Author: Lisa Ngo
Video tutorials
The UC Berkeley Libraries offer a range of online video tutorials to help search our online databases and evaluate the information you find. Our newest one is for the database Business Source Complete, a valuable resource for business and industry information and often used for access to full text Datamonitor reports. You can view the tutorial on the Engineering Library's website here.
Other popular videos produced by the Libraries include how to evaluate full text scholarly material online and how to find Congressional research.
Interested in other video tutorials? Click here.
Export to BibTeX in Web of Science
Web of Science users can now directly export their citations into BibTeX, a bibliographic management tool.
To use this function, select the citations you'd like to save and scroll down to the bottom of the page. In the "Output Records" section, go to Step 3 and select the "Save to BibTeX" option.
Direct exporting into other bibliographic management tools including EndNote, Reference Manager, and ProCite is also available in Web of Science. More information on BibTeX can be found at BibTeX.org.
New EECS resource: Computing Reviews
Computing Reviews is the latest addition to our collection of online resources for faculty, staff, and students. Computing Reviews offers reviews of computing literature written by experts in the computer science field and qualified by the Association of Computing Machinery. It includes reviews of journals, conference proceedings, books, and book chapters. Use the UC-eLinks button to find full text of reviewed works.
See other recommended online databases at the Engineering Library's Article Databases page!
Inspec gets a new look
Inspec will be migrating to a new search screen on Monday, February 4th. The interface will include new features like a Search Aid that helps narrow down your search and a simpler RSS option for keeping current.
You can preview the new interface before Monday by clicking on TryOvidSP from the old interface.
Access is available from all campus computers. UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students can also access this resource from off campus via the Library Proxy Server.
UCB support for open access authors
UC Berkeley's Vice-Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian are co-sponsoring a pilot project supporting Berkeley researchers who want to make their publications freely available to the public. The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative – BRII – was announced on January 21st, 2008. According to the BRII website:
The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) supports faculty members who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication.
An 18-month pilot program, BRII will subsidize, in various degrees, fees charged to authors who select open access or paid access publication. The pilot will also yield data that can be used to gauge faculty interest in — as well as the budgetary impacts of — these new modes of scholarly communication on the Berkeley campus.
More information can be found at the BRII website at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/brii/. Visit the UC Berkeley Library's Scholarly Communication page to learn more about Open Access publishing.
Help us evaluate electronic books
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
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.