Biology News & New Books List

July 2009

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• Schedule for biology library closing and relocation:
  August 6: current unbound journals move to Olin Library Level 1 Periodical area
  August 7, 5 pm: Biology Library closes permanently
  August 10-11: authorized ID card access (afterhours users) or by-appointment access only to the biology library
  August 12-14: books and journals are moved to Olin Library (Level B and staging areas on Level 1)
  August 10-17: throughout this period, Ruth Lewis will move to Olin Library room 139. Her phone number 935-4819 and email address rlewis@wustl.edu will remain the same
  August 17-25: biology materials are available in Olin Library but there may be a transition period as interfiling with the Olin Library collection happens; in addition to interfiling book call numbers, journal and review serial volumes will need to be interfiled by call number since they were filed alphabetically by title in biology
  
  Tips for dealing with the transition:
  
  1. Try not to plan work with paper biology library books and journals August 10-14; contact Ruth Lewis is you do need something during that period!
  2. Get your fall 2009 reserve lists in as early as possible; in addition to a little inevitable confusion in the stacks, we will have a new Reserves system for everyone this fall.
  3. Check the online catalog and remember to jot down the call number (even if it's a journal) and level (A,B, 1, 2 or 3) before you come over to Olin Library
  4. Keep Ruth informed about your library needs; I can't work on solutions if I don't know about problems, plus I'll be missing you all. I hope to have some visitors over in Olin Library! Just ask at the front Help desk and folks there will be happy to help you find me the first time. I'll be in Olin room 139.
• Reserve lists for fall courses: Early submission of reserve lists is always helpful, particularly when we need to purchase a book the libraries do not yet own. This semester biology faculty will need to get used to Olin Reserves Unit processes and they will need to learn your needs. Plus there is a new system being implemented this fall called "ares" which everyone will need to get used to. To submit your reserve lists, you may use any or all of these 3 options:
  1. Use Ares, our new system that integrates electronic and hardcopy reserves. After a one-time registration, instructors and students will be able to access many new features. Logon to ares using your WUSTL Key, create your course, input information about the items you want on reserve. The system will locate call numbers and trigger the Reserve Unit to pull the books or contact me to order them if we do not own them. NOTE: I'm not 100% sure this is working yet but you are welcome to try it! Eventually this will be the BEST method.
  2. Transmit your lists in whatever way is most convenient to you, such as email or word document attachment, to reserve@wumail.wustl.edu
  3. Feel free to involve me at any step. I'll be happy to act as liaison, assist with problems, etc. rlewis@wustl.edu
• PubGet: PubGet has now been configured to WU users. You may enjoy using this search widget: http://wustl.pubget.com/. Here are some descriptive phrases taken from the documentation: "Pubget indexes nearly 20 million life science research documents, including those in PubMed. You search it by typing terms into the search field, a lot like you'd search PubMed or Google Scholar. The difference is Pubget gets you the PDF right away." "Pubget solves the problem of full-text document access in life science research. Instead of search results linking to papers, with Pubget's proprietary technology, the search results ARE the papers. Once you find the papers you want, you can save, manage and share them — all online." It should work off campus with our proxy server also.
• Dates set: Olin Library's annual New Faculty/Graduate Student Orientation & Reception will be August 25, approx. 3-5pm. More details will be available later.
  Presentations on NIH Public Access Policy compliance will be available on the Danforth Campus at Olin Library Sept. 22, 10:30-11:30am and Nov. 12, 3:30-4:30pm. NIH-funded researchers and their assistants may want to attend for an overview of this system. Information about preregistration will be available soon among Becker Medical Library courses.
• WUSTL Connect and library services: WUSTL Connect has begun to replace the WU ID and password on library services. The current plan is that WUSTL Connect will be in place for renewing and requesting in the catalog and off-campus access (proxy service) sometime on July 16th. More information.
• Public copying and printing discontinued in biology library: The public copier in the Biology Library is no longer available. (For biology department users, your department machine is still in place.) Non-Biofolk who need to copy will need to check out materials and take them to another location. The public printer is also no longer available. Printing is available in most other campus libraries. Color printing is available in Chemistry Library, Earth & Planetary Sciences Library, the Art & Architecture Library and the Arc (in Olin Library). More printing info.
• Springer MyCopy now available to WU users: You can now order your own personal soft cover copies of many books available online from springerlink/books. Washington University has purchased books from 2005-2009 in 4 collections: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine, Computer Science. [I expect we will continue to purchase those collections but that is a decision based on budget and use each year.] We also purchased the Behavioral Science collection 2005-2007. When we have fulltext online access to a book, if the MyCopy service is available, an orange link ["Buy a Print Copy of this Book for $24.95 Including Shipping"] appears on the Springerlink record. More info on MyCopy.
• Biology is no longer available as a Pick-Up location: The biology library is no longer available as a pick-up location on Requests in the catalog. It will also be removed from the Mobius catalog options soon. In the future, please choose Olin Library Circulation or another library if that is more convenient. I hope stopping at Olin Library will be fairly convenient to most biofolks. As an experimental service for people with biology department mailboxes, if you have materials available for pick-up at Olin Library Circulation that you would like to have delivered to biology, just forward your email notice to Ruth Lewis.
• Book of the Week at Biodiversity Heritage Library: Biodiversity Heritage Library features old books, usually in the public domain, which have been digitized. Many of them include marvelous illustrations! You may enjoy browsing their Book of the week articles occasionally.
• Nature vs Science: Biofolk may enjoy this series of PhD Comics: pt.1, pt. 2, pt. 3. Although you may smile, there's some serious stuff here about science publishing!
• Best Sellers in Microbiology September 2008 to date as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to catalog records when available.
  1) Living at Micro Scale: The Unexpected Physics of Being Small Dusenbery, David B. Harvard University Press 2009. ISBN 0674031164 [9780674031166]. $49.95
  2) Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas Helmreich, Stefan University of California Press 2009. ISBN 0520250613 [9780520250611]. $60
  3) Origin and Evolution of Viruses Domingo, Esteban Elsevier Academic Press 2008. ISBN 012374153X [9780123741530]. $149
  4) Practical Handbook of Microbiology Goldman, Emanuel CRC Press 2009. ISBN 0849393655 [9780849393655]. $159.95
  5) Bioinformatics for Vaccinology Flower, Darren R. Wiley Blackwell 2008. ISBN 0470027118 [9780470027110]. $90
  6) Cellular Signaling and Innate Immune Responses to RNA Virus Infections Brasier, Allen R. American Society for Microbiology 2009. ISBN 1555814360 [9781555814366]. $139.95
  7) Dictionary of Virology Mahy, B.W.J. Elsevier Academic Press 2009. ISBN 012373732x [9780123737328]. $70.95
  8) Medical Microbiology | Medical Microbiology at Becker Medical Library Murray, Patrick R. Elsevier Mosby 2009. ISBN 0323054706 [9780323054706]. $83.95
  9) Origin of Group Identity: Viruses, Addiction and Cooperation Villarreal, Luis P. Springer 2009. ISBN 0387779973 [9780387779973]. $99
  10) Diagnostic Microbiology of the Immunocompromised Host Hayden, Randall T. American Society for Microbiology 2009. ISBN 1555813976 [9781555813970]. $139.95
  11) Handbook of Probiotics and Prebiotics Lee, Yuan Kun John Wiley 2009. ISBN 0470135441 [9780470135440]. $150
  12) Molecular Aspects of Innate and Adaptive Immunity Reid, Kenneth B.M. Royal Society of Chemistry 2008. ISBN 0854046984 [9780854046980]. $189
  13) Biostatistics and Microbiology: A Survival Manual Paulson, Daryl S. Springer 2008. ISBN 0387772812 [9780387772813]. $69.95
  14) Principles of Bacterial Detection: Biosensors, Recognition Receptors and Microsystems Zourob, Mohammed Springer 2008. ISBN 0387751122 [9780387751122]. $119
  15) Notes on Medical Microbiology: Including Virology, Mycology and Parasitology Ward, Katherine N. Elsevier Churchill Livingstone 2009. ISBN 0443102848 [9780443102844]. $65.95
  16) RNA Viruses: Host Gene Responses to Infections Decheng Yang World Scientific 2009. ISBN 981283379X [9789812833792]. $136
  17) Meat Biotechnology Toldra, Fidel Springer 2008. ISBN 038779381X [9780387793818]. $149
  18) Statistical Aspects of the Microbiological Examination of Foods Jarvis, Basil Elsevier Academic Press 2008. ISBN 0444530398 [9780444530394]. $69.95
  19) Molecular Biology of RNA Processing and Decay in Prokaryotes Condon, Ciaran Elsevier Academic Press 2009. ISBN 0123747619 [9780123747617]. $150
  20) Bacterial Biofilms Romeo, Tony Springer 2008. ISBN 3540754172 [9783540754176]. $159

**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]).

• Anterola A, Shanle E, Perroud PF, Quatrano R. 2009. Production of taxa-4(5),11(12)-diene by transgenic Physcomitrella patens. Transgenic Res 18(4):655-660. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers.
• Chalker DL. 2009. Transposons that clean up after themselves. Genome Biol 10(6):224. PubMed abstract & free fulltext.
• Elvitigala T, Stöckel J, Ghosh BK, Pakrasi HB. 2009. Effect of continuous light on diurnal rhythms in Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142. BMC Genomics 10:226. PubMed abstract & free fulltext.
• Kiang NY, Segura A, Tinetti G, Govindjee, Blankenship RE, Seifert J, Crisp D, Meadows VS. 2009. Early survival, pigment spectra, and productivity of photosynthesis on M star planets. [Abstract] Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biospheres 39(3-4):366-367. Freely available fulltext.

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

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Full text, v.1, 2009+; freely available in 2009; WU access only 2010+ due to Becker Medical Library subscription; Cold Spring Harbor Lab/Highwire.

Journal of Molecular Cell Biology

Full text, v.1, 2009+; freely available until 2011; Oxford/Highwire.

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

Ebooks

New on ScienceDirect:
Methods in Enzymology, v.462, 2009
Vitamins and Hormones, v.81, 2009

Selected titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE:
Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Third Edition
Biologically Inspired Textiles

New from Springerprotocols [These are added to Becker Medical Library Catalog]:
Plant Systems Biology (Methods in Molecular Biology, v. 553)
Antibody Phage Display: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v. 562)
Protein Networks and Pathway Analysis (Methods in Molecular Biology, v. 563)
Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Assays: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v. 567)
Cancer Stem Cells: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v. 568)

New Ebooks from Springer [These books are added to the library catalog]:
Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research
Transposons and the Dynamic Genome ( Genome Dynamics & Stability, v.4)
A Natural Calling: Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox
Single Subject Designs in Biomedicine
Plant-derived Natural Products: Synthesis, Function, and Application
Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value ( Ecological Studies, v.207)
Cellular Lipid Metabolism
Flowering Plants
Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study
Life as Its Own Designer: Darwin's Origin and Western Thought
Prokaryotic Symbionts in Plants (Microbiology Monographs, v.8)
Biological Control of Rice Diseases (Progress in Biological Control, v.8)
Beneficial Effects of Fish Oil on Human Brain
An Integrated Assessment of China¿s Ecological Restoration Programs
The Neuroendocrine Leydig Cells and their Stem Cell Progenitors, the Pericytes
English for Biomedical Scientists
A Guide to QTL Mapping with R/qtl
Cardio-Respiratory Control in Vertebrates: Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects
Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, v.8)
Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota: Comparative analysis of 18 contaminated areas (Environmental Pollution, v.15)
Adenosine Receptors in Health and Disease (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, v.193)
Erythropoietins, Erythropoietic Factors, and Erythropoiesis: Molecular, Cellular, Preclinical, and Clinical Biology

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

July 2, 2009-July 10, 2009

Taxonomy : evolution at work Daniel, M., Sister. QK95 .D26 2009
Turtles of the United States and Canada Ernst, Carl H. QL666.C5 E76 2009

July 10, 2009-July 17, 2009

Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology QH301 C673 v.73 (2008)
Netter's atlas of neuroscience Felten, David L. QM451 .F44 2010
Photosynthetic protein complexes : a structural approach QK882 .P5623 2008
Physicochemical and environmental plant physiology Nobel, Park S. QK711.2 .N623 2009
Temporal changes in population genetic... Neuwald, Jennifer Lynn. LD5791.8.PhD2008 N38

July 17, 2009-July 24, 2009

Sexual coercion in primates and humans QL737.P9 S442 2009

Other biology-related New Books processed in July:

Since new books are now being processed for Olin Library, I had to find a way to make lists of new biology books. Future new book lists will be generated like this one, 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 Olin Library or other pick-up location of your choice. Click on the title for additional information such as location, call number and publisher. You may also be interested in browsing an alternative listings of new books, by broad call number areas. Suggestions for improvement welcome!

Non-protein coding RNAs / Nils G. Walter, Sarah A. Woodson, Robert T. Batey, editors.
iGenetics : a molecular approach / Peter J. Russell.
Gene cartels : biotech patents in the age of free trade / Luigi Palombi with a foreword by Baruch S. Blumberg.
Nutrients and epigenetics / edited by Sang-Woon Choi, Simonetta Friso.
Novel therapeutic agents from plants / editors, María Cecilia Carpinella, Mahendra Rai.
Snakes : ecology and conservation / edited by Stephen J. Mullin, Richard A. Seigel.
Plastid biology / Kevin Pyke.
How life began : evolution's three geneses / Alexandre Meinesz translated by Daniel Simberloff.

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