Life & Health Sciences Libraries Reference Help: Home

Contact a Librarian: Not sure which Life & Health Sciences Librarian is best suited to help you? Use our general email: bios-library@berkeley.edu

Email one of us or click on the links below to schedule a Zoom meeting or Google Hangout, or to request an in-person reference appointment.

• College of Natural Resources: Becky Miller (rcmiller@berkeley.edu; schedule an online meeting)
• Molecular & Cell Biology, Integrative Biology: Elliott Smith (esmith@library.berkeley.edu; schedule an online meeting)
• Public Health: Michael Sholinbeck (msholinb@library.berkeley.edu; schedule an online meeting, or email for more options. Michael also has drop-in office hours at the SPH DREAM Office: Tues 4:30-6PM; Thurs 1:30-3PM)
• Optometry & Health Sciences: Shannon Kealey (skealey@berkeley.edu; schedule an online meeting)

Online guides and tutorials:

• Bioscience, Natural Resources, & Public Health Library Guides for courses, subjects, and research basics
• Optometry & Health Sciences Library Guides

Connecting from off campus: If you are not on campus, use EZProxy or the VPN (VPN users: choose "Library Access – Full Tunnel" rather than the default "Split Tunnel") to authenticate yourself as a Berkeley student, faculty, or staff to access online books, journals, databases, and other resources.

Finding full text and journals:

• Use Journal Search to find online or print access to a particular journal.
• To find full text when searching in a database, look for links: (new) or (old)
• To find full text from a citation, paste the citation into the search box in UC Library Search.

Can't find the full text?: If a desired article, book, chapter, etc. is not available as a full-text version online, Berkeley students, faculty, and staff can place a request to our Interlibrary Borrowing Service. You can also use the Purchase Recommendation Form, or reach out to one of us directly, to suggest new books or journals.