 2007), which "describes how this insti… more »

On Monday, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) announced that its Inspec database had reached 10 million records with an article from the journal Nanotechnology. From the press release:The Nanotechnology article, ?High throughput cell nan… more »

Effective immediately, the new URL for the Institute of Transportation Studies Library will be http://library.its.berkeley.edu/. The old url, http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ITSL/, will still redirect users to the new site.  You can also visit the ITSL libra… more »