ENE RES 200: ERG Grad Student Orientation

Library Hours

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:09:15 -0700

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Ask a Librarian 24/7

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:17:56 -0700

Newspapers

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:36:48 -0700

Melvyl- the UC-wide catalog

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:22:51 -0700

For most research topics, Melvyl is the best catalog to use, because you can request books from other UC campuses directly from the catalog. You can also use Melvyl to search Worldcat and find materials at libraries beyond UC. Assume it will take 2-3 weeks to get books from other libraries.

The Research Process

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:30:01 -0800

1. State your problem as a question as succinctly as possible.

2. 'Brain dump': Write down what you already know about your topic, including

Names of people, organizations, companies, time period you are interested in, places of interest [countries, regions, cities], conceptual terms...

3. Decide what disciplinary methodologies you plan to use: e.g., sociology, political science, literature, psychology...

4. Fill in the gaps in your knowlege: get background information from specialized encyclopedias or other secondary sources. Wikipedia can sometimes be good here, or Google News.

5. Select the best places/ databases to find information on your topic from the Library's list of databases by subject. Or use a catalog like Oskicat or Melvyl to search for books and other resources.

6. Use nouns from your brain dump as search terms.

7. Evaluate what you find. Change search terms to get closer to what you really want.

8. Refine Your Search Words - Using the information you have gathered, determine if your research words should be narrower or broader. You may need to search basic resources again using your new, focused topics and keywords.

News databases

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:18:51 -0700

The newspaper databases listed here contain articles published mostly after 1985. For historical topics use Historical Newspapers [Proquest] database

SMS and QR Codes in OskiCat

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:46:37 -0700

You can now text yourself a call number or use a QR code reader to find the location of an item in the UCB Library. Just click on a title in your OskiCat search results, and both options will be displayed on the right.

Citation Management Tools

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:01:56 -0700

Citation management tools help you manage your research, collect and cite sources, and create bibliographies in a variety of citation styles. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, but any are easier than doing it by hand!

Zotero: A free plug-in that works exclusively with the Firefox browser: keeps copies of what you find on the web, permits tagging, notation, full text searching of your library of resources, works with Word, and has a free web backup service.
RefWorks - free for UC Berkeley users. It allows you to create your own database by importing references and using them for footnotes and bibliographies. Use the RefWorks New User Form to sign up.
EndNote: may be purchased from UC Berkeley's Software Central.

It's always good to double check the formatting -- sometimes the software doesn't get it quite right.

Using APA 6th? Purdue has produced this very handy quick guide. The fulltext of APA 6th is not available online, but we do have print copies in the EdPsych Library in reference and short term reserve at BF76.7 P83 2010

RSS Feeds and Alerts

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:03:35 -0700

Suppose you want to keep current with a specific journal that you don't have a personal subscription to. You can do it with a RSS feed from the journal. Let's take the US Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook.

First, subscribe to an RSS feed reader. Google has a free one called Google Reader [there are many others].

Then, use the feed reader function to 'add a subscription' to the journal you want to see updates for. Or, if the journal has its own RSS feed this icon will appear in the URL box. Just click it to set up your journal alert.

ticTOCS | The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling you to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal tables of contents from multiple publishers.

Sometimes you want alerts for new articles on a particular set of search parameters. Web of Science databases can create these alerts for you. [video tutorial]

Off-campus Access to Library Resources

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:35:19 -0700

Before you can access Library resources from off campus make sure you have configured your computer with proxy server settings.

After you make a one-time change in your web browser settings, the proxy server will ask you to log in with a CalNet ID or Library PIN when you click on the link to a licensed resource.

Google Scholar

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:31:55 -0700

Google Scholar is an easy way to do interdisciplinary research, and with some settings changes can become even more useful. You need a Google account to use these features.

Set up a Google Scholar Alert to be automatically notified when new articles are added to Google on topics of interest:

Do your search in Google Scholar. Look in the left sidebar for the Create Alert link next to the envelope icon, and click it. New items will be sent to your email account as they are found by Google.

Make Google display links to full text of articles that Berkeley subscribes to:

Open Scholar. Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner, and choose 'scholar preferences'. In the next screen, choose Library Links from the left-hand menu. In the search box, type the word Berkeley. Choose University of California, Berkeley - UC-eLinks, and Open Worldcat Search.

Ever wanted to trace an article’s impact? Google now permits searching within citing articles.

Do a Google Scholar search. Click on the "Cited by" link under a citation and select the "Search within articles citing..." checkbox.

Where's the PDF?

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:50:59 -0700

Many article databases contain information about articles (citations or abstracts), not the entire text of the article. Once you've used an article database to find articles on your topic, you may need to use this button: in order to locate and read the full text of the article. The UC-eLinks button appears in nearly all the databases available from the UCB Library website.

UC-eLinks will link you to the online full text of an article if UCB has paid for online access; otherwise, UC-eLinks will help you locate a print copy on the shelf in the library. If UCB doesn't own the article in print or online format, UC-eLinks can also help you order a copy from another library.

For more information, watch this video tutorial (about 4 min.)

You can also set up UC-eLinks to work with Google Scholar. For more information, watch this 40-second demo.

Interlibrary Borrowing

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:55:37 -0700

As a Berkeley student you are eligible to use books and articles from other libraries around the United States.

Check OskiCat to make sure UC Berkeley does not own the material you want.

Provide a full and accurate bibliographic citation, including author, title, place and date of publication, and series. You can get citations from professors, from Melvyl, from other articles, from Google scholar. Verify your citations before submitting them for ILL.

Subject Headings

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:24:45 -0700

Searching for books in Melvyl or Oskicat using Library of Congress Subject Headings can be a more efficient and targeted method than a simple keyword search. These subject headings are also used in some databases. Here are some basic subject headings for ERG topics:

renewable energy sources or clean energy industries [not 'green energy']
clean coal technologies
geothermal resources
energy efficiency [not 'energy consumption']
biodiesel fuels or biodiesel fuels industry [not 'biofuel']
emissions trading [not 'carbon credits' or 'carbon offsets']
power resources

Let me know if you want advice on subject headings for your own research

choosing the right databases

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:35:40 -0700

ERG is an interdisciplinary field, and as such, journals from many different disciplines may be relevant to your research. How do you choose where to search?

The Library has tagged certain scholarly databases for ERG. You can browse this list. Look in the left column of that page, under Other Resources for this subject. There you'll find links to databases that are not scholarly-- news sources, government sources, dissertations, and many other types of information.
The ERG subject page has more information about the library's collections supporting energy research, graced by occasional blog entries from yours truly.

Finding Known Citations

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:51:08 -0800

Often you need to find a specific article for which you already have the citation. How do you do it?

Google Scholar If you have the proxy server set up, you may be able to link to a pdf or html file of the article

Citation Linker This function of UC-eLinks allows you to search for a specific article without knowing which database it may be listed in. You may have to study your citation to determine if it's an article, a chapter in a book, or something else, in order to use Citation Linker.

Campus Library Map

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:50:03 -0700

Click on the image below to see a larger interactive version of the campus library map.

You can also view/download a PDF map of library locations. For library contact information and building addresses, visit our directory.

subject headings for water topics

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:25:20 -0700

A basic Library of Congress subject heading for water topics is

water resources

Since this brings up more than 10,000 books, you need to narrow it down. Typical ways are geographic or thematic aspects of the topic:

water resources development
water resources development california
water resources management
water quality
water supply

water research [plus geographical name, e.g. colorado]

Find Dissertations

ljones@library.berkeley.edu (Lynn Jones) — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:30:45 -0700

Find Dissertations by searching Digital Dissertations, which indexes over 1.5 million dissertations completed in North American (including UC) and European universities from 1861 to the present. Listings after 1980 include abstracts, and some feature 24-page excerpts. Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources, and dissertations completed at a UC campus can also be found in Library catalogs, which have limit to dissertations/theses search options:

Full-text Access: Online full-text of UC dissertations (from 1996) can be found by searching Digital Dissertations and also appear in Library catalog search results. UC Berkeley dissertations in print prior to 1996 may be found by searching the Library catalogs. Dissertations done at other UC campuses prior to 1996 or ouside the UC system must be obtained through Interlibrary Loan or using the "Request" option in Next-Gen Melvyl.

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