The Netherlands Journal of Medicine is now open access — full text free to all.
From The Netherlands Journal of Medicine webpage:
“The Netherlands Journal of Medicine publishes papers in all relevant fields of internal medicine. In addition to reports of original clinical and experimental studies, reviews on topics of interest or importance, case reports, book reviews and letters to the editor are welcomed.”
Posted from The Krafty Librarian:
“PandemicFlu.gov is intended to provide comprehensive government-wide information on pandemic influenza and avian influenza. In the event of a pandemic, this will be the authoritative site for U.S. government information on the pandemic. This site is intended to provide general information for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems, and local communities. (courtesy of About Us at PandemicFlu.gov)
Information is subdivided into categories:
General Information
* Key Facts
* Frequently Asked Questions
* Vaccines, Medications
* Background Information
Health & Safety
* For Families
* For Workers
* For Health Professionals
* Protecting Birds & Other Animals
Monitoring Outbreaks
* United States Surveillance
* International Surveillance
Planning & Response Activities
* National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
* U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Pandemic Influenza Plan
Federal Agency Activities
* State Pandemic Plans
* Risk Communication Resources
Travel & Transportation
* Travelers’ Health
* Transportation IndustryInformation
Research Activities
* Pandemic Research
* Vaccine Research
* Drug Development “
This week’s resource is AGRICOLA. AGRICOLA is the premier agricultural database, indexing articles on the subjects of agriculture, plant science, animal science, aquaculture, forestry, entomology, environmental science, soil and water resources, agricultural engineering, and food and nutrition. AGRICOLA indexes journals, monographs, theses and dissertations, patents, audiovisual materials, and more. Coverage dates back to 1970.
AGRICOLA is provided on the EBSCO platform, allowing for 3 terms searchable in more than 20 fields combinable by AND, OR, or NOT. AGRICOLA provides some full text, and searches are limitable by full text only, date range, and language. Search histories are available and may be combined or turned into email alerts.
From Bill Armstrong:
“Yes, you may indeed upgrade your office computers and any lab computers to the 2006 version of SciFinder Scholar. The software can be downloaded from the following site:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu
User Name: scifinder
Password: LSU_sci_fin (case sensitive)
If you are upgrading an earlier version on your machine, you only need to download the executable installation file, SFS2006.exe.
If, however, this is a brand new installation, then you’ll also need to download the site.prf file for Windows. Once you’ve installed the program, go back to the download site and save the site.prf file directly into the folder in which SciFinder installed itself, C:SFSCHLR. The information contained in this file is essential for CAS to allow your computer to connect.”
This week’s resource is OCLC’s Electronic Collections Online (ECO). Electronic Collections Online is a service from the Online Computer Library Center that indexes articles from a number of scholarly and academic publishers in all subject areas, including substantial full text holdings. Journals included are browseable by publisher and by LC call number — a very useful feature for those looking for a relatively narrow topic. ECO indexes more than 5000 journals with access from 1995 to the present.
The advanced search allows searching of up to three terms in more than 20 fields combinable by AND, OR, or NOT. It also allows you to limit your search by publisher, first two letters of the LC call number, and to limit to full text or to journals held by LSU. Previous searches can be combined from the “Previous Searches” tab.
From Bill Armstrong, our Chemistry Librarian:
“SciFinder Scholar has now been upgraded to the 2006 version in the Reference area, including Ref Desk. The OCS labs have already been upgraded as well.
Most of the improvements have been to the substructure searching capabilities, but there are a couple of other organizational changes on the opening search screen I wanted to call your attention to. Previously, your access points to the bibliographic literature and the compound Registry file were all found on the opening screen. Now they’re organized into two groups: Explore and Locate. Under Explore, you’ll find the Topic Search, one of the two types of searches you’ll do the most. The other search
useful to you is the compound search by name or CAS RN, and this is now located under Locate.”
From IEEE Xplore maintenance:
“IEEE has scheduled necessary maintenance to the IEEE Xplore digital library
for Monday, 28 November from approximately 2 - 3 PM EST. During
maintenance users will be able to access the site, search, and view
abstracts, but they will be unable to view full-text PDFs. We are posting
a message to the IEEE Xplore welcome page so that users become aware of the
limited access.”
Recent Advances in Marine Biotechnology
Milton Fingerman
Volumes 2-10
Enfield, NH: Science Publishers, 1997
Call# TP248.27 .M37 R42 1997
From Science Publisher:
“While advances in marine biotechnology will certainly enhance our capabilities in the marine realm, what we learn there will doubtless provide new insight into the biology of freshwater and terrestrial organisms. This volume is a compilation of information that covers a wide range of animal groups. This book will be of interest not only to biotechnologists but also to aquaculturists, comparative animal physiologists, comparative endocrinologists, and developmental biologists.”
Integrating Ecology and Evolution in a Spatial Context
Jonathan W. Silvertown
Malden, MA: Blackwell Scientific, 2001.
Call# QK911 .I46 2001
From Cambridge University Press:
“The profound consequences of the deceptively obvious statement that plants stand still but their genes don’t are only just becoming clear. In this volume, an international team of authors, experts in the field of population biology, aim to advance our understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes by integrating them within a common frame of reference: space. Processes operating at three different spatial scales are examined: that of the population, metapopulation and the geographical range. Themes that recur at these different scales include spatial population dynamics, population genetics at boundaries, the imprint of spatial population dynamics upon genetic structure, adaptation, evolution of mating systems and the consequences of population genetics for ecological dynamics. Whilst the focus is largely on plants, the questions addressed are equally applicable to animals. It will be a valuable tool for researchers and advanced students, not only in this field, but also evolutionary biology and resource management.”
Peru: Megantoni
Corine Françoise Vriesendorp
Rapid Biological Inventories #15
Chicago: Field Museum, Environmental and Conservation Programs, 2004.
Call# QH541.15 .E22 P47 2004
From The University of Chicago Press:
“Conducted during the spring of 2004 on the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes, this inventory offers biological and social analyses of the Zona Reservada Megantoni. The participating scientists survey three of the most inaccessible and isolated sites in this rugged territory, examining vascular plants, dung beetles, fishes, reptiles and amphibians, birds, and large mammals.
The report also features a brief history of the Megantoni region and its peoples, reviewing more than ten years of collaborative work between scientists and the native communities in the area, including the Machiguenga, Ashaninka, Yine Yami, and Nanti peoples. The report concludes with recommendations for the region’s conservation and management, calling for the protection of 216,005 hectares as Santuario Nacional Megantoni. Such a measure would keep intact a corridor between two of the largest protected areas in Peru, the Parque Nacional Manu and the conservation complex in Cordillera Vilcabamba.”