Library Guides: Becoming More Productive: More Productivity Resources

Research

Managing Documents and Citations
Citations managers save you time by helping you organize your pdfs and create formatted bibliographies. Librarians have created guides for using EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero, and Mendeley.
Research Assistance
Contact your subject librarian for help searching and staying current with the literature, using citation managers, tracking down hard to find documents, and more.
Statistics Department Consulting Service
Statistics advice is available as you design your research and analyze the results.
Library Research Guides
Guides created by UC Berkeley librarians to help you find resources and services by subject, course, and topic.
How to keep up with the scientific literature
Article from Science with some good tips
How to (seriously) read a scientific paper
Another good article from Science
Calendar of Library Workshops
The Science Libraries offer drop-in workshops, particularly towards the beginning of each semester. Topics include Data Management, GIS, Citation Management, Productivity Tools, Data Visualization, and more.

Writing

Ten Simple (Empirical) Rules for Writing Science
Great article from PLOS
Making Scientific Writing Painless
iBiology video featuring Dr. Ian Baldwin sharing tips and strategies for writing science.
Baldwin Formula for Scientific Writing
Summary of some of the main points from the above video.
How to Write a Good Scientific Paper
Ebook with practical advice about writing and publishing a paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Writing For Conservation
Includes sections on making effective graphics and maps.
UCB Graduate Writing Center
Workshops, writing groups, and individual consultations.

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Online collaborative LaTeX editor for writing scientific and technical papers. Useful for formatting equations, formulas, algorithms, tables, and figures within text. Sign up with your UC Berkeley email address to access premium features.
Premium features include unlimited collaborators, real-time track changes, full document history, Mendeley integration and sync, GitHub integration and sync, and the ability to save to Dropbox.

The Library also has many books on scientific writing, the research process, and communicating science. Please ask if you would like help finding them!

Thriving in Science

Thriving in Science
A program run by and for graduate students in the physical and life sciences to address issues graduate students encounter, and provide a peer support network.

Useful Links from the Graduate Division

Resources for Graduate Students
Portal providing links to information on housing, health and wellness, technology services, and much more.
Graduate Student Professional Development Guide
Skills and steps to develop Core Competencies. Time Management is a skill under the Professionalism competency.

Data and Software

D-Lab
Training and consulting on data analysis software and methods, including R and Python, and access services for restricted use data. D-Lab also coordinates working groups.
Research Data Management Services
Provides support to campus researchers on data formatting, storage, sharing, and preservation.
GIS
The Earth Sciences & Map Library supports geographic information system (GIS) software and data services across all disciplines for the UC Berkeley campus. The library collects GIS data for areas around the world, with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area and northern California.
Electronic Research Notebooks
Guide to Electronic Research Notebooks (also called Electronic Lab Notebooks).

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Becoming More Productive: More Productivity Resources

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Research

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Useful Links from the Graduate Division

Data and Software