Netherlands Journal of Medicine

The Netherlands Journal of Medicine is now open access -- full text free to all.

From The Netherlands Journal of Medicine webpage:

"The Netherlands Journal of Medicine publishes papers in all relevant fields of internal medicine. In addition to reports of original clinical and experimental studies, reviews on topics of interest or importance, case reports, book reviews and letters to the editor are welcomed."

New government site on the flu pandemic

PandemicFlu.gov

Posted from The Krafty Librarian:

"PandemicFlu.gov is intended to provide comprehensive government-wide information on pandemic influenza and avian influenza. In the event of a pandemic, this will be the authoritative site for U.S. government information on the pandemic. This site is intended to provide general information for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems, and local communities. (courtesy of About Us at PandemicFlu.gov)

Information is subdivided into categories:

General Information

* Key Facts
* Frequently Asked Questions
* Vaccines, Medications
* Background Information

Health & Safety

* For Families
* For Workers
* For Health Professionals
* Protecting Birds & Other Animals

Monitoring Outbreaks

* United States Surveillance
* International Surveillance

Planning & Response Activities

* National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
* U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Pandemic Influenza Plan
Federal Agency Activities
* State Pandemic Plans
* Risk Communication Resources

Travel & Transportation

* Travelers' Health
* Transportation IndustryInformation

Research Activities

* Pandemic Research
* Vaccine Research
* Drug Development "

WRS -- AGRICOLA

This week's resource is AGRICOLA. AGRICOLA is the premier agricultural database, indexing articles on the subjects of agriculture, plant science, animal science, aquaculture, forestry, entomology, environmental science, soil and water resources, agricultural engineering, and food and nutrition. AGRICOLA indexes journals, monographs, theses and dissertations, patents, audiovisual materials, and more. Coverage dates back to 1970.

AGRICOLA is provided on the EBSCO platform, allowing for 3 terms searchable in more than 20 fields combinable by AND, OR, or NOT. AGRICOLA provides some full text, and searches are limitable by full text only, date range, and language. Search histories are available and may be combined or turned into email alerts.

More info on the Scifinder Scholar upgrade

From Bill Armstrong:

"Yes, you may indeed upgrade your office computers and any lab computers to the 2006 version of SciFinder Scholar. The software can be downloaded from the following site:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu
User Name: scifinder
Password: LSU_sci_fin (case sensitive)

If you are upgrading an earlier version on your machine, you only need to download the executable installation file, SFS2006.exe.

If, however, this is a brand new installation, then you'll also need to download the site.prf file for Windows. Once you've installed the program, go back to the download site and save the site.prf file directly into the folder in which SciFinder installed itself, C:\SFSCHLR. The information contained in this file is essential for CAS to allow your computer to connect."

WRS -- OCLC's Electronic Collections Online

This week's resource is OCLC's Electronic Collections Online (ECO). Electronic Collections Online is a service from the Online Computer Library Center that indexes articles from a number of scholarly and academic publishers in all subject areas, including substantial full text holdings. Journals included are browseable by publisher and by LC call number -- a very useful feature for those looking for a relatively narrow topic. ECO indexes more than 5000 journals with access from 1995 to the present.

The advanced search allows searching of up to three terms in more than 20 fields combinable by AND, OR, or NOT. It also allows you to limit your search by publisher, first two letters of the LC call number, and to limit to full text or to journals held by LSU. Previous searches can be combined from the "Previous Searches" tab.

Scifinder Scholar upgrade

From Bill Armstrong, our Chemistry Librarian:

"SciFinder Scholar has now been upgraded to the 2006 version in the Reference area, including Ref Desk. The OCS labs have already been upgraded as well.

Most of the improvements have been to the substructure searching capabilities, but there are a couple of other organizational changes on the opening search screen I wanted to call your attention to. Previously, your access points to the bibliographic literature and the compound Registry file were all found on the opening screen. Now they're organized into two groups: Explore and Locate. Under Explore, you'll find the Topic Search, one of the two types of searches you'll do the most. The other search
useful to you is the compound search by name or CAS RN, and this is now located under Locate."

Attn IEEE Xplore users!

From IEEE Xplore maintenance:

"IEEE has scheduled necessary maintenance to the IEEE Xplore digital library
for Monday, 28 November from approximately 2 - 3 PM EST. During
maintenance users will be able to access the site, search, and view
abstracts, but they will be unable to view full-text PDFs. We are posting
a message to the IEEE Xplore welcome page so that users become aware of the
limited access."

Recent Advances in Marine Biotechnology

Recent Advances in Marine Biotechnology
Milton Fingerman
Volumes 2-10
Enfield, NH: Science Publishers, 1997
Call# TP248.27 .M37 R42 1997

From Science Publisher:

"While advances in marine biotechnology will certainly enhance our capabilities in the marine realm, what we learn there will doubtless provide new insight into the biology of freshwater and terrestrial organisms. This volume is a compilation of information that covers a wide range of animal groups. This book will be of interest not only to biotechnologists but also to aquaculturists, comparative animal physiologists, comparative endocrinologists, and developmental biologists."

Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context

Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context
Jonathan W. Silvertown
Malden, MA: Blackwell Scientific, 2001.
Call# QK911 .I46 2001

From Cambridge University Press:

"The profound consequences of the deceptively obvious statement that plants stand still but their genes don’t are only just becoming clear. In this volume, an international team of authors, experts in the field of population biology, aim to advance our understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes by integrating them within a common frame of reference: space. Processes operating at three different spatial scales are examined: that of the population, metapopulation and the geographical range. Themes that recur at these different scales include spatial population dynamics, population genetics at boundaries, the imprint of spatial population dynamics upon genetic structure, adaptation, evolution of mating systems and the consequences of population genetics for ecological dynamics. Whilst the focus is largely on plants, the questions addressed are equally applicable to animals. It will be a valuable tool for researchers and advanced students, not only in this field, but also evolutionary biology and resource management."

Peru: Megantoni

Peru: Megantoni
Corine Françoise Vriesendorp
Rapid Biological Inventories #15
Chicago: Field Museum, Environmental and Conservation Programs, 2004.
Call# QH541.15 .E22 P47 2004

From The University of Chicago Press:

"Conducted during the spring of 2004 on the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, this inventory offers biological and social analyses of the Zona Reservada Megantoni. The participating scientists survey three of the most inaccessible and isolated sites in this rugged territory, examining vascular plants, dung beetles, fishes, reptiles and amphibians, birds, and large mammals.

The report also features a brief history of the Megantoni region and its peoples, reviewing more than ten years of collaborative work between scientists and the native communities in the area, including the Machiguenga, Ashaninka, Yine Yami, and Nanti peoples. The report concludes with recommendations for the region's conservation and management, calling for the protection of 216,005 hectares as Santuario Nacional Megantoni. Such a measure would keep intact a corridor between two of the largest protected areas in Peru, the Parque Nacional Manu and the conservation complex in Cordillera Vilcabamba."

A History of Medicine

A History of Medicine
Lois N. Magner
Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2005
Call# R131 .M179 2005

From Amazon.com:

"This concise, broadly based text fulfills a need in the literature by providing an up-to-date account of medical history from paleopathology to the most recent theories and practices of modern medicine. It includes not only a wide-ranging overview of Western medicine, but also an introduction to the rich and varied medical traditions of the Near and Far East."

Pathogenic Fungi: structural biology and taxonomy

Pathogenic Fungi: structural biology and taxonomy
Gioconda San-Blas and Richard A. Calderone, eds.
Wymondham, Norfolk, UK: Caister Academic Press, 2004
Call# QR245 .P38 2004

From Caister Academic Press:

"During the past decade we have witnessed a mushrooming of papers in the area of medical mycology; detailing major advances in areas such as genomics, molecular and cellular biology, molecular epidemiology, immune response and vaccine development, and strategies to combat infections in humans. This sheer volume of information makes it extremely difficult for the busy research scientist and/or teacher of medical mycology to keep abreast of all the latest advances. This book, together with its companion volume "Pathogenic Fungi: Host Interactions and Emerging Strategies for Control", brings together expert international authors who critically review current topics, and through the provision of extensive reference sections positively encourage readers to pursue the subject in greater detail.

The book is divided into two sections: "Fungal Dimorphism and Pathogenicity" and "New Taxonomic Tools". The first section focuses on morphogenesis, the cell cycle, and the cell wall of human pathogens. These play a major role in elucidating fungal relationships, both with the environment and with the host. Experts in fungal structural biology contribute in-depth reviews on a variety of topics with a focus on molecular and biochemical analysis. The final chapter in this section presents a fascinating review of how mathematical modelling can be used to understand the building of three-dimensional cell structures in the morphogenetic process. The second section, entitled "New Taxonomic Tools", presents novel approaches to aid the understanding of strain variability, the significance of environmental and patient strains, and the relatedness of "uncultured" fungi. In addition the use of molecular tools for the taxonomic classification of previously unclassifiable fungi is featured.

Essential reading for everyone with an interest in medical mycology including: mycologists, biotechnologists, molecular biologists, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Key Features:

• Detailed Discussions of Cutting Edge Topics


• Expert International Authors


• Fully Up-To-Date


• Broad Coverage


• Comprehensive Reference Section


• Useful Index"

WRS -- CABDirect

Sorry it's late this week, folks.

This week's resource spotlight is on CABDirect. CABDirect is the premier database in applied life sciences, covering primarily agriculture, animal science, plant science, and forestry, but also including human health and nutrition, aquaculture, soil science, environmental topics, and biotechnology. CABDirect indexes over 9000 journals with records as far back as 1973.

CABDirect has a unique interface that allows you to search any combination of the general subjects of Animal Sciences, Plant Sciences, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Economics and Rural Studies, and Human Sciences. Each general category can be subdivided into specific subject abstracts.

The advanced search allows you to search up to 3 terms in almost 30 fields combinable by AND, OR, or NOT. You can also limit your search by publication date range, document type, and language. The full record for each result gives a link to the full text if available, and searches are combinable through the search history screen.

Microbial Functional Genomics

Microbial Functional Genomics
Jizhong Zhou
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss, 2004
Call# QH447 .M53 2004

From Wiley:

"Microbial Functional Genomics offers a timely summary of the principles, approaches, and applications. It presents a comprehensive review of microbial functional genomics, covering microbial diversity, microbial genome sequencing, genomic technologies, genome-wide functional analysis, applied functional genomics, and future directions. An introduction will offer a definition of the field and an overview of the historical and comparative genomics aspects."

Also available full text online

Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists: a Primer

Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists: a Primer
Miriam Zelditch, et al.
Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press, 2004
Call# QH351 .G46 2004

From Elsevier:

"Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists is an introductory textbook for a course on geometric morphometrics, written for graduate students and upper division undergraduates, covering both theory of shape analysis and methods of multivariate analysis. It is designed for students with minimal math background; taking them from the process of data collection through basic and more advanced statistical analyses. Many examples are given, beginning with simple although realistic case-studies, through examples of complex analyses requiring several different kinds of methods. The book also includes URL's for free software and step-by-step instructions for using the software."

Cell Cycle and Growth Control: Biomolecular Regulation and Cancer

Cell Cycle and Growth Control: Biomolecular Regulation and Cancer
Gary S. Stein
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Liss, 2004
Call# QH604 .M6 2004

From Wiley:

"This new edition provides a basis for understanding cell cycle and growth control as it relates to biological regulation, with an emphasis on aberrations accompanying the onset and progression of cancer. It covers cellular, biochemical, molecular, and genetic approaches to investigating the control of processes in cell cycle. The fundamental principles, as well as the conceptual and experimental approaches to the study of proliferation, are presented, followed by detailed discussions of the applications to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer."

Genetics and Ecotoxicology

Genetics and Ecotoxicology
Valery E. Forbes, ed.
Philadelphia, PA: Taylor & Francis, 1999.
Call# RA1226 .G46 1999

From Amazon.de:

"This first volume in the series [Current Topics in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry] provides a detailed treatment in ecotoxicology and stresses why genetics is important in understanding if and how chemical contaminants affect populations. Written by an array of international contributors from various fields covering mammals, invertebrates, fish, plants, as well as molecular ecotoxicology, this book considers both ecological/evolutionary consequences and practical implications of the interplay between chemical toxicants and the genetic population.In broadening the understanding of ecological response, this resource ranges from molecular to classical genetics, from plant to animal, from asexual to sexual, touching on some fundamental issues of evolutionary biology. In addition, gaps in our present understanding of genetic and ecotoxicological processes and future research directions have been identified."

WRS -- Academic Search Premier

This week's spotlight is on Academic Search Premier. Academic Search Premier is an excellent general database that covers all academic subjects including biology, chemistry, environmental science, and coastal science. It indexes almost 8000 scholarly journals. But what makes it particularly useful is that it includes the full text of more than 4000 of those journals. Althought the coverage in specific subjects may not be as comprehensive as elsewhere, this is an excellent place to find full text articles in the biological sciences.

Academic Search Premier is on the EBSCO platform, which allows up to 3 terms in more than 15 fields combinable by AND, OR, or NOT. It also allows you to limit your search to full text only, publication date range, or to a specific journal. Searches are saved in the search history and can be combined. ESBCO also allows you to set up email alerts that will notify you when a record is added that meets your search criteria.

WRS -- National Science Digital Library

This week's spotlight is on the National Science Digital Library. The NSDL was created by the National Science Foundation as a resource for educators from Kindergarten all the way up to University level. It consists of a one-stop-shop for web resources in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, allowing for a simple keyword search returning materials from other digital libraries, NSF funded project websites, and outside sites reviewed by the NSDL.

A link on the main page takes you to the subsection specifically for University faculty. In adition to the search window, this page includes a resource spotlight, top picks, research articles on the role of digital libraries in education, and contact information. It also provides an events calender, with links to conference web pages, and a list of science related RSS Newsfeeds.