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New: PubMed Journals: Find, Browse, and Follow Biomedical Journals
Want an easy way to keep up to date on the articles that are published in journals? The new PubMed Journals may help!
PubMed Journals lets you:
* Easily find and follow journals of interest
* Browse new articles in your favorite journals
* Keep up-to-date with a Journal News Feed containing new arrivals, news links, trending articles, and important article updates (retractions and more!)
Choose from 10 popular journals right on the home page. Or search for other titles of particular interest to you. Click on the Follow button, log in with your NCBI, eRA Commons, Google or NIH account and you’re ready to go! If you do not have an NCBI account, you can go to your CDPH PubMed page and click on Sign in to NCBI in the upper right corner to create an account. It’s free and easy.
See an article that you like that you can’t access? You can request it through your document delivery service.
PubMed Journals is an experiment of PubMed Labs, NCBI’s product incubator for delivering new features and capabilities to NCBI end users.
Need information quickly?
Request a web portal account! Web portal requests are processed the fastest. The web portal to contract services provides a custom online interface to request services from the Public Health Library, such as journal articles and literature searches. Online request forms are pre-populated with your personal information (name, email, etc.) You can also view requests you have made in the past, as well as pending requests. The web portal also includes a link to electronic journal passwords, so you can more easily access these resources from anywhere.
Using your web portal, you can search your Document Delivery requests, so you will easily be able to learn if you requested a particular article or book, and when. Other features include the ability to sort online lists of your requests by title, author, or date requested, to view a list of books checked out to you (with one-click online renewing), and to get a list of your canceled Document Delivery requests.
Not yet a web portal user? To obtain your web portal username and password, please send an email to Marri Atienza at matienza@berkeley.edu, or call (510) 642-2510. She will need your name, address, phone and fax numbers, email address, and unit, branch, or program name.
Below are some common FAQ’s that you should check out:
1. Why do I need a web portal account?
A web portal account allows you to have your own personalized portal to:
* access online request forms with your contact information already pre-filled in
* track the status of your document delivery requests
* access passwords to electronic journals
* and more!
2. Do I absolutely need a web portal account to use any of the Public Health Library’s services?
No. If you do not wish to obtain a web portal account, you are free to access services directly from our generic home page for CDPH. An account is not necessary for using any of our services on this web page. The web portal is an additional feature that allows you to access the services for CDPH web page with a more personalized view.
3. How can I get a web portal account?
To obtain a web portal account username and password, send an e-mail to Marri Atienza at matienza@berkeley.edu with your name, unit, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address.
4. Forgot your password?
Go to the web portal page. There you’ll find a Retrieve Your Password link.
We need you – to check your Web Portal information
Has your unit or other work related information changed since you set up your web portal account? If so, then you may not have thought to update your web portal account information!
We’d like to ask ask all of you with web portal accounts to please check that we have your correct info in your patron records. It’s fast and easy!
Just go to your web portal account, log in, and see if the information listed there is correct.
Having trouble logging in? Forgotten your username or password? Give us a call at 510-642-2510 Monday through Friday between 8am and 5pm. Or, email your Document Delivery Coordinator, Marri, at matienza@berkeley.edu for help.
Research the teaching and learning of science using Education Source
Use Education Source (formerly Education Full Text) to find articles and more on all education topics, including adult education, continuing education, distance learning, government funding, multicultural education, social issues, and more.
Education Source contains a substantial number of citations on the teaching and learning of science. Start your search using thesaurus terms such as “Civil Engineering – Study & teaching,” “Physics – Study & teaching,” etc. Narrow your search by adding such terms as: case study, evaluation, and so forth. The EBSCO search interface easily allows for applying limits to your search such as a date range, or limiting to peer-reviewed content. You can quickly change the sort from relevance to date; other sort options are also available. Education Source includes the full text for over 1,800 journals, with UC-eLinks to access the full text of more, as well as full text for more than 550 books and monographs, numerous education-related conference papers, and citations for over 5 million articles.
Discover ToxNet in 4 weeks (or less)
Have you ever wanted to learn more effective ways to find information on environmental health or hazardous chemicals? Do you want to learn more about what’s available from the National Library of Medicine beyond PubMed? Then the free online class Discovering TOXNET may be of interest to you.
TOXNET is a web-based system of databases covering hazardous chemicals, environmental health, toxic releases, chemical nomenclature, poisoning, risk assessment and regulations, and occupational safety and health.
You will get the chance to explore TOXNET and other NLM environmental health databases through videos, guided tutorials, and discovery exercises. The class is taught online in thirteen independent modules.
The first module, Introduction to TOXNET, is required. The others are all optional. The optional modules cover TOXLINE, ChemIDplus, TRI, TOXMAP, Hazardous Substances Data Bank, IRIS, Haz-Map, LactMed, WISER, CHEMM, REMM, LiverTox, and more.
This class is designed for health or environmental sciences professionals and health sciences librarians interested in unlocking the information in TOXNET and the other environmental health and toxicology resources. You will work at your own pace with instructors available to answer questions and provide assistance.
Date: March 7th, 2016 – April 6th, 2016
Sponsor: National Library of Medicine Training Center
PubMed Alternative Search Interfaces
We all know that PubMed has a very powerful search engine. Sometimes, however, it would be nice to have alternative ways to dig into the National Library of Medicine’s database to perhaps uncover other useful research articles.
Enter PubMed PubReMiner. PubReMiner will query PubMed with your specific search query, get all abstracts and generate frequency tables for you. Let’s take a look at these.
The first table will show you journals in which your query is published the most. The second table will show you the authors which are most active in the field of your query. The third table will show you words that have been used most in the title and abstract of the articles, perhaps uncovering new search terms to try.
In addition to all this, MESH headers, country, and the publication year are displayed. Clicking on any of the elements will add them to your query, and will then run the search again in PubReMiner, making sure that your refined search still generates results. When you are satisfied with the query, you can jump to PubMed and view the results.
Next to building efficient queries, PubReMiner can also be helpful in other areas:
* Selecting a journal for your current work by scanning the most often used journals of similar research
* Finding experts in a research area by viewing the authors associated with your query
* Creating a realtime CV on the fly when you have gathered all your publications with their CV generator
PubMed PubReMiner was developed by Jan Koster at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam.
Intrigued by this? For more alternative interfaces, see PubMed Alternative Interfaces, a list maintained by HLWIKI International which is curated by a team of international health librarians.
IEEE Xplore: Search vs. Research video
IEEE has released a new video on IEEE Xplore: Search vs Research that highlights the advantages to using IEEE Xplore to search and discover journal, conferences, books, and standards published by IEEE and its publishing partners.
IEEE Xplore includes more than three million documents from some of the most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and related fields.
Check out IEEE.tv for more videos from IEEE including lectures, award ceremonies, educational content, and information on IEEE products.
PubMed Alternative Search Interfaces
We all know that PubMed has a very powerful search engine. Sometimes, however, it would be nice to have alternative ways to dig into the National Library of Medicine’s database to perhaps uncover other useful research articles.
Enter PubMed PubReMiner. PubReMiner will query PubMed with your specific search query, get all abstracts and generate frequency tables for you. Let’s take a look at these.
The first table will show you journals in which your query is published the most. The second table will show you the authors which are most active in the field of your query. The third table will show you words that have been used most in the title and abstract of the articles, perhaps uncovering new search terms to try.
In addition to all this, MESH headers, country, and the publication year are displayed. Clicking on any of the elements will add them to your query, and will then run the search again in PubReMiner, making sure that your refined search still generates results. When you are satisfied with the query, you can jump to PubMed and view the results.
Next to building efficient queries, PubReMiner can also be helpful in other areas:
* Selecting a journal for your current work by scanning the most often used journals of similar research
* Finding experts in a research area by viewing the authors associated with your query
* Creating a realtime CV on the fly when you have gathered all your publications with their CV generator
PubMed PubReMiner was developed by Jan Koster at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam.
Intrigued by this? For more alternative interfaces, see PubMed Alternative Interfaces, a list maintained by HLWIKI International which is curated by a team of international health librarians.
Fall workshops
The science and engineering libraries are holding a series of workshops during Fall Semester that can help you get the most out of freely available as well as Berkeley subscribed resources. Workshops include:
- Citation management: EndNote, Evernote, Mendeley, and more
- Productivity tools: Berkeley online tools for reading, writing, and collaborating more effectively
- Intro to GIS tools and resources: an introduction to Geographic Information Systems and mapping tools
- Data management: the best ways to create a data management plan, create, store, backup, and share your data
- Publish for impact: This session gives tips on publishing your research for maximum impact and will cover open access, alternative publishing options, and promotion of your work
Check out the full schedule with locations and times on our Events Calendar. All workshops are drop-in – no registration required.
New Campus Wireless Options
As you may have heard, AirBears is retiring; it’s time to move to AirBears2; complete instructions are on the IST website.
Another wireless option is eduroam, the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. Again, set-up instructions are on the IST website.
eduroam allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when visiting other participating institutions all over the world!
The eduroam WiFi service has two intended audiences. The first is UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students who travel to other institutions that participate in eduroam. At those institutions, UC Berkeley network users who have configured a Wi-Fi Key for AirBears2 can use the eduroam Wi-Fi service to obtain network connectivity. The other group of users are visitors to the UC Berkeley campus who have eduroam.