Library Guides: Energy & Resources: Start

Getting connected

Connecting from Off Campus
Set up the VPN (pick the Library Access and Full Tunnel option) or add the proxy bookmarklet to your browser to access Library e-resources from off-campus.
On-campus Wifi
You will need to use the Eduroam wifi network to connect to Library e-resources while on campus.
Student Tech Support
Get help with your technology at several campus locations or via Zoom, phone, or email.
Student Technology Equity Program
Need-based loans of technology hardware to grad and undergrad students.
Software @ Berkeley
Campus licensed software

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Energy at Cal

Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
Research, development, project implementation, and community outreach facility.
Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC)
BERC connects, educates and motivates students, alumni, faculty and industry professionals to address the world's energy and resource challenges.
Energy Institute at Haas
"We promote a cleaner and more economically vibrant energy sector by producing and sharing innovative policy and economics research."

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Textbooks

Digital Course Reserves
Where possible, the Library acquires ebooks of assigned texts or scans textbooks and makes them available via controlled digital lending. Your instructors should provide links if your texts will be available online.

Workshops, Trainings, Groups

Calendar of Library Workshops
The Science Libraries offer drop-in workshops, particularly towards the beginning of each semester. Topics include Zotero, data analysis, GIS, and more.
Subscribe to Library Workshop Calendar

For workshops on software, data analysis, and programming languages such as R and Python, watch the D-Lab calendar or sign up for their email list.

The Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) has workshops on geospatial topics, and you may be interested in the GIS and Mapping Community of Practice

Bay Area Open Science Group meets monthly and is a great community for learning about Open Science.

New Library Resources

Carbon Pulse This link opens in a new window
Carbon Pulse is an online, subscription-based B2B service dedicated to providing in-depth news and intelligence about carbon pricing initiatives and climate change policies around the world. Requires registration with Carbon Pulse, and the completion of this form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10SSK7VnizRtA6i-EZxF2sOMyNOgEs-zzZXi2osYq694/edit?ts=66db2645

The subscription is available to all current UC Berkeley faculty, students, staff, and researchers. You should receive an email from Carbon-Pulse within 10 days notifying you that you’re subscribed.
*If you have any questions, please email Ayuko Picot, ayukopicot@berkeley.edu, at the Center for Environmental Public Policy.
IEA Statistics Package (ISP) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the International Energy Agency's main statistics products, including electricity, natural gas, oil, coal, renewables, prices, and more. Dates of coverage vary but some data is available from the 1970's to present.
Go to "overview" and then select the product of interest. If you choose "access on WDS" you can browse, select and tabulate data by country or region, time period, and variable. To download complete data sets go to the "data sets" tab to download zipped files in TXT format, which open in excel and statistical application packages. An expanded description and data documentation is available for each product.
Planet Labs This link opens in a new window
Planet Labs provides daily satellite images of the Earth’s land surfaces and coastal areas. Natural color, near infra-red, and other multi-channel imagery products are available with 5m, 3.7m and 50cm ground pixel resolution. Request access to this resource by filling out this form
GIDEON This link opens in a new window
Data and maps on infectious diseases and outbreaks: history, geographic spread, and treatment. It also includes a visualization tool to create charts, and a differential tool to assist in diagnosis. Updated daily.
Epidemiological data going back to 1348 AD, covering 230+ countries and territories. Over 28,000 outbreaks, 39,000+ graphs, and 100,000+ surveys. Includes interactive tools to identify 2,000+ pathogens, diagnose and compare 360+ infectious diseases, as well as to explore the properties of 30,000+ trade names of drugs and vaccines. The application is updated every day by a team of highly regarded medical scientists.
Global Census Archive: South East Asia This link opens in a new window
This archive includes official government documents issued by the national census agencies in Southeast Asia. It is an essential tool to retrieve current and historical census data to support innovative census research of interdisciplinary subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and continues to the present.
"The East View Global Census Archive® (GCA) is an innovative program to collect official data and publications issued by national census authorities, from the early 19th century to the present day, providing a key resource for scholars and analysts to find current and historical census data to support critical research into our changing world."

Climate Impact Data via ISS ESG
Company derived metrics and benchmarks by geographical and sector classifications. Includes short and long term physical risk, peer emissions intensity, and climate scenario budgets. Access to this dataset is via the WRDS platform. Request an account at the link above.

OSF Institutions This link opens in a new window
The Open Science Framework (OSF) supports and enables reproducible open science as a platform for research outputs including preprints; registrations and preregistrations; and project sites to host project plans, results and associated files.

Comprehensive Renewable Energy
9-volume reference work providing an overview of all renewable energy technologies.
Encyclopedia of Energy Storage
Provides a review of current energy storage research and insights into the future direction of the field,

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