Biology Library News

New ejournal access Aug. 2008

Genes and Nutrition

Full text, v.2, 2007+; freely available; PubMed Central.

International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomyy

Full text, v.1-15, 1951-1965; freely available; SGM/Highwire; continued by International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology.

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Full text, v.16-49, 1966-1999; freely available; SGM/Highwire.

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Full text, v.266, 2008+; WU access only due to Medical Library; ScienceDirect; formerly International Review of Cytology.

New ejournal access July 2008

***Annales de génétique et de sélection animale

Full text, v.1-14, 1969-1982; freely available; EDP Science; continued by Génétique, sélection, évolution.

***Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science

Full text, v.1-64, 1924-1986; freely available; Nature.

***Bird-Banding

Full text, v.1-50, 1930-1979; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Génétique, sélection, évolution

Full text, v.15-20, 1983-1988; freely available; EDP Science; continued by Genetics selection evolution.

***In Vitro

Full text, v.1-20 (1965-1984); WU access only; JSTOR.

***In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology

Full text, v.21-29 (1985-1993); WU access only; JSTOR.

***In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology (Animal)

Full text, v.29, 1993-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

*** In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology. Plant.

Full text, v.27P, 1991-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Journal of Coastal Research

Full text, v.1, 1985-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Journal of Field Ornithology

Full text, v. 51, 1980-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Full text, v.1, 1981-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Plant Genome

Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available; Crop Science Society of America.

Wish list for biology library collection?

If there are no objections and we proceed with the conversions to online-only as proposed , how should we spend the saved money? I have a few ideas which I will be prioritizing with the help of the Biology Collection Advisory Group (Kathy Miller, John Chase, John Orrock, Paul Stein, Craig Pikaard, Ram Dixit). If there are journals or databases that are needed for your research or teaching, please send the information to Ruth Lewis now and as they arise in the future. Thanks!

Subscription changes proposed - comments welcome

We propose to cancel our print subscriptions to these titles and have online-only access 2009+. Quite a lot of money will be saved by this and then available to support new subscriptions, backfile purchases, etc.

This group would continue to be available from BioOne; most of these titles are also available in JSTOR:

• American midland naturalist
• Annals of the Entomological Society of America
• Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Auk
• Bioscience
• Condor
• Copeia
• Environmental entomology
• Herpetologica
• Herpetological monographs
• Journal of mammalogy
• Journal of the North American Benthological Society
• Novon
• Ornithological monographs
• Systematic botany

This group would continue to be available from Springerlink:

• Current topics in microbiology and immunology
• Ecological Studies
• Results and problems in cell differentiation
• Subcellular biochemistry

This group would continue to be availabe from ScienceDirect:

• Advances in agronomy
• Advances in applied microbiology
• Advances in botanical research
• Advances in ecological research
• Advances in genetics
• Advances in immunology
• Advances in insect physiology
• Advances in marine biology
• Advances in microbial physiology
• Advances in protein chemistry
• Advances in virus research
• Current topics in developmental biology
• Current topics in membranes
• Fish physiology
• International review of cell and molecular biology (formerly: International review of cytology)
• International review of neurobiology
• Methods in microbiology
• Methods of cell biology
• New comprehensive biochemistry

Please contact Ruth Lewis (rlewis@wustl.edu or 935-4819) if you advise us to keep some of these coming in print. Thank you.

New ejournal access in June for biology

***Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Full text, v.138, 2000+; WU access only.

***BMC Research Notes

Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available; Biomed Central.

***Calcium Binding Proteins

Full text, v.1-3, 2006-2008; freely available; Landes Bioscience.

***Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Full text, v.35, 2007+; WU access only; Wiley, formerly: Acta histochimica et hydrobiologica.

***Epigenetics

Full text, v.1, 2006-12 months ago; freely available; Landes Bioscience.

***New Biotechnology

Full text, v.25, 2008+: WU access only; Science Direct; formerly: Biomolecular Engineering.

***Oecologia

Full text, v. 1, 1968-3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

***Plant Signaling & Behavior

Full text, v.1-12 months ago; freely available; Landes Bioscience.

***Wilson Bulletin (Wilson Ornithological Society)

Full text, v.1, 1889 - 3 years ago; WU access only; JSTOR.

Wiley-Blackwell responds to NIH Public Access Policy

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/CTA.asp (NIH is at the bottom of the page). "Wiley-Blackwell will support our authors by posting the accepted version of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance by the journal..." See also the earlier story: Publishers and libraries respond to NIH public access policy.

New ejournal access added or discovered in May, 2008

***Biochemical Society Symposia

Full text, v.61,1995; v.66, 1999+; WU access only; Portland Press.

***Botanical Review

Full text, v.74, 2008+; WU access only; Springerlink.

***Economic Botany

Full text, v.1, 1947+ [with a few gaps]; WU access only; Springer.

***Insect Conservation and Diversity

Full text, v.1, 2008+; WU access only; Wiley-Blackwell; comes on our standing order for Ecological Entomology.

***Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology

Full text, v.1-98, 1953-1986; freely available; Company of Biologists; 1987+ title changed to Development.

***Microbial Biotechnology

Full text, v.1, 2008; freely available in 2008; Wiley-Blackwell.

***PMC Biophysics

Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available; PhysMath Central.

Help locating journal RSS feeds

Using RSS Feeds to Keep Current with Medical Literature, RSS links for many journals now available in Becker Library Catalog

Access to 2 new ejournals and one new database this month

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Full text, v.1, 2003+; WU access only; Ecological Society of America.

GreenFILE

Information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Indexes scholarly, government and general-interest titles. More info.

Molecular Cytogenetics

Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available; BioMed Central.

Freely available in PMC may not be enough?

True open access (including availability to computer manipulation of text, etc.) has value that has only begun to be explored by various science communities. In some cases it may be worth it to pay the money for OPEN CHOICE publishing or to choose journals that publish with Creative Commons/Science Commons reuse policies. The more I learn about copyright, the more questions I have and the more annoyed I am with the U.S. copyright law. This month, among all the discussion of the NIH Public Policy implementation date, I keep seeing discussions about this topic also:
    - No data- or text-mining at PMC
    - Open access is not just a free pdf, which refers to an editorial in PLoS Computational Biology Open Access: Taking Full Advantage of the Content
    - Open Access and using molecular structures in education
    - Open Access Week - Green is not enough - from Peter Murray Rust's blog which often talks about Open Science issues; updated by A better interpretation of green and gold
    - and the conversation continues Strong and Weak OA - weak open access (OA) is relatively common, removing price barriers to access; strong OA removes permission barriers, such as, unnecessary copyright and licensing restrictions.