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Endnote Importing Tip
If you have EndNote version X2 or earlier, you may find that when importing records with a publication date of 2010 or later, the year field in the record may be blank. Information on how to fix this problem is available from EndNote:
Lift Off!
This 5-minute group physical activity break for meetings and events was developed by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and UCLA’s School of Public Health to encourage regular physical activity participation in the workplace. This fun, low-impact group activity, for use at meetings and events or with work groups, supports group participation with simple aerobic dance/calisthenic movements done to music. Lift Off! was specifically designed to accommodates all shapes, sizes and abilities and is appropriate for large or small groups. Check it out at:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=19296
Note: This requires RealPlayer on your computer.
Fall asleep at meetings no more!: Healthy Meetings at UC Berkeley
Tired of sitting down at long meetings?
Wish there was something besides bad doughy products to eat?
Take a look at the Healthy Meetings and Events at UC Berkeley web site!
It includes the UC Berkeley Guide to Healthy Meetings and Events, as well as Lift Off! a 5-minute fun, low-impact activity for use at meetings and events that supports group participation with simple callisthenic movements done to music.
Also included are shopping lists, and information on what to do with leftover food (Do NOT throw it away!)
"Meetings, events, and celebrations are a major part of the campus culture. Many meetings and events include food and beverages, as well as long periods of sitting. This guide provides recommendations and resources on how to make meetings more healthful for faculty, staff, and students by including nutritious food and beverage options, using sustainable supplies, and providing activity breaks."
IOPscience: new interface for e-journals is live!
The Institute of Physics launched their new IOPscience interface today!
You can now access our IOP licensed electronic journals on this new platform.
With IOPscience you can:
- Speed up your research with enhanced filtering.
- Save time: re-run searches, tag your favorite articles.
- Keep up to date: receive RSS feeds and email alerts.
- Access more content: view articles, pre-prints and news.
- Interact: use social bookmarking to share articles.
- Discover related research: explore relevant articles based on subject classifcation codes.
- Make it personal: customize your alerts, save articles and view the newest published articles.
Visit IOPscience to take an online tour to see the newest features.
CRCnetBASE
CRC Press has launched a new interface for its netBASE e-book collections. The new CRCnetBASE interface allows for more advanced searching and browsing and offers book chapters in hi-res PDF format or as PDF with links. Users will also now be able to register for free accounts and save books and chapters to a virtual bookshelf.
All netBASE collections, with the exception of CHEMnetBASE, have migrated to the new interface and are now searchable as an entire collection. CRCnetBASE is one of UC Berkeley’s largest collections of engineering handbooks and manuals and cover areas such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, math, environmental sciences, and more.
EndNote X2 (and earlier) importing problem: Year field empty (with a fix)
When importing records with a publication year of 2010 or later, the record in your EndNote library may have a blank in the Year field.
How can you correct this on future imports?
If you use EndNote version X3, the records import the year data correctly.
A patch to fix this problem in EndNote X2 is available from EndNote. You options for earlier version of EndNote are not great, and are detailed in EndNote’s FAQs.
If you need help with any of this, please contact the Public Health Library.
IEEE Xplore Digital Library – New interface coming
The new IEEE Xplore interface will launch on February 13, with new search, display and personalization features.
However, any Table of Contents Alert searches will not carry over to the new interface and will have to be set up again in the new system, by following these steps:
- After the new site goes live, register for a personal account or use your existing Web account User Name and Password
- Sign in with your personal account
- Go to “My Settings” then “Preferences” and add your e-mail address to your personal preferences
- Click “Manage Alerts” on the home page to be taken to the Table of Contents Alerts page
- Select the check box next to each title for which you want to receive updates by e-mail, and then click “Update”
You can also set up Alerts for saved searches.
View a short video to see the new interface and its features.
Save money by buying EndNote now!
UC Berkeley’s Software Central is offering EndNote licenses to students and departments. Licenses do not expire once they are purchased, but they are only being offered until February 28. A license costs $65.99 and is available for both Windows and Mac. Complete information is available from Software Central.
After February 28, you can still purchase EndNote at a substantial discount ($114.98) here. The non-student price of EndNote is currently $299.
Thinking of buying EndNote? Acting NOW could save you $$!
UCB’s Software Central offers EndNote licenses to students and departments. The license does not expire once purchased, but they will stop offering these licenses as of February 28, 2010. The license costs $65.99 and is available for both Windows and Mac. Complete information is available from Software Central.
After February 28, you can still purchase EndNote at a substantial discount ($114.98) here. The non-student “off-the-shelf” price of EndNote is currently $299.
Finding older articles: Databases that now go back in time further
We are very excited to announce that two of the Library’s licensed databases now include citations further back in time:
Web of Science: The Social Science Citation Index portion of Web of Science now goes back to 1900! (Web of Science includes Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index).
Social Work Abstracts: This database now goes back to 1965.
Finding older articles on your topic can provide historical context and a richer understanding. Also, some topics that may seem new and “hot” today have actually been around before.
Other databases useful for finding older articles include:
- BIOSIS Previews (back to 1926)
- CAB Abstracts (back to 1910)
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (back to 1951)
- PsycINFO (back to 1806)
- PubMed (back to 1948)
- Sociological Abstracts (back to 1952)
Many more can be found on the Public Health Library’s Indexes and Databases web page.