Biology Library News

Digital Data Management Survey, 2011

Thank you again for your participation in our Digital Data Management Survey. In case you missed it, a summary of responses has been posted on the What's New blog: Digital Data Management: What Faculty Told Us . If you have additional comments or questions about this, please contact Ruth Lewis [rlewis@wustl.edu].

JournalTOCS

JournalTOCs, the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) has been redesigned a bit. You may want to check it out in case it would be useful for your current awareness needs: http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/.

Ebooks added May 2011

Freely available (NAP/NCBI):
Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, 8th edition
Research Training in the Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Research Sciences

From Becker Library:
Bacterial Pathogenesis: a molecular approach, 3rd ed

From ScienceDirect:
Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology, v.83: Protein Structure and Diseases
Methods in Cell Biology, v.101: The Zebrafish: Cellular and Developmental Biology, Part B
Progress in Brain Research, v.190: Human Sleep and Cognition Part II - Clinical and Applied Research
Advances in Immunology, v.109
Methods in Enzymology, v.497: Synthetic Biology, Part A - Methods for Part/Device Characterization and Chassis Engineering
Methods in Enzymology, v.498: Synthetic Biology, Part B - Computer Aided Design and DNA Assembly
The human genome: a user's guide, 3rd ed.
Peptide and Protein Delivery
Current Topics in Developmental Biology, v.96: Myogenesis

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.
Microbial Toxins:Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.739)
Mitochondrial Dynamics and Neurodegeneration
Antibody Expression and Production (Cell Engineering, v.7)
Purinergic Regulation of Respiratory Diseases (Subcellular Biochemistry, v.55)
History of Vaccine Development
A Handbook of Transcription Factors (Subcellular Biochemistry, v.52)
Signposts to Chiral Drugs: Organic Synthesis in Action
Bacterial Adhesion: Chemistry, Biology and Physics (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, v.715)
Nanoscale Biocatalysis: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.743)
Cystic Fibrosis: Diagnosis and Protocols, Volume II: Methods and Resources to Understand Cystic Fibrosis (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.742)
The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba
A Scientific Approach to Scientific Writing
Mathematical Models and Immune Cell Biology
Targeted Drug Strategies for Cancer and Inflammation
Multi Modality State-of-the-Art Medical Image Segmentation and Registration Methodologies, Volume 1
Advances in Food Protection: Focus on Food Safety and Defense
Ecology of Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout: Habitat as a template for life histories
Heart Rate and Rhythm: Molecular Basis, Pharmacological Modulation and Clinical Implications
Weighted Network Analysis: Applications in Genomics and Systems Biology
Hedgehog signaling activation in human cancer and its clinical implications
RNAi and Plant Gene Function Analysis: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.744)
Argonaute Proteins: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.725)
New Perspectives on People and Forests (World Forests, v.9)
Chemical Biology of the Tropics: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Signaling and Communication in Plants, v.8)
Statistical Analysis of Clinical Data on a Pocket Calculator: Statistics on a Pocket Calculator
NF-kB in Health and Disease (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.349)
Genomics and Molecular Genetics of Plant-Nematode Interactions
Fungal Genomics: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.722)
Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.737)
Cystic Fibrosis: Diagnosis and Protocols, Volume I: Approaches to Study and Correct CFTR Defects (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.741)
Brain, Behavior and Epigenetics
Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Quick Guide
Bioinformatics in Cancer and Cancer Therapy
Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume I: Conceptual Issues and Neurobiological Advances
Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II: Phenotypic and Endophenotypic Presentations
Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume III: Therapeutic Approaches, Comorbidity, and Outcomes

Ejournals added in May 2011

Ejournals added to Biology Ejournals list:

Chymia

Full text, v.1-12, 1948-1967; WU access only; JSTOR. Continued by Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences.

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences

Full text, v.16-37, 1986-2007; WU access only; JSTOR. Title continued by Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (no WU access).

Journal of Visualized Experiments: Basic Protocols

Full text, no 1, 2006+; freely available.

Journal of Visualized Experiments: Neuroscience Section

Full text, no 1, 2006+; WU access only due to subscription from Becker Medical Library.

Mobile Genetic Elements

Full text, v.1, 2011+; freely available; Landes Bioscience.

Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences

Full text, v.86, 2010+; freely available; PubMed Central.

ZooKeys

Full text, v.50, 2010+; freely available; PubMed Central.

Publications from WU biology dept., May 2011

• An S, Irwin RP, Allen CN, Tsai C, Herzog ED. 2011. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide requires parallel changes in adenylate cyclase and phospholipase C to entrain circadian rhythms to a predictable phase. J Neurophysiol. 105(5):2289-96. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.
• Blankenship RE, Tiede DM, Barber J, Brudvig GW, Fleming G, Ghirardi M, Gunner MR, Junge W, Kramer DM, Melis A, Moore TA, Moser CC, Nocera DG, Nozik AJ, Ort DR, Parson WW, Prince RC, Sayre RT. 2011. Comparing photosynthetic and photovoltaic efficiencies and recognizing the potential for improvement. Science 332(6031):805-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Cameron JC, Pakrasi HB. 2011. Glutathione facilitates antibiotic resistance and photosystem I stability during exposure to gentamicin in cyanobacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 77(10):3547-50. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Carlson BA, Hasan SM, Hollmann M, Miller DB, Harmon LJ, Arnegard ME. 2011. Brain evolution triggers increased diversification of electric fishes. Science 332(6029):583-6. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers | In the WU Record.
• Conley AK, Watling JI, Orrock JL. 2011. Invasive plant alters ability to predict disease vector distribution. Ecol Appl 21(2):329-34. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Hogenesch JB, Herzog ED. 2011. Intracellular and intercellular processes determine robustness of the circadian clock. FEBS Lett 585(10):1427-34. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers; freely available 12 months after publication.
• Hohmann-Marriott MF, Blankenship RE. 2011. Evolution of Photosynthesis. Annu Rev Plant Biol 62:515-48. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Liberton M, Austin JR 2nd, Berg RH, Pakrasi HB. 2011. Insights into the complex 3-D architecture of thylakoid membranes in unicellular cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142. Plant Signal Behav 6(4). PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication [WU does not subscribe].
• Molina J, Sikora M, Garud N, Flowers JM, Rubinstein S, Reynolds A, Huang P, Jackson S, Schaal BA, Bustamante CD, Boyko AR, Purugganan MD. 2011. Molecular evidence for a single evolutionary origin of domesticated rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(20):8351-8356. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 6 months after publication | In the WU Record.
• Myers JA, Harms KE. 2011. Seed arrival and ecological filters interact to assemble high-diversity plant communities. Ecology 92(3):676-686. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Niedzwiedzki DM, Fuciman M, Frank HA, Blankenship RE. 2011. Energy transfer in an LH4-like light harvesting complex from the aerobic purple photosynthetic bacterium Roseobacter denitrificans. Biochim Biophys Acta 1807(5):518-28. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Orrock JL, Allan BF, Drost CA. 2011. Biogeographic and Ecological Regulation of Disease: Prevalence of Sin Nombre Virus in Island Mice Is Related to Island Area, Precipitation, and Predator Richness. Amer Naturalist 177(5):691-697. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Pardini EA, Drake JM, Knight TM. 2011. On the utility of population models for invasive plant management: response to Evans and Davis. [letter] Ecol Appl 21(2):614-618. Fulltext for subscribers.

More about upcoming printing/copying changes in the libraries

As I mentioned last month, during the month of June, printers and copiers throughout the Libraries (all Libraries except Law, Medicine, and Social Work) will be replaced with new multi-function devices. At the same time the Libraries will begin using the PaperCut print management system that is used in most other Schools and Departments on the Danforth Campus. After the switch to the PaperCut system, printing and copying prices in the Libraries will decrease!! New rates will be:
    $0.04 per page for single-sided, black on white pages
    $0.03 per page (side) for double-sided black on white pages
    $0.25 for single-sided, color pages
    $0.20 per page (side) for double-sided color pages
    Copies will be charged at the same per page rate as printing
After the switch to PaperCut, the current copy card service will no longer be used. If you have a copy card with a remaining balance, you may contact the Library Business Office (Olin Library, Level B, 314-935-4013) during regular business hours for a refund.
REMEMBER: Scanning is FREE and easy to do. Scanned images can be emailed or saved to a flash drive. Scanners are available on all levels of Olin in the stack areas, near the copiers on level 1 and also in the Arc.

Open access news

-- Four new biology open access journals recently announced:
      Biology Open (Company of Biologists) - forthcoming in autumn 2011
      Open Biology (Royal Society) - July 2011+ -- not to be confused with Bentham Publishing's Open Biology Journal, which already exists
      G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics (Genetic Society of America) - June 2011+
      Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) - June, 2011+
      In addition several Wiley Open Access titles will launch in 2011: Brain and Behavior, Ecology and Evolution, MicrobiologyOpen, OncologyOpen, GastroenterologyOpen
      And probably some I haven't mentioned. Oh my!
-- Science as a public enterprise - The Royal Society has begun a "major policy study on the use of scientific information as it affects scientists and society. It will ask how scientific information should be managed to support innovative and productive research that reflects public values." | If it ain't open it ain't science (blog post and some comments about the project)
-- Archiving legacy data, or “Why is Dryad better than a floppy disk?” - I thought this blog post was interesting. Subject archives may be superior for sharing anyway and we don't really have institutional archive option at WU at this point so Dryad is certainly a repository to consider if you are interested in archiving and sharing your data.
-- An open access resolution for WU was passed by the faculty senate on May 9, 2011, see point (5) in the minutes. I'm sure we will be hearing more about this soon.

Biology paper books added in May, 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 immunology, v.29, 2011 Also available online Palo Alto, Calif. : Annual Reviews Inc., c1983-
Beyond the sacred forest : complicating conservation in Southeast Asia / edited by Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, and Amity A. Doolittle. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011. New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
Biochemistry, 4th ed / Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2011.
Biochemistry, 7th ed / Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, Lubert Stryer with Gregory J. Gatto, Jr. New York : W.H. Freeman, c2012.
Biological sequence analysis : probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids / Richard Durbin ... [et al.] Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007, c1998.
Cap-analysis gene expression (CAGE) : the science of decoding gene transcription / editor, Piero Carninci. Singapore : Pan Stanford, c2010.
Engineering animals : how life works / Mark Denny, Alan McFadzean. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Epigenetics : linking genotype and phenotype in development and evolution / edited by Benedikt Hallgrímsson and Brian K. Hall. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
Exultant ark : a pictorial tour of animal pleasure / Jonathan Balcombe. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2011.
First life : discovering the connections between stars, cells, and how life began / David Deamer. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the invention of modern ecology / Nancy G. Slack foreword by Edward O. Wilson. New Haven London : Yale University Press, c2010.
Haldane, Mayr, and beanbag genetics / Krishna Dronamraju. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Information and living systems : philosophical and scientific perspectives / edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Introduction to animal behavior : an integrative approach / Michael J. Ryan, Walter Wilczynski. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2011.
Listed : dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act / Joe Roman. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing : life sciences / Margot Northey, Patrick von Aderkas. Don Mills, Ont. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. Making sense series.
Mitochondria : structure, functions, and dysfunctions / Oliver L. Svensson, editor. New York : Nova Science, c2010. Cell biology research progress.
Mobile DNA : finding treasure in junk / Haig H. Kazazian, Jr. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : FT Press, c2011.
Molecular biology [kit] : genes to proteins, 4th ed. Sudbury : Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2011
Neutron protein crystallography : hydrogen, protons, and hydration in bio-macromolecules / Nobuo Niimura, Alberto Podjarny. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. IUCr monographs on crystallography 25.
Principles of social evolution / by Andrew F. G. Bourke. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. Oxford series in ecology and evolution
Tracking the chupacabra : the vampire beast in fact, fiction, and folklore / Benjamin Radford. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
Tropical ecology / John Kricher. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Until Darwin, science, human variety and the origins of race / by B. Ricardo Brown. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2010.
Wild dog dreaming : love and extinction / Deborah Bird Rose. Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press, 2011. Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism.

I welcome your requests for book and journal purchases. You may email Ruth directly or use the web forms: Recommend a book for purchase or Recommend a journal purchase or cancellation. Thank you!