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November 2009

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• Cell pilots new research tool: The ‘Reflect’ tool identifies the proteins, genes and small molecules mentioned in the Cell articles, and generates pop-up windows containing relevant contextual information, with additional links, about those entities. Reflect versions of articles are available in the Nov. 12, 2009 issue of Cell on the cell.com site. Note: these are not available on the sciencedirect.com site. More info: http://beta.cell.com/index.php/2009/11/reflect/. Your feedback is requested. This is reminiscent of Nextbio (ScienceDirect) and Project Prospect (RSC) efforts to increase usefulness of online journal articles.
• Best Science Books lists: Near the end of each year, many publications have best books lists. The Confessions of a Science Librarian is once again collecting these at http://scienceblogs.com/confessions/best_science_books_2009/. Check back a few more times this year and early in 2010 to get more compilations.
• Best Sellers in Environmental Science, March 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services. Titles are linked to local catalog records where available.
  1) Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery Nicholls, Steve University of Chicago Press 2009. ISBN 0226583406 [9780226583402]. $30
  2) The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning Lovelock, James Basic Books 2009. ISBN 0465015492 [9780465015498]. $25
  3) Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything Goleman, Daniel Broadway Books 2009. ISBN 0385527829 [9780385527828]. $26
  4) The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth Kricher, John C. Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691138982 [9780691138985]. $24.95
  5) Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming Barnosky, Anthony D. Island Press 2009. ISBN 1597261971 [9781597261975]. $26.95
  6) Doing Environmental Ethics Traer, Robert Westview 2009. ISBN 0813343976 [9780813343976]. $35
  7) Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States Hess, David J. MIT Press 2009. ISBN 0262012642 [9780262012645]. $50
  8) Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes Collinge, Sharon K. Johns Hopkins University Press 2009. ISBN 0801891388 [9780801891380]. $70
  9) Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? Ward, Peter Douglas Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691130752 [9780691130750]. $24.95
  10) Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples Dowie, Mark MIT Press 2009. ISBN 0262012618 [9780262012614]. $27.95
  11) Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural Sturgeon, Noel University of Arizona Press 2009. ISBN 0816525811 [9780816525812]. $29.95
  12) The Princeton Guide to Ecology Levin, Simon A. Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691128391 [9780691128399]. $95
  13) Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet Humes, Edward Ecco: HarperCollins 2009. ISBN 006135029X [9780061350290]. $25.99
  14) Planet Water: Investing in the World’s Most Valuable Resource Hoffmann, Stephen J. John Wiley 2009. ISBN 0470277408 [9780470277409]. $39.95
  15) Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things To Thrive and Survive Foster, Russell G. Yale University Press 2009. ISBN 0300115563 [9780300115567]. $28
  16) Beyond Environmentalism: A Philosophy of Nature Foss, Jeffrey E. John Wiley 2009. ISBN 0470179414 [9780470179413]. $64.95
  17) Smart Energy Policy: An Economist’s Rx for Balancing Cheap, Clean, and Secure Energy Griffin, James M. Yale University Press 2009. ISBN 0300149859 [9780300149852]. $35
  18) Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution Schendler, Auden Public Affairs 2009. ISBN 1586486373 [9781586486372]. $26.95
  19) Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity Stern, Nicholas Public Affairs 2009. ISBN 1586486691 [9781586486693]. $26.95
  20) Earth in Our Care: Ecology, Economy, and Sustainability Maser, Chris Rutgers University Press 2009. ISBN 0813545595 [9780813545592]. $49.95

**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]).

• Balcerzak P, May VL, Schaal B. 2009. Developing Leadership in a National Cohort of Secondary Biology Teachers: uses of an on-line course structure to develop a geographically distant professional learning community. Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations 11:85-93. Not yet online at the journal site.
• Elvitigala T, Pakrasi HB, Ghosh BK. 2009. Dynamic network modeling of diurnal genes in cyanobacteria. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 393:21-41. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not subscribe].
• Gao X, Xin Y, Blankenship RE. 2009. Enzymatic activity of the alternative complex III as a menaquinol:auracyanin oxidoreductase in the electron transfer chain of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. FEBS Lett 583(19):3275-9. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 1 year after publication.
• Minguillon C, Baquero M, Gibson-Brown J, Logan M. 2009. 15-P005 Ancestral Tbx4/5 gene duplication and the origin of vertebrate paired limbs. Mechanisms of Development 126:S248. Fulltext (abstract) for subscribers.
• Motl JA, Chalker DL. 2009. Subtraction by addition: domesticated transposases in programmed DNA elimination. Genes Dev 23(21):2455-60. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers; free 1 year after publication.
• Psencík J, Collins AM, Liljeroos L, Torkkeli M, Laurinmäki P, Ansink HM, Ikonen TP, Serimaa RE, Blankenship RE, Tuma R, Butcher SJ. 2009. Structure of chlorosomes from the green filamentous bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. J Bacteriol 191(21):6701-8. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 4 months after publication.
• Singh AK, Bhattacharyya-Pakrasi M, Elvitigala T, Ghosh B, Aurora R, Pakrasi HB. 2009. A systems level analysis of the effects of light quality on the metabolism of a cyanobacterium. Plant Physiol 151(3):1596-608. PubMed abstract & free fulltext.
• Tang KH, Feng X, Tang YJ, Blankenship RE. 2009. Carbohydrate metabolism and carbon fixation in Roseobacter denitrificans OCh114. PLoS One 4(10):e7233. PubMed abstract & free fulltext.

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

Scientific American

Full text, v.292, 2005+; WU access only; Nature Publishing Group.

Scientific American Mind

Full text, v.16, 2005+; WU access only; Nature Publishing Group.

Scientific American. Special issues.

Full text, v.15, 2005+; WU access only; Nature Publishing Group.

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

Ebooks

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 90th edition, 2009-2010 now online

From ScienceDirect:
Current Topics in Membranes, v.64, 2009
Methods in Enzymology, v.463, 2009: Guide to Protein Purification, 2nd Edition
Methods in Enzymology, v.467, 2009: Computer Methods, Part B
Methods in Enzymology, v.464, 2009: Liposomes, Part F
Methods in Enzymology, v.465, 2009: Liposomes, Part G
Methods in Enzymology, v.466, 2009: Biothermodynamics, Part B
Methods in Enzymology, v.468, 2009: Biophysical, Chemical, and Functional Probes of RNA Structure, Interactions and Folding: Part A
Methods in Enzymology, v.469, 2009: Biophysical, Chemical, and Functional Probes of RNA Structure, Interactions and Folding: Part B

Selected titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE [Tips for opening chapter PDFs]:

New from Springerprotocols [These are added to Becker Medical Library Catalog]:
Meiosis: Volume 1, Molecular and Genetic Methods (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.557)
Cancer Gene Profiling: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.576)
Functional Glycomics: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.600)
Human Embryonic Stem Cell Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.584)
Epidermal Cells: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.585)

New Ebooks from Springer [These books are added to the library catalog]:
Gene Expression and Its Discontents: The Social Production of Chronic Disease
Plant Developmental Biology - Biotechnological Perspectives, Volume 1
Sleep and Sleep Disorders: A Neuropsychopharmacological Approach
Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement, 2nd Edition
Physiology of Cotton
Ecology, Cognition and Landscape: Linking Natural and Social Systems
Lipids in Photosynthesis: Essential and Regulatory Functions (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, v.30)
Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals
Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology
Encyclopedia of Biometrics
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock Proteins in Infectious Disease
Mechanosensitivity of the Heart (Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues, v.3)
Current Trends in Monoclonal Antibody Development and Manufacturing
Imaging the Brain with Optical Methods
Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites
Epigenetics of Aging
Sustainable Agriculture
Stem Cell Biology in Health and Disease
Optical Sensor Systems in Biotechnology ( Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, v.116)

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