ETH STD 302: Professional Orientation

To find books, DVDs, maps, sound recordings, manuscripts, and much more - everything except articles - use a library catalog.

OskiCat = most UC Berkeley libraries

MELVYL = all UC campus libraries, including all UC Berkeley libraries

What's the difference?  more details here

For each item make sure you know the name of the physical library, call number, and whether or not it's checked out, library use only, etc.

Call numbers are on the spine of the book; learn how to read them so you can find what you need on the shelves.

1.  keywords and variant word endings:

multicultur* psycholog*

2.    keywords within title:

advanced search

title:  multicultur* psycholog*

3.   searching phrases:

"performance art" politic*

4.     internal truncation/wildcards:

wom*n asian american*

5.     searching official subject headings:

first contact indian*

look at official subject headings of relevant items, find official headings:

subject:  indians of north america first contact with europeans

6.    searching words that appear in subject headings in any order:

advanced search

subject:  mexican american* personal narratives
               mexican american* oral histories
             mexican american* interviews

7.    modifying searches

chinatown*

modify search

language:  english

or:  start with advanced search

try out these OskiCat features:

• limit your search to a type of material (DVDs) or a library location (Doe Reference)
• save items to a list you can e-mail/download/print
• place a recall request online
• request items from storage (NRLF)
• view a list of items you have checked out
• send call numbers to your cell phone (see below)
• receive alerts of new items that match your search terms ("preferred search") - login to My OskiCat

A large part of the library's collection is stored off campus in an environmentally secure building called the Northern Regional Library Facility [NRLF].

Submit online requests via the REQUEST button in OskiCat to borrow material shelved at NRLF. To receive electronic or paper copies of book chapters or journal articles, submit an online request via the "Request an article from NRLF (photocopy or web delivery)" link that appears in eligible titles in OskiCat. Staff at public service desks of any campus library can assist you with further questions. 

EXCEPTION:  Materials belonging to Bancroft Library MUST be requested via their online form

Log in to Request with your Calnet ID and fill out the screens.  Choose the volume you want, for periodicals:

UCB Library Links to Government Information

ebrary is our largest collection of full text ebooks, with 40,000 titles on a wide range of subjects. Find them in the UCB catalog, OskiCat (keyword: ebrary or limit to "Available Online"), or search the ebrary site directly:

Find Dissertations by searching Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) Full Text, which indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities from 1861 to the present. Dissertations published since 1980 include brief abstracts written by the authors and some feature 24-page excerpts. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full text coverage for older graduate works.

Also see Find Dissertations and Theses for other specialized sources. Dissertations completed at UC Berkeley can be found in OskiCat, using the feature allowing you to limit to dissertations/theses:

Older dissertations not available full text may be obtained through Interlibrary Loan or using the "Request" option in Melvyl.