Biology News & New Books List
April 2008
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- Publishers respond to NIH Public Policy requirements:
- Springer: NIH compliance/Author self-archiving policy: Springer Policy on Self-Archiving
- American Chemical Society (ACS): NIH Policy Addendum [this seems to apply to all ACS journals except Journal of Natural Products and Biotechnology Progress]
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB): Two Important Changes and a Reminder for Authors [Update May 1: The JBC link isn't working for me any longer and I still don't find this information on their instructions to authors resources so the same info is on the JLR site http://www.jlr.org/misc/Publishing_Options.shtml and the MCP site http://www.mcponline.org/misc/Publishing_Options.shtml] (Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, Journal of Lipid Research) - ASBMB will submit for authors but there is a fee of $50 for this service for non-ASBMB members
Libraries and others respond to the NIH Public Policy:
- Help With Compliance With the NIH Public Access Policy
- Common misconceptions about the new NIH open access policy | An open access mandate for the National Institutes of Health - 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
- 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. - Recommended reading: Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution, a 15 page SPARC/Science Commons white paper published this month, written in response to the open access policy adopted by the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences in February.
- Best Sellers in Physiology, August 2007-present, as compiled by YBP Library Services.
Titles are links to local catalogs when available.
1. Accidental Mind Linden, David J. Belknap Harvard 2007. ISBN 0674024788 [9780674024786]. $25.95
2. Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief Trimble, Michael R. Johns Hopkins University 2007. ISBN 0801884810 [9780801884818]. $35.00
3. Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior Harmon-Jones, Eddie Guilford 2007. ISBN 1593854048 [9781593854041]. $65.00
4. Evolving Brain: The Known and the Unknown Steen, R. Grant Prometheus 2007. ISBN 1591024803 [9781591024804]. $28.00
5. Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Doidge, Norman Viking 2007. ISBN 067003830x [9780670038305]. $24.95
6. Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being Siegel, Daniel J. W W Norton 2007. ISBN 039370470x [9780393704709]. $26.95
7. Genius Engine: Where Memory, Reason, Passion, Violence, and Creativity Intersect in the Human Brain Stein, Kathleen John Wiley 2007. ISBN 0471262390 [9780471262398]. $27.95
8. Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours Arikha, Noga Echo 2007. ISBSN 0060731168 [9780060731168]. $27.95
9. Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense McCredie, Scott Little, Brown 2007. ISBN 0316011355 [9780316011358]. $24.99
10. Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and Language Maxwell, Bennett,.et al. Columbia University Press 2007. ISBN 0231140444 [9780231140447]. $25.50
11. Mind From Body: Experience From Neural Structure Tucker, Don M. Oxford University Press 2007. ISBN 0195316983 [9780195316988]. $69.95
12. International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Uzzell, Barbara P. Lawrence Erlbaum 2007. ISBN 0805835857 [9780805835854]. $110.00
13. Physiological Ecology: How Animals Process Energy, Nutrients, and Toxins Karasov, William H. Princeton University Press 2007. ISBN 0691074534 [9780691074535]. $65.00
14. Quest for Food: A Natural History of Eating Brussow, Harald Springer 2007. ISBN 0387303340 [9780387303345]. $119.00
15. Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms Frey, Perry A. Oxford University Press 2007. ISBN 0195122585 [9780195122589]. $195.00
16. Introductory Biomechanics: From Cells to Organism Ethier, C. Ross Cambridge University Press 2007. ISBN 0521841127 [9780521841122]. $80.00
17. Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory Naoyuki, Osaka Oxford University Press 2007. ISBN 0198570392 [9780198570394]. $89.50
18. Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanism Edited by Paul F. Cook Garland 2007. ISBN 0815341407 [9780815341406]. $70.00
19. Neural Basis of Semantic Memory Hart, John Cambridge University Press 2007. ISBN 0521848709 [9780521848701]. $110.00
20. Biology of Human Longevity: Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Life Spans Finch, Caleb Ellicot Elsevier Academic Press 2007. ISBN 0123736579 [9780123736574]. $69.95 - Life-changing books: Recommendations from 17 leading scientists - interesting choices, includes paragraph description and video in some cases.
- Movie news:
- Nature free streaming archives, including mechanically morphing molecules, cell architecture, brain cell on off switch, and more
- Molecular Movies Allow Scientists To See Molecular Movements Firsthand
This PubMed search link will retrieve most WU Biology Dept. researchers' publications, plus a few in biomedical engineering, chemistry, etc. (Strategy is biology [ad] AND washington university [ad] AND 63130 [ad]).
- Arkus KAJ, Jez JM. 2008. An integrated protein chemistry laboratory chlorophyll and chlorophyllase. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 36:125-128. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Bercovici S, Geiger D, Shlush L, Skorecki K, Templeton A. 2008. Panel construction for mapping in admixed populations via expected mutual information. Genome Res 18:661-7. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication | This article IN THE NEWS.
- Brudvig LA. 2008. Large-scale experimentation and oak regeneration. Forest Ecology and Management 255:3017-3018. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers; WU does not subscribe.
- Buchko GW, Robinson H, Pakrasi HB, Kennedy MA. 2008. Insights into the structural variation between pentapeptide repeat proteins-Crystal structure of Rfr23 from Cyanothece 51142. J Struct Biol 162:184-92 PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Chen H, Zhang JY, Neff MM, Hong SW, Zhang HY, Deng XW, Xiong LM. 2008. Integration of light and abscisic acid signaling during seed germination and early seedling development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:4495-500. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
- Dorland EM. 2008. Visualization and education network on ning: The first six months. Abstracts of Papers, 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, April 6-10, 2008. p. CHED-764.
- Haeusser DP, Levin PA. 2008. The great divide: coordinating cell cycle events during bacterial growth and division. Curr Opin Microbiol 11:94-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Orrock JL, Witter MS, Reichman OJ. 2008. Apparent competition with an exotic plant reduces native plant establishment. Ecology 89:1168–1174. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Perroud PF, Quatrano RS. 2008. BRICK1 is required for apical cell growth in filaments of the moss Physcomitrella patens but not for gametophore morphology. Plant Cell 20:411-22. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
- Preisser EL, Orrock JL, Schmitz OJ. 2007. Predator hunting mode and habitat domain alter nonconsumptive effects in predator-prey interactions. Ecology 88:2744-2751. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Riddle NC, Leung W, Haynes KA, Granok H, Wuller J, Elgin SC. 2008. An investigation of heterochromatin domains on the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 178:1177-91. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 3 months after publication.
- Sanger TJ, Hime PM, Johnson MA, Diani J, Losos JB. 2008. Laboratory protocols for husbandry and embryo collection of Anolis lizards. Herpetological Review 39:58-63.
- Shimizu KK, Reininga JM, Caicedo AL, Mays CA, Moore RC, Olsen KM, Ruzsa S, Coop G, Bustamante CD, Purugganan MD. 2008. Retraction of Shimizu et al., Science 306 (5704) 2081-2084. (2004) Science. 320:176. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
- Stöckel J, Welsh EA, Liberton M, Kunnvakkam R, Aurora R, Pakrasi HB. 2008. Global transcriptomic analysis of Cyanothece 51142 reveals robust diurnal oscillation of central metabolic processes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:6156-61 PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
- Suga N. 2008. The neural circuit for tone-specific plasticity in the auditory system elicited by conditioning. Learn Mem 15(4):198-201; author reply 202-7. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers; freely available 1 year after publication.
- Templeton AR. 2008. Nested clade analysis: an extensively validated method for strong phylogeographic inference. Mol Ecol 17:1877-80. PubMed citation & fulltext for subscribers.
- Templeton AR. 2008. The reality and importance of founder speciation in evolution. Bioessays 30:470-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
- Thole JM, Vermeer JE, Zhang Y, Gadella TW Jr, Nielsen E. 2008. ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE4 encodes a phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate phosphatase required for proper root hair development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 20:381-95 PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
*** Indicates an addition or change to the Biology Electronic Journals page [ http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/life/ejournals.html ]
- ***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.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Especially the "Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics" section of articles. More info.
New on ScienceDirect:
Advances in Applied Microbiology, v.63, 2008
Current Topics in Developmental Biology, v.81, 2008: Multiscale Modeling of Developmental Systems
Advances in Genetics, v.61, 2008: Long-range control of gene expression
Methods in Enzymology, v.438, 2008: Small GTPases in Disease, Part A
Methods in Enzymology, v.440 (2008): Nitric Oxide, Part F
Methods in Enzymology, v.437 (2008): Globins and Other Nitric Oxide-Reactive Proteins, Part B
Methods in Cell Biology, v.86 (2008): Stem Cell Culture
Selected new titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE:
Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems
Computational Methods in Biomedical Research
Biogeography in a Changing World
Genetically Engineered Mice Handbook
New Ebooks from Springer:
Stem Cells, Human Embryos and Ethics:Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Allelopathy in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
How the Immune System Recognizes Self and Nonself: Immunoreceptors and Their Signaling
Multiscale Problems in the Life Sciences: From Microscopic to Macroscopic(Lecture Notes in Mathematics, v.1940)
Plant Microtubules: Development and Flexibility (Plant cell monographs, v.11)
Stem Cells (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, v.174)
The Economics of Forest Disturbances: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species(Forestry Sciences, v.79)
Biosaline Agriculture and High Salinity Tolerance
Nuclear pre-mRNA Processing in Plants (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v. 326)
Statistical Design
Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook, 7th ed
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Development and Aging Changes in the Nervous System
Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (Developments in Hydrobiology, v.198)
Tutorials in Mathematical Biosciences IV: Evolution and Ecology (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, v.1922)
Print books - For more information on many of these books, please search the Catalog by title, keywords or author.
April 4, 2008 - April 11, 2008
Annual review of physiology.
Review serial v.70 (2008)
Fundamentals of the stem cell debate : the scientific...
QH588.S83 F86 2008
International review of cell and molecular biology.
Review serial v.266 (2008)
International review of cytology.
Review serial v.255 (2006)
Mouse brain in stereotaxic coordinates. Franklin, Keith B. J.
QL937 .F73 2008 4o
Natural world of Lewis and Clark. Dalton, David A.
QH104.5.W4 D35 2008
Specialization, speciation, and radiation : the evolutionary...
QL468.7 .S64 2008
Stable isotopes in ecology and environmental science.
QH541.15.S68 L35 2007
April 11, 2008 - April 18, 2008
Eukaryotic cell cycle.
QH605 .E74 2008
Fundamentals of biochemistry : life at the... Voet, Donald.
QD415 .V63 2008
Making of a tropical disease : a short history. Packard, Randall M.
RC160 .P33 2007
Molecular biology of the gene.
QH506 .M66414 2008
Panda's black box : opening up the intelligent...
BS652 .P35 2007
Plant desiccation tolerance.
QK870 .P53 2007
Seed dispersal : theory and its application in...
QK929 .S443 2007
Unravelling the algae : the past, present, and future...
QK567 .U57 2007
April 18, 2008 -April 25, 2008
Biology of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina).
QL666.C539 B56 2008
Janeway's immunobiology. Murphy, Kenneth P.
QR181 .J37 2008
Methods for neural ensemble recordings.
QP376.5 .M47 2008
Origin of higher clades : osteology, myology... Diogo, Rui.
QL618.2 .D56 2007
RNA and DNA editing : molecular mechanisms and ...
QH450.25 .R565 2008
Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and... Cummings, Claire Hope.
S494.5.B563 C86 2008
What is life? : investigating the nature of life... Regis, Edward.
QH501 .R434 2008
April 25, 2008 - May 2, 2008
Cell-free protein synthesis : methods and protocols.
QP551 .C33 2008
Conservation of rare or little-known species : biological,...
QH75 .C6814 2007
Evolutionary biology of bacterial and fungal pathogens.
QR81.7 .E98 2008
Jungle bugs in the night : scientific adventure... Purser, Bruce.
QL496 .P97 2007 4o
Myxobacteria : multicellularity and differentiation.
QR82.M95 M98 2008 4o
Single-molecule techniques : a laboratory manual.
QH506 .S546 2008
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