Biology Library News

Last chance? What do you need the library to buy?

Well it's not really the last chance but April is generally the last month I have to spend fy15 allocations and there is some biology money left. If you have requests you are holding, please send them to Ruth Lewis as soon as possible. Thank you.

December news will be delayed; please report ejournal access problems

December 2014 news and new books list will be combined with January 2015 news and distributed early in February.

We may have more than usual interruptions in ejournal access in early 2015. If you cannot get the ejournal access you expect, please use a combination of these strategies:

• Ask at the Help Desk, in person, online or chat
• Request what you need via Interlibrary Loan
• Report the problem to the serials unit
• Watch the library web site for updated information about reporting problems.

Thank you!

Scholarly communications / open access news for Sept. 2014

      -- Post-publication peer review: Retraction Watch has begun a regular column about Selected PubPeer comments | Reported retractions are now noted in PubMed Commons. You can browse those PubMed Commons comments from Ivan Oransky. Most of these articles will eventually get a Retracted Publication publication type, but since there is a delay, it's probably good to check PubMed Commons comments on articles you plan to review.

      -- Calling all WU students: Access Granted Video Shorts contest is happening again this year. Deadline for submission is October 19th.

      -- My NCBI – ORCID Author Data Integration with SciENcv

      -- I continue to post on the Scholarly Communications @ WU blog. You might want to check out the posts from September:
Selected news items from September, 2014
10 Simple Steps to Building a Reputation as a Researcher, in Your Early Career
Open Access Week, Oct. 20-26, 2014 at Washington University

Some upcoming workshops and events

      -- Genomics and the Era of Personalized Medicine, Tuesdays at 4, August 12, 2014-March 3, 2015, usually at Cori Auditorium, McDonnell Medical Sciences Building, on the medical campus. Please see the website or flyer for details.

      -- Enhancing the Visibility and Impact of Your Research, Nov 18, noon-1, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, room 214, on the medical campus. Preregistration requested.

      -- Fall 2014 talks at WU on the history of science, medicine, technology

      -- NIH Public Access Policy Compliance presentation at the Medical Campus, Oct. 15, 2014, noon-1. Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Room 214. Please preregister. If you would like to schedule a presentation for your department, program or division on the Danforth Campus, please contact Ruth Lewis rlewis@wustl.edu.

      -- Upcoming library classes and events

Library News for biofolk, Sept. 2014

      -- I am required to move all biology-related library information off the library.wustl.edu website. All the stuff for biology from the library web site will be available at http://libguides.wustl.edu/biology or in Biology Library news. Of course, library.wustl.edu is still a great place to visit for library hours, ejournals/ebooks list, interlibrary loan, reserves, databases A-Z, the catalog, the Proxy Server Login for Off-Campus Access, the site search box (which will include information from libguides.wustl.edu/biology pages too, and much more! If you have trouble finding anything, please ask Ruth. I apologize for any inconvenience this change may cause.

      -- The Libraries are using a new Chat software, so be prepared for a new "look." Like all new things, it will take some getting-used-to but I think it does provide some nice enhancements, such as the ability to convey a pdf to a requestor on chat (as long as we can confirm they are WU folks) and potential for having chat available from some of our departmental and school libraries.

      -- You may notice a few changes in the appearance of Scopus analysis tools. More information about Scopus changes. Also ScienceDirect introduced interface improvements.

      -- Many of the 2014-2015 presentation and slide sets from Becker Medical Library's series on Genomics and the Era of Personalized Medicine will be available for WU campus users in their repository at digitalcommons.wustl.edu/genomics_medicine_series_2014_2015.

New from the library: more request locations and poster printing

New locations in MOBIUS: You may now request items from Colorado and Tulsa through the MOBIUS Union Catalog. While you are welcome to REQUEST from these new libraries, there are still a few problems with delivery from the new locations. Books from Colorado may take longer tham most MOBIUS requests. I expect we will have more details about this new service soon.

Poster printing and large format scanning are now available at Olin Library!

ChemBioOffice Ultra is here!

Have you thought about trying an electronic lab notebook for organizing and perhaps sharing some data? Washington University Libraries now provides access to ChemBioOffice® Ultra v.14.0. This license is available to all of WU including the medical campus. The ChemBioOffice software suite includes tools for 3D modeling, scientifically intelligent searching, data visualization, analysis and management: ChemBioDraw, ChemBio3D, ChemFinder, BioViz, BioAssay, PerkinElmer Inventory and PerkinElmer E-Notebook electronic laboratory notebook.
More information [2 page pdf]
Individual users can download the software via this link: http://sitelicense.cambridgesoft.com/sitelicense.cfm?sid=2642
Biology e-Notebook info
More information, training, and product webinars
I would love to collect some stories and comments about this new tool. Is training needed? Do you love it? Should the library be spending funds on tools like this? Let me know! Thanks. Ruth Lewis.

News tidbits for biofolk - from July 2014

      -- Primo is a new search tool at the Washington University Libraries. It provides one-stop access to the Libraries' collections by searching across hundreds of catalogs, indexes, and databases. It does not include MOBIUS (although it links to MOBIUS like our Classic Catalog) nor does it include the Becker Medical Library Catalog. It does include many articles from Web of Science and Scopus and many other databases but does not seem to include PubMed. I will post more about coverage and use as I learn more. More info.

      -- Social media icons have been added to PubMed entries, so you can more easily promote your publications on Facebook, etc. Becker Briefs has a longer post about this: Social Media Sharing from PubMed

      -- ChemIDplus is a dictionary of over 400,000 chemicals (names, synonyms, and structures). New features recently announced include a 3D button, enhanced structure box and IPhone- and Android-compatible displays.

      -- In May 2013, I blogged about Desjardins-Proulx P, White EP, Adamson JJ, Ram K, Poisot T, et al. (2013) The Case for Open Preprints in Biology. PLoS Biol 11(5): e1001563. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001563. Ethan White continues to write about preprints in ecology/population-biology on Jabberwocky Ecology blog: Which preprint server should I use? and Why the Ecology Letters editorial board should reconsider its No vote on preprints

      -- Self-curation is a phrase I've begun to hear recently; perhaps it's a librarian-thing but a few recent posts seem to be talking about the same concept to me, so I thought I'd share them: Updating, updating, and updating some more (a checklist for new publications); Do You Have Your ORCID Identifier Yet?; Ten things you need to know about ORCID right now.

      -- Early preview! The Missouri Botanical Garden Library is planning to join MOBIUS in Spring 2015. This should be a real benefit to plant biologists and science historians.

      -- Scholarly communications / open access news: I continue to post on the Scholarly Communications @ WU blog. You might want to check out the posts from July: Save the Date: Avoiding Common Ethical Pitfalls in Research, Sept. 9; Visibility and Impact of Your Research.

Miscellaneous links and upcoming events for biofolk

      -- Teaching Center Blackboard classes available this summer. Sign up now.

      -- You may know some people who would like to know about You're in Good Company: Research Studios (August 12-13) for Advanced Graduate Students in the Humanities; please help get the word out! Thanks.

      -- New PLOS collection: The Promise of Plant Translational Research

      -- New SciENcv Features Allow Users To Create and Download Multiple Biosketches

      -- Academic Family Tree has academic geneologies for several biology areas. Find or add yourself if you wish.

Major de-accessioning discontinued

We are planning to expand the vault space on Olin Level B to house more special and distinct collections. To create this space some collections have been moved to the West Campus Library. Provost Holden Thorp has provided funds that will enable us to expand shelving at West Campus Library. The expansion will accommodate up to 4 years of growth. As a result of this planned expansion we will temporarily discontinue all major de-accessioning programs in the Libraries. Routine de-accessioning activities continue (for example: superseded volumes, items beyond repair or paper volumes where we have dependable online access). Please note that the shelving expansion will be at the West Campus Library; shelving space in Olin Library is at capacity. We are very grateful to the Provost for this investment in the Libraries.