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Client Version of SciFinder Retiring June 30, 2011
Due to increasing popularity and expanding customer use of the web version of SciFinder, Chemical Abstracts Service will be discontinuing the client platform of SciFinder on June 30, 2011 for all U.S. and Canadian academic institutions. On this date, UCB will only have access to the web version of SciFinder.
UCB is gradually shifting the number of ports towards the web version so the client version will be harder and harder to log into.
To register for the web version, go to http://software.chem.ucla.edu/scifind/SfsUCBweb.html.
Once registered, go to https://scifinder.cas.org/ to log on.
Engineering Library pick-up location
Beginning on May 2nd, the Engineering Library will no longer be a pick up location option in OskiCat. When requesting materials, please use one of the other available pick up locations. If you already have materials ready to pick up at Engineering, you should collect them as soon as possible.
The suspension of the Engineering Library as a pick up location is due to the temporary closure of the Engineering Library from May 13th to August 17th.
Send the Public Health Library Your Publications!
If your CDPH unit has published any substantial publications (e.g. reports), please remember to send a copy to the Public Health Library, or make sure to put the Public Health Library on your regular hard copy distribution list.
To send mail to us:
1. Use an interoffice envelope and write: “UC-Public Health Library, Berkeley”
2. Put the envelope in the CDPH interoffice mail.
An overnight courier service delivers mail between the Public Health Library and the Richmond/Sacramento CDPH campuses. We receive it much faster this way, than if sent through the U.S. Mail. For off-campus units who must send via U.S. mail, our mailing address is:
Sheldon Margen Public Health Library
1 University Hall #7360
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-7360
bX Recommender trial: UC-eLinks goes social
From April through mid-June 2011, the University of California Libraries are experimenting with a 2-month trial of bX Recommender, a service that points users to relevant scholarly articles on the topics they’re researching.
How does it work?
bX Recommender is a tool embedded in UC-eLinks that leads you to other articles like the one you’ve found. It is similar to other recommender tools such as Amazon’s "Customers who bought this item also bought…"
Are all articles covered?
Recommendations will only appear for articles with full text available online. bX generates its recommendations based on actual use by researchers in academic libraries who use services like UC-eLinks all over the world. The service makes connections between articles as searchers discover and access them, so it is continually being refined and improved as more people use it and contribute their data to the system.
How do I use it?
Click on the UC-eLinks button when you find an article in an article database, or when you look up a specific citation using UC-eLinks Citation Linker (must use full exact article title), and scan down to find the recommended articles. It should look like this:
Things to note
Your feedback on this trial is important! Please use the “Feedback on bX BETA” link in the UC-eLinks window to make comments or report problems.
The UC-eLinks service is available to anyone using computers on the UC Berkeley campus network. Off-campus use of UC-eLinks is open only to UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff members, using our proxy server or VPN system.
Originally posted in the What’s New in the Library news blog.
After you leave UCB … How to access journals, databases, and more!
After you leave UCB with your Public Health degree …
… How will you access online journals?
… Can you still search for articles using online databases?
… How will you keep track of citations you find?
… How do you find good sources of public health data and statistics?
… Do you know where to take free online public health classes?
… How do you collaborate with others?
4/27/2011 UPDATE: A web guide has been created on this topic: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/SPH/AfterGrad.html.
For the answers to questions and more,
please come to the Public Health Library’s one hour session, After You Graduate: How to access online journals, databases, and more.
Date/Time: Thursday April 21, 3-4 pm
Room: 440 University Hall (Conference Room)
No RSVP needed
A librarian from the Public Health Library will show you that leaving UCB does not mean an end to accessing databases and online journals. You will learn about several free sources of citations and articles, as well as "grey" literature, and statistics/data. You will also hear about special programs for online journal access for folks working in developing countries. Also discussed will be citation management software, productivity software, continuing education, how to keep up-to-date in your field, and more.
Reference Manager 12 Update
For those of you who already have Reference Manager version 12, there is a free update to version 12.0.3 available now that is compatible with Word 2010. Get it now at:
Cal 1 Card accepted for printing in Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff can now use their Cal 1 Cards to pay for printing from public computers in the “Information Gateway” on the entrance level of Moffitt Library.
The Cal 1 Card payment option is available from computers on the West side of this area. Along with the Cal 1 card option, users have the option to print black and white on an HP LaserJet 9040 or color on an HP CP5525 printer. The HP printers are being tested as the output devices for our future Library installations.
Please note that in order to pay for printing and avoid error messages, you need to set up your Cal 1 Card as a debit account and deposit sufficient funds. Here are details on how to do this.
Holders of Equitrac copy cards can still use these on the public workstations on the East side of the Information Gateway. Please be aware that Equitrac cards will expire June 30, 2011.
In the near future, a “guest card” will be available to library patrons who do not have a Cal 1 Card. Cost and availability for the guest card will be announced on our website.
These changes are part of a larger transition in which the UC San Francisco Documents, Media & Mail office, in partnership with the UC Library, is managing our copy centers and expanding the services available. For more information, see:
» Copying, Printing and Scanning, Self-Service
» Copying, Full-Service
» UCSF Documents, Media & Mail
Originally posted on the What’s New in the Library blog.
How to Create and Give an Effective Poster Presentation
The Public Health Library has developed a guide for CDPH employees to use on how to prepare content, design, construct and present posters. Many useful, illustrated tips are provided. This guide will also appear soon on a guides/tutorials web page that is currently under development.
PubMed for Handhelds
This CDPH version is a customized version of the standard PubMed for Handhelds. When you click “Get Full Text”, you will see the “CDPH Journals icon” if full text is available to CDPH. PubMed for Handhelds is a slightly pared down version of PubMed for CDPH, and is part of a suite of other mobile applications, including a Disease Associations search, a Journal Abstracts browse/search, and a PICO search tool. Citations in PubMed for Handhelds include a TBL (“The Bottom Line”), as well as a full abstract, if available.
Changes to new books list in the Mathematics Statistics Library
The Mathematics Statistics Library has begun using a different Recent Acquisitions list to highlight new books in our collection. This list is automatically generated from OskiCat, our library catalog, and includes books cataloged or recataloged within the previous 60 days.
Please update your bookmarks and RSS readers: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/types/feeds/mathematics_statistics_library.html