Author: Brian Quigley

Check out the BrowZine app

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We now have access to BrowZine at UC Berkeley. BrowZine is a tablet application that lets you browse, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available from the UC Berkeley Library.

Features of BrowZine include:

  • Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals
  • Be alerted when new issues are published
  • Easily save to Zotero, Mendeley, Dropbox, and other services

To use BrowZine with licensed resources, you will also need to set up the campus VPN or use AirBears. Learn more about BrowZine from our guide and the Introduction to BrowZine video from Third Iron.

Summer hours in the science libraries

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Our summer hours begin May 17. All the science libraries will be closed on weekends over the summer. Weekday hours will be as follows:

Bioscience & Natural Resources: 9am-5pm Mon-Fri

Chemistry & Chemical Engineering: 9am-5pm Mon-Fri

Earth Science & Map: 9am-5pm Mon-Fri

Engineering: 9am-5pm Mon-Fri (May 17-Jun 8); 9am-6pm Mon-Thu, 9am-5pm Fri (Jun 9-Aug 24)

Mathematics Statistics: 10am-5pm Mon-Fri

Optometry & Health Sciences: 1pm-5pm Mon-Fri

Physics-Astronomy: 10am-5pm Mon-Fri

Public Health: 10am-5pm Mon-Fri

Please consult the Library Hours page to check the hours for all libraries.

Bell Labs Technical Journal now on IEEE Xplore

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UC campuses now have access to Bell Labs Technical Journal on IEEE Xplore. With this transition to from Wiley to IEEE Xplore, we also have expanded access to the complete backfile of this journal and its previous titles:

Links to these journals on IEEE Xplore will be added to OskiCat and UC-eLinks soon.

24 hour study space for RRR and Finals weeks

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The Moffitt Library and Gardner (Main) Stacks will be open for 24-hour study hall beginning Monday, May 5 and ending at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 17. The Moffitt Microcomputer Lab and the Free Speech Movement Café will also be open round the clock for that period.

The science and engineering libraries will maintain their normal hours during finals. For current schedules of all campus libraries, see our Library Hours.

Some library websites unavailable overnight

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Starting at 11 p.m. tonight (Friday April 25), some Library web services will be unavailable, including the room reservation system, the Science Libraries website, and the Earth Sciences & Map Library website. All are expected to be available again by 6 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday April 26) at the latest. We apologize for any inconvenience.

GeoScienceWorld now available

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UC Berkeley now has access to GeoScienceWorld, an online collection of over 40 peer-reviewed journals from a variety of geosciences publishers including the following:

  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists
  • Clay Minerals Society
  • Geological Society of America
  • Geological Society of London
  • Mineralogical Society of America
  • Paleontological Society
  • Seismological Society of America
  • Society for Sedimentary Geology
  • Society of Exploration Geophysicists

This database of full-text journals is integrated with GeoRef to allow searching across citations and abstracts from additional journals and conference in the geosciences.

CRCnetBASE downtime March 1

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CRC Press posted the following announcement on CRCnetBASE about a planned downtime: “CRCnetBASE will undergo essential maintenance on Saturday 1st March for a period of up to 16 hours. During this time the site will not be available to users and we apologize for any inconvenience caused. Users will not be able to access content on the site from 11:00 EST through the end of the maintenance period.”