Statistics journals: High impact factors

Statistics journals - ranked by 2008 Impact Factor

1. Econometrica (UW-Madison subscriptions: online 1933-2007, print 1933-2009)
2. Biostatistics (online 2000-present)
3. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, Statistical Methodology (online 1948-present, print 1946-2005)
4. Annals of Applied Statistics (online 2007-present)
5. Journal of the American Statistical Association (online 1922-present)
6. Annals of Statistics (online 1973-present)
7. Statistical Methods in Medical Research (online 1997-present)
8. Statistical Science (online 1986-present)
9. Statistics in Medicine (online 1996-present, print 1982-2006)
10. Biometrics (online 1947-present)

[Source: Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch]

NEW! Online full run of Entomological Society of America journals

The University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries now offer access to four journals of the Entomological Society of America online, from the first issue to the present:

• Annals of the Entomological Society of America (1908+)
• Environmental Entomology (1972+)
• Journal of Economic Entomology (1908+)
• Journal of Medical Entomology (1964+)

The database interface for these journals is now Ingenta Connect.  Other full text UW Library journal subscriptions available on this platform include:

• Acta Agriculturae A
• Annals of Botany
• Botanische Jahrbücher
• Food and Foodways
• Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
• Forest Science
• Forestry
• Journal of Bryology
• Journal of Experimental Botany
• Journal of Forestry
• Journal of Heredity
• Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
• Plant and Cell Physiology
• SourceOECD Agriculture and Food
• Southern Journal of Applied Forestry
• Systematic Botany
• Taxon
• Western Journal of Applied Forestry

NEW "Go Big Read" book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

UW-Madison's 2010-2011 choice for the "Go Big Read" common book program:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --Tom Nissley

Related books:

• A conspiracy of cells: one woman’s immortal legacy and the medical scandal it caused (1986)
• Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America (2007)
• Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present (2006)
• Protection of human participants from risks and exploitation in biomedical research: an analysis of the law of South Africa and international ethical principles (2002)

UW-Madison dissertations & theses:

• Identification and partial characterization of kinesin and dynein from cultured HeLa cells (1989)
• The purification and characterization of HeLa cytosolic DNA polymerase α and two stimulatory proteins (1984)
• Photo cross-linking of nuclear proteins to newly replicated DNA in isolated HeLa cell nuclei (1981)
• The microtubule protein of cultured HeLa cells (1980)
• DNA chain growth and organization of replicating units in living HeLa cells and isolated HeLa nuclei (1976)
• Studies on HeLa cell nuclear DNA synthesis: the role of the cytoplasmic supernatant (1972)
• An investigation of the mechanism of hyperthermic killing of HeLa Cells (1972)
• The distribution of fluoride between media and cellular water of HeLa and L cells (1967)
• Studies on the metabolism of sodium fluoride. I. Plasma fluoride in relation to dietary fluoride in dairy cattle. II. Effects of fluoride on growth and metabolism of HeLa cells (1966)
• The metabolism of basic nuclear proteins from synchronized HeLa cells (1966)
• RNA synthesis and nuclear RNA polymerase activity of HeLa cells in relation to cell growth (1966)
• Infection and growth of Brucella strains of different virulence in HeLa cells and guinea pig mononuclear phagocytes (1962)
• The influence of puromycin on the growth of poliovirus in HeLa cells (1962)
• Phospholipid metabolism in synchronized cultures of HeLa cells (1962)
• Studies on amino acid activating enzyme in HeLa culture in varying physiological states of growth (1961)
• Studies on the growth of the Hela cell in tissue culture (1960)
• The influence of salt concentration on growth and morphology of HeLa cells (1959)

5/18-22: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Seattle, WA

The 42nd annual meeting of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) will be held in Seattle, May 18-22, 2010. The meeting, "Are You Being Served? The Art and Science of Providing Service in a Plant Library,” will be hosted by the Elisabeth C. Miller Library at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens.

A pre-conference workshop focusing on disaster preparedness will launch this annual meeting. During the week, several local Seattle speakers with interesting plant science library connections will share their perspectives. In addition, members’ papers and panels will explore a variety of library topics and projects.

Study tours throughout the meeting will explore the resources of the Seattle area with site visits to the Central Branch of The Seattle Public Library (designed by Rem Koolhaas), University of Washington Libraries, Washington Park Arboretum, Bloedel Reserve, Center for Urban Horticulture and Union Bay Natural Area. The conference will close on a high note with dinner at the top of the Columbia Center; Seattle’s tallest building. Join us at this remarkable meeting! For more information, please visit http://cbhl2010-seattle.wikispaces.com

The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries is the leading professional organization in the field of botanical and horticultural information services. It recognizes the critical importance of collecting, preserving, and making accessible the accumulated knowledge about plants for present and future generations. For more information about CBHL, visit its web site at http://www.cbhl.net.

[Text source: CBHL]

Grant for gardens on public land

Grant: "Growing Community: The Library Food Garden"

Available to Ohio libraries

The State Library of Ohio has announced the availability of Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds for a special grant program entitled "Growing Community: the Library Food Garden."

This special grant program was developed in recognition of the 2010 National Library Week theme, "Communities Thrive @ Your Library," and the water theme of the 2010 Summer Reading Program. Growing Community encourages libraries to partner with other community entities to establish food gardens on library or school property, or other public land, during the 2010 growing season. In order to be funded projects must demonstrate community partnerships as well as include library-based activities in the areas of "Health and nutrition," "Sustainability and ecology" and/or "Hunger/poverty issues."

Funds may be used to purchase seeds and plants, gardening tools and supplies, copies of materials and titles on gardening in various formats, marketing and promotion of the program, and speaker fees and other costs associated with program activities. All types of Ohio libraries are eligible for this grant program which has a federal request limit of $7,500. A local cash match of 25% of the total project cost is required. Electronic proposals are due at the State Library midnight on March 1, 2010. Approved proposals will run from May 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010. For RFP, see http://oh.webjunction.org/ohlstagrowcomm

Gardens designed to produce vegetables, fruit, nuts, and/or herbs provide a living lesson in the origins of our food. They promote appreciation for the agricultural heritage of Ohio. They give communities the opportunity to thrive by literally feeding community members. Through direct involvement in the work of the garden, and through educational programming and books and other media, food gardens engage residents of all ages and of different abilities in learning about plant life, gardening practices, life cycles, ecology, nutrition, hunger, and more.

[Text source: Press release, State Library of Ohio, 1/14/2010]

[Photo source: © UW-Madison University Communications]

Entomology journals ranked by impact

Top-ranking entomology journals

The ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR) "impact factor" is calculated by dividing the number of citations to articles published in a journal over a certain period by the total number of articles published in that journal during the same period.

Only journals included in the "entomology" category of Journal Citation Reports were ranked. UW-Madison library subscriptions are included (in parentheses). For articles not available online, UW faculty, staff and students can request a PDF via Library Express.

#1
2008: Annual Review of Entomology (1956+ online, 1956-2007 in print)
2004-2008: Annual Review of Entomology

1981-2008: Annual Review of Entomology

#2
2008: Advances in Insect Physiology (1963+ in print)
2004-2008: Advances in Insect Physiology
1981-2008: Advances in Insect Physiology

#3
2008: Insect Molecular Biology (1997+ online, 1992-2005 in print)
2004-2008: Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
1981-2008: Insect Biochemistry [became "Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology"]

#4
2008: Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (1971+ online, 1971-2005 in print)
2004-2008: Insect Molecular Biology
1981-2008: Pesticides Monitoring Journal (1967-1981 in print)

#5
2008: Journal of Insect Physiology (1995+ online, 1957-2001 in print)
2004-2008: Journal of Insect Physiology
1981-2008: Ecological Entomology

#6
2008: Pest Management Science (1996+ online, 1970-2003 in print)
2004-2008: Medical & Veterinary Entomology (1997+ online, 1989-2005 in print)
1981-2008: Journal of Insect Physiology

#7
2008: Journal of Medical Entomology (2000+ online, 1964+ in print)
2004-2008: Systematic Entomology (1997+ online, 1976-2005 in print)
1981-2008: Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

#8
2008: Biocontrol (1956-2000 in print)
2004-2008: Journal of Medical Entomology

1981-2008: Pesticide Biochemistry & Physiology (1971+ online, 1971-2002 in print)

#9
2008: Ecological Entomology (1997+ online, 1976-2005 in print)
2004-2008: Ecological Entomology
1981-2008: Insect Molecular Biology

#10
2008: Journal of Insect Conservation (1999-2004 in print)
2004-2008: Arthropod Structure & Development (1995+ online, 1971-1997 in print)
1981-2008: Physiological Entomology (1997+ online, 1976-2002 in print)

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[Source: Thomson Reuters, ScienceWatch.com]

Even more new e-books!

100's more e-books now available to UW-Madison faculty, staff and students on the Wiley Interscience platform!

Titles include:

• Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology, v.76
  
• Annual Plant Reviews, v.38 - Fruit Development and Seed Dispersal


• Barley for Food and Health: Science, Technology, and Products
  
• Basic Biostatistics for Geneticists and Epidemiologists - A Practical Approach


• Basic Statistics: A Primer for the Biomedical Sciences, 4th ed.


• Bayesian Analysis of Gene Expression Data


• Behavioural Ecology of Insect Parasitoids - From Theoretical Approaches to Field Applications


• Biocatalysis and Bioenergy


• Biofuels


• Biogas from Waste and Renewable Resources


• Bioinformatics - From Genomes to Therapies


• Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and Applications
  
• Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, 2nd ed.


• Bioinformatics for Geneticists - A Bioinformatics Primer for the Analysis of Genetic Data 2e


• Biomass Recalcitrance


• Biometrics: Theory, Methods, and Applications


• Biomolecular Networks: Methods and Applications in Systems Biology


• Biophysico-Chemical Processes of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soil Environments


• Biotech Funding Trends


• Breeding Major Food Staples


• Catalysis for Sustainable Energy Production


• Cell Cycle Control and Plant Development


• Cellular and Biomolecular Recognition


• Characterization of Lignocellulosic Materials


• Color Atlas of Postharvest Quality of Fruits and Vegetables


• Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants (10 volumes)


• Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics


• Computational Toxicology: Risk Assessment for Pharmaceutical and Environmental Chemicals


• Contemporary Bayesian and Frequentist Statistical Research Methods for Natural Resource Scientists


• Dictionary of DNA and Genome Technology


• Disease Control in Crops - Biological and Enviromentally Friendly Approaches


• Ecology of Weeds and Invasive Plants: Relationship to Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, Third Edition


• Environmental Engineering, Sixth Edition: Water, Wastewater, Soil and Groundwater Treatment and Remediation


• Environmental Engineering, Sixth Edition: Prevention and Response to Water-, Food-, Soil-, and Air-Borne Disease and Illness


• Environmental Regulatory Calculations Handbook


• Environmentally Conscious Alternative Energy Production


• The Ethics of Genetic Commerce


• Excel for Scientists and Engineers: Numerical Methods


• Flow Cytometry with Plant Cells - Analysis of Genes, Chromosomes and Genomes


• Food Biodeterioration and Preservation


• Food Labeling Compliance Review


• Food Regulation: Law, Science, Policy, and Practice


• Fundamentals of Environmental Sampling and Analysis


• Grid Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology


• Handbook of Organic and Fair Trade Food Marketing


• The Handbook of Plant Functional Genomics


• Handbook of Statistical Genetics, 3rd ed.


• History of Food, 2nd ed.


• Horticultural Reviews, v.34


• Induced Resistance for Plant Defence - A Sustainable Approach to Crop Protection


• Insect Biodiversity - Science and Society


• Intracellular Signalling in Plants


• Introduction to Chemicals from Biomass


• Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics: Techniques, Methods, and Applications


• Light and Plant Development - Annual Plant Reviews v.30


• Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape


• Medical Toxicology of Natural Substances: Foods, Fungi, Medicinal Herbs, Plants, and Venomous Animals


• Microbial Fuel Cells


• Microbiologically Safe Foods


• Modern Crop Protection Compounds


• Molecular Aspects of Plant Disease Resistance


• Molecular Nutrition and Genomics


• The Moss Physcomitrella patens


• Mushrooms as Functional Foods


• Nanobiotechnology II - More Concepts and Applications


• Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Environmental and Health Impacts


• The Nanoscience and Technology of Renewable Biomaterials


• New Frontiers in Ultrasensitive Bioanalysis: Nanobiotechnology, Single Molecule Detection, and Single Cell Analysis
  
• Next Generation Genome Sequencing


• Nondestructive Testing of Food Quality


• Oomycete Genetics and Genomics: Diversity, Interactions and Research Tools


• Pesticide Chemistry - Crop Protection, Public Health, Environmental Safety


• Photosynthetic Protein Complexes - A Structural Approach


• Plant-Bacteria Interactions


• Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques and Applications


• Plant Breeding Reviews, v.30
  
• Plant Cell Separation and Adhesion - Annual Plant Reviews v.25


• Plant Desiccation Tolerance


• Plant Mitochondria


• Plant Proteomics: Technologies, Strategies, and Applications


• Plant Solute Transport


• Plant Systems Biology


• Plant Tropisms


• A Practical Guide to Scientific Data Analysis


• Probes and Tags to Study Biomolecular Function


• Problem-Solving in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management, 2nd edition


• Proteomics of Microbial Pathogens


• Pseudomonas


• Regulation of Transcription in Plants - Annual Plant Reviews, v.29


• RNA and DNA Editing: Molecular Mechanisms and Their Integration into Biological Systems


• Root Development


• Seed Development, Dormancy and Germination


• Senescence Processes in Plants


• Statistical Data Analysis Explained - Applied Environmental Statistics with R


• Statistical Methods in Practice - for Scientists and Technologists


• Trace Elements: Nutritional Benefits, Environmental Contamination, and Health Implications


• Tropical Forest Community Ecology


• Wheat Antioxidants


• World Food: Production and Use

New tool: Search inside reference books

Search the indexes and article titles from nearly 20,000 online and print reference books (encyclopedias, handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etc.) with Reference Universe!

If the UW-Madison libraries have online access to the e-book, you'll get a direct link. Or, if we have the book in print, you'll get a link to the MadCat library catalog record. For books we don't own, put in a request through Library Express Article & Book Delivery for a scanned PDF copy of the pages you need.

Some of the books you can now search inside:

• Agricultural Entomology
  
• The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants


• Armitage's Garden Perennials: A Color Encyclopedia
  
• Bulbs for the Rock Garden
  
• Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science


• Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology


• The Cultural History of Plants


• Destructive and Useful Insects: Their Habits and Control


• Dictionary of Agriculture
• A Dictionary of Plant Pathology


• A Dictionary of Plant Sciences


• Encyclopaedia of Seed Production of World Crops


• Encyclopedia of Agriculture, Food, and Biological Engineering
• Encyclopedia of Entomology


• Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology


• Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
• Encyclopedia of Microbiology


• Encyclopedia of Pest Management


• Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science


• Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology


• Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment
• Encyclopedia of Virology


• Entomology: A Guide to Information Resources


• Field Crop Diseases Handbook


• Foliage Plant Diseases: Diagnosis and Control
• Fungi on Plants and Plant Products in the United States


• The Garden Plants of China


• The Glory of Gardens: 2,000 Years of Writings on Garden Design


• Glossary of Crop Science Terms
• Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology
• Handbook of Vegetable Pests


• Insect Sounds and Communication: Physiology, Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution


• Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity


• Latin American Insects and Entomology


• The Literature of Crop Science


• Magill's Encyclopedia of Science: Plant Life


• Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops


• Maples for Gardens: A Color Encyclopedia


• Minor Oil Crops


• North American Horticulture: A Reference Guide


• Our Earth's Changing Land: an Encyclopedia of Land-use and Land-cover Change


• Oxford Companion to Gardens


• Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940
• Slash-and-burn Agriculture: The Search for Alternatives


• Weeds and Words: The Etymology of the Scientific Names of Weeds and Crops


• Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook
• Women in Agriculture: A Guide to Research

Related tools:

• Google Books - Search inside 1000s of books, including many from the UW-Madison. Also, read or download the full text of those that are out-of-copyright or otherwise in the public domain. Click "Find in a library" on the left to search WorldCat for a copy to check out from the UW or to borrow through Library Express Article & Book Delivery.


• Amazon.com - Available for some books: Look Inside, Search Inside, First Sentence, Capitalized Phrases, Statistically Improbable Phrases, Citations / Cited By, Concordance (word frequency clouds), Readability, Complexity, Number of Characters / Words / Sentences, and Words per Dollar / Ounce.
  

New Refworks interface coming!

• New user interface for RefWorks to be launched first quarter 2010
• Current version will still be available for at least 6 months after launch

Refworks is an online research citation management tool that…

• Gathers references from article databases while you search
• Formats manuscripts and citations in a variety of styles (APA, etc.)
• Organizes a personal database of references, images, links, notes, tags, and PDFs
• Allows you to share references with colleagues around the world

The UW-Madison libraries subscribe to Refworks for all students, staff and faculty. Alumni can maintain perpetual access to their accounts after graduation.

Other research management tools include Endnote, Zotero, and Papers.

Proquest maintenance: 1/30-1/31

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on January 30, 2010 for twelve (12) hours.

The window will take place from Saturday, January 30, 2010, at 9:00pm Central Time to Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 9:00am Central Time.

The following library subscriptions will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform databases, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and American Periodicals Series


• Genealogy and local history databases including African American Heritage, Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, Historic Map Works Library Edition, ProQuest Obituaries, and Digital Sanborn Maps


• Community of Science (COS) websites


• UMI products including ProQuest Digital Microfilm and online dissertation sites