Your opinion matters. In order to understand how UC Davis faculty, staff, and students use the library’s public services an online survey has been created. Please take a moment to complete the questionnaire.
For questions or comments regarding the survey, please contact:
Amy Kautzman, Associate University Librarian for the Humanities & Social Sciences
kautzman@lib.ucdavis.edu
October 19 through 25, 2009, is Open Access Week. The following event will take place on Tuesday, October 20, from 1 to 2:30 PM in the Second Floor Instruction Room of the Shields Library:
Take Control of Your Publications with eScholarship
An Open Access Week Presentation
Catherine Mitchell
Director, CDL Publishing Group
University of California
Keep your copyright
Reach more readers
Publish when you want
Protect your work’s future
…all with no fees
eScholarship offers a robust open access publishing platform that enables departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship, including:
Peer Reviewed Journals
Conference Proceedings
Books
Working Papers
Postprints
Seminar/Paper Series
Initiated in 2002, eScholarship now houses over 30,000 publications with more than 9 million full-text downloads to date. The rate of usage of these materials has grown dramatically in the past 7 years, now often exceeding 170,000 downloads per month.
Come learn how you can get started publishing with eScholarship today!
“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions…OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance.” Peter Suber: http://www.openaccessweek.org/wp-content/uploads/a-very-brief-intro-a4.pdf
In the Fall Quarter, 2009 the Shields Library is implementing new trial services designed to meet the needs of our students, faculty and staff.
A General Reference Desk is now located on the 2nd floor and will provide integrated basic reference service. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 6 PM, and Sunday, 1 PM – 5 PM (Sunday hours effective October 11 through November 22). You can contact the Reference Desk at (530) 752‑9862 or referenceservices@lib.ucdavis.edu. Subject specialist librarians will continue to offer individual appointments for students and faculty needing more in-depth reference and library research consultations.
The University of California, Davis General Library is offering a new online chat service called Ask A UC Librarian, available from the General Library’s Ask For Help tab.
The Ask A UC Librarian button is available round-th
e-clock! Real-time, chat reference service is provided by reference staff from various academic libraries. UC Davis subject specialist librarians will follow up with additional information for patrons using this service, if needed. For more information about the online chat service, contact Amy Kautzman, Associate University Librarian for Humanities and Social Sciences (kautzman@library.ucdavis.edu).
The Information Desk on the first floor of the Shields Library will feature a kiosk that provides answers to the most commonly asked informational and directional queries. Students, faculty, and staff with reference questions will be directed to the General Reference Desk on the 2nd floor (Monday-Friday, 9 AM to 6 PM) and to the new 24/7 Chat Reference service all other times. Staff at the Circulation Desk are also available to answer basic questions about the library on evenings and weekends.
Re:Search Start is a new service for lower division undergraduates. It is located on the Lower Level of Shields Library. This program is designed to help students with term papers assignments and projects. Students can sign up for a 30 minute appointment through the Library Instruction web page. Appointments will be available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from Noon to 4:00 PM, October 13 through November 25.
UCD Biological/Agricultural Sciences & Map Services Department is pleased to announce that the BioOne.2 suite of an additional 61 electronic journal titles has been licensed. All of the library processing has been completed and access is now available via SFX UC-eLinks, via the UCD Harvest Library Catalog, and will shortly be available via the E-journals A-Z list.
Titles of special interest to Davis in this BioOne.2 package include:
American Malacological Bulletin
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
Current Herpetology
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology
Journal of Shellfish Research
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
Madroño
Pacific Science
Transactions of the American Entomological Society
Most titles go back to 2005 in their electronic coverage with a few slightly earlier and a few later.
Please see the complete list of these 61 titles with coverage dates noted:
http://www.bioone.org/userimages/ContentEditor/1251385641661/2010_BioOne.2_Title_List.pdf
– Ruth Gustafson
Librarian Subject Specialist for: General Biology; Animal and Avian Science; Entomology (including Bee Biology and Pollination); Environmental Toxicology; Evolution and Ecology; Nematology; and Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology
ONLINE through UC CDL license: Impact Factors and Journal Rankings
Journal Citation Reports (JCR): As of late 2008, UC campuses have access to JCR as part of a CDL consortial license.
http://uclibs.org/PID/36787
Thomson Reuters notes that “Journal Citation Reports® offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data. By compiling articles and cited references, JCR Web helps to measure research influence and impact of research journals and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.” JCR is available in Science and Social Sciences editions.
NOTA BENE: Definition of terms, details on how the metrics are calculated, and information on the validity, manipulation, and misuse of Impact Factors are provided at the following Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor
GETTING STARTED: The JCR link at the top takes you to the default setting of reviewing SCIENCE journals by broad subject categories. After clicking SUBMIT, choose your preferred category (you may need to review several in interdisciplinary fields) and SUBMIT. Note that the sort order is alphabetic by journal title. For the most common rankings arrangement, change the “Sorted by” in the top left to IMPACT FACTOR and click on SORT AGAIN.
CAVEAT: Review journals typically rank very highly using this method. It is not unusual for the top ten in a subject category for this type of ranking to have several review journals listed.
HELP AVAILABLE: All BioAg library classes on literature searching now include a section on using this new resource. Sign up for a BioAg class at:
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php
You may also request an appointment with a BioAg librarian subject specialist by e-mailing bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu or by calling the BioAg Reference Office, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm at (530)752-6196
Don’t know who your BioAg librarian subject specialist is? Consult
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/about/meet-staff.php
CSA’s Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM) database, a top scientific journal index for researchers in all areas of the environmental sciences, has just added the Environmental Abstracts database. Now, when you search ESPM (online access provided by UC Davis Library), you automatically search Environmental Abstracts as well. You may also choose to search Environmental Abstracts separately.
Beginning in 1975, Environment Abstracts indexes articles on all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment and the effectiveness of remedial policies and technologies. In 1994 the database expanded coverage to energy-related issues. Major areas of coverage now include:
• Air quality
• Bacteriology
• Ecology
• Energy resources
• Hazardous waste
• Industrial hygiene
• Pollution: land, air, water, noise, solid waste, radioactive
• Risk assessment
• Toxicology & toxic emissions
• Waste management
• Water resource issues
More than 950 scientific journals published in the U.S. and abroad are covered as well as conference proceedings, reports, and government publications. Significant monographs, government studies and newsletters are also selectively indexed. Visit the Environment Abstracts information page for more information. As with ESPM, you may use the embedded 
button to acquire articles of interest that your searches have discovered. Many of these articles are available electronically through Library subscriptions and you can access them from your own desktop.
Email bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu for assistance with searching Environmental Abstracts or any of the other environmental databases the library provides access to. We will be happy to schedule a one-on-one session with you to enhance your searching abilities. We also develop customized instruction for groups.
Are you publishing in a Springer journal? If so, you’re eligible for the Springer Open Choice Program, which exposes your scholarship to more readers.
There are no charges for UC authors to participate in the Open Choice Program. UC authors do not have to pay the usual $3,000 fee to participate. This ground-breaking agreement between Springer and the California Digital Library enables UC-authored articles accepted for publication in most of the 2000+ Springer journals to be published through Springer Open Choice, giving full and immediate access to all readers.
Any article that has at least one UC author is eligible for the program. The corresponding or submitting author simply selects the appropriate UC campus affiliation on the acceptance screen that appears as part of the normal publishing workflow for Springer journals.
All articles in the Open Choice Program are made available with full open access via the SpringerLink platform under a license compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. UC authors retain the copyright to their articles under Springer Open Choice and can use them in course packs, on course web pages, for eReserves, and for other educational purposes.
In addition, all articles published under this program will be made available through UC eScholarship.
More information on the Springer Open Choice Program is available at http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/alternatives/springer.html.
If you have any comments or questions about the Springer Open Access Pilot, please use Blog Comments or contact us using the BioAg Email Reference form.
The UC Davis Library now licenses online access to the Springer Protocols. Springer Protocols, the classic protocols series formerly published by Humana Press, contains over 18,000 molecular biology and biomedical peer-reviewed protocols, mostly from the Methods in Molecular Biology series. Other series included in this package are: Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods.
Springer protocols can be access at http://www.springerprotocols.com/
Any comments from UC Davis faculty and students regarding this resource are welcome. Please use Blog Comments or the BioAg Email Reference form to communicate with us about Springer Protocols.
The UC Davis Libraries now provide electronic access to the full text of CAB eBooks published from 2005 to the present. The CAB eBook collection consists of six collections (Agriculture, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Human, Food and Nutrition Sciences, Plant Sciences, Leisure and Tourism, and Environmental Sciences) with over 300 titles. New books will be added to the collections as they are published.
Search the CAB eBooks Collection.
CAB eBooks are published by CABI, a not-for-profit science-based development organization that provides information and applies scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. The CABI publishing group also produces the CAB Abstracts bibliographic database. Book chapters from the CAB eBooks Collection are indexed in the CAB Abstracts database.
The UC Davis Library has licensed the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). Unlike traditional print journals, JoVE uses video technology to communicate experimental data and research results and demonstrate the details of life science research. Through the visualization of experiments and laboratory protocols JoVE facilitates the understanding and reproduction of experimental techniques.
JoVE can be accessed at http://www.jove.com/.
Any comments on this resource and how UC Davis faculty and students are using it for education and research would be appreciated. Use Blog Comments or the BioAg Email Reference form to communicate with us about JoVE.
