GLADIS, the command-line telnet version of the UC Berkeley library catalog, will be down for maintenance from 6am to 7am on Saturday, June 30. During this time, the Pathfinder and Melvyl catalogs will still be operating, but the following will be unavailable:

» Availability information for UCB items.
» Melvyl's Request function (for UCB patrons).
» BAKER, NRLF, and Stanford Request functions in Pathfinder.
» Interlibrary Service request through the library website.
» Library proxy server for off-campus access to electronic resources (though these should still be available through VPN).

The WilsonWeb article databases are currently unavailable. According to the California Digital Library, this situation may be due to lingering effects from yesterday's power outages in New York. The vendor hopes to have complete access restored by Monday, July 2.

For a list of these databases, go to Locate Electronic Resources and search "wilsonweb"

The name may sound old-fashioned, but Bibliographic Index Plus is a powerful research tool.

It lists, and in some cases links directly to, more than 450,000 bibliographies on a wide range of subjects, published in more than 2800 journals and 5000 books each year. Languages covered include English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian, Slavic, and Romance languages. The detailed indexing lets you search for specific keywords.

If you're doing a research project and need to put together a bibliography quickly, why not build on the efforts of other scholars who have worked on the same topic?

Try it now

Note: This is a commercial product licensed for use by UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.  For more information see Connecting from Off Campus. 

The library subscribes to more than 800 premium online information sources. To learn more about what we've added in the last month, see our list of new resources.

» AskART
» Black Studies Center
» CEIC Global Database (economic time series)
» Encyclopedia of the Quran
» Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
» E-STAT (Canadian statistics)
» Everyday Life and Women in America
» Greenwire (environmental news)
» Science.gov
» Social Theory
» Thomson Datastream (finance and economics)

The International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) is now part of Black Studies Center.

To find out more about any of our electronic resources, search its title here.

Every summer, the Library and the Office of Educational Development send new freshmen a list of books suggested by faculty and staff from across campus. Neither “official” nor “required” reading, the release of the list has become an anticipated annual event, as popular with upper division students, campus staff and the local community as it is with its primary audience.

This year the Cal community generated a list of sixteen genre-spanning titles on the theme of survival, collectively offering scientific, social, historical, and futuristic variations on a theme.

And for the first time, to kick off a little conversation, the reading list joins the blogosphere--allowing the silent community of readers to speak up and respond to titles selected for inclusion as well as recommend survival favorites that didn’t make it to the list.

Also new this year, the listing for each book includes a "Find in your library" link that locates copies at UC Berkeley and in other libraries through the WorldCat system.