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“Pulling Off A Poster Presentation” – A new guide from the Public Health Library

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The Public Health Library has created a new guide, Pulling Off A Poster Presentation: A Guide To A Successful Scientific Poster Presentation (PDF).

This brief guide will take you through the steps to make your research come alive on a nice-to-the-eyes poster, including:

  1. The purpose of a poster
  2. How to prepare content
  3. How to design, construct, and print your poster
  4. How to present and share your poster

Included in the guide are templates, tips, and resources on such topics as: how to get SPH logos, where to find a large format printer, web sites on which you can share your poster, and more.

The poster guide is one of several guides and tutorials on the Public Health Library’s Instruction/Guides web page, and is an adaptation of the poster guide produced by the UCB Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Library.

UC eScholarship and undergraduate research and publication

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eScholarship will extend its robust repository and publishing services platform to include UC undergraduate work, effective immediately.

The California Digital Library and UC Libraries recognize the clear and pressing need for the establishment of a service for the dissemination of substantial undergraduate research and publications, which are an increasingly prevalent outcome of the undergraduate education at the University of California. eScholarship already serves the repository and open access publishing needs of UC faculty and graduate students by providing access to nearly 40,000 research publications and 37 UC-affiliated open access journals representing over 275 academic units.

Our undergraduate research services will include support for:

  • faculty-sponsored undergraduate journals
  • capstone projects
  • prizewinning papers

and more. For any inquiries or questions, please contact Catherine Mitchell, Director of Publishing Services, California Digital Library (catherine.mitchell@ucop.edu)

Originally posted on the Scholarly Communication News at Berkeley blog.

“My ILL Requests” now online

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UC Berkeley users of Interlibrary Loan (ILL) can now view a list of their interlibrary borrowing requests online. Those who have successfully made an ILL request, either online or in person, can see:

  • A list of items they have requested, which can be sorted by due date, author, or title.
  • The status of each request (pending, received, returned, etc.)
  • The due date by which they must return the item.

There are options to cancel a request, as well as request a renewal (which we cannot guarantee, since that decision is up to the lending institution). "My ILL Requests" may be accessed via the Interlibrary Loan link on the library homepage, or a button on the Interlibrary Borrowing Service web page. Off-campus users of our proxy server may be prompted for a CalNet ID; all users will need to log in with their UC Berkeley ID card number and Library PIN.

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Originally posted on the What’s New in the Library blog

MathSciNet improvements

Posted on by Brian Quigley

The American Mathematical Society recently announced a number of enhancements and new features in MathSciNet:

  • The latest version uses MathJax to improve the display of mathematics in modern browsers.
  • Records now include direct links to series, books, and book chapters when digital object identifiers (DOI) are available.
  • Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Ph.D. theses from ProQuest are now included. Clicking on the “Thesis” link in these records will take you to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, where we have access to all the UC dissertations available online there.

For more information about this latest release, please see About MathSciNet.

Got Video? Check out UCB’s Media Resource Center!

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"The Media Resources Center (MRC) is the UC Berkeley Library’s primary collection of materials in electronic non-print (audio and visual) formats." MRC is located in 150 Moffitt Library.

MRC logo

The collection includes dramatic performances; speeches; lectures and events; historic newsreels; and documentaries, including one of the strongest collections of works by independent film and video makers in the US.

Take a look at their bibliographies, including listings on Aging, Food, Medicine and Health, and many more.

Current UCB faculty and graduate student instructors may make arrangements to borrow materials for same-day classroom use on the Berkeley campus, or for overnight previewing.

Besides the vast collection, MRC offers a growing collection of audio and video online.

Int’l Conf on AIDS Meeting Abstracts added to NLM Gateway

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NLM Gateway is a good tool for finding meeting abstracts for AIDS and other conferences. Abstracts from the 16th International Conference on AIDS (held in Toronto, Canada, in 2006) were recently added to the NLM Gateway Meeting Abstracts collection.

Other sources of AIDS meetings conferences include AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information System). Abstracts for the International Conference on AIDS are also available on the International AIDS Society web site. Details on how to use these resources to find AIDS meetings abstracts are on the Public Health Library’s AIDS/HIV Resources web page.

SpringerLink: new interface launches on August 7

Posted on by Brian Quigley

An upgraded interface for SpringerLink, the platform for Springer’s electronic journals and books, will launch on August 7th. Interface enhancements will include:

  • related documents for articles
  • PDF Preview for eBook chapters
  • enhanced browsing features
  • viewable abstracts without leaving search results
  • improved search functionality, including searching by citation

To preview these changes, check out the SpringerLink Beta site.