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Physics-Astronomy Library News, Spring 2009 | |
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 1. OskiCat: is up and running Try it out! Our new UC Berkeley Library Catalog has replaced Pathfinder & GLADIS. |
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| 2. INSPEC now available on ISI Web of Knowledge |
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| INSPEC, is the premier database for physics, computer science, information technology, and electrical engineering is moving from Ovid to ISI Web of Knowledge. We have access to INSPEC on both platforms until June 30. You can: -- search all dates back to 1898. -- limit to review articles or other treatment types; -- link to related records, references, and -- "cited by" information from Web of Science - search your own name as author, click on the title link, see cites on the right. -- range searching for numerical, chemical and physical data (such as frequency, temperature, and voltage). |
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| 3. New
Resources – |
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| 4. New Books + eBooks + journal backfiles. |
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| New Books - click to view a list of our NEW 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 | ||
| New
Journal Backfiles usually provide
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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| 5. Scholarly
communication
and
open
access |
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| Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) | ||
| "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: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/brii/. Visit the UC Berkeley Library's Scholarly Communication page to learn more about Open Access publishing.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. BRII was announced on January 21st, 2008. |
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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. For details
see
the
SCOAP3
report, "Towards
Open
Access
Publishing
in
High
Energy
Physics" |
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| PhysMathCentral:
provides
open
access
to
peer-reviewed
physics
and
math
research. 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. Further information go to BRII. |
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| 6. Website Changes: new pages, FACEBOOK - become a fan!, ASK US: shared science librarians IM service... | ||
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| 7. ASK US: via email, meebo (IM), phone, fax, or come into the library. We welcome suggestions, recommendations, gifts and comments. | ||