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The quiz is open until September 6, 12:00 PM. See the full quiz rules at bit.ly/epslibquiz.


Fall Library Workshops

The Library is offering a series of tours and workshops for the fall semester. Workshops include introductions to finding electronic resources, citation management software like RefWorks, Zotero, and EndNote, and data management. For the full schedule, see our Events and Workshops calendar, and sign up to be alerted when new workshops become available.


SAE Digital Library

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The SAE Digital Library is now available to the UC Berkeley community. Our access to the Digital Library includes full text of SAE Technical Papers from 1998 to the present and full text of journal papers from the SAE International Journals from 2011 to present. The Digital Library also indexes other automotive-related journals and the SAE Ground Vehicle Standards, but full text of these papers is not included in our subscription.

If you need technical papers published before 1998, please contact the Engineering Library for access.


Water Resources Collections and Archives

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The Water Resources Collections and Archives (WRCA) is a unique library that collects contemporary and historic materials on all aspects of water resources. This collection was formerly named Water Resources Center Archives, located at UC Berkeley. It is now located at UC Riverside and CSU San Bernardino; its collections remain available to researchers around the world.

The WRCA’s collection guides and digitized images can be found in the Online Archive of California. Print materials can be found and requested using Melvyl, the UC Libraries catalog.


Library workshops

The Engineering Library is offering several drop-in workshops open to all students. No registration required.

Location: Engineering Library Training Room, 110 Bechtel Engineering Center

Tuesday 8/21
10:00 –10:30 AM Citation Management
10:30 – 11:00 AM E-Resources
11:00 – 11:30 AM Data Management

2:00 – 2:30 PM Citation Management
2:30 – 3:00 PM E-Resources
3:00 – 3:30 PM Data Management

Thursday 8/23
10:00 –10:30 AM Citation Management
10:30 – 11:00 AM E-Resources
11:00 – 11:30 AM Data Management

Citation Management
Covers the basics of creating and importing references, formatting and inserting references into your papers, and creating a correctly formatted bibliography.

E-Resources
Introduction to engineering literature databases, how to effectively search Google Scholar, finding e-books, and set up off-campus access.

Data Management

Focuses on preparing data management plans, long term storage and backup of research data, and ways of sharing your data to improve your research impact.


Introducing NTRL 3.0

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The National Technical Reports Library, our go-to source for technical reports from government agencies, introduced a new user interface this week.

NTRL 3.0 features:

  • Faceted search results
  • Limit search to only full-text items
  • Expansion of searchable fields
  • Limit search using NTIS subject categories
  • … and more!

See what’s new at https://ntrl.ntis.gov/.


Foundations and Trends

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Foundations and Trends features a series of titles that each cover a major branch of a scientific discipline and offers current, state-of-the-art review articles by opinion/research leaders in their field (including several Berkeley faculty). Articles are concisely written and are online with the references linked to the original source, making it easy to link out and read other relevant articles and books.

The Foundations and Trends series include topics like Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Communications and Information Theory, and more. For a full list of series available to UC Berkeley, see the WorldCat catalog.