Welcome to New Students

As new graduate students, we welcome you to UC Irvine, to the School of Information & Computer Science and

the UCI Libraries. This handout is to serve as a brief guide to the programs, collections, and services of the UC

Irvine Libraries and the University of California system; however it is not intended to be a substitute for becoming

introduced to, and familiar with, the programs and resources yourself.

The newly redesigned UC Irvine Libraries Web site serves as a starting point to all services offered by the

libraries and a gateway to numerous online research resources. These include, but are not limited to online

catalogs, article databases, full text journals, reference materials, subject guides, etc.

The point of departure for your information journey is the UCI Libraries Website. Most of the materials to support ICS are at the Science Library (SL) in the QA 76s, TK 7880s and the ZAs. There are some relevant materials in the HD 9696s (Information & Telecommunication Industry) and TR 891 (computer game design) at Langson Library (LL)

Research @ UCI Libraries

There are numerous databases that are used heavily by engineering undergraduates.

These databases are available from the UC Irvine Libraries Web page under the category “Find Online Resources"

if you know the title of the resource or consult the Subject Guides for additional direction. There is a Subject Guide

for each department in the Bren School as well as for most academic departments. The UC eLinks icon

will direct you to what formats the fulltext content is available in.

INSPEC	Indexes articles in computers, electronics, biomedical control, electrical and ocean engineering, and physics, including geophysics, astronomy, and acoustics. Also good for conference proceedings, IEEE standards, and links to e-journals. Also contains a parallel archived backfile from 1898-1968.
IEEE Xplore	Full-text access to IEEE & IEE transactions, journals, magazine, & conference proceedings, and current IEEE standards. Browse by journal title, conference name; search by author, subject, journal, and affiliation. Citation link forward & back.
ACM Digital Library	Full text of ACM journals, magazines and conference proceedings. Full text coverage for many journals from 1985 to the present. Links to the full text of many articles.
Synthesis: Digital Library of Engineering & Computer Science	New example of scholarly communications product highlighting "lectures" on different topics from 2005 written by authorities in the field.
SIAM	Full text coverage of journals published by the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics
Compendex	Best for aerospace, civil, structural, and mechanical engineering. Also covers electrical & computer engineering.
Web of Science	Largest database that encompasses the Science Citation Index (1900+), Social Science Index (1956+), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+). Provides author, keyword, and cited reference searching to the leading scholarly journals. In many cases with searchable abstracts plus links to e-journal images. Can be searched separately.
ISI Journal Citation Reports	Companion source to the Web of Science that traces impact factors of journal citations - can be searched by title, subject coverage and for particular years from 1999. Shows trend line of data.
BIOSIS	Citations for over 6,000 journals, books, conference papers in biology & life sciences. Abstracts for research articles. Includes heavy neuro- and cognitive aspects of human biology and psychology. Appropriate for computational & molecular biology & systems biology interests.
PubMed	MEDLINE and genetics databases from the National Library of Medicine. It is the premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Appropriate for clinical and applied content in biomedical & health subject areas, including informatics.
Expanded Academic ASAP	Covers arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. Indexes scholarly journals, general interest periodicals, and newsmagazines – many with full text and images.
Business Source Premier	This is a business/management database covering industries and organizations. Definitely relevant for social aspects and computing in organizations.
Ergonomics Abstracts	Heavy concentration on organizational aspects of computing and technology in different work organizations
Digital Dissertations	Comprehensive index to all dissertations submitted to UMI from 1865 with abstracts. Dissertations completed at all UC campuses from 1997 are available free in full-text documents. UCI students can request via ANTPAC ILL dissertations from other institutions or they will be supplied from a document supply company. They can be searched by keyword, institution, advisor, etc. It is not necessary to buy a dissertation from the website.
Current Index to Statistics	This source is the major bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields and goes back to 1975.
MathSciNet	Major database coverage of all areas of Mathematics

Special Resources for ICS:

1. Computing Reviews

2. USENIX - The Advanced Computing Systems Association Archive - currently we do not have the most recent conference proceedings, but the full archive is available. Particularly strong for coverage on Information Security.

3. Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies

4. Lecture Notes in Computer Science

5. Annual Review of Computer Science

6. Foundations & Trends in Communications and Information Theory

7. Foundations & Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision

8. Foundations & Trends in Electronic Design Automation

9. Foundations & Trends in Networking

10. Foundations & Trends in Theoretical Computer Science

11. Foundations & Trends in Human Computer Interaction - forthcoming soon

10.Foundations & Trends in Web Science

For a selective yet more comprehensive list of online resources check the newly revised and updated ICS Subject Guides and the Subject Guide for Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. I welcome your contributions to the subject pages. There are also a number of eBook series that supports ICS affiliates and they are available via ANTPAC:

1. Safari O'Reilly Publications - about 560 imprints from O'Reilly Press from 2003 are available on ANTPAC or directly from the UC Safari Tech Books Online website

2. CRCnetbase.com offers >800 books in engineering, security, IT, Computer Science topics from CRC Press - Wiley Series on Wireless - about 31 eBooks are available via ANTPAC

3. Lecture Notes in Computer Science - about 1300 titles are available at www.springerlink.com and then click on "browse" and deselect journals and click again on "browse" and select series you need - also includes Lecture Notes in Control & Information Science, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

BIBLIOGRAPHIC MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE - In order to manage your information retrieval, and be able to recall and properly cite it when you write, there are two choices of different products to help you - both have many advantages and instruction sessions are offered each quarter.

1. RefWorks - a free web-based program - for more additional information, please review the documentation and also register on the website

2. EndNote from ISI Research Soft - is an individual computer-based product - and documentation describes its utility and should be studied. It is recommended that you consider this product by registering for a 30-day trial before you go to the UCI Bookstore to invest in it.

ONLINE TUTORIAL

The staff at UCI Libraries has developed an Online Tutorial that is a dynamic guide to the steps of the research process. You can follow it step by step or go directly to any of the specific modules or lessons. The tutorial is available as a link from the UCI Libraries Web page or directly at http://tutorial.lib.uci.edu/

The UCI Libraries

The UC Irvine Libraries are composed of three libraries. The collections of all three libraries will be valuable for your studies and research needs and are accessible through UCI Libraries online catalog - ANTPAC

1) Langson Library (LL)

The Langson Library holds general collections in the humanities, fine and performing arts, social sciences, social ecology and management, as well as special collections and government documents. It also features a state-of-the-art Multimedia Resources Center, a technology classroom for hands-on research & instruction and a Student Communications Room for Internet and e-mail access. The Government Information collection

1 located here as well.

2) Science Library (SL)

The Science Library centralizes the science and technology collections for physical and biological sciences, medicine, computer science and engineering. The Science Library features an Interactive Learning Center and microcomputer laboratory.

3) Forest J. Grunigen, M.D. Library and Medical Education Center (GML)

This library houses the clinical medical collection, including journals, reference and multimedia materials. The library is located at UCI Medical Center in Orange.

During the Fall Quarter the Science Library will be open the following hours - all Hours are posted

Monday - Thursday	7:30am - 11pm Reference Librarians are on duty at the Science Library Reference desk from 9am - 6pm and at the Langson Library Reference Desk from 9am – 9pm
Friday	7:30am - 9pm. Reference librarian on duty from 9 am - 5pm at the Science & Langson Library Reference Desks.
Saturday	9am - 6pm – Reference librarian on duty from 1-5pm.
Sunday	11am - 11pm Reference librarian on duty from 1-5pm

Holidays during Fall Quarter:

Veterans Day on Monday, November 12- the Libraries will have regular hours

Thanksgiving Weekend, November 22 - 25. The Libraries will close at 6pm on Wednesday, Nov 21 and be closed Thanksgiving Day but will be open the remainder of the holiday weekend with a regular schedule.

During the Intersessions the building hours are abbreviated - just consult the Library Hours.

STUDY FACILITIES – There are two centers operated by the UCI Libraries with extended hours during the Exam Periods.

1. The Library Gateway Study Center & Reserves - across from the Langson Library

2. The Science Library Study Room on the First floor of the Science Library. At the SL, one can reserve individual study rooms with proof of an UCI ID at the Directions Desk or by calling 824-3681.

Hours for each Study Facility are:

Monday - Thursday 7:30 am - 3 am

Friday 7:30 am - 9 pm

Saturday 10 am - 9 pm

Sunday 10 am - 3 am

INTEGRATED LEARNING CENTER (ILC)

Located in the Science Library with entrance from the outside only, this facility has computers, media resources, video, audio, software, including productivity tools such as word-processing and other OFFICE Suite tools, MATLAB, etc. Students need to show their ID to be assigned a computer. There are many library instruction classes that are taught there and when not in session, the ILC is an open computer lab for both PC and MAC users. There is a laptop loan program with wireless cards.

GRADUATE STUDENT READING ROOM

At each library there is a graduate student/faculty reading room - at Langson it is the Holden Room just on the left of the Loan Desk - ask for the password for entry; at the Science Library it is on the 4^th Floor Bar - again, ask at the Loan Desk for the password.

MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE CENTER (MRC)

Located on the 1^st Floor of the Langson Library, this is where students can use multimedia collections from ML subject areas and Government Information. A large video and CD-ROM collection is located at the MRC. Full computer lab resources are also located there and in the TEC (the Main Floor) in the evenings and on weekends when classroom instruction is not scheduled. The latest Maya 8 software is available in the MRC.

The UC Irvine Libraries launched a "Wireless" initiative in the Spring of 2001. Students can request a laptop with a wireless card or check out a wireless card at the MRC or at the ILC and use it in wireless zones on campus, including Main and Science Libraries. The wireless card can be checked out for 48 hours.

CURRENT PERIODICALS ROOM

At SL, located on the 2^nd Floor and arranged by title of journal; at Langson Llibrary, located on the 2^nd Floor, and arranged by call number, this collection is of unbound journals and newspapers - all microforms of journals and newspapers is also found in this room. ANTPAC is the best record of what is available. These are shrinking collections as more and more content is available online. Consult ANTPAC.

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

Librarians most familiar with Government Documents & information are available at the Langson Reference Desk. The Reference collection on the 1st floor contains reference tools that are government documents. The remainder and majority of the collection for local, state, and federal documents is located in the compact shelving in the Langson Library Basement. There are several different cataloging systems for Government Documents:

1. Local & Orange County - arranged by Library of Congress classification

2. State of California - by CalDoc

3. US Federal - by Su Docs

4. International - by LC

Users can verify holdings in ANTPAC and retrieve them from the Langson Library Basement. Most items do circulate. International documents have been distributed to the subject based collections.

Government documents IN MICROFORMS are found on the Langson Library First Floor.

For additional information, please contact 824-7234 or consult the web site at: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/govinfo/gimain.html and the various Subject Guides

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Located on the 5^th Floor of the Langson Library, the unit is open Monday-Saturday. This Department has materials that do not circulate. The UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES is part of this unit and maintains collections from and about UCI, including yearbooks and is also where dissertations are filed. Additional information about that process is available at: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/special/dissertations.html

COMMUNICATION CENTERS

Located at the entrance to both libraries, these terminals are for quick access to e-mail. No printing is available.

NEW BOOKS

At the Science Library, in the Reference Room there is a range of New Books Review Shelves" that contains the latest SL acquisitions. At the Langson Library, there is "New Books Lobby" - a collection of new fiction and nonfiction located in the Main Library in front of the north elevators. All titles circulate for four-week period. Students are encouraged to engage in recreational reading!

Library Services

LIBRARY WORKSHOP SERIES

Each quarter the UCI Libraries offer a variety of workshops designed to help students find information more effectively and efficiently and to assist in their research needs.

For detailed information and a complete schedule of offered classes, please consult the UCI Libraries Workshops Web page. Additional workshops may be added.

BORROWING PRIVILEGES

Articulation of lending policies is by user g