Biology Library News

Around the net, miscellaneous links

http://ed.ted.com/ (BETA) is already offering a few ideas which might be relevant to biology and environmental sciences teaching. Flip this lesson! A new way to teach with video from TED-Ed

New & Improved BHL Search & Interface

You've signed on to the Boycott, now what? A SPARC Guide for Campus Action: http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/sparc_boycott_next_steps.pdf OR http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/signed-the-boycott-now-what.shtml

Open sesame: When research is funded by the taxpayer or by charities, the results should be available to all without charge Economist editorial, Apr 14th 2012, with lots of comments

Search tip for HathiTrust: When a Simple Search Just Won't Do How to search for a word or phrase within the works of a particular author.

eBooks added April 2012

New on Gale Virtual Reference Library:
Encyclopedia of Invasive Species: From Africanized Honey Bees to Zebra Mussels. We have access to both volumes. Vol.1 is Microorganisms, Fungi, Invertebrates and Vertebrates. Vol. 2 is Plants.

On EBL (WUSTL key required for access): Applied missing data analysis, by Craig K. Enders. 2010.

From ScienceDirect:
Methods in Cell Biology, v.110: Computational Methods in Cell Biology
Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science, v.107: Molecular Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Essentials of Nuclear Medicine Imaging (Sixth Edition)
The Human Nervous System (Third Edition)
Handbook of Clinical Neurology, v.103: Ataxic Disorders
Handbook of Clinical Neurology, v.104: Neuro-Oncology
Handbook of Clinical Neurology, v.105: Neuro-Oncology, pt.II
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, v.51
Progress in Brain Research, v.197: Down Syndrome: From Understanding the Neurobiology to Therapy

From Safari Techical Books:
Please note: We have only 8 concurrent users on Safari so please click on the LOGOFF link after using these books. When you click on a Safari Ebook, you may need to click on the Safari "home" button in the upper left hand and then click on "start using Safari" in order to login. After that, you will have the fulltext access.
Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments By: Robert Bruce Thompson; Barbara Fritchman Thompson

The Cambridge Histories online has recently been acquired. This includes these volumes and well as many others:
Cambridge history of science : Early modern science 2008
Cambridge history of science : The modern physical and mathematical sciences 2008
Cambridge history of science : The modern social sciences 2008
Cambridge history of science : Eighteenth-century science 2008
Cambridge history of science : Modern biological and earth sciences 2010

New Ebooks from Springer:
NOTE: Supplementary materials released with the print books (CD-ROMs, for example) are made available to the purchasers of the ebooks at http://extras.springer.com.
Because I get these lists from compilations at Springer, there are always newer books available (which I will post next month). If you are looking for a book from Springer or a Springer-related publisher, it never hurts to search at http://www.springerlink.com/books.
Animal farming and environmental interactions in the Mediterranean region I. Casasús, J. Rogošiç, A. Rosati, I. Štokoviç, D. Gabiña EAAP – European Federation of Animal Sciences 131
Animal Models of Acute Neurological Injuries II: Injury and Mechanistic Assessments, Volume 2 Jun Chen, Xiao-Ming Xu, Zao C. Xu, John H. Zhang Springer Protocols Handbooks
Arthropod-Plant Interactions: Novel Insights and Approaches for IPM Guy Smagghe, Isabel Diaz Progress in Biological Control 14
Behavioral Neurobiology of Aging Marie-Christine Pardon, Mark W. Bondi Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences 10
Calcium Signaling Md. Shahidul Islam Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 740
Cellular Physiology and Metabolism of Physical Exercise Livio Luzi
Chemoinformatica: Soluzioni e strumenti per scienze e tecnologie biomediche Massimo Mabilia, Magdalena Bacilieri, Arianna Bassan, Lorenza Broccardo, Elena Fioravanzo, Stefano Moro, Luca Sartori, Matteo Stocchero
Epidemiological Odyssey: The Evolution of Communicable Disease Control George Pollock
Exon Skipping Annemieke Aartsma-Rus Methods in Molecular Biology 867
Human Auditory Cortex David Poeppel, Tobias Overath, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay Springer Handbook of Auditory Research 43
Inflammatory Breast Cancer: An Update Naoto T. Ueno, Massimo Cristofanilli
Maternal Fetal Transmission of Human Viruses and their Influence on Tumorigenesis György Berencsi III
Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors: Specificity of Binding and Structure-Activity Relationships Satya Prakash Gupta Experientia Supplementum 103
Modern Origins: A North African Perspective Jean-Jacques Hublin, Shannon P. McPherron Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
New trends for innovation in the Mediterranean animal production R. Bouche, A. Derkimba, F. Casabianca EAAP – European Federation of Animal Sciences 129
Orange Juice Business Marcos Fava Neves, Vinícius Gustavo Trombin, Frederico Fonseca Lopes, Rafael Kalaki, Patrícia Milan
Patch Clamp Techniques: From Beginning to Advanced Protocols Yasunobu Okada Springer Protocols Handbooks
Physiology of Prenatal Exercise and Fetal Development Linda E. May SpringerBriefs in Physiology
Recarbonization of the Biosphere: Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle Rattan Lal, Klaus Lorenz, Reinhard F. Hüttl, Bernd Uwe Schneider, Joachim von Braun
Recombinant Protein Production in Yeast Roslyn M. Bill Methods in Molecular Biology™ 866
Stem Cell Transplantation Carlos López-Larrea, Antonio López-Vázquez, Beatriz Suárez-Álvarez Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 741

Publications from WUSTL Biology Dept., April 2012

• Collins AM, Liberton M, Jones HD, Garcia OF, Pakrasi HB, Timlin JA. 2012. Photosynthetic pigment localization and thylakoid membrane morphology are altered in synechocystis 6803 phycobilisome mutants. Plant Physiol 158(4):1600-9. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.
• Koester B, Rea TJ, Templeton AR, Szalay AS, Sing CF. 2012. Long-range autocorrelations of CpG islands in the human genome. PLoS One 7(1):e29889. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Kraft NJB, Sanders NJ, Stegen JC, Anderson MJ, Crist TO, Cornell HV, Vellend M, Chase JM, Comita LS, Davies KF, Freestone AL, Harrison SP, Inouye BD, Myers JA, Swenson NG. 2012. Response to Comments on "Disentangling the Drivers of beta Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients." Science 335(6076):1573. Citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Lu B, Lamora A, Sun Y, Welsh MJ, Ben-Shahar Y. 2012. ppk23-Dependent Chemosensory Functions Contribute to Courtship Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genet 8(3):e1002587. PubMed abstract & open access fulltext.
• Queller DC. 2012. Deep sociality. [Book review of Andrew, F. G. Bourke. 2011. Principles of Social Evolution. Oxford University Press , Oxford . xii , 267 Pages . ISBN13: 9780199231157; ISBN10: 019923115X] Evolution 66(5):1671–1673. Fulltext for subscribers.
• Smith J. 2012. Tragedy Of The Commons Among Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids. Evolution 66(4):1269–1274. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.

Paper books added in April, 2012

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.

Algorithms in structural molecular biology / Bruce R. Donald. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Evolution and belief : confessions of a religious paleontologist / Robert J. Asher. Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Genetics : a conceptual approach / Benjamin A. Pierce. New York : W.H. Freeman, c2012.
Great animal orchestra : finding the origins of music in the world's wild places / Bernie Krause. New York : Little, Brown, c2012.
Introduction to ecological genomics / Nico M. van Straalen and Dick Roelofs. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Lewin's genes X / [edited by] Jocelyn E. Krebs, Elliott S. Goldstein, Stephen T. Kilpatrick. Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett, c2011.
Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics / Michael Heads. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. Species and systematics v. 4;Species and systematics v. 4.
Plant physics / Karl J. Niklas and Hanns-Christof Spatz. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Requests: 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!

Zotero or Mendeley classes in May

With Zotero or Mendeley you can easily:
- Gather citations from databases, catalogs, Google Scholar, and more!
- Keep your citations and PDFs in check with folders and tags.
- Insert citations into your papers, fully formatted in APA, MLA, Chicago, and thousands of other styles.
- Share your sources by creating research groups, all accessible on the web.
- And much more!
More information: How to Choose: Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote
Sign up for classes: http://wulibraries.doattend.com/

Scopus now available to all of WUSTL

Exciting news! The entire campus now has access to Scopus, a multidisciplinary database, the "world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature." It contains over 46 million records, 70% with abstracts, and also includes over 4.6 million conference papers. Although strongest in science and technology, there is significant coverage in arts & humanities and social sciences. Scopus includes all of Medline, 1949 to present. It offers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and visualize research. (For many years, this has been a database only available to medical campus users and Danforth campus users who trek down to the medical campus.) Scopus is probably most similar to Web of Science. It includes cited and citing references, h-factor calculations and several other analysis tools. For some disciplines, source documents may go back to 1960; in Web of Science we have 1970+. Of course older articles can be found in both tools when they are cited by newer articles. In my opinion, Scopus may be better than Web of Science for author searching because it is better, not perfect, at disambiguation of authors with similar names. Author name disambiguation is a difficult problem, especially important when you analyze impact, etc. Scopus includes SciImago Journal Rank and SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) for its sources. There are many tutorials available, for Sciverse (which includes ScienceDirect, Scopus and web searching) and for Scopus. I welcome your questions and comments as we all begin to use and assess this new tool.