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PMC, formerly PubMed Central, is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, currently containing approximately 2.5 million articles.

PMC is a repository for journal literature deposited by participating publishers, as well as for author manuscripts that have been submitted in compliance with the Public Access Policy mandated by NIH and other research funding agencies. The repository includes material dating back prior to the NIH mandate, including some which date to the mid to late 1800s or early 1900s. A sampling of journals going back to volume 1 includes American Journal of Human Genetics (v. 1, 1949-),  Biophysical Journal (v. 1, 1960-), and Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society (v.1, 1865-).

Almost all the content of PMC is protected by U.S. and/or foreign copyright laws, although access is free for all materials. Respective copyright holders retain rights for reproduction, redistribution and reuse.

The Library will be sponsoring a number of events during Open Access Week and all are invited to attend! There are two events of particular interest for faculty and researchers in the sciences:

• Open Access at UC: Maximizing the Reach, Visibility and Impact of Your Research, A Faculty Conversation on Scholarly Communication with Richard Schneider (UCSF), Tuesday, Oct. 23, 3:30-5:00pm, Education-Psychology Library
• Publish Smart, Maximize Impact: Sciences, Thursday, Oct. 25, 11:00am-12:30pm, Engineering Library

More information about these events and other scholarly communication issues can be found on The Library’s Scholarly Communication News at Berkeley blog.

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.

Need to write a data management plan for a grant application? Give the DMPTool a try! This tool walks you through funding agencies’ data management plan templates providing guidance, suggested answers, and additional resources for each question. The DMPTool currently supports data management plans for NSF, NIH, NOAA, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation among others. Login with your CalNet ID to create, save, and manage your plans.

Check out our guide on data management and sharing for additional help and information. If you have questions, please contact your subject librarian or data-consult@lists.berkeley.edu.

Developed from the American Chemical Society technical divisions’ symposia, these peer-reviewed books cover a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and many others.

Online access available from 1974 (volume 1) to 2012.

MIT CogNet is a resource for information in brain and cognitive science. It includes searchable electronic access to the most up-to-date editions of ten reference works in the brain and cognitive sciences published by The MIT Press. Among these are: The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, The Visual Neurosciences, The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th ed. and The Handbook of Multisensory Processes. The full text of six MIT Press journals and abstracts from other major journals in the subject areas of brain and cognitive science are also found here. Additionally, the full text of over 400 books and conference proceedings are available. MIT CogNet is continually being updated.

Springer and the European Mathematical Society have partnered on this open access Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki. Based on the high-quality Encyclopaedia of Mathematics published by Kluwer in 2002, this comprehensive graduate-level encyclopedia includes “more than 8,000 entries, illuminating nearly 50,000 notions in mathematics.” Members of the mathematics community are invited to use and contribute to the Encyclopedia; all contributions are reviewed by an editorial board at the European Mathematical Society to maintain the quality of this online reference work.

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.

Global Daily 2010 is a global climate database from EarthInfo.

Global Daily contains over 63 million climate data records from a total of 179 countries, covering all 7 continents on Earth. The climate data records cover the time period from 1833-2010. The data originate from the Global Historical Climatology Network via the National Climatic Data Center. Primary data elements include: maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and precipitation. Secondary elements include: evaporation, soil temperature, and wind movement.

[Image courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory/Jeff Key]

PubChem provides information on the biological activities of small molecules.

Developed by NCBI at the National Institutes of Health, the database contains chemical structures, synonyms, descriptions, related urls, database cross-reference links to PubMed, protein 3D structures, and biological screening results.

Here’s an instructional video to help you get started with PubChem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxnq_Q9Tfo

More videos available here.