Biology Library News

New books - Nov.30 - Dec.7, 2007

Advances in immunology. Review serial. v.96 (2007)
Bacterial pathogenomics QH434 .B337 2007
Comprehensive biochemistry - Stories of success. QD415 F54 v.45 (2007)
Evolution Panafieu, Jean-Baptiste. QE721.2.E85 .P36 2007 4o
Evolution revolution : design without intelligence. McNamara, Ken. QE721.2.E85 M42 2007
Guinea pig's history of biology. Endersby, Jim. QH431. E615 2007
Listening to cougar QL737.C23 L57 2007
Macachiavellian intelligence : how rhesus... Maestripieri, Dario. QL737.P93 M34 2007
Molecular photofitting : predicting ancestry... Frudakis, Tony Nick. RA1057.5 .F78 2008
Niche modeling : predictions from statistical... Stockwell, David. QH546.3 .S76 2007
Physiology of woody plants. Pallardy, Stephen G. QK711.2 .K72 2008 4o
Reconstructing evolution : new mathematical and... QH371.3.M37 R43 2007
Science vs. religion? : intelligent design and... Fuller, Steve. BL240.3 .F85 2007

Copyright and authors rights

I've been reading and thinking about copyright lately. I'm in a small group that has begun work on copyright information pages for WU. You will probably hear more about that in coming months, because we aim to address your issues and questions! I thought these 3 gems were worth sharing this month. I hope you find them relevant and interesting.
    - Cory Doctorow's column about Creative Commons, from Locus online, Nov. 2007
    - Law professor estimates $12.4 million in liability during an average day! - Infringement nation: copyright reform and the law/norm gap [13 page pdf] by John Tehranian. (not yet published in Utah Law Review) For a quick summary see this blog post from Nate Anderson: Overly-broad copyright law has made USA a "nation of infringers
    - Tutorials from MIT Libraries on retaining copyrights to increase research impact: Part 1: Copyright Law and Publication (5:38), Part 2: Retaining Rights When Publishing (9:46), Part 3: Publishing through Open Access Channels (8:55)

Genetics crib sheet and Alternative PubMed interfaces

A couple of interesting one page pdf's:
    - A single page Genetics Crib Sheet, available in GIF or PDF, from Seed Magazine
    - Alternative interfaces for PubMed searches, by Isabelle de Kaenel. Seen in post from David Rothman

New ebooks Nov. 2007

New Ebooks on ScienceDirect:
Methods in Enzymology, v.435, 2007: Oxygen Biology and Hypoxia
Vitamins and Hormones, v.77: Ghrelin
Current Topics in Developmental Biology, v.81, 2007: Multiscale Modeling of Developmental Systems

New from Oxford Reference Online:
Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (2007)

New Ebooks from Springer:
Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants: Asia and the Pacific
Shallow Lakes in a Changing World: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Shallow Lakes, held at Dalfsen, The Netherlands, 5–9 June 2005 (Developments in Hydrobiology, v.196)
Flow Cytometry: Principles and Applications
Computational Genetics and Genomics: Tools for Understanding Disease
The Joy of Science: An Examination of How Scientists Ask and Answer Questions Using the Story of Evolution as a Paradigm
Human Nervous System: Structure and Function, 6th ed
Bacterial Genomes and Infectious Diseases
Myosins: A Superfamily of Molecular Motors (Proteins and Cell Regulation, v.7)
Fish Histology: Female Reproductive Systems
Polyamine Cell Signaling: Physiology, Pharmacology, and Cancer Research
The GABA Receptors, 3rd ed
The Chemokine Receptors
Atlas of the Sensory Organs: Functional and Clinical Anatomy
Pseudomonas: A Model System in Biology
Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, v.4)
Bacterial Fish Pathogens: Diseases of Farmed and Wild Fish

Biology Researchers' Publications Nov. 2007

• Chase JM. 2007. Drought mediates the importance of stochastic community assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:17430-4. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
• Dittmer TA, Stacey NJ, Sugimoto-Shirasu K, Richards EJ. 2007. LITTLE NUCLEI genes affecting nuclear morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 19:2793-803. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 1 year after publication.
• Earley KW, Shook MS, Brower-Toland B, Hicks L, Pikaard CS. 2007. In vitro specificities of Arabidopsis co-activator histone acetyltransferases: implications for histone hyperacetylation in gene activation. Plant J 52:615-626. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Glor RE, Johnson MA, Larson A. 2007. Polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Puerto Rican crested anole (Anolis cristatellus) and their amplification in related Puerto Rican species. Conservation Genetics 8:1491-1493. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Goodenough U. 2007. The emergence of sex. Zygon 42:857-872. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Larson A. 2006. Alaska wilderness: Exploring the central brooks range. Hist Philos Life Sci 28:445-446.
• Swenson NG, Mahler L, Ferro M, Ritchie A. 2007. The energetic determination, spatial dispersion and density dependence of Myrmeleon ant lion pits in Las Cruces, Costa Rica. Biotropica 39: 774-777. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Yi H, Richards EJ. 2007. A Cluster of disease resistance genes in Arabidopsis is coordinately regulated by transcriptional activation and RNA silencing. Plant Cell 19:2929-39. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers; freely available 1 year after publication.

Ejournal access new in Nov. 2007

***American Zoologist (JSTOR)

Full text, v.1-41, 1961-2001; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Auk (JSTOR)

Full text, v.1, 1884-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew) (JSTOR)

Full text, 1887-1941; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Castanea (JSTOR)

Full text, v.2, 1937-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Coleopterists Bulletin (JSTOR)

Full text, v.1, 1947-5 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Herpetologica (JSTOR)

Full text, v.1, 1936-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Journal of Plant Registrations

Full text, v.1, 2007+; freely available; Crop Science Society of America/Highwire.

***Journal of Range Management (JSTOR)

Full text, v.1 - 56, 1948-2003; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club (JSTOR)

Full text, v. 1 - 2, 1936-1937; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Kew Bulletin (JSTOR)

Full text, v.1, 1946-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Memoir. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Full text, v.1, 1991-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Mitteilungen aus dem botanischen Garten und Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Full text, Bd.1, 1953; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Notizblatt des Königl. botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin

Full text, Bd. 1 - 15, 1895-1989; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Full text, v.1, 1841-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Rangelands

Full text, v.1, 1979-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Recent Ornithological Literature

Supplements to Auk; Full text, 1976-1998; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Science News

Full text, v.89, 1966-1 year ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Science News Letter

Full text, v.1 - 89, 1922-1966; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Weed Science

Full text, v.16, 1968-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Weed Technology

Full text, v.1, 1987-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Weeds

Full text, v.1 - 15, 1951-1967; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Willdenowia

Full text, v.1, 1954-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

Biofolk in the news

Bob Thach and Brian Allan are quoted in The Missourian: Nov. 16, 2007 Number of tick-borne diseases doubles across Missouri

PubMed - Google Scholar comparison

Many biofolk use Google or Google Scholar first, so you may be interested in this article: Comparing test searches in PubMed and Google Scholar, by Mary Shultz, J Med Libr Assoc 2007 October; 95(4): 442-445. There's no clear recommendation, since both tools retrieved unique items. Here's a snip from the Results section:

Across all searches, Google Scholar retrieved a total of 247 citations, 125 (50.61%) of which were unique to Google Scholar. Analysis revealed the following characteristics:

• Thirty-two items (12.96%) retrieved by Google Scholar were formats other than journal articles.
• Some unique Google Scholar items (10 items, 4.05%) appeared in journals not indexed by PubMed.
• Google Scholar covered a wider date range and returned 4 items (1.62%) older than 1950 that were not in PubMed.
• Google Scholar retrieved items based on its ability to search the full text of many articles rather than solely on citation data.

PubMed retrieved a total of 147 citations across all searches, and, of these, 46 (31.29%) were unique.

Trial access to CRCnetbase through Dec. 20, 2007

We have trial access to all the CRCnetbase databases through Dec. 20th. Mostly this is CRC Press/Taylor & Francis monographs, handbooks and reference books available and searchable online. We have not decided which specific sets we might purchase beyond the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Dictionary of Natural Products, BIOSCIENCEnetBASE, NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE, and PlantSCIENCEnetBASE will probably be most interesting to biofolk. Please contact Ruth Lewis if you think some of these sets might be important additions to our collection. Thank you.

Library toolbar now available for download

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