Day: February 2, 2009

Stuart Shieber: March 30

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On February 12, 2008, Harvard Arts and Sciences Faculty voted unanimously to adopt a policy that makes them the first university in the US to mandate open access to its faculty members’ research publications. The driving force behind the adoption of this policy was professor of computer science, Stuart Shieber. Professor Shieber currently heads Harvard’s Office of Scholarly Communication and will share his experience on how this ground-breaking policy was passed and what steps Harvard has taken to implement it.

Please join your colleagues for this public talk on:

Date: Monday, March 30
Time: 3:30 – 5:00
Location: Toll Room, Alumni House

Read more about the Harvard Open Access policy at:

This event is co-sponsored by the Academic Senate Library Committee, The Library and the School of Information (iSchool).

Springer open access pilot for UC authors

Posted on by bquigley

The California Digital Library (CDL) and Springer have signed a ground-breaking agreement in which UC-authored articles accepted in most of the 1700 Springer journals will be published using Springer Open Choice, which brings with it full and immediate access to all readers. This means that UC authors will pay no additional publication fees in order for their articles to be immediately and fully open to all. Under this agreement, articles will be published under a license in which authors retain the right to distribute and re-use their articles freely.

The UC-Springer agreement is the first large-scale open access experiment of its type undertaken with a major commercial publisher in North America. In 2008, some 1500 journal articles by UC-affiliated authors were published in Springer journals.

For more information, see the joint press release (PDF) or talk to your librarian. You can also read more about it in a recent Daily Cal article.

This post is adapted from a post that originally appeared in What’s New in the Library.

Springer open access pilot for UC authors

Posted on by bquigley

The California Digital Library (CDL) and Springer have signed a ground-breaking agreement in which UC-authored articles accepted in most of the 1700 Springer journals will be published using Springer Open Choice, which brings with it full and immediate access to all readers. This means that UC authors will pay no additional publication fees in order for their articles to be immediately and fully open to all. Under this agreement, articles will be published under a license in which authors retain the right to distribute and re-use their articles freely.

The UC-Springer agreement is the first large-scale open access experiment of its type undertaken with a major commercial publisher in North America. In 2008, some 1500 journal articles by UC-affiliated authors were published in Springer journals.

For more information, see the joint press release (PDF) or talk to your librarian. You can also read more about it in a recent Daily Cal article.

This post is adapted from a post that originally appeared in What’s New in the Library.

February 11th Richmond Instruction Session: Orientation to Library Services

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

Were you aware:

* You can have journal articles, technical reports, standards, book chapters, and more, from nearly any source, delivered to you electronically?

* You can have books from the University of California, Berkeley Library delivered to your office?

* Librarians at the Public Health Library, who have access to hundreds of databases, indexes, and other resources, will research nearly any topic for you, and e-mail you appropriate citations?

* CDPH staff have access to dozens of electronic journals from your desktop?

The Sheldon Margen Public Health Library librarians have scheduled an orientation session to discuss the library services available to CDPH staff. 

Class: Orientation to Library Services
When: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 10 – 11 AM
Where: Richmond Campus, Building C, Room 136

Audience:
This class is intended for new CDPH staff, or for those who would like a reminder of the services available from the Public Health Library for work-related activities.

If you wish to attend, please RSVP by Monday, February 9th to Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu, or (510) 642-2510. 

These one-hour training sessions are free to CDPH employees.  Please obtain your supervisor’s approval to attend.

No Sacramento Instruction Session in February

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There will be no monthly instruction session in Sacramento in February. In March, there will be 2 classes held instead:

Health Promotion/Health Education Resources, on Tuesday, March 10th from 1:30-2:30pm at 1500 Capitol Ave, Training Rooms B & C.

Food/Nutrition Resources, on Monday, March 23rd from 1:30-2:30pm at 1500 Capitol Ave, Training Rooms A & B.

More details about these 2 classes will be sent out in late February. However, if you would like to RSVP early, please send an email to Judy Bolstad at jbolstad@library.berkeley.edu to reserve your spot. Make sure to let her know which class(es) you are rsvp’ing for in your email.

PubMed and Other National Library of Medicine (NLM) Tutorials

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Do you need some help with searching PubMed or learning how to use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)? If so, there are several tutorials available on the NLM web site you should consider looking at! In addition to these topics, there are tutorials on how to use My NCBI, and much more. You can access these freely by going to:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/dist_edu.html

Literature Searching Service for CDPH

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Did you know that the librarians at the UC Berkeley Public Health Library are available to do literature searches for you and provide you with references and abstracts relevant to your topic? We have access to hundreds of computerized subject databases and indexes and can run a retrospective search on almost any work-related topic for you. We can send you the search results via email or in a bibliographic management program like EndNote or Reference Manager. This service is available directly from the Reference Service and Literature Searching link on our web page of services to CDPH:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/cdph/

or you can access the literature search online form directly from the web portal at:

http://publ.lib.berkeley.edu/

If you have questions about any of our services, please let us know at (510) 642-2510.

Agricultural Health Study

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This study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the EPA, is being conducted to investigate the effects of environmental, occupational, dietary and genetic factors on pesticide applicators and their spouses. It began in 1994 and involves over 89,000 subjects. Documents, fact sheets, and more are available on the Agricultural Health Study web wite, which is linked from the Public Health Library’s Toxicology/Occupational Health Resources page at:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/tox.html