Biology Library News

Open Access in the News

    - PeerJ is a new open access publishing model worth watching; under this model author fees might be as low as $99 for life. PeerJ Linkfest from their blog collects much discussion so far. I'm sure we will be hearing more about this.
    - The Finch Report (Expanding access to research publications: Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings) is also getting a lot of discussion. This is a British government-funded project which explores sustainable strategies that could effectively expand access to published scientific research. I admit I have only read the executive summary and various comments; I haven't read the full report. Much criticism has focused on its proposal that higher education (in the UK) find ways to fund author processing fees for open access publishing in traditional (hybrid) journals, that is to support "gold" instead of "green" open access. Here are two links:
--Openness costs, Nature editorial, Nature 486:439 (28 June 2012) doi:10.1038/486439a
--Finch Report: the question of costs, blog post by Steven Curry
--Google "Finch Report" to access much more of the discussion.
I don't think we are near any consensus on this issue yet in the US or at WUSTL. At WU, the Libraries spend some collection dollars to offer a few subsidies for article processing fees, but we do not have a general fund for this purpose, such as some Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE) institutions are developing. Most COPE institutions only fund authors who lack grant funding so that wouldn't generally help most biology dept. authors anyway. What do you think?
    - Funders are starting to get tough, at least in the UK: Wellcome Trust will penalise scientists who don't embrace open access, from The Guardian
    - Finally The inevitability of open access is a nice summary blog post this month from Stuart Shieber at Harvard University.

PubMed Central Images Search and PubMed Results by Year Display

These features now display on the right side of results screens in PubMed searches. I think the PMC Image Search may be especially useful for quickly locating tables and other images in freely available articles. See info from NLM Technical Bulletin for a short description and picture.

Impact of Research

2011 data is now available in JCR Web (Journal Citation Reports). Remember impact factors are an increasingly questionable measure of quality, but still used widely for some purposes. Here are a few recent, useful links on this subject: Understanding the Journal Impact Factor, Part 1 and Part 2, by Hadas Shema in Scientific American Blog, and Assessing Productivity and Impact Using Publication, a one-page summary about other measures prepared by Cathy Sarli from WUSTL Becker Medical Library. I found this post very interesting also: Citation Cartel Journals Denied 2011 Impact Factor.

Publications from WUSTL Biology Dept., June 2012

• An S, Tsai C, Ronecker J, Bayly A, Herzog ED. 2012. Spatiotemporal distribution of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide receptor 2 in mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus. J Comp Neurol 520(12):2730-41. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
• Jez JM. 2012. O5.9 Molecular sensors in plant thiol metabolism [meeting abstract]. Pharmaceutical Biology 50(5):638. Freely available access to abstract.
• Li Y, Scales N, Blankenship RE, Willows RD, Chen M. 2012. Extinction coefficient for red-shifted chlorophylls: Chlorophyll d and chlorophyll f. Biochim Biophys Acta 1817(8):1292-8.PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Niedzwiedzki DM, Bina D, Picken N, Honkanen S, Blankenship RE, Holten D, Cogdell R. 2012. Spectroscopic studies of two spectral variants of light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) from the photosynthetic purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum. Biochim Biophys Acta 1817(9):1576-1587. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Olsen KM. 2012. One gene's shattering effects. Nat Genet 44(6):616-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Rinaldi MA, Liu J, Enders TA, Bartel B, Strader LC. 2012. A gain-of-function mutation in IAA16 confers reduced responses to auxin and abscisic acid and impedes plant growth and fertility. Plant Mol Biol 79(4-5):359-73. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Smith GR, Burgett AA. 2012. Interaction between two species of tadpoles mediated by nutrient enrichment. Herpetologica 68(2):174-183. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne.1 subscribers.

eJournals and Databases added in June 2012

Endocrine Connections

Full text, v.1, 2012+; open access; Highwire/European Society of Endocrinology/ Society for Endocrinology.

Ethnographic Video Online

Includes 803 anthropological videos. Some browsable subjects are Genetics, Environment, Biological Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Primates, and much more. We have only purchased this resource for one year; renewal next summer will depend on whether it is used or not, so use it or lose it.

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; PubMed Central.

Frontiers in Plant Science (includes various sections such as Plant Physiology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, etc.)

Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; PubMed Central.

IMA Fungus : The Global Mycological Journal

Full text, v.1, 2010+; freely available; PubMed Central.

Becker Medical Library has purchased the Oxford University Press Medicine Journal Archive which gives fulltext access from volume 1 through 1995 of many titles. Here are a few examples:
British Medical Bulletin, 1943+
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1976+
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1946+
Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 1907+
and many more.

eBooks added in June, 2012

Understanding Medical Research : The Studies That Shaped Medicine Wiley. 2012.
A Study Guide To Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 7th ed J. Hebel, Robert McCarter. Jones and Bartlett. 2012.

Freely available books from NCBI bookshelf:
Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences National Academies Press (US); 2003.
Image Processing in Optical Coherence Tomography: Using MatlabRobert Koprowski and Zygmunt Wróbel. Katowice (Poland): University of Silesia; 2011.

Cambridge University Press eBooks:
Plasticity, Robustness, Development and Evolution, By Patrick Bateson,Peter Gluckman. 2011.
The Evolution of Anisogamy: A Fundamental Phenomenon Underlying Sexual Selection, Edited by Tatsuya Togashi, Paul Alan Cox. 2011.
Flowers on the Tree of Life, Edited by Livia Wanntorp, Louis P. Ronse De Craene. (Systematics Association Special Volume Series) 2011.

From ScienceDirect:
Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science, v.108: Recent Advances in Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
Advances in Marine Biology, v.62: Advances in Sponge Science: Physiology, Chemical and Microbial Diversity, Biotechnology
Advances in Botanical Research, v.61: Lignins: Biosynthesis, Biodegradation and Bioengineering
Cell Physiology Source Book, 4th ed, Essentials of Membrane Biophysics, Edited by: Nicholas Sperelakis. 2011. [This includes Chapter 41 - Electroreceptors and Magnetoreceptors. by Tricas TC and Carlson BA.]
Human Genes and Genomes: Science, Health, Society, by Leon Rosenberg and Diane Rosenberg. 2013.
The Laboratory Mouse, 2nd ed, Edited by Hans J Hedrich. 2012.
Molecular Biology Techniques, 3rd ed, by Susan Carlson. 2012.
Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research, 2nd ed: v.1: Biology and Management 2012.
Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research, 2nd ed: v.2:Diseases 2012.
Our Genes, Our Choices: How genotype and gene interactions affect behavior, by David Goldman. 2012.
Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, 3rd ed, Edited by John I. Gallin, Frederick P. Ognibene. 2012.
Regenerative Biology and Medicine, 2nd ed, by David L. Stocum. 2012.
Introduction to Psychoneuroimmunology, 2nd ed, by Jorge H. Daruna. 2012.
Methods in Enzymology, v.511: RNA helicases
Advances in Botanical Research, v.62 Recent Trends in Medicinal Plants Research
Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science, v.109: The Proteasomal System in Aging and Disease
International Review of Neurobiology, v.102: New Perspectives of Central Nervous System Injury and Neuroprotection
Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science, v.110: Mechanisms of DNA Repair

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.
Epigenetics in Health and Disease By: Igor Kovalchuk; Olga Kovalchuk

Oxford Scholarship Online Neuroscience March and May 2012 additions (Becker Medical Library purchase but we have access):
Appetite: Neural and Behavioural Bases Legg, Booth 1994
Beyond Neurotransmission: Neuromodulation and its Importance for Information Processing Katz 1999
Bioelectromagnetism: Principles and Applications of Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Fields Malmivuo, Plonsey 1995
Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-year Collaboration HUBEL, WIESEL 2004
Brain–Computer Interfaces Wolpaw, Wolpaw 2012
Brain Damage, Brain Repair Fawcett, Rosser, Dunnett 2002
Brain Function and Psychotropic Drugs Ashton 1992
Cajal's Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System Cajal, DeFelipe, Jones, May 1991
Cephalopod Neurobiology: Neuroscience Studies in Squid, Octopus and Cuttlefish Abbott, Williamson, Maddock 1995
Cognitive Neurology: A clinical textbook Cappa, Abutalebi, Demonet, Fletcher, Garrard 2008
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Eichenbaum, Howard 2011
Cortex Cerebri: Performance, Structural and Functional Organisation of the Cortex Creutzfeldt 1995
The Cortical Neuron Gutnick, Mody 1995
Corticospinal Function and Voluntary Movement Porter, Lemon 1995
Current Methods in Muscle Physiology: Advantages, Problems and Limitations Sugi 1998
Dendrites Stuart, Spruston, Häusser 2007
Disturbances of Lower and Higher Visual Capacities Caused by Occipital Damage: With Special Reference to the Psychopathological, Pedagogical, Industrial, and Social Implications Poppelreuter, Zihl, Weiskrantz 1990
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Introduction to Methods Jezzard, Matthews, Smith 2001
Glial Cell Development: basic principles and clinical relevance Jessen, Richardson 1997
The Head-Neck Sensory Motor System Berthoz, Graf, Vidal 1992
5-Hydroxytryptamine in Psychiatry: A Spectrum of Ideas Sandler, Coppen, Harnett 1991
Immune and Inflammatory Responses in the Nervous System Rothwell, Loddick 2002
Immune Responses in the Nervous System Rothwell 1997
Infant Vision Vital-Durand, Atkinson, Braddick 1996
Intramembrane Charge Movements in Striated Muscle Huang 1993
Ion Channels: From Structure to Function Kew, Davies 2009
Laboratory Reference for Clinical Neurophysiology Liveson, Ma 1999
Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission: Bridging the Gaps (1890-1990) Robinson 2001
Migraine: A Spectrum of Ideas Sandler, Collins 1990
Multisensory Control of Movement Berthoz 1993
Music, Language, and the Brain Patel 2007
Neural and Behavioural Plasticity: The Use of the Domestic Chick as a Model Andrew 1991
Neural Networks and Brain Function Rolls, Treves 1997
The Neurobiology of an Insect Brain Burrows 1996
Neurobiology of Nociceptors Belmonte, Cervero 1996
The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour Jeffery 2003
Neuronal Control of Locomotion: From Mollusc to Man Orlovsky, Deliagina, Grillner 1999
The neurophysiological foundations of mental and motor imagery Guillot, Collet 2010
Neuroscience in Education Della Sala, Anderson 2012
The NMDA Receptor Collingridge, Watkins 1995
The Noisy Brain: Stochastic Dynamics as a Principle of Brain Function Rolls, Deco 2010
The Parahippocampal Region: Organization and Role in Cognitive Function Witter, Wouterlood 2002
The Pharmacology of Vascular Smooth Muscle Garland, Angus 1996
The Primordial Emotions: The dawning of consciousness Denton 2006
Receptor and Ion-Channel Trafficking: Cell Biology of Ligand-Gated and Voltage-Sensitive Ion Channels Moss, Henley 2002
Satiation: From Gut to Brain Smith 1998
Speech Motor Control: New developments in basic and applied research Maassen, van Lieshout 2010
Speed, Ecstasy, Ritalin: The Science of Amphetamines IVERSEN 2008
Spinal Cord Dysfunction: Volume II: Intervention and Treatment Illis 1991
The Synapse: Function, Plasticity, and Neurotrophism Kuno 1994
The Vestibular System Goldberg, Wilson, Cullen, Angelaki, Broussard, Buttner-Ennever, Fukushima, Minor 2012
Who Needs Emotions? The brain meets the robot Fellous, Arbib 2005

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.
Behavioral Neurogenetics John F. Cryan, Andreas Reif. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences 12
Biodefence: Advanced Materials and Methods for Health Protection Sergey Mikhalovsky, Abdukhakim Khajibaev. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology
Detection of Biological Agents for the Prevention of Bioterrorism Joseph Banoub. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology
Genomics Applications for the Developing World Karen E. Nelson, Barbara Jones-Nelson. Advances in Microbial Ecology
Heparin - A Century of Progress Rebecca Lever, Barbara Mulloy, Clive P. Page Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology 207
HPV and Cervical Cancer: Achievements in Prevention and Future Prospects Franco Borruto, Marc De Ridder
Intellectual Property Issues: Therapeutics, Vaccines and Molecular Diagnostics Ulrich Storz, Wolfgang Flasche, Johanna Driehaus. SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents
Landscapes, Genomics and Transgenic Conifers Claire.G Williams Managing. Forest Ecosystems 9
Modeling Forest Trees and Stands Harold E. Burkhart, Margarida Tomé
Odontogenesis Chrissa Kioussi. Methods in Molecular Biology 887
Organic Fertilisation, Soil Quality and Human Health Eric Lichtfouse Sustainable. Agriculture Reviews 9
Plant Electrophysiology: Signaling and Responses Alexander G. Volkov
Plant Electrophysiology: Methods and Cell Electrophysiology Alexander G. Volkov
Principles and methods in landscape ecology: Toward a Science of Landscape Almo Farina. Landscape Series 3
Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology F. Stuart Chapin, III, Pamela A. Matson, Peter M. Vitousek
Pulse Waves: How Vascular Hemodynamics Affects Blood Pressure Paolo Salvi
Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Scott A. Rifkin. Methods in Molecular Biology 871
Spectroscopic Methods of Analysis Wlodek M. Bujalowski. Methods in Molecular Biology 875
Structural Perspective on Respiratory Complex I: Structure and Function of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase Leonid Sazanov
Systems Biology of Parkinson's Disease Peter Wellstead, Mathieu Cloutier
Xenotransplantation Cristina Costa, Rafael Máñez. Methods in Molecular Biology 885

Chat with Ruth now available (sometimes)

I now have a chat widget on my research guides, such as libguides.wustl.edu/biology. It works just like the AskUs Chat at the top of all library web pages and the catalog, except AskUs goes to whoever is "on duty" (sometimes me) and the chat on my research guides will only find me (when I am at my desk.) Email, phone or asking for me at the front desk in Olin Library continue to be very good ways to reach me also!

Best Sellers: Botany–Zoology

Best Sellers: Botany–Zoology, September 2011 to June 14, 2012 as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to local catalog records where available.
1) The Sounding of the Whale: Science & Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century Burnett, D. Graham University of Chicago Press 2012. ISBN 9780226081304. $45
2) Mushroom Money, Nicholas P. Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780199732562. $24.95
3) Plant Physics Niklas, Karl J. University of Chicago Press 2012. ISBN 9780226586328. $55
4) Bats: From Evolution to Conservation Altringham, John D. Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780199207114. $117
5) Animal Friendships Dagg, Anne Innis Cambridge University Press 2011. ISBN 9781107005426. $120
6) How Not To Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back Waldbauer, Gilbert University of California Press 2012. ISBN 9780520269125. $27.95
7) Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance Strausfeld, Nicholas James Belknap: Harvard University Press 2012. ISBN 9780674046337. $65
8) Polar Bears: The Natural History of a Threatened Species Stirling, Ian Fitzhenry & Whiteside 2011. ISBN 9781554551552. $40
9) Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations Freeman, Carol Ashgate 2011. ISBN 9781409400134. $64.95
10) The Primate Mind: Built To Connect with Other Minds De Waal, Frans B.M. Harvard University Press 2012. ISBN 9780674058040. $49.95
11) The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie Alberti, Samuel J.M.M. University of Virginia Press 2011. ISBN 9780813931678. $35
12) Fishes: The Animal Answer Guide Helfman, Gene Johns Hopkins University Press 2011. ISBN 9781421402222. $45
13) Invasive Pythons in the United States: Ecology of an Introduced Predator Dorcas, Michael E. University of Georgia Press 2011. ISBN 9780820338354. $24.95
14) The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives Reiss, Diana Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011. ISBN 9780547445724. $27
15) 21st Century Guidebook to Fungi Moore, David Cambridge University Press 2011. ISBN 9781107006768. $135
16) Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships Patiny, Sébastien Cambridge University Press 2012. ISBN 9780521198929. $125
17) Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore: Natural History and Culture at Mahale Nishida, Toshisada Cambridge University Press 2012. ISBN 9781107015784. $125
18) In the Field, Among the Feathered: A History of Birders & Their Guides Dunlap, Thomas R. Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 9780199734597. $34.95
19) Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms Bone, Eugenia Rodale 2011. ISBN 9781605294070. $25.99
20) Behavior of North American Mammals Elbroch, Mark Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011. ISBN 9780618883455. $35

Biology Faculty Publications in Open Scholarship

A reminder: Please contact Ruth Lewis when you would like to have your recent publications included in Open Scholarship. I will take care of researching journal policies about repositories and uploading your documents when this is allowed. Let me know what questions you have.

WU Libraries subsidize OA publishing with PLoS

The Libraries subsidize Public Library of Science (PLoS) author fees for WU personnel when they are the corresponding author of a PLoS journal article. The discount is small, usually 10% in the case of PLoS. Recently a Biology Dept. author alerted me that PLoS Genetics was listing "University of Washington in St. Louis" in the Institutional Membership discount information. This has now been repaired to "Washington University in St. Louis." Please claim these subsidies when they apply to you! Thank you. More information about Subsidized Open Access Fees for WU and WUSM Authors.