| Physics-Astronomy Library News | |
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| 1. The Library Move, 3/20/08 | |
| The Physics-Astronomy Library has moved to 351 LeConte. We opened on Monday, March 17th, 2008. New Hours will be: Monday-Thursday, 8am - 6pm Friday, 8am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday - closed. The “new” Physics-Astronomy Library is re-decorated and includes wireless access, printing, copying and a current journals reading area and new study desks. |
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| 2. Scholarly communication and open access | |
 SCOAP3:
The
'Sponsoring
Consortium
for
Open
Access
Publishing
in
Particle
Physics'
is
a
global
network
of
high
energy
physics
funding
agencies,
research
laboratories
and
libraries.
The
aim
of
SCOAP3
is
to
assist
publishers
to
convert
the
'core'
HEP
journals
to
open
access.
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Berkeley
Research
Impact
Initiative
(BRII) |
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UC Berkeley's Vice-Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian are co-sponsoring a pilot project supporting Berkeley researchers who want to make their publications freely available to the public. The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative - BRII - was announced on January 21st, 2008. According to the BRII website: The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) supports faculty members who want to make their journal articles free to all readers immediately upon publication. An 18-month pilot program, BRII will subsidize, in various degrees, fees charged to authors who select open access or paid access publication. The pilot will also yield data that can be used to gauge faculty interest in — as well as the budgetary impacts of — these new modes of scholarly communication on the Berkeley campus. More information can be found at the BRII website at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/brii/. Visit the UC Berkeley Library's Scholarly Communication page to learn more about Open Access publishing. |
| PhysMathCentral:
provides
open
access
to
peer-reviewed
physics
and
math
research. |
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| It
is
independent
but
operated
by
BioMed
Central.
All
research
articles
published
by,
or
in
cooperation
with,
PhysMath
Central
receive
peer
review.
These
journals
will
be
cataloged
in
Melvyl
as
they
become
available. NEWS (2/11/08) - PhysMath Central received a welcome boost last week when it was announced that the library at the University of California Berkeley has agreed to pay 100% of the costs of publishing in a true open access journal. The program is an 18-month experiment funded by the discretionary accounts of Thomas Leonard, University Librarian, and Beth Burnside, Vice Chancellor for Research. Further information from the BRII homepage and here. |
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| 3. New Resources – available online and linked on our website | |
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| 4. Recent acquisitions - new books, 2/12/08 | |
| Use this link for a quick search of our recent monograph and proceedings acquisitions. Ebooks are purchased and added to the collection as they become available and are cataloged in Pathfinder. The Physics-Astronomy Library ebooks list. | |
| 5. New Journal Backfiles are online and purchased with one-time funding. These backfiles provide online access from volume one (in many cases). Use: Physics-Astronomy Library’s ejournal list or Electronic Journals A-Z for all ejournals, use the Library Proxy Server to access resources from off-campus. | |
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| 6. Website: changes to the Physics-Astronomy Library website. | |
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| 7. Contact us: via email, meebo (live chat), phone, fax, come into the library. We welcome suggestions, recommendations, gifts and comments. | |
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