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Ebooks added in April, 2011

Plant Polysaccharides, Biosynthesis and Bioengineering (Annual Plant Reviews, v.41)

Bias and Causation: Models and Judgment for Valid Comparisons. HERBERT I. WEISBERG (WILEY SERIES IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS)

Prudent Practices in the Laboratory Handling and Management of Chemical Hazards, Updated Version (freely available) - NCBI bookshelf/NAS

From ScienceDirect:
Advances in Applied Microbiology, v.74
International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, v.288
Progress in Brain Research, v.189: Gene Expression to Neurobiology and Behavior: Human Brain Development and Developmental Disorders
Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology, v.82: Recent Advances in Electron Cryomicroscopy, Part B
Current Topics in Developmental Biology, v.95: Forces and Tension in Development
Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, v.62
Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science, v.101: Modifications of Nuclear DNA and its Regulatory Proteins
Methods in Enzymology, v.496: Research on Nitrification and Related Processes, Part B
Advances in Botanical Research, v.57: Plant Responses to Drought and Salinity Stress - Developments in a Post-Genomic Era

From CRCnetBASE, added Jan-Mar 2011:
Advanced Simulation and Modelling for Urban Groundwater Management - UGROW Pokrajac, Dubravka
Advances in Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables Processing Martin-Belloso, Olga
Air Pollution and Turbulence: Modeling and Applications Moreira, Davidson
Air Quality, Third Edition Godish, Thad
Antisense Drug Technology: Principles, Strategies, and Applications, Second Edition Crooke, Stanley T.
Aquatic Macrophyte Risk Assessment for Pesticides Maltby, Lorraine
Atlas of the Neonatal Rat Brain Ramachandra, Renuka
Banana Breeding: Progress and Challenges Pillay, Michael
Biology of Lungfishes Jorgensen, Jorden Morup
Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Third Edition - 3 Volume Set Bronzino, Joseph D.
Capacity Development for Improved Water Management Blokland, Maarten
Cleaning Validation Manual: A Comprehensive Guide for the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries Haider, Syed Imtiaz
Computer Vision: From Surfaces to 3D Objects Tyler, Christopher W.
Desalination Technology: Health and Environmental Impacts Cotruvo, Joseph
Development and Application of Biomarkers Lundblad, Roger L.
Diffuse Optical Tomography: Principles and Applications Jiang, Huabei
Economic Analysis of Diversity in Modern Wheat Meng, Erika C.H.
Elements of Industrial Hazards: Health, Safety, Environment and Loss Prevention Tatiya, Ratan Raj
Environmental Engineering III Pawlowski, Lucjan
Epileptic Seizures and the EEG: Measurement, Models, Detection and Prediction Varsavsky, Andrea
Essentials of Forensic Imaging: A Text-Atlas Levy, Angela D.
Ethnomedicinal Plants: Revitalizing of Traditional Knowledge of Herbs Rai, M. K.
GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume Three: Invasive Species Clay, Sharon A.
GIS Applications in Agriculture, Volume Two: Nutrient Management for Energy Efficiency Clay, David E.
Groundwater Response to Changing Climate Taniguchi, Makoto
Handbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fourth Edition Lundblad, Roger L.
Handbook of Environmental Analysis: Chemical Pollutants in Air, Water, Soil, and Solid Wastes, Second Edition Patnaik, Pradyot
Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, Volume I, Third Edition: Essential Principles and Practices Hau, Jann
High Performance Liquid Chromatography in Phytochemical Analysis Waksmundzka-Hajnos, Monika
Hydrology: A Science of Nature Musy, Andre
Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography (HILIC) and Advanced Applications Wang, Perry G.
Immune-based Cancer Treatment: The T Iymphocyte Response Alexander, Michael A.
Implementing Industrial Ecology: Methodological Tools and Reflections for Constructing a Sustainable Development Adoue, Cyril
Integrated Urban Water Management: Humid Tropics: UNESCO-IHP Tucci, Carlos
Introduction to the Numerical Modeling of Groundwater and Geothermal Systems: Fundamentals of Mass, Energy and Solute Transport in Poroelastic Rocks Bundschuh, Jochen
Key Transitions in Animal Evolution Desalle, Rob
Maldynia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain Giordano, James
Manual of Methods for Soil and Land Evaluation Costantini, Edoardo A.C.
Mycorrhizal Biotechnology Thangadurai, Devarajan
Nuclear Medicine Physics De Lima, Joao Jose
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 48 Gibson, R. N.
Phenotypic Plasticity of Insects: Mechanisms and Consequences Whitman, Douglas
Physiology of the Pea Crop Munier-Jolain, Nathalie
Quality and Safety in Radiotherapy Pawlicki, Todd
Radiopharmaceuticals: Introduction to Drug Evaluation and Dose Estimation Williams, Ph.D., Lawerence E.
Remote Sensing of Glaciers: Techniques for Topographic, Spatial and Thematic Mapping of Glaciers Pellikka, Petri
Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide Yates, W. David
Seed Conditioning, Volume 3: Crop Seed Conditioning Gregg, Bill R.
Spatial Data Quality: From Process to Decisions Devillers, Rodolphe
Tolerance to Environmental Contaminants Amiard-Triquet, Claude
Toxic Chemicals: Risk Prevention Through Use Reduction Higgins, Thomas E.
Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Privacy, History & Applications, Second Edition Petersen, J.K.
Vertebrates: Structures and Functions Kisia, S. M.
Water and Agricultural Sustainability Strategies Kang, Manjit S
Water Engineering and Management through Time: Learning from History Cabrera, Enrique

From Safari Technical Books:
Germs, Genes, and Bacteria: How They Influence Modern Life

New Ebooks from Springer:
NOTE: Supplementary materials released with the print books (CD-ROMs, for example) are made available to the purchasers of the e-books at http://extras.springer.com.
Molecular and Functional Models in Neuropsychiatry
Telomeres and Telomerase: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.735)
Molecular Basis of Health and Disease
Metal Nanoparticles in Microbiology
In the Wrong Place - Alien Marine Crustaceans: Distribution, Biology and Impacts
Epigenetic Aspects of Chronic Diseases
Extracellular Matrix Degradation
Yeast Genetic Networks:Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.734
Serum/Plasma Proteomics: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.728
Mammalian Cell Viability: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.740
Atlas of Stem Anatomy in Herbs, Shrubs and Trees Volume 1
Wetlands:Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts
Studies on Experimental Models
Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.344)
Diabetes - Perspectives in Drug Therapy (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, v.1900)
Basic Confocal Microscopy
Multi Modality State-of-the-Art Medical Image Segmentation and Registration Methodologies
Negative Co-Receptors and Ligands (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.350)
Atoms of Mind: The "Ghost in the Machine" Materializes
Cell Fusion in Health and Disease II: Cell Fusion in Disease (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, v.714)
Protein Function Prediction for Omics Era
Bacteria in Agrobiology: Crop Ecosystems
Glycans in Diseases and Therapeutics
The Busy Physician’s Guide To Genetics, Genomics and Personalized Medicine
Cancer Cell Culture: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.731)
Restoration of Lakes, Streams, Floodplains, and Bogs in Europe: Principles and Case Studies (Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management, v.3)
Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands: Long-Term Research in Las Tablas de Daimiel (Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management, v.2)
Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts

Publications from WU Biology Dept., April 2011 additions

• Allen GE. 2010. Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870--1920. [book review] Isis 101(1):244-246. Fulltext for subscribers.
• Allen GE. 2011. Eugenics and modern biology: critiques of eugenics, 1910-1945. Ann Hum Genet 75(3):314-25. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers (officially access at WU is limited to medical campus).
• Anderson CD, Rosenberg MS. 2011. Variation in association with anthropogenic habitat edges exhibited by the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) in St. Louis County, Missouri. J Herpetology 45(1):50-55. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne 1 subscribers..
• Brudvig LA, Damschen EI. 2011. Land-use history, historical connectivity, and land management interact to determine longleaf pine woodland understory richness and composition. Ecography 34(2):257-266. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Burkle LA, Alarcon R. 2011. The future of plant–pollinator diversity: Understanding interaction networks across time, space, and global change. Amer J Botany 98(3):528-538. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Costa-Nunes P, Pontes O, Preuss SB, Pikaard CS. 2010. Extra views on RNA-dependent DNA methylation and MBD6-dependent heterochromatin formation in nucleolar dominance. Nucleus 1(3):254-259. PubMed abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Harris DJ, Smith KG, Hanly PJ. 2011. Occupancy is nine-tenths of the law: occupancy rates determine the homogenizing and differentiating effects of exotic species. Am Nat 177(4):535-43. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Liberton M, Austin JR, Berg RH, Pakrasi HB. 2011. Unique thylakoid membrane architecture of a unicellular N2-fixing cyanobacterium revealed by electron tomography. Plant Physiol 155(4):1656-1666. PubMed abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Mendez DL, Kim D, Chruszcz M, Stephens GE, Minor W, Khorasanizadeh S, Elgin SC. 2011. The HP1a Disordered C Terminus and Chromo Shadow Domain Cooperate to Select Target Peptide Partners. Chembiochem 12(7):1084-96. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Ng IS, Tsai SW, Ju YM, Yu SM, Ho TH. 2011. Dynamic synergistic effect on Trichoderma reesei cellulases by novel ?-glucosidases from Taiwanese fungi. Bioresour Technol 102(10):6073-81. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Oberle B, Schaal BA. 2011. Responses to historical climate change identify contemporary threats to diversity in Dodecatheon. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(14):5655-60. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication.
• Offerdahl EG, Balser T, Dirks C, Miller K, Momsen JL, Montplaisir L, Osgood M, Sirum K, Wenderoth MP, White B, Wood WB, Withers M, Wright R. 2011. Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER) - meeting report. CBE Life Sci Educ 10(1):11-3. PubMed citation & freely available fulltext.
• Powell KI, Chase JM, Knight TM. 2011. A synthesis of plant invasion effects on biodiversity across spatial scales. Amer J Botany 98(3):539-548. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Raven PH, Chase JM, Pires JC. 2011. Introduction to special issue on biodiversity. Amer J Botany 98(3):333-335. Fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Schuler MS, Sears MW, Angilletta MJ. 2011. Food consumption does not affect the preferred body temperature of Yarrow's spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovi). J Thermal Biol 36(2):112-115. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Tang KH, Zhu L, Urban VS, Collins AM, Biswas P, Blankenship RE. 2011. Temperature and Ionic Strength Effects on the Chlorosome Light-Harvesting Antenna Complex. Langmuir 27(8):4816-28. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Wen J, Zhang H, Gross ML, Blankenship RE. 2011. Native electrospray mass spectrometry reveals the nature and stoichiometry of pigments in the FMO photosynthetic antenna protein. Biochemistry 50(17):3502-11. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.

International Journal of Molecular Imaging now available

International Journal of Molecular Imaging

Full text, 2011+; freely available; Hindawi/PubMed Central.

Summer Library Hours begin May 21

Summer Schedule, May 21 - August 29, 2011
Mon - Thurs 8:30a-10:00p
Fri 8:30a-6:00p
Sat 9:00a-5:00p
Sun CLOSED
Memorial Day, Mon, May 30 CLOSED
Sun - Mon, July 3-4 CLOSED

Best Sellers in Microbiology

Best Sellers in Microbiology, July 2010 to April 2011 as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to local catalog records when available.
1) Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax Jones, Susan D. Johns Hopkins University Press 2010. ISBN 9780801896965. $24.95
2) Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions Wailoo, Keith Johns Hopkins University Press 2010. ISBN 9780801896712. $65
3) Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. V. 4: The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes (Online access at WU) Whitman, William B. Springer-Verlag 2011. ISBN 9780387950426. $219
4) Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria (Online access at WU) Maczulak, Anne Financial Times: Prentice Hall 2011. ISBN 9780137015467. $24.99
5) Cell Biology of Bacteria (Online access at WU) Shapiro, Lucy Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2011. ISBN 9780879699079. $135
6) Mass Spectrometry for Microbial Proteomics Shah, Haroun N. John Wiley 2010. ISBN 9780470681992. $115
7) The Fecal Bacteria Sadowsky, Michael J. American Society for Microbiology 2011. ISBN 9781555816087. $159.95
8) Methods in Microbiology: V. 37: Immunology of Infection (Online access at WU) Kabelitz, Dieter Elsevier Academic Press 2010. ISBN 9780123748423. $177
9) Immune Response to Infection Kaufmann, Stefan H.E. American Society for Microbiology 2011. ISBN 9781555815141. $169.95
10) Bacterial Stress Responses Storz, Gisela American Society for Microbiology 2011. ISBN 9781555816216. $169.95
11) Bacteriophages in the Control of Food and Waterborne Pathogens Sabour, Parviz M. American Society for Microbiology 2010. ISBN 9781555815028. $149.95
12) Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health and Novel Intervention Strategies Workshop Summary (freely available online) Choffnes, Eileen R. National Academies Press 2010. ISBN 9780309156110. $95
13) Osteoimmunology: Interactions of the Immune and Skeletal Systems (Online access at WU) Lorenzo, Joseph Elsevier Academic Press 2011. ISBN 9780123756701. $99.95
14) Immunoreceptor Signaling: A Subject Collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology (Online access at WU) Samelson, Lawrence E. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2011. ISBN 9780879698966. $135
15) Bacillus Anthracis and Anthrax Bergman, Nicholas H. Wiley-Blackwell 2011. ISBN 9780470410110. $129.95
16) Antigen Retrieval Immunohistochemistry Based Research and Diagnostics Shan-Rong Shi John Wiley 2010. ISBN 9780470624524. $145
17) Ludwik Hirszfeld: The Story of One Life Hirszfeld, Ludwik University of Rochester Press 2010. ISBN 9781580463386. $49.95
18) Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 11th ed (Online access at WU) Levinson, Warren McGraw-Hill 2010. ISBN 9780071700283. $49.95
19) Helicobacter Pylori in the 21st Century Sutton, Philip CABI Publishing 2010. ISBN 9781845935948. $160
20) Sequence-Based Classification of Select Agents: A Brighter Line (freely available online) National Research Council National Academies Press 2010. ISBN 9780309159043. $50.50

Interesting reading: phage hunters, how to get published, the value of data

    - In the news: The PLoS One article by WU class was included in the March 2011 news but it's being featured in several news reports this month. Phage Hunting Students Find New Bacteriophages in Soils of St. Louis Suburbs | Phage hunting students publish in PLoS ONE
    - How to Get Published: A guide to publishing in scholarly journals Although a bit Elsevier-centric, this 20-page guide includes a lot of useful information for new authors.
    - The value of data. Barend Mons et al. Nat Genet 43 (4), 281-3 (Apr 2011) doi/10.1038/ng0411-281. I especially enjoyed the image, Figure 1: The current state of scholarly communication. I've seen various similar diagrams over the years but this one adds data to the mix.
    - Focus on beautiful bird drawings from Biodiversity Heritage Library: http://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com/2011/04/book-of-week-illustrations-of-ibis.html

Search tips: My NCBI, Web of Science, LigerCat, Get it!

    - New tutorials about the Get it! Button are now available: http://libguides.wustl.edu/get_it. Use Get It! to access fulltext content or request articles when we don't have them online or in paper.
    - My NCBI has been redesigned. More info | 2 minute video tutorial. My NCBI is one way to ensure that you have WU Get it! buttons available when you search PubMed, set up search alerts and saved searches, etc.
    - LigerCat isn't new but I think it's worth mentioning occasionally. This is a special interface to PubMed which allows display of occurrence-weighted tag [MeSH heading]clouds [MeSH headings]. LigerCat also has a publication data histogram feature. More info.
    - PubMed and beyond: a survey of web tools for searching biomedical literature compares 28 PubMed derivatives. (Open access article from Database 2011 doi: 10.1093/database/baq036) PubMed derivatives at a glance: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Lu/search/
    - For a preview of the new Web of Science interface, click on "DISCOVER the new Web of Knowledge now!" on the upper right. Improvements will include left hand truncation of search terms, full author name searching (instead of reliance on initials), automatic searching for institutional name variants, and much more. Full implementation is expected in July.

New Catalog for WU Becker Medical Library

Sometime in May, 2011, the new catalog at Becker Medical Library will replace the older version. The biggest change I think is that ebooks and ejournals are listed separately from paper books and paper journals. In the past, information about all formats could be dependably found on a single record. I'm sure we will be discovering new features as we use this new interface. If you are looking only for ebooks and ejournal, try Ebooks and Ejournals from Becker Medical Library. Remember some electronic access materials are limited to medical campus or School of Medicine users only, but many are available to all WU users. Sometimes a title will say Medical campus only, but Danforth Campus will also have access due to a second license or some mistake, so it never hurts to try links you discover. Let Ruth know as you have questions or use the feedback form in the new catalog interface.

New mobile resources for biofolk

New Mobile Resources:
    - Mobile version of SciFinder now available. More information | Info about SciFinder Web. SciFinder has a few nice new features also, including the ability to sort by the number of citations to a particular article and addition of citation information to Medline content. What's New on Scifinder Web.
    - Science Magazine now has a mobile site [ http://m.sciencemag.org/ ] | More info.
    - Info about Course Monkey, iPhone WU course listing app. [Search 'WUSTL COURSES' in the App Store]
    - PubMed Mobile Beta. More info from NLM Technical Bulletin. Note: It is my understanding that this does not yet allow for linkout/outside tool/Get it! buttons for authenticated access to fulltext content. [Sorry I am a bit clueless about mobile tools so I would welcome your reports and concerns!] This is different from PubMed for Handhelds which is currently listed on the WU library mobile website.

Paper books added in April 2011

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.

Annual review of physiology, v.73, 2011 also available online Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews Inc
Bacterial stress responses / edited by Gisela Storz and Regine Hengge. Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2011.
Biological clocks : effects on behavior, health, and outlook / Oktav Salvenmoser and Brigitta Meklau, editors. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010. Public health in the 21st century series
Case studies for understanding the human body / Stanton Braude, Deena Goran, Alexander Miceli. Sudbury, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2011.
Evolution : a developmental approach / Wallace Arthur. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Fifty plants that changed the course of history / written by Bill Laws. Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2010.
From man to ape : Darwinism in Argentina, 1870-1920 / Adriana Novoa and Alex Levine. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.
Genetics : a conceptual approach, 3rd ed / Benjamin A. Pierce. New York, NY : W.H. Freeman, c2008.
MicroRNAs in development and cancer / editor Frank J. Slack. London : Imperial College Press Singapore : World Scientific [distributor], c2011. Molecular medicine and medicinal chemistry v. 1.
Mixing races : from scientific racism to modern evolutionary ideas / Paul Lawrence Farber. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of science.
Molecular biology of RNA / David Elliott, Michael Ladomery. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Naked genes : reinventing the human in the molecular age / Helga Nowotny and Giuseppe Testa translated by Mitch Cohen. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Nerve and muscle / Richard D. Keynes, David J. Aidley and Christopher L.-H. Huang. Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Phylogenetic networks : concepts, algorithms and applications / Daniel H. Huson, Regula Rupp, Celine Scornavacca. Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Phylogeography : concepts, intraspecific patterns, and speciation processes / Damien S. Rutgers, editor. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010. Genetics-- research and issues.
Plant cell walls : from chemistry to biology / Peter Albersheim ... [et al.]. New York : Garland Science, c2011.
Reaching for the sun : how plants work / John King. Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Revolutions that made the Earth / Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Searching for sasquatch : crackpots, eggheads, and cryptozoology / Brian Regal. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
Serpentine : the evolution and ecology of a model system / edited by Susan Harrison, Nishanta Rajakaruna. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Statistical theory and methods for evolutionary genomics / Xun Gu. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.