Thanks to funding provided by the Chancellor and Provost, Saturday hours at our subject specialty libraries will be restored to Spring 2009 levels. This will occur in phases to give libraries time to hire and train new students to work on Saturdays.

These science libraries will reopen by mid-November:
» Bioscience and Natural Resources (Nov. 14: 1-5)
» Chemistry (Nov. 7: 1-5)
» Engineering (Oct. 31: 10-5)
» Public Health (Oct. 24: 12-5)

The following science libraries have been closed in past semesters and will continue to be closed weekends due to building security issues:
» Earth Sciences and Map
» Mathematics Statistics
» Optometry
» Physics-Astronomy

Subject specialty libraries in the arts, humanities, and social sciences will also be reopening on Saturdays. Watch the What's New in the Library blog and Library Hours page for updates.

Our popular science IM reference service will be unavailable tomorrow, Friday, October 23. Normal hours will be restored next week: Monday-Friday 10:00-12:00 and 1:00-5:00.

The collaborative 24/7 Ask a Librarian service will still be available. Ask a Librarian is a chat reference service that connects you to a librarian and emails you a transcript of your chat so you can reference it later.

Open Access (OA) is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge.

Based on the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, it encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.

Open Access Week, October 19-23, includes several events here at Berkeley: 

• Take Control of Your Publications with eScholarship (for UCB Anthropology)
  Monday, October 19, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Archaeological Research Facility (2251 College Building)


• The Future of Open Access
  Tuesday, October 20, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library Seminar Room (2101 Valley Life Sciences Building)


• Live Webinar from the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) on the promise and perils of OA publishing
  Tuesday, October 20, 9:00 am - 10:30 am, Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library Seminar Room
  (2101 Valley Life Sciences Building)


• Academic Writing and Publishing 2.0: eJournals, Blogs, Wikis, Tweets
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:00 pm, Geballe Room (220 Stephens Hall)

And coming soon:


• Article-level Metrics at PLoS: What are they and why should you care?
  Monday, November 9, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, 127 Dwinelle Hall

For more information on open access programs at Berkeley, see:

»  Compact for open access publishing equity
»  Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII)
»  Scholarly Communication website

Adapted from a post that originally appeared in What's New in the Library.

The eScholarship Repository will be unavailable from 5pm Friday, October 16 until 9am Monday, October 19, due to an extensive upgrade.

Beginning Monday morning, it will be accessible from a new URL -- www.escholarship.org

The eScholarship Repository, a project of the California Digital Library, is a freely available archive of more than 30,000 academic journal articles, research reports, and working papers.

Originally posted on the What's New in the Library blog.

UC Berkeley has access to this ever-expanding collection of computer manuals published by O'Reilly, one of the most popular publishers of computer manuals.

This collection currently includes over 1,200 ebooks on topics such as web design, programming languages, security, multimedia, and operating systems. Give Safari Tech Books Online a try!