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New Book:

The Herons
James A Kushlan and James A Hancock
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Call# QL696 .C52 K87 2005

From Oxford University Presss:

“Herons and their close relatives, the egrets and bitterns, comprise sixty species in total and are found all over the world except in polar regions, and are a strikingly beautiful part of the wetlands they inhabit. They are particularly abundant and popular in South West USA, especially Florida. Herons are a diverse group, easily recognized by their long legs, necks and bills. Many species are notable for their sociality as they feed, roost, and nest together in single or mixed species assemblages. The authors have extensive experience of research and observation of these birds and this book provides an up to date comprehensive review of the herons of the world. Covering their biology, distribution, description, systematics, breeding, feeding, and conservation, James Hancock and James Kushlan have distilled their lifetimes’ research on the heron into one volume. This volume is complemented by beautiful color paintings especially painted for the book, color photographs, and distribution maps.”

The first issues of “IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine” and “IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security” have been published and are now available online through the IEEE Xplore digital library.

“IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine covers all areas of computational intelligence design and applications: applications oriented developments, successful industrial implementations, design tools, technology reviews, computational intelligence education, and applied research.” (IEEE)

“The aim of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security is to provide a unified locus for archival research on the fundamental contributions and the mathematics behind information forensics, information security, surveillance, and systems applications that incorporate these features.” (IEEE)

PLoS Biology is an open access peer reviewed online journal from the Public Library of Science. Articles are available in both HTML and PDF format, and the homepage gives the top ten read articles. HTML articles include links to cited journals online.

From their website:

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“UniProt (Universal Protein Resource) is the world’s most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins. It is a central repository of protein sequence and function created by joining the information contained in Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, and PIR.”

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Business Source Premier provides access to 7800 business periodicals including online full text access to many of the most commonly used journals. These articles provide valuable information on issues in the economic side of science and technology, as well as information on companies that provide products and services in the sciences.

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Spring ordering is upon us and I am once again taking suggestions for books to be ordered for Middleton. Because of budget issues, we have less money this semester than anticipated, so unlike last semester I cannot guarantee that all recommended books will in fact be ordered. However I will do my best.

Please send suggestions to jryan1@lsu.edu.

The American Chemical Society offers full text of all articles published in their journals, including the archives, back to volume 1 of each journal.

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