| Physics-Astronomy Library News, Spring 2012 | ||
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 1.
Hours & Facilities |
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Summer hours will be: M-Friday, 10am-5pm. Due to the Campbell Hall construction project, the Library's large north facing windows have been covered. They will remain covered throughout most of the construction project. |
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| 2. Important
Library
NEWS: |
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24/7 ASK A LIBRARIAN - Beginning with the Spring 2012 semester, the UCB Science Libraries will offer 24/7 Ask a Librarian, a popular chat reference service provided by the UC Libraries. During the 2010-2011 school year, UC Berkeley students asked over 4,000 questions using this service and immediately got the research help they needed online. |
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UNIVERSAL RETURN - there is a slow roll-out of this convenience. Patrons can return their books to any book return on campus, except course reserves. |
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The Library has embarked on a "RE-ENVISIONING" process in order to evaluate current resources, staffing and circulation points. A survey will be posted in late April for all campus users to participate. There will be more news on this project. |
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The PHYSICS-ASTRONOMY LIBRARY COMPUTERS have received a big hardware upgrade making them much faster to use. Software will be upgraded later. |
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COPY/SCANNING
SERVICES: Cal
1
Cards are now used for all copying
and
printing
throughout
the
libraries. For
those
not
affiliated
with
UC
Berkeley,
we
have
a "guest
card" to which funds can be added online. |
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| UC LIBRARY
CATAL0G Updates: |
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 Melvyl, the UC catalog, now searches articles, ebook + books, dissertations and other formats from selected indexes. Results can be limited. Other features such as alerts, downloading to bibliographic management software are available. Users will see records from the HathiTrust, Google books - these may or may not be full text. UC eLinks wording has been clarified. And the OskiCat link shows up when UC eLinks is clicked on, making it easier to find our campus material.  OskiCat continues to be
UC
Berkeley
catalog.
Use
"My
OskiCat"
to
check your inventory, renew books and view course reserves. |
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| 3.
RESOURCES:
arXiv,
electronic
books,
ejournals & backfiles |
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arXiv:
the
Physics-Astronomy Library continues to
support
the
Sustainability
Initiative
and
collaborative
business
model.
arXiv
is
a
preprint
server,
hosted
at
Cornell
University
Library. |
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eBook
Collections:
are
growing.
Titles
can
be
searched
in
OskiCat
or
Melvyl
with
links
to
the
ebook. Use our list of eBook titles by collection. New and expanded physics and astronomy ebook collections include: Cambridge ebooks, Elsevier, Oxford, Springer ebooks and series, Wiley Online Books, and Woodhead. |
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Springer
Materials.com -
frequently updated with new volumes; this
is
the
web
interface
to
the
Landolt
Bornstein
series. |
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Wiley-IEEE
Press
ebooks: are
available
through
the
IEEE
EXplore
Digital
Library.
The
collection
includes
over
400
handbooks,
introductory
and
advanced
texts,
reference
works,
physics
and
engineering
books. |
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Physics
Department
Colloquium
DVDs
and
videos: search
in
OskiCat
by
title
or
speaker
to
locate
the
colloquium
DVD
or
video. The library has digitized and streamed a few of the older colloquium videos stored in NRLF. They are cataloged by title in OskiCat and Melvyl with links. Try this one: Ultracold Atoms / Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, 1994. |
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Knovel
Library:
Click “new
titles” to
see
added
books
to
the
e-collection,
you
can
set
up
alerts
for
new
titles. |
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PUBLISHER UPDATES: Elsevier: update the physics & astronomy ebook collections Nature: continue receiving ejournals Taylor & Francis: backfiles include Philosophical Magazine, volume 1, 1798; EDP Sciences: Journal de Physique, vol.1, 1872-, Annales de Physique. SIF: La Rivista del Nuovo cimento + Nuovo Cimento C Institute of Physics, IOP: adding supplementary e-material to records. Use: Physics-Astronomy Library’s ejournal list or eJournals A-Z; use the Library Proxy Server to access resources from off-campus. |
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| 4.Data Management, Scholarly
communication, & open
access: |
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| DATA MANAGEMENT: in response to new NSF and NIH federal requirements for data management plans in grant proposals; the UC Berekeley Library and CDL are providing guidance, online forms, links to EZID. |
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| BRII: Berkeley
Research
Impact
Initiative supports
faculty
members
and
will
subsidize,
in
various
degrees,
fees
charged
to
authors
who
select
open
access
or
paid
access
publication. Visit the UC Berkeley Library's Scholarly Communication page to learn more about Open Access publishing. |
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| 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. The
UC/California
Digital
Library
is supporting this
unique
initiative. For
details
see
the
SCOAP3
report, "Towards
Open
Access
Publishing
in
High
Energy
Physics" |
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| 5. EXHIBITS |
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| POSTER PRESENTATIONS & SCIENCE WRITING is up for the Current Exhibit.
EXHIBIT
BOOKS supplement
our Bulletin
Board
Exhibits, they
are
displayed
on
the
laboratory
console and
can
be
placed
on
hold. Yearly
Exhibits
include, Poster Presentations, Faculty
Publications,
APPS
for
Physics
&
Astronomy,
&
Science
Writing. Our NEW TITLES Books are added to the console every week; the new titles list is updated. You can place holds on new books, to generate an automatic email notice; the item will be placed on the hold shelf for pick up in the library. |
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| 7. Website
Changes:
new
& updated
web
pages
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| Contact Us | ||
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Copyright © 2012. The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Document maintained on server: PHYS. Last updated 4/16/2012. Server manager: Contact