Biology Library News

New journals from Nature

Nature Communications, a multidisciplinary, online-only journal from Nature Publishing Group, was recently launched. The author fee for open access publishing fee ($5,000/paper) will be discounted by 20% for awhile. Self-archiving of author versions 6 months after publication will also be encouraged.
Nature Climate Change is a more traditional publication that is planned to begin in April 2011.
We do not currently have plans to subscribe to either title at WU.

Biology-related ebooks added April 2010

Biosafety in microbiological and biomedical laboratories, 5th ed, 2009

EBL books:
Invasion ecology
Boundaries of Consciousness : Neurobiology and Neuropathology | We also have this available as Progress in Brain Research, v.150, 2005; this is one of the problems involved in having library users decide which books to buy!
This Borrowed Earth : Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World [also available in paper version]
Global Warming Cycles
Here's what's next for the Ebook Pilot Project: Almost all the ebl records will be removed from the catalog after the semester is over. If there are titles you have read on short term loan and want the library to own, please "borrow" them again once or twice to ensure they will be purchased or send the titles to me as soon as possible. Records for items that we actually purchased will remain; WUSTL key info will still be required to access those ebooks. Data from this experiment will be examined over the summer. Your comments about this are still needed. Send them to Ruth Lewis [email: rlewis@wustl.edu]. Thank you.

From Safari Books Online:
Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today

From the medical library:
Design and destiny Jewish and Christian perspectives on human germline modification

New Ebooks from Springer [These books are eventually added to the library catalog]:
New Perspectives and Approaches in Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Research
Thrombin: Physiology and Disease
Control of Poultry Mites (Dermanyssus)
Class 2 Transferases EC 2.7.11.1–2.7.11.16 (Springer Handbook of Enzymes, S3)
Class 2 Transferases EC 2.1–2.7.10 (Springer Handbook of Enzymes, S2)
Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms
Protein-protein Interactions and Networks: Identification, Computer Analysis, and Prediction (Computational Biology, v.9)
Biomedical Informatics for Cancer Research
Microbial Endocrinology: Interkingdom Signaling in Infectious Disease and Health
Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control
Environmental and Agricultural Modeling: Integrated Approaches for Policy Impact Assessment
DNA Replication: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.521)
Plant Stress Tolerance Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.639)
RNA Therapeutics:Function, Design, and Delivery (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.629)
Tropical Fire Ecology: Climate Change, Land Use, and Ecosystem Dynamics
T-Cell Trafficking: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.616)
An Omics Perspective on Cancer Research
Antibody Engineering, vol. 2
Checkpoint Controls and Targets in Cancer Therapy
Drug Delivery (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, v.197)
Spectroscopic Data of Steroid Glycosides: Stigmastanes, Furostanes, Spirtostanes, v.2
Müller Cells in the Healthy and Diseased Retina
Protocols for Adult Stem Cells (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.621)
Antibiotic Resistance Protocols: Second Edition (Methods in Molecular Biology, 642)
The Urinary Proteome Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 641)
CCN proteins in health and disease: An overview of the Fifth International Workshop on the CCN family of genes
Extracellular ATP and adenosine as regulators of endothelial cell function: Implications for health and disease
Membrane Transporters in Drug Discovery and Development: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 637)
Protein Secretion: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 619)
Carbon Nanotubes: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 625)
Introduction to Marine Genomics (Advances in Marine Genomics, v.1)

Publications from WU biology dept., April 2010

• WUSTL biology in the news: Three WUSTL biologists earn national honors Ho, Quatrano and graduate student Galant recognized by American Society of Plant Biologists
• Blackman BK, Strasburg JL, Raduski AR, Michaels SD, Rieseberg LH. 2010. The role of recently derived FT paralogs in sunflower domestication. Curr Biol 20(7):629-35. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
• Burkle LA, Irwin RE. 2010. Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction. J Ecol 98(3):705-717. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Chase JM, Burgett AA, Ciro EG. 2010. Habitat isolation moderates the strength of top-down control in experimental pond food webs. Ecology 91(3):637-643. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Kim MJ, Ciani S, Schachtman DP. 2010. A peroxidase contributes to ros production during Arabidopsis root response to potassium deficiency. Molecular Plant 3(2):420-427. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication [WU does not subscribe].
• Lewis WH, Ertter B. 2010. Rosa woodsii subsp puberulenta and variety ertterae (Rosaceae), New in Western North America. Novon 20(1):47-52. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne.1 subscribers.
• Murray DL, Anderson MG, Steury TD. 2010. Temporal shift in density dependence among North American breeding duck populations. Ecology 91(2):571-581. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Orrock JL, Christopher CC. 2010. Density of intraspecific competitors determines the occurrence and benefits of accelerated germination. Am J Botany 97(4):694-699. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
• Schulte T, Niedzwiedzki DM, Birge RR, Hiller RG, Polívka T, Hofmann E, Frank HA. 2009. Identification of a single peridinin sensing Chl-a excitation in reconstituted PCP by crystallography and spectroscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(49): 20764-20769. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
• Sih A, Bolnick DI, Luttbeg B, Orrock JL, Peacor SD, Pintor LM, Preisser E, Rehage JS, Vonesh JR. 2010. Predator-prey naivete, antipredator behavior, and the ecology of predator invasions. Oikos 119(4):610-621. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Steury TD, McCarthy JE, Roth TC, Lima SL, Murray DL. 2010. Evaluation of Root-n Bandwidth Selectors for Kernel Density Estimation. J Wildlife Management 74(3):539-548. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne.1 subscribers.
• Taylor SR, Webb AB, Smith KS, Petzold LR, Doyle FJ 3rd. 2010. Velocity response curves support the role of continuous entrainment in circadian clocks. J Biol Rhythms 25(2):138-49. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Templeton AR. 2010. Coherent and incoherent inference in phylogeography and human evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(14):6376-81 PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.

Summary of the biology plan for budget cuts

This is a summary of the biology plan to meet library budget cuts for 2011. Thank you to all who responded!

• Alytes cancel paper; we do not have online $149.26
• Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology cancel online-only $3,746.75
• Behaviour cancel online-only $1,571.81 (since this is in JSTOR we will always have content more than 5 years old)
• Biochemical Genetics cancel online-only $1,453.60
• Biochemistry (Moscow) cancel online-only $4,672.27
• Cytologia cancel paper; we do not have online $283.95
• Cytology and Genetics cancel online-only $2,642.75
• Ecoscience cancel paper; we do not have online; available online at Missouri Botanical Garden Library $277.44
• The Enzymes cancel paper; chemistry library paper subscription continues + online access at least through 2011 $130.00
• Ethnobotany : journal of Society of Ethnobotanists   cancel paper; available at Missouri Botanical Garden Library $93.00
• Ibis cancel online-only $686.03
• Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology cancel online-only $3,794.24
• Journal of Mammalian Evolution cancel online-only $412.42
• Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society cancel paper; continue jstor access (older than 3 years); current available online at Missouri Botanical Garden Library $126.11
• Marine Ecology cancel online-only $1,006.85
• Microbiology cancel online-only $4,096.67 Note this is the Springer translation from Russian, not the Society for General Microbiology Microbiology.
• Natural areas journal cancel paper; available online at Missouri Botanical Garden Library $173.56
• Neurophysiology cancel online-only $3,599.68
• Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture cancel online-only $2,510.90
• Plant Growth Regulation cancel online-only $1,144.79
• Planta Medica cancel paper; we do not have online $1,574.30
• Russian Journal of Developmental Biology cancel online-only $3,201.85
• Symbiosis cancel online-only $926.14
• Molecular Plant add online-only subscription
• Fly add online-only subscription
• Plant Ecology pay to keep current access on Danforth Campus
• Cellular and molecular life sciences pay to keep current access on Danforth Campus
• Chromosoma pay to keep current access on Danforth Campus

Notes:
Most of the "cancel online-only" titles will probably still be available in 2011 at WU medical campus [or via medical proxy which is available to DBBS graduate students free and to any faculty with joint appointments for a small fee]; also we will probably continue to have access to our current holdings (usually 1997-2010) indefinitely.
I always welcome your comments, so let me know your questions and concerns. Ruth [rlewis@wustl.edu; 935-4819]

Library Course Guides available on request

I am happy to work with instructors on course guides for new or old classes for summer or fall. If you're interested in having me develop a course guide for your undergraduate or graduate courses, please let me know: rlewis@wustl.edu. To begin a guide, I need a general outline of the course; after the syllabus is complete, we can fine tune the guide to meet you and your students' needs. Course guides can be good starting points for research for students who may be unfamiliar with searching for journal articles, data sources or books in specialized databases and the catalog. Examples.

New paper books and 1 DVD, April, 2010

Click on the title for more info or to request

Note: "In Process" titles may still be REQUESTED so the book will be held for you when it is available. You may also be interested in browsing an alternative listings of new books, by broad call number areas.

Annual review of physiology, v.72, 2010 Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews Inc also online
Biology of small mammals / Joseph F. Merritt. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Enzymes, v.27, 2010 / edited by Paul D. Boyer. New York : Academic Press, 1970-; also online
Fundamentals of computational neuroscience / Thomas P. Trappenberg. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Gene flow between crops and their wild relatives / Meike S. Andersson and M. Carmen de Vicente foreword by Norman C. Ellstrand. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Genes for plant abiotic stress / editors, Matthew A. Jenks, Andrew J. Wood. Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Great pheromone myth / Richard L. Doty. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Intercellular communication in the nervous system / editor-in-chief, Robert C. Malenka. London Burlington, MA : Academic Press, c2009.
Mathematical biology / Mark A. Lewis ... [et al.], editors. Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society Princeton, N.J. : Institute of Advanced Study, c2009. IAS/Park City mathematics series v. 14
Plant cell biology on DVD Berlin : Springer-Verlag, GmbH, 2009 More info
Plant microevolution and conservation in human-influenced ecosystems / David Briggs. Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Primate neuroethology / edited by Michael L. Platt and Asif A. Ghazanfar. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Statistical bioinformatics : a guide for life and biomedical science researchers / edited by Jae K. Lee. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010.

Feedback on book collecting wanted

In June, we will be reviewing and revising our book collecting profiles for the books that come in automatically under various subject, publisher, and format parameters. Of course, we will continue to buy books and ebooks on request as well. If there are subject areas where you believe we are buying too many or too few books, this would be an excellent time to discuss these issues with your subject librarian, Ruth Lewis, email: rlewis@wustl.edu, phone: 935-4819.

FRPAA re-introduced

The Federal Research Public Access Act FRPAA is once again before the House of Representatives and the Senate. It would require every federal department and agency with an annual extramural research budget of $100 million or more to make their research available to the public within six months of publication. Agencies would include Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. Precise mechanisms are not worked out of course. More info:
Federal Research Access Bill Making Progress in Congress
Alliance for Taxpayer Access

Best Sellers in Biology

Best Sellers in Biology, August 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to local libraries when available.
1) The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Dawkins, Richard Free Press 2009. ISBN 1416594787 [9781416594789]. $30
2) Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science Yoon, Carol Kaesuk W.W. Norton 2009. ISBN 0393061973 [9780393061970]. $27.95
3) The Princeton Guide to Ecology Levin, Simon A. Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691128391 [9780691128399]. $95
4) How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells Wolpert, Lewis W.W. Norton 2009. ISBN 0393072215 [9780393072211]. $24.95
5) Critical Transitions in Nature and Society Scheffer, Marten Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691122032 [9780691122038]. $99.50
6) The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740–1840 Judd, Richard William Cambridge University Press 2009. ISBN 052150998X [9780521509985]. $85
7) Origin Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species Reznick, David N. Princeton University Press 2010. ISBN 0691129789 [9780691129785]. $29.95
8) Wilderness in National Parks: Playground or Preserve Miles, John C. University of Washington Press 2009. ISBN 0295988746 [9780295988740]. $75
9) Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History Weis, Judith S. Rutgers University Press 2009. ISBN 081354548X [9780813545486]. $49.95
10) Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology Dodds, Walter Kennedy University of California Press 2009. ISBN 0520260406 [9780520260405]. $50
11) Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America Dugatkin, Lee Alan University of Chicago Press 2009. ISBN 0226169146 [9780226169149]. $26
12) Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage Forbes, Peter Yale University Press 2009. ISBN 0300125399 [9780300125399]. $27.50
13) Not a Chimp: The Hunt To Find the Genes That Make Us Human Taylor, Jeremy Oxford University Press 2009. ISBN 0199227780 [9780199227785]. $27.95
14) Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution McCalman, Iain W.W. Norton 2009. ISBN 0393068145 [9780393068146]. $29.95
15) Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink Goodall, Jane Grand Central 2009. ISBN 0446581771 [9780446581776]. $27.99
16) Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets Olby, Robert C. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2009. ISBN 0879697989 [9780879697983]. $45
17) Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice Wagner, Andreas Yale University Press 2009. ISBN 0300149239 [9780300149234]. $28
18) Darwin in Galapagos: Footsteps to a New World Grant, K. Thalia Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691142106 [9780691142104]. $29.95
19) Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution Prodger, Phillip Oxford University Press 2009. ISBN 0195150317 [9780195150315]. $39.95
20) Ecology of Cities and Towns: A Comparative Approach McDonnell, Mark J. Cambridge University Press 2009. ISBN 0521861128 [9780521861120]. $126

PressDisplay - newspapers available from all over the world

Foreign students and postdocs may be interested in knowing about some of the World Newspapers available from WU Libraries. Our newly acquired PressDisplay file may be especially useful. PressDisplay includes more than 1000 newspapers from 82 countries in 39 languages. Usually only the most current 60 days are available on a rolling file basis.