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September 2009

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• The 2009 HHMI Holiday Lectures on Science will be Exploring Biodiversity: The Search for New Medicines, Dec. 3-4, 2009. I will get the free DVD for the library collection in spring, 2010.
• 3 public scanners are now available in Olin Library: These scanners are located on level A and level 2 (near the catalog-only workstations) and on level 1 (in the copy room behind the PopLit collection). These can be used as a free alternative to using the copy machines. Users log on with their WUSTL key accounts, scan and save the scans to a USB device. Several format options, including PDF, are available. Instructions for using the scanners are posted at the machines. So bring your USB device if you prefer a PDF or want to avoid hauling a journal to your department or paying for a photocopy.
• Search tips on finding information in books: Biofolk get most of the information from journal articles but obviously we are still buying books and you all are still using them! I hope some of these tips are useful:
      - Use Google books to discover books that may contain useful information inside. Here's an example: search Alliaria petiolata in our catalog and you get 1 book. Search Alliaria petiolata in Google books and you get several more candidates, books on invasive species or restoration ecology, many which we have in our catalog or Mobius catalog. But an added bonus is that even if we have the book, you don't always need to find it or request it. Sometimes reading 2-3 pages from the limited view or snippet view and possibly the references from later in the book are enough.
      - We have begun adding links for information from Google Books to our classic catalog entries. As you use the catalog, watch for Content will vary from Full view, Limited preview, Information, or no Google link at all.
      - Sometimes when a table of contents is not available in our catalog it may be available in our NEW catalog interface. Example: Arabidopsis: a laboratory manual: in classic catalog with Google Limited Preview link | in beta catalog with summary and table of contents
• Science data sharing, pre- and post-publication, in the news: Nature's special issue on Data Sharing came out this month. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences also had a couple of interesting editorials on Sept. 18, 2009:
  Randy Schekman, PNAS takes action regarding breach of NIH embargo policy on a PNAS paper
  Alan E. Guttmacher, Elizabeth G. Nabel, and Francis S. Collins, Why data-sharing policies matter
  It is not clear to me what the institution's role or what the library's role could or should be in these issues. I welcome your comments.
• Links from Nextbio in ScienceDirect: ScienceDirect has partnered with NextBio to connect articles with additional research content and experimental data from sources such as PubMed, GEO, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Using life science relevant ontologies, synonym recognition, gene and protein linkages, and tissue and disease nomenclature, links are made between experimental data and peer-reviewed content. A box on the right side of each abstract screen lists the key terms (gene names, chemicals, tissues, etc.) extracted from a ScienceDirect article. Clicking on a term will take you to an overview page where you will see associated content and will be able to find relevant information fast, thereby accelerating your scientific discovery. There's a 4-minute overview YouTube video. These features remind me of the Project Prospect enhancements from RSC featured in an earlier blog post.
• NIH public access policy: There is still room in the NIH public access policy compliance and documentation presentation, Thursday, Nov. 12, 3:30-4:30pm, Olin Library (level A) Arc Presentation room. There is no charge for this but please pre-register Note: there is room in the Nov. 10th session also but that one will be held on the medical campus in Becker Medical Library. If you cannot attend or need more information before the session, please ask or consult http://scholarlycommunications.wustl.edu/issues/nih/index.html for more information.
• PubMed Preview: Try the Redesigned PubMed so you won't be shocked when the old page disappears! Personally I'm going to miss the names of specific databases along the bar near the top, but they are all there in the "Resources" pull-down menu. More info on the PubMed redesign.
• In honor of International Open Access Week, Oct. 19-23, 2009:
      - Student Statement on the Right to Research
      - Open Access Week
      - Nature vs Science vs Open Access (Piled Higher and Deeper a grad student comic strip)
      - OASIS Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
      - Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) update
      - Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity: Five major US universities (Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley) have announced that they commit "to the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication fees for open-access journal articles written by its faculty for which other institutions would not be expected to provide funds". Note: They have not all established funds to do this. Wired Campus, Sept. 14 | Cornell Open-Access Publication Fund, discussion in "the scholarly kitchen" blog | More discussion: On Not Putting The Gold OA-Payment Cart Before The Green OA-Provision Horse | Background: Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing (PLoS Biology article by Stuart Shieber) | Open access publishing author fee support at WU is limited and WU is not part of this compact. WU also does not mandate an open access version in a repository unless this is required by a funder, such as HHMI or NIH. Due to institutional memberships (payments shared by both campuses) WU authors get small discounts on optional OA fees at PNAS and author fees at Nucleic Acids Research. Becker Medical Library also has a membership with BioMed Central so WU authors get a discount there. There are many other open access options, but usually if there is an author fee involved it will need to come out of deparmental, personal or grant funds. American Society of Plant Biologists members get free open access publishing in Plant Physiology. A very high percentage of biomedical journals allow open access from 2-24 months after publication; that's not immediately but it's better than forever-toll-access! The questions will stay the same for awhile but I expect this is an area where the answers will change often in the coming months. Contact Ruth if you have questions or suggestions. It's an area where I'm trying to stay well-informed.
• Best Sellers in Biology November 2008 to date as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to local catalogs when available.
  1) Why Evolution Is True Coyne, Jerry A. Viking 2009. ISBN 0670020532 [9780670020539]. $27.95
  2) Evolution: The First Four Billion Years Ruse, Michael Belknap: Harvard University Press 2009. ISBN 067403175x [9780674031753]. $39.95
  3) Genomes and What To Make of Them Barnes, Barry University of Chicago Press 2008. ISBN 0226172953 [9780226172958]. $25
  4) Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning Lovelock, James Basic Books 2009. ISBN 0465015492 [9780465015498]. $25
  5) Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution Blumberg, Mark S. Oxford University Press 2009. ISBN 0195322827 [9780195322828]. $22.95
  6) Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery Nicholls, Steve University of Chicago Press 2009. ISBN 0226583406 [9780226583402]. $30
  7) Bioethics in the Age of New Media Zylinska, Joanna MIT Press 2009. ISBN 0262240564 [9780262240567]. $30
  8) The Cambridge Companion to the “Origin of Species” | Fulltext online version for WUSTL users Ruse, Michael Cambridge University Press 2009. ISBN 0521870798 [9780521870795]. $90
  9) Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things Weiss, Kenneth M. Harvard University Press 2009. ISBN 0674031938 [9780674031937]. $35
  10) Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell Bray, Dennis Yale University Press 2009. ISBN 0300141734 [9780300141733]. $28
  11) Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth Kricher, John C. Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691138982 [9780691138985]. $24.95
  12) Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man Berra, Tim M. Johns Hopkins University Press 2009. ISBN 0801891043 [9780801891045]. $19.95
  13) 99% Ape: How Evolution Adds Up Silvertown, Jonathan University of Chicago Press 2009. ISBN 0226757781 [9780226757780]. $26
  14) Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species Carroll, Sean B. Houghton Harcourt 2009. ISBN 015101485x [9780151014859]. $26
  15) Life Explained Morange, Michel Yale University Press 2008. ISBN 030013732X [9780300137323]. $25
  16) Future of Bioethics Brody, Howard Oxford University Press 2009. ISBN 019537794X [9780195377941]. $49.95
  17) Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes Collinge, Sharon K. Johns Hopkins University Press 2009. ISBN 0801891388 [9780801891380]. $70
  18) Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century Kagan, Jerome Cambridge University Press 2009. ISBN 0521518423 [9780521518420]. $70
  19) Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest To Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys Dunn, Rob R. Smithsonian Books 2009. ISBN 0061430307 [9780061430305]. $26.99
  20) Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution Lane, Nick W.W. Norton 2009. ISBN 0393065960 [9780393065961]. $26.95
• Best Sellers in History of Science; December 2008 to date as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to local catalog records where available.
  1) Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet Morton, Oliver HarperCollins 2008. ISBN 0007163649 [9780007163649]. $28.95
  2) Galileo Goes to Jail: And Other Myths About Science and Religion Numbers, Ronald L. Harvard University Press 2009. ISBN 0674033272 [9780674033276]. $27.95
  3) Sand: The Never-Ending Story Welland, Michael University of California Press 2009. ISBN 0520254376 [9780520254374]. $24.95
  4) Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery Nicholls, Steve University of Chicago Press 2009. ISBN 0226583406 [9780226583402]. $30
  5) Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking Seife, Charles Viking 2008. ISBN 0670020338 [9780670020331]. $25.95
  6) American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States Engle, Jonathan Gotham: Penguin Group (USA) 2008. ISBN 1592403808 [9781592403806]. $27.50
  7) What Is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins Tubbs, Robert Johns Hopkins University Press 2009. ISBN 0801890179 [9780801890178]. $60
  8) The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Johnson, Steven Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA) 2008. ISBN 1594488525 [9781594488528]. $25.95
  9) Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting Lynch, Michael University of Chicago Press 2008. ISBN 0226498069 [9780226498065]. $37.50
  10) Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry Van Brummelen, Glen Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691129738 [9780691129730]. $39.50
  11) Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life; An Agony in Eight Fits Wilson, Robin J. W.W. Norton 2008. ISBN 0393060276 [9780393060270]. $24.95
  12) Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World Zoellner, Tom Viking 2009. ISBN 0670020648 [9780670020645]. $26.95
  13) The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Holmes, Richard Pantheon 2008. ISBN 0375422226 [9780375422225]. $40
  14) The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn Gilder, Louisa Knopf 2008. ISBN 1400044170 [9781400044177]. $27.50
  15) Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World Freely, John Knopf 2009. ISBN 030726534X [9780307265340]. $27.95
  16) Copernicus, Darwin, & Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science Weinert, Friedel Wiley Blackwell 2009. ISBN 1405181842 [9781405181846]. $89.95
  17) Darwin’s Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life Brasier, Martin Oxford University Press 2009. ISBN 0199548978 [9780199548972]. $34.95
  18) Is God a Mathematician? Livio, Mario Simon & Schuster 2009. ISBN 074329405X [9780743294058]. $26
  19) Science: A Four Thousand Year History Fara, Patricia Oxford University Press 2009. ISBN 019922689X [9780199226894]. $34.95
  20) Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man Berra, Tim M. Johns Hopkins University Press 2009. ISBN 0801891043 [9780801891045]. $19.95

**Additions to Publications from WU Biology Department
[ http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/life/reprints/ ] 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]).

• Allan BF. 2009. Influence of Prescribed Burns on the Abundance of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Missouri Ozarks. J Med Entomol 46(5):1030-1036. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne subscribers.
• Cho SH, von Schwartzenberg K, Quatrano RS. 2009. The role of abscisic acid in stress tolerance. IN: The Moss Physcomitrella patens. (Eds: C. D. Knight, D. J. Cove and P.-F. Perroud). Chapter 11, pp. 282-293. Wiley Blackwell (Oxford). More info.
• Harrison S, Damschen E, Going BM. 2009. Climate Gradients, Climate Change, and Special Edaphic Floras. Northeastern Naturalist 16 (Special Issue 5): 121-130. Abstract & fulltext for BioOne subscribers.
• Hoang QT, Cho SH, McDaniel SF, Ok SH, Quatrano RS, Shin JS. 2009. An actinoporin plays a key role in water stress in the moss Physcomitrella patens. New Phytol 184(2):502-510. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Jez JM, Krishnan HB. 2009. Sulfur assimilation and cysteine biosynthesis in soybean seeds: towards engineering sulfur amino acid content. In Modification of Seed Composition to Promote Health and Nutrition (Krishnan HB, Ed.), pp. 249-262, ASA-CSSA-SSSA Publishing, Madison, WI. More info (not available at WU or Mobius).
• Ji W, Suga N. 2009. Tone-specific and nonspecific plasticity of inferior colliculus elicited by pseudo-conditioning: role of acetylcholine and auditory and somatosensory cortices. J Neurophysiol 102(2):941-52. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 1 year after publication.
• Kover PX, Rowntree JK, Scarcelli N, Savriama Y, Eldridge T, Schaal BA. 2009. Pleiotropic effects of environment-specific adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytol 183(3):816-25. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Kranz RG, Richard-Fogal C, Taylor JS, Frawley ER. 2009. Cytochrome C biogenesis: mechanisms for covalent modifications and trafficking of heme and for heme-iron redox control. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 73(3):510-28. Pubmed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 12 months after publication.
• Leang C, Krushkal J, Ueki T, Puljic M, Sun J, Juárez K, Núñez C, Reguera G, DiDonato R, Postier B, Adkins RM, Lovley DR. 2009. Genome-wide analysis of the RpoN regulon in Geobacter sulfurreducens. BMC Genomics 10:331. PubMed abstract & freely available fulltext.
• Orrock JL, Hoisington-López JL. 2009. Mortality of exotic and native seeds in invaded and uninvaded habitats. Acta Oecologica 35(5):758-762. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers
• Perlson E, Jeong GB, Ross JL, Dixit R, Wallace KE, Kalb RG, Holzbaur EL. 2009. A switch in retrograde signaling from survival to stress in rapid-onset neurodegeneration. J Neurosci 29(31):9903-17. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
• Pusadee T, Jamjod S, Chiang YC, Rerkasem B, Schaal BA. 2009. Genetic structure and isolation by distance in a landrace of Thai rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(33):13880-5. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
• Shah AS, Ben-Shahar Y, Moninger TO, Kline JN, Welsh MJ. 2009. Motile cilia of human airway epithelia are chemosensory. Science 325(5944):1131-4. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Smith KG, Lips KR, Chase JM. 2009. Selecting for extinction: nonrandom disease-associated extinction homogenizes amphibian biotas. Ecol Lett 12(10):1069-78. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Sun Y, Liu L, Ben-Shahar Y, Jacobs JS, Eberl DF, Welsh MJ. 2009. TRPA channels distinguish gravity sensing from hearing in Johnston's organ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(32):13606-11. PubMed abstract & free fulltext.
• Tang KH, Mansoorabadi SO, Reed GH, Frey PA. 2009. Radical triplets and suicide inhibition in reactions of 4-thia-D- and 4-thia-L-lysine with lysine 5,6-aminomutase. Biochemistry 48(34):8151-60. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, freely available 12 months after publication.
• Webb AB, Angelo N, Huettner JE, Herzog ED. 2009. Intrinsic, nondeterministic circadian rhythm generation in identified mammalian neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(38):16493-16498. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication | Info from WU Record about this article.

**Recent Additions to Library Homepage or Research Guides [Suggestions welcome!]**

Analytical Methods

Full text, v.1, 2010+; WU access only (after initial free period); Royal Society of Chemistry.

Biodemography and Social Biology

Full text, v.55, 2009+; WU access only; Informaworld/Routledge.

Communicative & Integrative Biology

Full text, v.1, 2008+; freely available; PubMed central.

International Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Full text, 2009+; freely available; Sage-Hindawi.

SpringerImages

Scientific images, photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables. The SpringerImages interface enables users to search through captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image "sets," and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures (usually limited to educational, personal, scientific, or research purposes.) This database includes all of ImagesMD. Images are searchable and arranged in 18 subject collections: Biomedicine, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics / Management Sciences, Education, Engineering, Environment, Geography, Geosciences, Humanities / Arts, Life Sciences, Material Science, Mathematics, Medicine & Public Health, Pharmacy, Physics, Psychology, Social Sciences. The Becker Medical Library has subscribed for use by all WU users.

**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**

Ebooks

National Academy Press:
Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation: A Tribute to the Life and Scientific Legacies of Joshua Lederberg
A New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution

Ebrary online books (purchased instead of paper books):
This interface is a little different from most of our other online books.
Extending the linear model with R: generalized linear, mixed effects and nonparametric regression models / Julian J. Faraway
Linear models with R / Julian J. Faraway

New on ScienceDirect:
Advances in Applied Microbiology, v.69, 2009
Current Topics in Developmental Biology, v.89, 2009: Tissue Remodeling and Epithelial Morphogenesis

Monographs from BioOne (not new but not listed earlier):
Cladistics and the Origin of Birds: A Review and Two New Analyses (Ornithological monographs, v.66)
Reproduction And Immune Homeostasis In A Long-Lived Seabird, The Nazca Booby (Sula granti) (Ornithological monographs, v.65)

New from Springerprotocols [These are added to Becker Medical Library Catalog]:
Viral Applications of Green Fluorescent Protein: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.515)
Micro and Nano Technologies in Bioanalysis: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.544)
Meiosis: Volume 2, Cytological Methods (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.558)
Apoptosis: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.559)
Biomedical Informatics (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.569)
Bioluminescence: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.574)
Chemogenomics: Methods and Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.575)
Reverse Chemical Genetics: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.577)

New Ebooks from Springer [These books are added to the library catalog]:
Textbook of Personalized Medicine
The Biology of Krüppel-like Factors
Biology of Stem Cells and the Molecular Basis of the Stem State
Symbiotic Fungi: Principles and Practice (Soil biology, v.18)
Uncultivated Microorganisms (Microbiology Monographs, v.10)
Cell Biology of the Axon (Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, v.48)
Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications
CNS Cancer: Models, Markers, Prognostic Factors, Targets, and Therapeutic Approaches
Oral Delivery of Macromolecular Drugs: Barriers, Strategies and Future Trends
Therapeutic Ribonucleic Acids in Brain Tumors
Vaccines for Pandemic Influenza (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, v.333)
Physiology and Genetics: Selected Basic and Applied Aspects (The Mycota, v.15)
Recent Developments in Management of Plant Diseases (Plant Pathology in the 21st Century, v.1)
Plant Nutrition of Greenhouse Crops
The DNA Damage Response: Implications on Cancer Formation and Treatment
Cell Therapy: cGMP Facilities and Manufacturing
Oil Crops (Handbook of Plant Breeding, v.4)
The Business of Bioscience: What goes into making a Biotechnology Product
Mammalian Brain Development
SUMO Regulation of Cellular Processes
Therapeutic Targets of the TNF Superfamily (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, v.647)
Biotechnology in China I: From Bioreaction to Bioseparation and Bioremediation (Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, v.113)
Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Schizophrenia
Pharmacology and Abuse of Cocaine, Amphetamines, Ecstasy and Related Designer Drugs: A comprehensive review on their mode of action, treatment of abuse and intoxication
Engineering of Stem Cells (Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, v.114)
Computational Biology: Issues and Applications in Oncology

Paper books Click on the title for more info or to request

Since new books are now being processed for Olin Library, new book lists are generated, based on the fund which paid for the book and the date the record or the particular volume was created, so occasionally these titles may still be "in process" or duplicate listings from earlier months. Even if the book is "in process," you can still REQUEST it so the book will be held for you at the pick-up location of your choice. You may also be interested in browsing an alternative listings of new books, by broad call number areas. Suggestions for improvement welcome!

Genetics and randomness / Anatoly Ruvinsky. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2010.
The Princeton guide to ecology / Simon A. Levin, editor. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Genetically modified plants : assessing safety and managing risk / George T. Tzotzos, Graham P. Head, Roger Hull. Amsterdam Boston : Academic Press/Elsevier, 2009.
Quantitative ecology : measurement, models, and scaling / David Clayton Schneider. Amsterdam Boston : Academic Press/Elsevier, c2009.
Laws, theories, and patterns in ecology / Walter K. Dodds. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Isolation, identification and characterization of allelochemicals/natural products / editors, Diego A. Sampietro, Cesar A.N. Catalan, Marta A. Vattuone. Enfield, NH : Science Publishers, c2009.
Rise of amphibians : 365 million years of evolution / Robert Carroll. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Signal transduction / Bastien D. Gomperts, IJsbrand M. Kramer, Peter E.R. Tatham. Great Britain Academic Press Elsevier Science Pub 2009

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