June 22, 2010
Free access to microbiology journal
Access will be free for the rest of 2010 for the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. "IJSEM publishes papers dealing with all phases of the systematics of prokaryotes, yeasts and yeast-like organisms, including taxonomy, nomenclature, identification, phylogeny, evolution, biodiversity, characterization and culture preservation. Its scope covers phylogenetic and evolutionary aspects of all micro-organisms, including the protists such as protozoa and algae, and it also publishes molecular environmental papers with a strong systematics content."
June 17, 2010
New Books Online
Several new books have been added online. To access them, go to the Library's catalog and search for the title, then click on the link. Links are also provided below.
- Human Drug Metabolism
- Radical and Radical Ion Reactivity in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- Planning a Scientific Career in Industry
- Searching for Molecular Solutions: Empirical Discovery and its Future
- Chemical Cytometry: Ultrasensitive Analysis of Single Cells
- Information Retrieval: SciFinder
- Evaluation of Drug Candidates for Preclinical Development: Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, Pharmaceutics, and Toxicology
June 2, 2010
New Protocols
Check out the latest titles from SpringerProtocols. SpringerProtocols is a database of step-by-step protocols written and reviewed by experts in their field. Subjects cover biochemistry, biotechnology, cancer research, genetics, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, protein science and more.
New Titles:
New Titles:
- Matrix Metalloproteinase Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology v.622)
- RNA Interference: From Biology to Clinical Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology v.623)
- Cancer Nanotechnology: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology v.624)
- Carbon Nanotubes: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology v.625)
- Vaccines Adjuvants: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology v. 626)
- Surface Plasmon Resonance: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology v.627)
- Genetic Variation: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology v.628)
- RNA Therapeutics: Function, Design, and Delivery (Methods in Molecular Biology v. 629)
- Drug Delivery to the Central Nervous System (Neuromethods v.45)
May 24, 2010
mBio: new open access journal
The American Society of Microbiology has launched its first fully open access journal online, mBio. It's peer-reviewed and covers a broad range of research incorporating microbiology and its allied disciplines. The full-text and supplementary materials of an article are available online immediately upon publication.
mBio is trying a few new things in the world of scientific publishing. First, it is asking authors to write a brief description in plain, non-scientific English, to explain why their work is important. They hope to reach nonspecialist scientists and critical nonscientific audiences such as policy makers. The second new departure is a "rapid and clear decision on the disposition of the paper. Papers will either be accepted with minimal revisions or rejected." They believe this will make for a clearer and more effecient review process.
mBio is trying a few new things in the world of scientific publishing. First, it is asking authors to write a brief description in plain, non-scientific English, to explain why their work is important. They hope to reach nonspecialist scientists and critical nonscientific audiences such as policy makers. The second new departure is a "rapid and clear decision on the disposition of the paper. Papers will either be accepted with minimal revisions or rejected." They believe this will make for a clearer and more effecient review process.
April 19, 2010
Nature Communications launched
Nature Publishing has launched the peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal, Nature Communications.
"Nature Communications will not be competing with Nature Publishing Group's existing journals. Nature Communications instead provides a venue for the many comprehensive, rigorous and often elegant studies that do not have such broad appeal – the so-called 'specialist interest' papers."
Its focus will be on primary research with no plans to publish news or opinion pieces and authors have the choice to pay for an open access option that allows the article to be viewed by anyone with or without a subscription.
"Nature Communications will not be competing with Nature Publishing Group's existing journals. Nature Communications instead provides a venue for the many comprehensive, rigorous and often elegant studies that do not have such broad appeal – the so-called 'specialist interest' papers."
Its focus will be on primary research with no plans to publish news or opinion pieces and authors have the choice to pay for an open access option that allows the article to be viewed by anyone with or without a subscription.
April 8, 2010
Online Computer Books Added
The following titles have been added to the Library's online computer book collection:
- AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications
- F# for Scientists
- Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve
- Head First Excel
- JavaScript® and AJAX for Dummies
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard :The Missing Manual
- Programming Visual Basic 2008
- Windows 7 for Dummies
March 17, 2010
Free Trial to Cambridge University Press Online Books
Free trial to Cambridge University Press Books Online, through May 30, 2010. Gain access to titles in a number of subjects including Cell Biology, Microbiology, Genomics, Chemistry and Physics.
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