NIH Mandatory Public Access Policy Details
The NIH Public Access Policy affects you if you have a current NIH grant or have students or staff whose salaries are paid by NIH.
On January 11, 2008, the NIH adopted a revised—and now mandatory—Public Access Policy that requires all NIH-funded investigators to submit their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to the NIH’s PubMed Central (PMC) database (the digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature) upon acceptance for journal publication. PMC will then make these papers freely available to the public no later than 12 months after publication.
The policy applies to all peer-reviewed journal articles that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008.
The requirement applies to any NIH direct funding, including grants, contracts, training grants, subcontracts, etc. In addition, beginning May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal, or progress report to NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission Reference Number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH-funded research.
Compliance with the policy is a term and condition of all grants and cooperative agreements active in Fiscal Year 2008 (10/1/07-9/30/08) or beyond, and for all contracts awarded after April 7, 2008.
Principal Investigators and their institutions are responsible for ensuring that articles that arise directly from their awards, even if the PI is not an author or co-author, are submitted to PubMed Central in accordance with the policy.
This policy will affect NIH grant recipients in two ways:
1) Articles resulting from your grant must be submitted to PubMed Central either by the journal or by you.
2) The PubMed Central ID number or Submission Number must be referenced in your NIH applications, proposals and progress reports submitted on or after May 25, 2008
Authors must ensure that any publication agreement they sign allows the final, peer-reviewed manuscript to be submitted to PubMed Central in accordance with the policy.
If a journal presents an author with a copyright transfer agreement, theauthor should not sign it if it does not allow the author to submit the final, peer-reviewed manuscript to PubMed Central within 12 months of the publication date.
Authors should attach an amendment to the publisher’s transfer agreement that will allow them to comply with NIH requirements.
Authors and PIs should begin collecting PubMed Central reference numbers as well as NIH Manuscript Submission System reference numbers as proof of deposit. As of May 25, 2008, these numbers will be required in all progress reports, proposals, and grant applications when citing papers that arose from your NIH award.
There are a number of journals that submit articles directly to PubMed Central on behalf of their authors. When you publish in one of these journals, no further action is required on your part to comply. See the list of Journals That Submit Articles to PubMed Central.
UC investigators may enclose a letter signed by William Tucker, Exec. Dir., Office of Tech. Transfer, UCOP, with any articles submitted to publishers for possible publication. This letter gives notice to the publishers that, if accepted for publication, the article will be required by law to be posted on PubMed Central. If this letter is not submitted to the publisher at the time the article is sent in for review it may be submitted along with any publication agreement signed by a UC investigator. (UCOP Guidance)
If there is any question about your rights, add the following language to the publication agreement: "Journal acknowledges that Author retains the right to provide a copy of the final manuscript to the NIH upon acceptance for Journal publication, for public archiving in PubMed Central as soon as possible but no later than 12 months after publication by Journal”
Feel free to contact me with questions
Beth
Important Links
NIH Public Access Home Page
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm
NIH FAQ
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm#b1
NIH Submission Process
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process.htm
List of Journals that Submit articles to PubMed Central
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm
UC Office of Research Administration and Technology Transfer letter to attach to journal article submissions to ensure you have the right to submit to PubMed Central
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/letter_to_publishers.pdf
Sherpa Romeo http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement
Free RefWorks Training Session
A UC Berkeley licensed, Web-based bibliographic management system. The session will cover importing references from science databases, managing the personal database, and formatting bibliographies in various styles. See more information about RefWorks.
| Wednesday, March 19th | 3pm-4pm | Bioscience Library Seminar Room |
1/28/2008: Springer Now Hosts BioMed Protocols
The new URL is: http://www.springerprotocols.com/. Use the "Advanced Search" feature to search within a specific protocol. Springer has provided a video "tour" of the resource. Take the tour.
1/2/2008: CAB Abstracts Now Available on ISI Web of Knowledge
1/2/2008: New Interface for ISI Web of Knowledge
The ISI Web of Knowledge has a new interface with new features. The Bioscience Library has created several new guides and tutorial movies to help all users get the most out of the new interface:
1/2/2008: New RefWorks Group Code:
We have changed our RefWorks group code in order to ensure that only UC Berkeley faculty, staff and students are using this resource. The group code allows off-campus access to RefWorks for those people who are not using the proxy server or VPN for various reasons. New RefWorks Group Code (Requires CalNet Authentication)
11/1/2007: Leopard and Cisco VPN Issues:
One of our faculty wrote to us for help with a problem with a new installation of Leopard on an old Mac, and new problems with Cisco VPN. He later wrote that installing the newest (early adopter's version) of Cisco VPN helped solve the issue. For some Apple Discussion Board posters, a reinstallation of the current VPN version, with or without the settings file (see the instructions marked "first time only" on our VPN help page) has solved the issue.
From the Apple Support Discussion Boards on October 29th, 2007:
"The Cisco VPN client has broken with each of the last 3 major OS releases. The incompatibility of the latest client (4.9) and Leopard has been widely reported in the last few weeks. The good news is that Cisco has been relatively quick to release compatibility updates in tne past. You may need to stay with Tiger for a while until they do. " - Jeff Greenberg
On a related note, Cisco's VPN is intentionally set-up to not work with Apple's built-in VPN.
10/1/2007: RefWorks Drop-in Workshop
We will be hosting a RefWorks drop-in workshop on Thursday and Friday, October 4th and 5th. This is a hands-on session using iMac computers. We will go over importing records from several databases and catalog, organizing references, and creating a bibliography.
8/02/2007: Library Orientation Tours
Each tour consists of a brief tour of the facility and an introduction to the collection, library services, and resources. Meet at the Circulation Desk at the entrance to the library, which is located in 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building. For more information call 510/642-2531.
5/16/2007: Scholarly Communication Information Page
This new web page has several objectives:
5/10/2007: QUOSA Training, Tuesday May 29th th, 2007 at 10am and 2pm.
Berkeley has now subscribed to QUOSA, a software package that works with Endnote and PubMed and Web of Knowledge (Web of Science, Biosis, & Zoological Record) and Ovid (Inspec) to automate the retrieval of PDFs from your searches. It will import them into Endnote and link the PDF into your Endnote library, if you wish.
There are many features within QUOSA to make your research easier and more efficient. To learn more about QUOSA, visit their site, download the subscriber version for your computer (Mac, Windows) and mark your calendar for May 29th (Tuesday). We'll have a trainer from QUOSA in our Seminar Room giving two sessions (10am and 2pm).
We have just launched several new features on our site, including the following:
Multisearch Box: The search box at the top right side of most our pages can be used to search several databases including PubMed, Google Scholar, the eJournals list, CalNet Directory, and of course the Bioscience Web site.
New Journal Covers: The current journal covers featuring Berkeley research are now part of the web site and are randomly selected for display on our home page.
RSS Feed: A frequently updated list of articles added recently to PubMed is now featured on our home page. The feed itself is generated by HubMed, an alternative interface to PubMed. HubMed provides the article titles in the feed itself, which is more presentable on our web site.
We hope you enjoy the new features and find the graphics to be easy on the eyes. If the site does not look roughly like the image above, please try to refresh your browser. On most browsers, you can usually do this by hitting [F5].
UC now has access to the Biosis backfile which comprehensively covers the biological sciences literature from 1926-1968. (The current Biosis file has covered the data from 1969-present.) Additionally Berkeley has also obtained access to the Zoological Record backfile which covers 1864- present. At the present time we have the following resources for retrospective searching:
With such a wealth of resources where is the best place to start?
BiosisThe Biosis data is indexed by * Broad subject heading (i.e. Genetics, Ecology, Cell Biology) * Genus/species (if present) * Organism classifier (usually at the Family or Order level) * Broad taxonomic groups (birds, mammals, plants, bacteria) for all articles back to 1926. The majority of the records also have abstracts. (Review articles, short papers and conference proceedings generally do not have abstracts.) This makes it very a very rich resource for searching the literature of the biological sciences. Because the abbreviations used for a journal title varied quite a bit during these early years, links provided by UC-eLinks are particularly unreliable. Please ask reference desk at the Bioscience Library for help in locating these early works.
Web of Science Web of Science started to include abstracts and keywords supplied by the author around 1991. Before 1991 subject searching is limited to only words in the title of the article. Web of Science is particularly known for the benefits of its cited reference searching and the ability to follow a concept or idea forwards and backwards in the literature. However, since UC researchers have access to Web of Science and Biosis through the same Web of Knowledge platform it is now best to start your search in Biosis and then move to Web of Science via one click to follow the cited references.
PubMed PubMed currently goes back to 1951. The Old Medine records 1951- 1965 in PubMed don't have abstracts and were indexed with different subjects than the MeSH file currently in use. So you probably will need to expand the list of synonyms you use in your search to comprehensively search this portion of the database. NLM has begun an OLDMEDLINE subject heading-to-MeSH Heading mapping project. This project maps the original subject headings assigned to the citations when they appeared in the print indexes to the current MeSH vocabulary. Subject retrieval is better than in Web of Science. However, during this time period, Medline only covered clinical medicine and the basic medical sciences. Biosis is highly recommended for coverage of any non medical area and actually does a good job in medicine as well.
Zoological Record For those of you seeking zoology references, Zoological Record is an excellent choice. Although it overlaps with Biosis, you will find unique citations in both the Zoological Record and the Biosis database, so we recommend that they both be consulted for comprehensive searches. Once again UC-eLinks is not very helpful in locating these older records. For comprehensive retrospective searching we recommend beginning with Biosis!
9/5/2006: New Way to Keep Up With Literature -- RSS Feeds
08/3006: Instruction Sessions for September
These are hands-on sessions with no need to register or sign-up. See the Instruction and Tours Page for details.
Introduction to PubMed
PubMed is our primary mode of access to MEDLINE. This class will discuss specific indexes, combining and refining search strategies, and exporting to Endnote. There will be opportunities to use your search criteria in searches.
| Thursday, September 7th | 12pm-1pm |
BIOSIS
BIOSIS is the most comprehensive biological sciences database. The session will cover techniques for searching and efficiently using BIOSIS through the ISI Web of Knowledge interface. Methods for downloading citations to import into Endnote will be included as well.
| Tuesday, September 12th | 12pm-1pm |
Environmental Sciences and Public Policy
This session will focus on databases that are relevant to environmental issues and public policy.
| Thursday, September 21st | 12pm-1pm |
EndNote
EndNote is a widely used file management system. Demonstrations will include how to import citations from BIOSIS (ISI version), PubMed, and Web of Science databases; creating personal databases; and formatting bibliographies in various styles.
| Friday, September 15th | 1pm-2:30pm |
Introduction to RefWorks
A UC Berkeley licensed, Web-based bibliographic management system. The session will cover importing references from science databases, managing the personal database, and formatting bibliographies in various styles.
| Friday, September 22nd | 12pm-1:15pm |
Each tour consists of a brief tour of the facility and an introduction to the collection, library services, and resources. Meet at the Circulation Desk at the entrance to the library, which is located in 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building. For more information call 510/642-2531.
| August 23 | Wednesday | 2:15pm-3pm |
| August 24 | Thursday | 2:15pm-3pm |
| August 25 | Friday | 11:15am-12pm |
| September 6 | Wednesday | 11:15am-12pm |
| September 7 | Thursday | 2:15pm-3pm |
We changed our RefWorks group code to a new group code. This change is to ensure that only current UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students are using RefWorks from off-campus.
We plan to change the group code periodically.
New Group Code (Requires CalNet ID authentication)
The VPN is a new method for off-campus access to UC Berkeley licensed resources.
The Bioscience Library has scheduled drop-in sessions for June. See the following table for session times and a link to descriptions. The Instruction and Tours Page has general information about our drop-in sessions and contact information for special session requests.
| Friday, June 16th | BIOSIS | 10am-11am |
| Tuesday, June 20th | PubMed | 1pm-2pm |
| Wednesday, June 21st | Environmental Sciences and Public Policy | 11am-12pm |
| Wednesday, June 21st | EndNote | 1pm-2:30pm |
| Thursday, June 22nd | RefWorks | 11am-12pm |
Our access to Zoological Record is now through ISI Web of Knowledge. The direct link is http://isiknowledge.com/zoorec - the same interface we use for Web of Science and BIOSIS. A tutorial on its use is available at http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/zr
Please contact the Bioscience Library Reference Desk (2-0456) or send us email at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/ereference.html if you have any questions regarding its use.
The Bioscience Library has scheduled drop-in sessions for January. These sessions feature instruction on CAB Abstracts, AGRICOLA, BIOSIS, and PubMed, as well as EndNote and RefWorks. See the following table for session times and a link to descriptions. The Instruction and Tours Page has general information about our drop-in sessions and contact information for special session requests.
| Tuesday, January 10th | CAB Abstracts / AGRICOLA | 1pm - 2pm |
| Wednesday, January 11th | RefWorks | 1pm - 2pm |
| Thursday, January 12th | EndNote | 1pm - 2:30pm |
| Friday, January 13th | PubMed | 10am - 11am |
| Friday, January 13th | BIOSIS | 2pm - 3pm |
The Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library proudly announces the availability of a newly digitized collection of photos and maps depicting California vegetation in the 1920s and 30s. A selected group of 13 enlarged photos are now on display in the Valley Life Sciences building. These photos are part of the Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Project. There are approximately 3,100 black and white photographs, taken from 1920 to 1941 by Albert E. Wieslander and others. The photographs document timber stand conditions, consequences of cultivation, grazing, logging, mining, fire, and other land use. The photographs were transferred to the UCB campus from the Pacific Southwest Forest Experiment Station in 1990, and are currently housed in the Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library.
The photograph collection is available at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/vtm. The site may be searched by keywords, species names, and geographical terms. Supplementary materials include some USGS maps with the locations of the photos, the field manual, and an oral history of A.E. Wieslander.
The VTM project had an inauspicious beginning. Prof. Willis Linn Jepson suggested a field exercise, mapping local woody communities, to Wieslander and one other student. The exercise, completed during Wieslander's senior year at UC Berkeley in 1914, became a baseline for charting vegetation change in the early 20th century. A. E. Wieslander went on to become the Associate Silviculturist with the USFS California Forest and Range Experiment Station. In the 1920s and 1930s, he and several others, as a project for the newly formed Experiment Station, explored much of California's wilderness, sampling vegetation, taking photographs, collecting specimens, and drawing exquisitely detailed maps of what they found. The marvelously preserved collection is now known as the Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping (VTM) collection. The five main components of the VTM collection are plot data, plot maps, vegetation maps, photographs and associated data, and herbarium specimens. The data from this undertaking represents an invaluable resource for examining changes in land cover and use, habitat restoration, and other information about conservation ecology.
The overall VTM Digitization Project is a collaboration by teams at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Davis, and is funded by the U.S. Forest Service and the Cooperative State Research, Extension, and Education Service (CSREES) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The VTM photo digitization was funded and managed by the Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library and the Digital Publishing Group of the Library Systems Office. The Kelly Lab and the Allen-Diaz Lab in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management are responsible for making the plot data accessible through digitization and georeferencing. Much of this data is now available at http://vtm.berkeley.edu.
Backfiles of the CAB Abstracts database have recently been added to cover the literature of 1910-1972. The CAB Archive provides electronic access to over 1,860,000 records on every aspect of agricultural science, nutrition, forestry and natural resources. It is fully searchable and has been re-indexed with modern terminology. Key abstract print journals which have been digitized include Forestry Abstracts, Horticultural Abstracts, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, Review of Agricultural Entomology, Review of Plant Pathology, and Soils and Fertilizers.
CAB Abstracts indexes journals, monographs, conferences, books, annual reports, and other sources from the agricultural literature and from more than 100 countries. The database covers topics such as agricultural economics, biotechnology, crop protection, environmental science, forestry, genetics, insect biology, irrigation, nutrition, recreation and tourism, rural development, and soil science. This is the most comprehensive database for natural resources literature.
CAB Abstracts is accessible through the Bibliographic
Databases Page.
Guide to using CAB Abstracts / AGRICOLA html | pdf
USB Flash, Thumb or Keychain Drives may be used now on all of our public PC workstations. All computers still have 3.5" floppy drives installed. We no longer support 100M Zip Disks.
Keeping up-to-date with the literature in the biological sciences can be a difficult task. For strategies that include setting-up e-mail alerts from databases, e-mailed tables of contents from journals, and how to use RSS feeds, see: Keeping Up-to-date in the Biological Sciences.
Each tour consists of a brief tour of the facility and an introduction to the collection, library services, and resources. Meet at the Circulation Desk at the entrance to the library, which is located in 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building. For more information call (510) 642-2531.
| Wednesday, August 24 | 2:15pm-3pm |
| Thursday, August 25 | 11:15am-12pm |
| Friday, August 26 | 11:15am-12pm |
| Wednesday, September 7 | 11:15am-12pm |
| Thursday, September 8 | 2:15pm-3pm |
Some Network members have let us [NLM] know that they are having problems
with the back button in PubMed showing that the page has expired. We have
found out the following:
NLM believes the problem is related to their use of a new compression method
that sends data out at a faster rate. This was implemented early
last week.
NLM says:
Our programmers are working very hard to resolve this problem. In the mean
time, you may be able to restore the function on your computer by following
these instructions, and also instructions on clearing the cache:
MSIE users who get the page expired message can do one of the following:
Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced and click on the Restore
Defaults button at the bottom of that window and click on OK. Otherwise they
can make a single setting change:
Tools -> Internet Options ->Advanced -> scroll down to HTTP1.1 settings
and
check box for Use HTTP1.1. If they are going through a proxy server, check
the Use HTTP1.1 through proxy connections box. If they are using Norton's security
or other firewall system, they may have to make changes in those
programs and should write to us directly with their information. Thanks for
passing this along.
If this does not resolve the problem, you may need to disable HTTP monitoring
in your firewall (this is usually enabled by default). To do this in Norton
Internet Security, go to Options, Internet Security, and then the firewall
tab. Under HTTP ports, remove the ports listed by default for monitoring (80,81,1080,
etc).
If you have done all of the above and still experience the problem, please
contact us [NLM] at custserv@mail.nlm.nih.gov.
Other tips: This problem has been discussed recently on Medlib-l. Several people
said they used Mozilla Firefox and had not experienced this problem. Others
suggested viewing abstracts by right-clicking on the mouse and using the "open
in a new window" option as a work-around.
Hopefully everything will be *back* to the way it was soon!
Access to BIOSIS Previews is changing to a new interface and vendor starting in July 2005. ISI, the Institute for Scientific Information will be our new vendor. Since access through OVID is also changing, and will end in December, we recommend that you become familiar with the ISI Web of Knowledge interface for BIOSIS.
BIOSIS Previews on ISI
Web of Knowledge 1969 - Present
Guide to ISI BIOSIS (pdf).
On July 12th, OVID will switch to a new interface. Access to BIOSIS via OVID will end in December 2005.
We have now purchased access to BioMed Protocols. These are heavily used sets of protocols that include Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine.
You can access and search these protocols at http://biomed.humanapress.com/. If you find a protocol on PubMed, just click on the Humana Press button to access the full text. UC-eLinks will be enabled for this resource.
You may set up an alert on any search in PubMed (or any other Entrez database from NCBI). Your search will be run automatically as often as you specify. Results are e-mailed to you. See below for a handout and tutorial movie on creating alerts in PubMed:
The Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library now hosts an online exhibit of 70 Journal cover images featuring the work published by Berkeley researchers in the areas of the Biological Sciences and Natural Resources. For each cover image, the featured article citation is included along with the UC-eLinks button for retrieving the article either online or in print. Permission for each of these images was obtained by its respective publisher and/or artist.
See Hours for all UC Berkeley Libraries.for a comprehensive list of all library hours on campus.
We now have trial access to BioMed Protocols. These are heavily used sets of protocols that include Methods in Molecular Biology and Methods in Molecular Medicine. This is a very expensive product, but because of the high demand, we believe that making it available online will increase use of the protocols and facilitate the work of the very wide array of researchers across campus who use these techniques.
You can access and search these protocols at http://biomed.humanapress.com/. If you find a protocol on PubMed just click on the PubMed default button and you will get into the protocols. There currently is no access through UC-eLinks, since we have not purchased the product.
Do we need both this and Current Protocols? (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/browsebyproduct?type=5) We would appreciate hearing your comments regarding any comparisons of these products.
If you want us to continue to have access to this product, please let us know. We also need to know if you can't get into it or if you have any difficulties using the material. (i.e. is it worth the money?). Comment Form
During the Holiday break The Library's servers will be moving to a new location. The Library's Web Site and e-mail will not be available from Monday December 27 - Wednesday December 29th. GLADIS will not be available on Tuesday December 28. So, you won't have access and you won't be able to get in touch with us!
The Library System's Office will attempt to keep the Proxy Server (which allows current UCB faculty, staff and students to use licensed databases and journals when they are not on campus) functioning during these days, but there is a greater possibility that there will be service interruptions, since its backup will be moving.
Licensed databases such as BIOSIS, Web of Science, GeoRef, etc and the journals should all be up and working. However if you rely on our Web pages (for example the electronic journals page or bibliographic databases page) to get to these resources, we recommend that you save a copy of the page on your own computer for use during this period, or bookmark the resources you are likely to need, since the Library's web server will be down
The November 30 Class is cancelled. No alternative date has been set.
Access Medicine (McGraw
Hill)
A suite of books including Harrison's Online, Hurst's THE Heart, The Metabolic
and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (MMBID), AccessLANGE, CMDTonline.com. Please
logout properly when finished. This is a trial access with limited ports.
After consultation with the campuses, CDL decided to drop its subscription to Current Contents in December 2004. Current Contents, while heavily used, duplicates the material in the Web of Science, produced by the same publisher. Current Contents users will need to use Web of Science for alerts.
On August 5th, 2004, there will be a new interface for RefWorks. The update is automatic. Please view the following short movie to familiarize yourself with the upcoming changes. http://info.csa.com/Refworks/RWPreview.html
Incyte.com has updated their website as of Friday, July 16th at 4:15pm. As part of this process, the URL for the BioKnowledge Library has changed to http://proteome.incyte.com. Our access has not been interrupted by this change.
The Library has subscribed to the Faculty of 1000 for one year. Interest from faculty in Bioengineering and Chemistry helped distribute the cost throughout the library. The Faculty of 1000 describes itself as a "next generation literature awareness tool... that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers." The papers are in one or more of five categories (Novel finding, Technical advance, Interesting hypothesis, Important confirmation or Controversial findings) and are labeled as 'recommended, 'must read' or 'exceptional'. Thirty-two Faculty of 1000 members are from UC Berkeley or LBNL. You can browse papers within a field, such as biochemistry, cell biology, genomics & genetics, molecular biology and plant biology, or search across all fields. Access Faculty of 1000 at http://www.facultyof1000.com/browse/, and follow the yellow UC e-Links button to reach the full text of articles.
The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research competition attracted the very best undergraduate papers from courses taught in departments across the campus.
The Library Prize recognizes excellence in undergraduate research projects that show evidence of significant inquiry requiring use of the library, its resources, and collections; and learning about the research and information-gathering process itself.
From Molecular and Cell Biology, Michael Jacob's paper: "Endogenous Psychoactive Tryptamines Reconsidered" for Molecular & Cell Biology H196B, Professor David Presti won this award. Congratulations from the Bioscience Library!
The UC-eLinks Single Citation Linker is an interface that allows you to locate the full text of a specific citation. Your search results will show a direct link to online full text of the article or links to the Melvyl catalog for library holdings and call numbers. This interface also allows UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students to request materials from another library if no UCB access or library holdings are found.
Note: All fields do not need to be filled in for full-text access. The Author and Title fields are only useful for the Request feature.
All other days are on the normal semester schedule.
The following classes are scheduled. Please see the Instruction and Tours Page for details.
We now have access to a new method of keeping up-to-date on the impact of your research!
Web of Science now provides alerts for you. A saved search is run each week after the database is updated and the results are automatically e-mailed to you. The search may be for cited references, authors, topics, journal names, or addresses.
Here are some Questions and Answers regarding alerts in Web of Science
Q: How do I set one up?
A: You can set up a weekly alert in ISI Web of Science. Go to http://isiknowledge.com/wos
1. First you must be registered as a user in Web of Knowledge. If you are not
registered as a user, switch to the Web of Knowledge Home Page by choosing
it in the pull down menu in the blue frame at the top of the Web of Science
screen.
2. Click on Register. Your e-mail address is your user ID. If you are already
registered as a user, just sign in on this page.
3. Once you have registered or signed in, Select ISI Web of Science.
4. Perform your search.
5. Click the Advanced Search button. Then click the "save history" button.
Under "Save on the ISI Web of Knowledge Server" enter a name for
the alert.
6. Mark the box next to "send me e-mail alerts." Enter your e-mail
address and specify the type of alert you'd like to receive. Please remember
that "notify only" will not contain any bibliographic information
in your e-mail. Select "biblio" or "full record" to receive
the results of your search via e-mail.
7. Click "save."
8. Then click Done.
The name of your alert will display on the ISI Web of Knowledge page under "Open/Manage Saved Searches" along with an asterisk, indicating that alerting is active. In the "Open/Manage Saved Searches" area, you are able to update, renew or delete your alert.
Q: Is there a maximum number of records that will be sent in my alert e-mails?
A: Yes. The maximum number of records that you will receive in an alert is 300. Also, if your alert returns more than 100 results these will be broken into multiple e-mails. If you find that you are receiving this maximum in your alerts each week, consider editing your search history to make it more precise. Or, you could create more than one alert, each one containing some of the search terms in your existing search history.
Q: How can I make changes to my alert preferences (e.g.., alert type, e-mail format, e-mail address, etc.)?
A: Sign in to the ISI Web of Knowledge portal site with your e-mail address and password. Once you are signed in your first five saved searches in alphabetical order will display, click the "Open/Manage Saved Searches" link in the blue sidebar.
Your alert(s) will be displayed. Locate the one you want to change and click the Settings button under Modify Settings. Make the desired changes and click Save. Once you receive the confirmation page, click Done.
Q: I received an expiration notice e-mail for my alert. How do I renew this alert so I continue to receive it?
A: Alerts expire after 24 weeks. You will receive an expiration notice in addition to your regular alert e-mail when it is time to renew that alert.
To do so, sign in to the ISI Web of Knowledge portal site with your e-mail address and password. Once you are signed in, click on the "Open/Manage Saved Searches" link.
Your alert(s) will be displayed. Click the "Renew" button for each alert you would like to renew. You will see that the expiration date is reset to a new date.
Q: How do I cancel an Alert?
A: Sign in to the ISI Web of Knowledge portal site with your e-mail address and password. Click on "Open / Manage Saved Searches" and then click on the "Settings" button next to the Alert you wish to cancel. On the following screen remove the check box from "Send Me E-mail Alerts:" and click on "Save".
Q: I forgot my ISI Web of Knowledge 2.0 password, or my password isn't working.
A: If you forget your ISI Web of Knowledge 2.0 password simply click on
the "Forgot your password?" link. Your password will be e-mailed
to you.
The Rudy Grah Memorial Agroforestry Collection consists of over 800 articles, reports, and papers focusing on the social, political, economic, and ecological aspects of agroforestry and land tenure. The Bioscience Library has recently produced a searchable database for the bibliography. The database is linked from our Electronic Resources page, under Selected Web Sites for forestry resources. Link to The Rudy Grah Agroforestry Collection.
The Bioscience Library is now part of the campus wireless network called AirBears. Only UC Berkeley Faculty, Staff and Students can use AirBears. AirBears enables you to connect to the campus network if you have a laptop computer equipped with a wireless Ethernet card and a CalNet ID. This means you can visit the library, log on, and have access to all networked resources right on your own laptop computer. You can read more about AirBears at http://airbears.berkeley.edu/.
Due to a recent format change to the way PubMed data is tagged, EndNote users who try to save search results to a text file and import into EndNote may encounter problems. You may find that it looks as if only a single record is imported and that all data from multiple records is imported into this single record. If you try to import a text file containing a large amount of records you may get an "out of memory" error message. This issue occurs if you use the "PubMed (NLM)" import filter that comes with EndNote v7 or earlier. Please download the new filter from www.endnote.com/enpmalert.asp
Some of The Library's computer systems and services will be unavailable Dec. 26-30, while our Tandem [hardware] is upgraded. During this time:
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. All systems should be back to normal after Dec.30.
We now have access to Science's Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment http://stke.sciencemag.org/
The library will be closed from Wednesday December 24 - Sunday January 4, 2004. This is a long holiday closure so please plan ahead.
OLDMEDLINE citations have been added to MEDLINE/PubMed. The separate OLDMEDLINE collection has been removed. Read the article: OLDMEDLINE Citations Join PubMed in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
Posted on the Instruction and Tours page are descriptions and dates for instruction sessions. These are drop-in sessions, with no need to sign up or register.
We have a new look and feel to our website. The one major change is the left hand navigation menu, which allows you to access more pages directly from most pages on the site. We have modified several sections, which now highlight information about instruction and library services. We have also added a site map to give an overview of our site structure.
This site is designed with high standards for accessibility and browser support. It will look best using Internet Explorer 5 and higher or Netscape 7 and higher.
This site uses scaling fonts. If fonts appear too small or large, you may adjust the font size through your browser interface (select "Text Size from the "View" menu in Internet Explorer, or select "Increase/decrease font" from the "View" menu in Netscape). Similarly, this site uses scaling widths to take advantage of different screen sizes. If you do rescale your page or font, you may wish to click your browser's "refresh" button if the menu does not look right (esp. in Netscape 4.x).
Pages are designed to print appropriately without need for a "printer friendly" version. When using newer browsers, some features on the screen will not appear in print (e.g. navigation menus).
Using Netscape 4.x, pages will print exactly as they appear on a monitor. That being said, some pages, including our "Contact Us" forms, will look distorted when printed from Netscape 4.x.
We would appreciate hearing about how you like the new look. Please send us any comments by using the Comment Form.
The Bioscience Library 2003 Summer Hours are:
These hours are in effect from Monday, June 23rd through Friday, August 15th. For the schedule of other campus libraries, check the Summer Session Part 2 Hours.
Posted on the Instruction and Tours page are descriptions and dates for tours and instruction sessions on BIOSIS, PubMed, and EndNote. These are drop-in sessions, with no need to sign up or register.
The Melvyl Catalog has changed to a new version. Melvyl, with enhanced features, is now available. Melvyl can be searched on the Web (http://melvyl.cdlib.org) as well as via Telnet, and includes books, journals, conferences and other materials held by the entire UC system. For a comparison of features, see www.cdlib.org/news/features.html
As you know, universities continue to struggle with the scholarly publishing crisis. The price of scholarly publishing continues to rise sharply for universities and some groups are making large profits on your scientific articles. Come hear how the landscape of scholarly publishing is changing.
Please join us for a presentation by BioMed Central on Tuesday, May 20th, 8:30am - 10:00am in the Bioscience and Natural Resources Library Seminar Room. 2101 VLSB
Dr. Theo Bloom, Editor of Genome Biology and the Journal of Biology will talk about the Open Access Biomed Central publishing model. Also speaking will be Michael Eisen, co-founder of Public Library of Science and member of BioMed Central. Tom Leonard, University Librarian will be present to welcome and introduce the program.
We have just posted two tutorial movies for searching BIOSIS through the OVID Interface. These movies are close to three minutes each, and cover author searching and advanced subject searching. Watch them now from the Tutorial Movies Page.
The Bioscience Library is creating tutorial movies to help patrons take
advantage of our databases and services. These movies are displayed on your
desktop and will generally take about two minutes of your time to watch.
Movies are silent, no sound card is necessary.
Movies are indicated by the camera icon 
on
various pages including the Tutorials and Guides page.
A complete list of tutorial movies is available on the . We welcome comments
and suggestions for more movies through the comment
form.
For those of you who search PubMed via Endnote3.x-6.x there are likely to be connectivity problems in January as NLM phases out some equipment. ISIResearchsoft will be creating a patch for Endnote 6, but only Endnote 6, not 3-5. On a Mac switching to Endnote 6 requires switching to OS X and upgrading Word as well.
Users not wishing to upgrade to Endnote 6 will be able to search PubMed directly, download their file and import it into Endnote. Here are the instructions. NOTE: NLM recently changed how this function works, those those of you who haven't used it in a month may find these instructions helpful.
Comments can be sent to ISIResearchSoft at suggestions@isiresearchsoft.com
There is a new version of the visual tour. The tour roughly follows our walking tours that we offer during the fall semester. It has panoramic pictures of areas of interest in the library along with descriptive text. The link to the tour is on the library homepage under Library Info & Services. Start the tour.
We have a new URL to access Web of Science and the Journal Citations reports.
Web of Science: http://isiknowledge.com/wos
Journal Citation Reports on the Web: http://isiknowledge.com/jcr
(has impact factors for journals)
In the WoK platform it is not possible to use the add bookmark feature of browsers. ISI automatically adds a session number to the URL and this URL cannot authenticate patrons. The bookmarks must be manually typed or edited to remove the session number.
Web of Science will tell you who has cited a paper. Its related article feature used a different algorithm than PubMed and frequently finds very different articles which are quite relevant.
Enhancements
ISI Web of Science v5.0 has a number of useful enhancements to the search interface. These include:
The Combine Searches feature enables you to create set combinations from the Search History, and combine a cited reference search with a general search. Self-citations can now also be eliminated.
The Advanced Search feature created for more experienced users. This is a command language.
With the Search History feature, you can save and retrieve the search histories for future use.
Perhaps most important enhancement is our ability to link to the SFX server (UC-eLinks). This greatly improves our direct access to full text when available and links to the MELVYL catalog. This button is found on the complete record screen and replaces the HOLDINGS & Link to Full Text buttons. Initially, it will be labeled SFX rather than UC-eLinks. ISI has indicated that they will be able to customize the button label to the orange UC-eLinks icon by December 1.
UC metadata standards for Request are not currently met by Web of Science,
so the Request button on the UC-eLinks screen will be directed to a page
listing the campus ILL services, where you can enter the data into a blank
web form. Because of limited metadata, there are also likely to be problems
linking to JSTOR. ISI expects to be able to enhance the metadata in late
Spring 2003.
The Bioscience Library provides basic assistance in using two bibliographic management programs, EndNote and RefWorks. These programs assist in managing citations, formatting papers, and creating bibliographies in a variety of styles. More information can be found on our Bibliographic Management Software (refman.html) support pages.
We now have access to BIOSIS back to 1969 through the OVID interface. It is linked from the Bibliographic Databases Page. A training class will be given on Tuesday, July 9th, 10 am in the Bioscience Library Seminar Room. We have created a Quick Reference Guide to help you make the transition.(html)(pdf). The CDL version of BIOSIS will be discontinued on 12/31/2002.
PubMed is now enhanced with openLink (UC-eLinks), which allows access to electronic text via the SFX (UC-eLinks) Server. Please change your PubMed bookmark to: http://uclibs.org/PID/17708. Further changes to the system will not require you to update your bookmarks.
UC Berkeley now has a site license to RefWorks, a new Web-based bibliographic management service. With RefWorks, you can create a personal, searchable, database of citations. These citations may be merged into your papers in a variety of writing styles.
Because it is web-based. (i.e. the bibliographic records reside on the web not on your computer) RefWorks is portable: It gives you access to your bibliographies from any computer connected to the Internet.
RefWorks can be used with Mac, UNIX and PC.
RefWorks can create custom bibliographies for WordPerfect and Microsoft Word documents. RefWorks is free for UCB faculty staff and students. Give it a try by signing up for an individual account at: https://www.refworks.com/Refworks/newuser.asp.This is an excellent tool for undergraduates and researchers who do not currently use a bibliographic management software program.
We have a new guide to using Zoological Record. It is available from the Bibliographic Databases Page by scrolling to Zoological Record and selecting "Brief Guide."
On each page linking to licensed resources, you will see the above button to a library wide statement regarding responsible use. It is important to read and adhere to these conditions in order to preserve our exceptional access to these important resources.
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March 1st, 2002 - Chocolate Exhibit Fills Display Case.Where is chocolate in the library ? ..Actually everywhere. |
Chocolate can be found all over the Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library.
The library resources cover the biological, botanical, agricultural, manufacturing, economic, nutritional, and medical aspects of chocolate.
Come join us in finding the chocolate in the library. Browse our collection, use the catalogs and bibliographic databases, search the web, and ask a reference librarian.
Access is available through the Bibliographic Databases page. Fact Sheet
We now have access to the following titles from Nature: (http://www.nature.com/)
A new guide to CSA's interface for GEOREF is now available from the Tutorials and Guides page.
We have a "Contact Us" page to combine all the ways you may contact us. The page has electronic forms to submit a reference question, request a class session, and place items on reserve
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