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- Office Hours: 10am-4pm: call, email, phone, by appointment.
- Office Location: Physics-Astronomy Library, 351 Le Conte Hall
- Contact Info:
510-643-7662
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Search in special library resources for books, pre-prints, articles, conference proceedings, patents, properties, news, and tools.
Current UCB faculty, students, staff and patrons in the library have access to licensed resources & material such as journals (print & electronic),books (print & electronic), databases, indexes, data and citation management software. The Library collects videos and DVDs of colloquia and visiting lecturers, some are online.
Contact me if you have difficulty finding or accessing library resources.
Use the Recommend a title form for purchase recommendations.
Visit the Physics-Astronomy Library web site for more resources.
AccessScience - Encyc of Science & Technology, Yearrbks of Science & Technology, Dict of Scientific & Technical Terms. Updated daily.
CRC Handook Chemistry and Physics.
includes the revised Physical Constants of Organic Compounds table, new data on chemical carcinogens, an expanded Critical constants table, and more.
Combined Chemical Dictionary / ChemnetBase. Describes 456,000+ chemical substances.
Dictionary of Physics, Oxford.
Dictionary of Pure and Applied PHysics: EnginetBase
Oxford Dictionary of Physics. Oxford Reference allows cross searching across multi dicationaries and encyclopedias,
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses [UCB access only]
Coverage: 1861 - present. Full Text: 1997--
Provides access to the full text of most of the dissertations added to the database since 1997. Some earlier dissertations are also available in full-text.
Also included, with more than 1.5 million entries, is the Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) database, the authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations.
UC Berkeley Dissertations:
> search OskiCat for the keywords berkeley dissertations <department name>
> search OskiCat for subject - University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Physics
Examples
>berkeley dissertations physics
>berkeley dissertationsastrophysics
>berkeley dissertationsastronomy
>berkeley dissertations particle physics
Preprints are drafts or manuscripts of scientific papers that have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Preprints generated and circulated in electronic form are known as "e-prints". for more resources, see the Pre-prints guide.
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.
The following databases include pre-prints, articles, conference papers, technical data and reports. Click on the UC-eLinks button to access the full text of the article (if Berkeley has a subscription). 
You can suggest items that the Library should consider purchasing.
Use the Purchase Recommendation form to submit your suggestion.
A Field Guide for Science Writers / & eBook / by Blum, Henig Robin, Knudson. New York, 2006.
A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing / eBook. Blackwell & Martin, 2011.
Am I making myself clear? a scientist's guide to talking to the public/ & ebook Cornelia Dean.
Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words / Lindsay, 2011.
The craft of research/ & ebook / by Booth, Colomb, Williams, c2008.
The Manual of Scientific Style: A Guide for Authors, Editors, and Researchers / eBook / Rabinowitz and Vogel, 2009.
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing / Dawkins, 2008.
Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures / Haviland. Mullin, 2009.
Critical evaluation of resources – a guide to assessing resources for academic suitability.
Use this brief list to get started, go to Poster Presentations for more design and layout information.
1. PURPOSE of a poster = rapid, concise & visual communication of research.
2. PREPARE CONTENT = follow a template.
3. DESIGN your poster = choose a layout.
4. CONSTRUCT your poster = print it
5. PRESENT your poster = be clear, friendly, confident of your results.
• BRII. Berkeley Research Impact Initiative, funding for authors publishing in open access journals
• Copyright Resources & Regulations at UC Berkeley
• Copyright in Teaching, Research and Publishing. UC Berkeley Library
• OASIS. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
• UC Berkeley Library, Scholarly Communication. covers issues & new models.
• UC University of California Copyright information and links.
• California Digital Library, Data Management Guide; guidelines & tools to manage & preserve data
Programs such as: Endnote, Refworks, Zotero, allow you to download, collect, share & manage references, PDFs, data, and documents. Some work with word processing to format citations and footnotes in papers and create bibliographies in a variety of styles.
EndNote (Mac, PC, web-based) is a program that you install on your computer & use on the web. EndNote works with word software to format citations, and create bibliographies in many styles. It can be purchased from The Scholar's Workstation or online.
RefWorks (Online) is a web-based bibliographic management service licensed by the library for UCB faculty, staff and students. RefWorks can be used independently or as a complement to EndNote. To use, create an account using the RefWorks New User form.
Zotero (Firefox) is a free Firefox extension that manages citations found online through your browser. Zotero can capture, store citations, pdfs, images and databases. Zotero can create bibliographies in Word and OpenOffice in a limited number of styles.
TeX: is a typesetting language used for technical and scientific document preparation. LaTeX is a program that converts a plain text file into TeX. BibTeX is a tool that can be used with LaTeX to create documents and bibliographies. Endnote has a BibTeX output style that will format your citations into TeX.
Beautiful Evidence / Edward R. Tufte. P93.5 .T837 2006. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2006 ———.
Envisioning Information / Edward R. Tufte. 10th printing, Mar. 2005. ed. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2005 ———. P93.5 .T84 2005
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information? / Edward R. Tufte . Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1983 ———. HA31 .T914 1983
Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative / Edward R. Tufte. 7th prt, revisions, June 2005. ed. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 2005. BF241 .T83 2005
Collaboration, accessibility and transparency are necessary for data management in modern science. Science.gov, NSF, NIH and other federal agencies mandate data plans with grant proposals.
Start with this list:
---- Make a plan to store your data
---- Find the right medium to store your data
---- Develop a system to organize your data
---- Make sure that your data has easy access
---- Make sure that your data is safe and secure.
Use the following links for UC Berkeley, University of California, links to federal sites, copyright and....
University of California Resources
1. UC3, University of California Curation Center - UC/California Digital Library
2. EZID: create a persistant DOI or ARK. ~long term, unique identifiers. (UC/CDL). Berkeley researchers can request a free account by contacting data-consult@lists.berkeley.edu.
3. DMPTool: Manage Your Data - develop a Data Management Plan, see Funder Requirements (CDL)
4. Scientific Data Services -- Science Libraries @ UC Berkeley - guide to our services.
5. UC Berkeley Data Services Management, IST.
Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences / Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) / Advice to PIs on Data Management Plans
USEFUL sites:
• Data Conservancy Organization - (NSF) collect, organize, & preserve data. Will work with arXiv
• Many Eyes: data visualization tools from IBM.
• Data Management & Publishinbg Checklist, MIT
• NSF Division of Institution & Award Support
Others:
US Naval Observatory (USNO) - Oceanography Portal: includes a range of astronomical data and products, & serves as the official source of time for the U.S. Department of Defense & a standard of time for the entire United States.
Susan Koskinen
Office Hours: 9am - 4pm, call email, phone or by appointment.
Office Location: 351 Le Conte Hall, Physics-Astronomy Library,
Email: skoskine@library.berkeley.edu
Phone: 510-643-7662
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