Due to a system upgrade, IEEE Xplore will be unavailable on Friday, March 9 for up to three hours starting at 11:00 a.m. Enhancements include a list of the top downloaded articles each month for any IEEE or IET journal or magazine.

The UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education has been awarded a Mellon grant "to continue its research into the changing nature of scholarly communication and publication practices in the networked age. Capabilities afforded by new technologies, pressures associated with the purchasing power of library budgets, challenges to economic viability for university presses, and the pricing structures of the publishing industry make this research especially timely for the academic and publication communities at large." See the press release for more information.

Due to unexpected problems last weekend, ScienceDirect, the platform for Elsevier's electronic journals and books, will be unavailable due to system maintenance on Saturday, March 3 for approximately 9 hours starting at 3:30 a.m.

UCB faculty, students, and researchers now have access to 2 of Nature's latest publications: Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Photonics.

Nature Nanotechnology covers all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology, including "research into the design, characterization and production of structures, devices and systems that involve the manipulation and control of materials and phenomena at atomic, molecular and macromolecular scales."

Nature Photonics coverage ranges "from research into the fundamental properties of light and how it interacts with matter through to the latest design of optoelectronic devices and emerging applications that exploit photons."

Access is available from all UC IP addresses;  UCB faculty, staff and students can also access these journals off campus via the Library Proxy Server.  These titles are already listed in the list of Electronic Journals A-Z and will soon appear in the library catalogs.

Spring 2007 Instruction Sessions...

Brought to you by the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library

• These are all hands-on sessions in a PC lab
• All are drop-in sessions; no advance sign up is required
• Make sure you come to the correct room (see below)
• Bring your UCB ID to enter Moffitt Library

PubMed: March 20, 2007, 11AM - 12:30PM, 550C Moffitt Library

PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database of citations and abstracts from nearly 5000 biomedical/health science journals published worldwide.  This class will cover using Limits, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), and other tools that will increase the precision of your PubMed searches.

RefWorks: April 6, 2007, 1 - 2:30PM, 350C Moffitt Library

UC Berkeley has a site license to RefWorks, a web-based bibliographic management tool.  With RefWorks, you can create a personal, searchable database of citations.  These citations may be formatted and merged into your Microsoft Word documents as footnotes or a custom bibliography.  Because it is web-based, you have access to your database from any computer with Internet access.  

RefWorks is an excellent tool for undergraduates and researchers who do not currently use another bibliographic manegement software (such as EndNote).  RefWorks is free for UCB staff, students, and faculty.  

EndNote X:  April 12, 2007, 11AM - 12:30PM, 450C Moffitt Library

EndNote automates the creation of bibliographies.  Scholarly publications have their own unique formatting requirements that govern the appearance of bibliographies and citations within the written document.  Using this tool, writers save countless hours of typing and interpreting style requirements by simply selecting a publication by name and generating a perfectly formatted document.

EndNote may be purchased at The Scholars' Workstation.  You do not need to have purchased EndNote in order to come to this class.