The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Library is pleased to provide electronic journal access that is in parity with the UCB campus.

How do I locate an electronic or paper journal or an individual article?

 Search UC Library Search for the name of the journal to determine LBNL electronic and physical holdings and request delivery of paper copies.

 Consult Journal Search for Journals

 Search Databases to find and request a journal article.

 Search UC Library Search, if LBNL doesn’t have the journal you’re looking for, and then request the article.  (If you see only article records displayed for your journal, click on a record and a link to the journal may be available on the resulting screen.)

 Search for Magazine/Newspaper articles

Keep in mind that you may need the lab’s VPN (Virtual Privat Network) to be active on you computer in order to access journal articles, even if you are on-site using your lab computer.  See below.   Ask an LBNL reference librarian for assistance by submitting a Help Request.  If you do not have a LBNL email address, please send your request to library@lbl.gov.

More information about finding electronic and paper journal articles.

For both On- and Off-site Access

• VPN (Virtual Private Networking) Client

  A VPN is a network built for the private use of a particular institution over the shared public infrastructure. VPNs work by establishing secure “tunnels” for the transfer of information.  Because the data which passes through such tunnels is encrypted, it is protected from unauthorized access. Additionally, the VPN tunnel end-points (aka peers) authenticate with each other to prevent identity spoofing, and verify all received data to ensure that it has not been altered during transmission.

  LBNL uses VPN technology to provide secure connections for remote access users. Because LBL-VPN users are assigned an IP address in the lbl.gov domain, they can access Laboratory resources as if they were on-site.

  LBL-VPN is a software-based VPN service. Employees wishing to use LBL-VPN must install VPN client software on their computer(s). The software is available, free of charge, from https://software.lbl.gov.

How do I get access to material LBNL doesn’t have electronic access to?

See information about ILL Requests