• New ProQuest Platform -- User Guide (http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/userguide_np.pdf)PDF
  Generic 12-page guide explaining the major ProQuest changes with the new August 2012 interface.
  
• Switching over old CSA Alerts/RSS feeds to ProQuest (Migrating My Research Accounts) (http://migration.support.proquest.com/#tab:homeTab:crumb:7:artId:3739)
  
• Register for a library class! (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class45)
  The new ESPM ProQuest interface will be reviewed.
  
• CSA ESPM Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/envclust-set-c.php)
  
• CSA Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  
• CSA Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://www.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/alerts.html)
  

• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/pollution-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/environmental-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

• Use BIOSIS Previews for biological research literature on environmental issues. (http://uclibs.org/PID/10348)
  
• Use the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management database for environmental sciences management issues. (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=espm)
  
• Use the PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International database for policy related information on environmental issues. (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=pais)
  

NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.

More than 22 million records in all life science areas, including agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, environmental sciences, genetics, microbiology, plant biology, veterinary medicine & pharmacology, and zoology. Indexes over 6000 journals, serials, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and patents.

• FAQ -- NEW July 2011 Interface! (http://wokinfo.com/wok5/faq/)
  
• OLD Version BIOSIS Access (http://webofknowledgev4.com/biosis) VPN
  Backup until end of 2011. Most complete load as of week of July 18th.
  
• Quick Reference Card: BIOSIS Previews, ISI Web of Knowledge (http://wokinfo.com/wok/media/pdf/qrc/bpqrc.pdf)PDF
  
• Online BIOSIS information (http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK45/help/BIOSIS/h_database.html)
  
• Video training: Saving Histories and Creating Alerts for current awareness. (https://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/vu/view.asp?pi=27087902)
  
• Register for a library class! (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class35)
  

• ASFA Lib Guide [ProQuest] (http://proquest.libguides.com/asfa)
  
• New ProQuest Platform -- User Guide (http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/userguide_np.pdf)PDF
  Generic 12-page guide explaining the major ProQuest changes with the new August 2012 interface.
  
• Switching over old CSA Alerts/RSS feeds to ProQuest (Migrating My Research Accounts) (http://migration.support.proquest.com/#tab:homeTab:crumb:7:artId:3739)
  
• Register for a library class! (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php#class38)
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• CSA ASFA Database Guide (http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/asfaguide.php)
  
• CSA ASFA Fact Sheet (http://www.csa.com/factsheets/aquclust-set-c.php)
  
• CSA Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://www.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/alerts.html)
  
• CSA Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

• NTRL (http://uclibs.org/PID/144637) VPN
  Use NTRL to access NTIS bibliographic records plus digitized full text reports for technical reports. The content dates back to 1964.
  
• NTRL (direct link) (http://ntrl.ntis.gov/) VPN
  
• NTIS - National Technical Information Service (http://www.ntis.gov/)
  NTIS home page; the free site offers information about NTIS, and bibliographic records for technical reports. For access to full text reports, use NTRL (UCD License)
  

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Electronic Library includes many resources for the study of current and historical congressional and American government issues. The CQ Researcher is an invaluable source of background information on topical issues since 1991. The Global Researcher is similar to CQ Researcher but with an international orientation. CQ Weekly Report, available starting in 1983, reports in depth on congressional activities and political developments.

Search from the CQ Electronic Library home page, where you may register a user profile in order to save documents and search strategies, or search in each online edition separately. See similar entry "CQ Press Electronic Library" for individual titles as related listings.

• CQ Global Researcher, 2007 to present (http://library.cqpress.com/globalresearcher/) VPN
  
• CQ Researcher Online, 1991 to present (http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/) VPN
  The CQ Researcher produces in-depth, analytical reporting on congressional issues and is an excellent resource for term paper topics. Issues are released weekly and each issue explores a single topic with references included. Online access begins in 1991.
  
• CQ Weekly, 1983 to current (http://library.cqpress.com/cqweekly/) VPN
  

• New Proquest Platform -- User Guide (http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/userguide_np.pdf)PDF
  Generic 12-page guide explaining the major ProQuest changes with the new August 2012 interface.
  
• PAIS International [via CSA] (http://search.proquest.com/pais/advanced) VPN
  PAIS transitioned to the new Proquest interface during the first week in August, 2012.
  
• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/pais-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/health-safety-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/oceanic-set-c.php)
  
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• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/water-resources-set-c.php)
  
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• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/risk-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.

Multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Search for articles that cite a known author or work.

• How to create Author Citation Reports (http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK46/help/WOS/h_citationrpt.html)
  
• Online tutorial to Cited Reference Searching (http://www.thomsonisi.com/tutorials/citedreference/crs1.htm)
  
• Saving Histories and Creating Alerts for current awareness. (http://thomsonscientific.com/media/scpdf/wos7_tips_hist.pdf)PDF
  

• Register for SciFinder (Required) (http://ucdavis.libguides.com/scifinder) VPN
  
• About SciFinder: Use On & Off-Campus, Troubleshooting & Help, Guides (http://ucdavis.libguides.com/scifinder)
  
• Questions should be directed to UCD's campus contact: Cory Craig, cjcraig@ucdavis.edu, 530/752-0347.
  
• Download Java Runtime (http://www.cas.org/misc/downloads/jreplugin.html)
  Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 6.2 or higher is required to use the structure drawing editor. Get both the Windows and Mac versions at the URL above.
  

• Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (http://md1.csa.com/help/Search_Tools/alerts.html)
  
• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/cpi-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

• Map Surfer v2.0 - Imagery Download Tool (http://atlas.ca.gov/imagerySearch.html)
  This interface allows you to easily locate and download California DRGs, DOQQs, NAIP Imagery, HiRes Urban Imagery, and Landsat Imagery.
  

• Current Research @ University of California, Davis (http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucdavis/main)
  Searches all University of California, Davis dissertations published in the Dissertation Abstracts database.
  

Faculty of 1000 (F1000) Biology & Medicine are merged into one and now called F1000Prime. Includes over 40 Faculties (Broad subject areas such as biochemistry, ecology or plant biology), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections. On average, 1,500 new evaluations are published each month. Faculty members are more than 5,000 experts worldwide, assisted by 5,000 associates.

F1000Prime is a "literature awareness tool that is updated continuously and comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological and medical sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of leading researchers. Through immediate rating of individual papers by the authors' peers, F1000 [Prime] highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than that of the journal in which they appear."

• F1000 Prime tour (http://f1000.com/prime/tour)
  

• Access Issues (http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/pse/2009/05/08/accessing-online-crc-books-through-the-vpn/)
  

• CDL webpage describing the UC Libraries Springer eBooks Pilot (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/springerebooks/)
  

NOTE: includes an ecotourism book subset. CABI ebooks now provides access to over 525 agricultural titles (about 10,000 individual chapters). The archive from 2000-2005 includes 230+ titles (with over 4,000 individual chapters). [Ebooks archive licensed August, 2010]

This collection is divided into six core subject collections: Agriculture; Animal and Veterinary Sciences; Human, Food and Nutrition Sciences; Plant Sciences; Environmental Sciences; and Leisure and Tourism.

PLEASE NOTE: This collection does *not* include ALL books published by CABI but selected titles. In particular, the publisher has chosen *not* to include textbooks in this package.

• CABI's ebook coverage showing two book title lists (Current file & archive) (http://www.cabi.org/default.aspx?site=170&page=1016&pid=2211)
  

• Previously know as EPA National Environmental Publications Information System (NEPIS) integrated into the NSCEP.
  

The University of California eBooks Collection includes about 2,000 titles (55 titles in environmental studies areas) and is made available through a partnership between the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. Selected natural history, biological and agricultural titles are available. PLEASE NOTE: the extensive field guide collection in the "California Natural History Guide Series" is NOT included.

About 25% of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only.

• Help page for using Early Encounters in North America (http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/EENALive/eena.help.html)
  

Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by Thomson Reuters with each yearly data analysis being completed in the following year. The most recent edition is always published in the summer following the year analyzed. Journal Citation Reports can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 7,300 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,200 journals in the social sciences. NOTE: For disciplines that have longer timespans for citation, consider sorting for ranking by using the newer 5-year Impact Factor.

• Journal Citation Reports: Information for New Users (http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/help/h_info.htm#information)
  
• Impact Factors in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor)
  Definition of terms, details on how the metrics are calculated, and information on the validity, manipulation, and misuse of Impact Factors
  
• Using Journal Citation Reports Wisely (http://admin-apps.isiknowledge.com/JCR/help/h_using.htm)
  

• RSS feed of new titles in Safari (http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/rss)
  

• Browse Table of Contents within specific Current Protocols Titles (http://cda.currentprotocols.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-380242.html)
  

• Ten-page User Guide (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/SpringerProtocolsUserGuide.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-517798-0)
  

A definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques. The database covers specific sections on: Antibodies, Bioinformatics/Genomics, Cell Biology, Chromatography, Computational Biology, DNA Delivery/Gene Transfer, Electrophoresis, Genetics, High-Throughput Analysis, Imaging/Microscopy, Immunology, Laboratory Organisms, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Plant Biology, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Proteins and Proteomics, RNA Interference (RNAi)/siRNA, Stem Cells, and Transgenic Technology. Unique to this resource is the ability to submit a protocol. Other unique features include protocol recipes and protocol cautions.

• Search Help (http://www.cshprotocols.org/help/search_help.dtl)
  

• Backup address to homepage (http://uclibs.org/PID/96484)
  
• Print copy
  PSE Reference T55.3 H3 S3
  use the index to locate substance by name, or CAS number
  

DataONE will serve as a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.

Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, DataONE will ensure the preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data. DataONE will transcend domain boundaries and make biological data available from the genome to the ecosystem; make environmental data available from atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, and oceanographic sources; provide secure and long-term preservation and access; and engage scientists, land-managers, policy makers, students, educators, and the public through logical access and intuitive visualizations.

NEON will collect data across the United States on the impacts of climate change, land use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity. NEON is a project of the U.S. National Science Foundation, with many other U.S. agencies and NGOs cooperating.

NEON will be the first observatory network of its kind designed to detect and enable forecasting of ecological change at continental scales over multiple decades. The data NEON collects will be freely and openly available to all users.

"PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions."

"The World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE) uses PANGAEA as its data archive and distribution system."

Hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen.

This digital photo collection includes "the work, observations, and studies that are carried on by the scientists, engineers, commissioned officers, and administrative personnel that make up" NOAA.

This "collection spans centuries of time and much of the natural world from the center of the Earth to the surface of the Sun" and "includes thousands of weather and space images, hundreds of images of our shores and coastal seas, and thousands of marine species images ranging from the great whales to the most minute plankton. ... The geographic range of NOAA work encompasses polar region to polar region and much of the World's oceans."