The Knovel University Challenge 2012 has begun!

Use Knovel to correctly answer a series of engineering-related questions for a chance to win an iPad, Beats Headphones, and other prizes. The contest runs September 10 through December 1. Chances to win include:

• A Grand Prize Drawing on December 2 for an Apple iPad selected from all eligible entries.
• Weekly Drawings for a new Western Digital HD TV Live Streaming Media Player from the pool of student entries that week.
• The first 10 universities with 100 players join a contest-within-the-contest, with one student participant from each university winning a set of Beats Tour earphones.

The deadline for Grand Prize entries is Midnight on December 1, 2012.

Attention RefWorks users! You can now store up to 5GB of your stuff on RefWorks' "cloud" - a significant increase from before. The UC Berkeley Library has communicated this need to RefWorks, and the change was made today.

What would you store in RefWorks? Besides all the citations, you can store PDFs and other files in your RefWorks database. This new storage limit ensures that you will not likely run out of space, no matter how many files you upload.

Help and tutorials on using RefWorks is available on the Public Health Library's website.

Originally posted on Sheldon Margen Public Health Library News.

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/Electric Boat). (Speech and Audio Processing Series)
• Business Processes: A Database Perspective by Daniel Deutch, Ben-Gurion University; and Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University. (Data Management Series)
• Foundations of Data Quality Management by Wenfei Fan, University of Edinburgh; and Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp. (Data Management Series)
• Incomplete Data and Data Dependencies in Relational Databases by Sergio Greco, Cristian Molinaro, and Francesca Spezzano, DEIS, Università della Calabria, Italy (Data Management Series)
• Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks: Principles and Methodologies by Yizhou Sun and Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)
• Theoretical Foundations for Digital Libraries: The 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) Approach by Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech), Marcos André Gonçalves (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), and Rao Shen (Yahoo!). (Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Series)

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 back to the owning library.

Exceptions to universal return include the following:

• course reserves
• interlibrary loan materials must be returned to ILL in Doe 133
• special items such as maps, music scores, and media must be returned to the owning library
• Law Library items must be returned there

Need to write a data management plan for a grant application? Give the DMPTool a try! This tool walks you through funding agencies' data management plan templates providing guidance, suggested answers, and additional resources for each question. The DMPTool currently supports data management plans for NSF, NIH, NOAA, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation among others. Login with your CalNet ID to create, save, and manage your plans.

Check out our guide on data management and sharing for additional help and information. If you have questions, please contact your subject librarian or data-consult@lists.berkeley.edu.