The Bioscience Library's Top Ten List

Things Every Berkeley Life Sciences Researcher Should Know:

1. How to choose an appropriate article database to search
   
   Databases for Life Sciences Research has coverage information and links to major databases for:
   • Comprehensive coverage of the biological sciences: BIOSIS Previews
   • Agriculture, the environment, and health: CAB Abstracts
   • The environment and energy:
     Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
   • Microbiology and biomedicine: PubMed
   • Cited reference searching: Web of Science
   
   
   
   
2. How to find papers that cite a key reference
   
   Using Web of Science to do a cited reference search:
   Cited Reference Search [Thomson-Reuters]
   
   
   
   
3. How to keep current with new research in your field
   
   Setting up e-mail alerts and RSS feeds:
   Keeping Current in the Biological Sciences
   
   
   
   
4. How to locate journals, books, and other resources
   
   Finding journals online:
   
   • Electronic Journals
   • UC-eLinks Citation Linker
   
   Using the catalogs OskiCat (UC Berkeley) or Melvyl (all UC) to find journals, books, & conference proceedings in print or online:
   About Library Catalogs
   
   
   
   
5. What to do when the Library doesn't own something you need
   
   Special services for Berkeley researchers:
   Borrowing from Other Libraries
   
   
   
   
6. How to access the Library's electronic resources from off-campus
   
   Using the Library's Proxy Server or Virtual Private Network (VPN):
   UC Berkeley Library Proxy Server or VPN
   
   
   
   
7. How to keep track of your references
   
   Using citation managers to save and organize references and to automatically format bibliographies for papers and theses:
   Reference managers
   
   
   
   
8. How to renew your books online
   
   Keeping track of the books you have checked out of the library:
   Renewing Your Books
   
   
   
   
9. How to manage your data
   
   Information on data management and sharing:
   • Data Repositories in the Life Sciences
   • Data Management and Sharing [Science Libraries @ UC Berkeley]
   • Manage Your Data [University of California Curation Center (UC3)]
   
   
   
   
10. How to maximize the impact of your publications
    
    Disseminating your scholarly work as widely as possible:
    Publish to Maximize Impact
    
    Getting reimbursed for publication fees:
    Berkeley Research Impact Initiative
    
    
    

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