Day: October 19, 2007

Upcoming workshops on EndNote

Posted on by bquigley

Both the Engineering Library and the Teaching Library will be offering workshops on EndNote over the next few weeks:

  • Thursday, October 25, 3:00-5:00 (350C Moffitt Library)
  • Thursday, November 8, 2:00-3:00 (120C Bechtel)
  • Wednesday, November 14, 10:00-12:00 (350C Moffitt)

EndNote is a powerful, full-featured program that works with many databases to organize references, format a bibliography, and insert citations. EndNote may be purchased from The Scholar's Workstation and other vendors. Recommended to those managing extensive bibliographies.

Many of the science and engineering libraries will offer additional workshops on EndNote, RefWorks, and article databases in the Spring semester. Check our instruction schedules in the Spring for more information.

Help us evaluate electronic books

Posted on by lngo

UC Berkeley is currently looking at three different vendors that provide access to electronic books. We'd like to get feedback from students and faculty on what you think about each vendor, or comments about any past experiences you may have had with them. Here are the links:

Ebrary: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/berkeley

EBL: http://www.berkeley.eblib.com/EBLWeb/patron.html

EBL requires a user name and password for login. Please email lngo at address below for info.

MyiLibrary: http://www.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp

Some things to keep in mind when you're evaluating:

  • Ease of access and use
  • Display readability, search tools
  • Quality of titles in your subject area

Our trials will continue until October 31, 2007. Please send comments/questions to lngo (at) library (dot) berkeley (dot) edu.

Help us evaluate electronic books

Posted on by lngo

UC Berkeley is currently looking at three different vendors that provide access to electronic books. We'd like to get feedback from students and faculty on what you think about each vendor, or comments about any past experiences you may have had with them. Here are the links:

Ebrary: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/berkeley

EBL: http://www.berkeley.eblib.com/EBLWeb/patron.html

EBL requires a user name and password for login. Please email lngo at address below for info.

MyiLibrary: http://www.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp

Some things to keep in mind when you're evaluating:

  • Ease of access and use
  • Display readability, search tools
  • Quality of titles in your subject area

Our trials will continue until October 31, 2007. Please send comments/questions to lngo (at) library (dot) berkeley (dot) edu.

Libraries going open: video on the Open Content Alliance

Posted on by bquigley

The Internet Archive has just released a short video, Libraries Going Open, about the goals and progress of the Open Content Alliance (OCA).

The Open Content Alliance "represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organzations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content." The project focuses on public domain works that can be made freely available online.

The University of California Libraries are a major contributor to the OCA efforts. As of today, the UC Libraries have contributed 106,132 items to the Text Archive – including many classic texts in mathematics. Books can be read in PDF or Flip Book (example), among other formats.

Contributed books include:

Plan ahead for a research prize

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

Have a great research project from summer 2007, or something great in mind for fall or spring of this academic year?  Submit it for a chance to win up to $1,000!

The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research rewards excellence in undergraduate research projects that use library resources and demonstrate sophisticated library research skills on the part of undergraduate researchers. 

Deadline for application is April 14, 2008, but now's the time to start planning your submission.  Questions?  Visit the Library Prize website.