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 online books!

UW-Madison Libraries have just inked a deal to offer hundreds more e-books on Elsevier's ScienceDirect, including:

A Practical Approach to Water Conservation for Commercial and Industrial Facilities

Advances in Experimental Biology
Advances in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology

Agroecological Economics
Beer
Bioactive Foods in Promoting Health
Biochemistry of Lipids, Lipoproteins and Membranes (Fifth Edition)Bioconjugate Techniques (Second Edition)

Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Bluetongue
British Mycological Society Symposia Series

Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biology of 1-3 Beta Glucans and Related Polysaccharides
Citrus Fruit
Climate ChangeComprehensive Biochemistry

Computer Vision Technology for Food Quality Evaluation
Crop Physiology

Database Archiving
Desert Olive Oil Cultivation
Developments in Environmental Science
Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment
Developments in Soil Science
Ecological Understanding (Second Edition)

Electrochemical Sensors, Biosensors and their Biomedical Applications
Embedded Systems

Encyclopedia of Insects (Second Edition)
Environmental Geochemistry

Essentials of Stem Cell Biology (Second Edition)
Eukaryotic Transcription Factors (Fifth edition)
Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis
Forest Ecosystems (Third Edition)

Fundamentals of Toxicologic Pathology (Second Edition)
Future Energy
Gluten-Free Cereal Products and Beverages

Handbook of Agricultural Economics
Handbook of Glycomics

Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

Hierarchical Modeling and Inference in Ecology
Information Modeling and Relational Databases (Second Edition)
Infrared Spectroscopy for Food Quality Analysis and Control
Insect Immunology

Insect Resistance Management
Instrumentation Reference Book (Fourth Edition)

Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Major Accidents to the Environment
Methods in Enzymology
Microbial Glycobiology
Microscope Image Processing

Modern Biopolymer Science
Mycorrhizal Symbiosis (Third Edition)
Mycotoxins in Fruits and Vegetables

Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety
Nitrogen in the Environment (Second Edition)
Optical Biosensors (Second Edition)
Origin and Evolution of Viruses (Second Edition)
Paleobotany (Second Edition)
Perspectives for Agroecosystem Management
Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies
Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology (Fourth Edition)
Physiological Systems in Insects (Second Edition)

Physiology of Woody Plants (Third Edition)
Postharvest Handling (Second Edition)
Principles of Biomedical Informatics
Quantitative Ecology (Second Edition)
Radioactivity in the Environment
Renewable Energy Conversion, Transmission and Storage
Science and the Media
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist
Soilless Culture
Spectroscopy and Modeling of Biomolecular Building Blocks
Starch (Third Edition)
Statistical Aspects of the Microbiological Examination of Foods (Second Edition)
Terrestrial Ecology
The Manual of Scientific Style
The Produce Contamination Problem
The Triazine Herbicides
Theoretical Ecology Series
Urban Energy Transition
Waste Management for the Food Industries
What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology?
Wine Science (Third Edition)
Wine Tasting (Second Edition)

Search property data in 2,000 e-books

Knovel has launched the first of several database enhancements, making it easier and faster to find reliable technical information. Changes include:

• Graphs/Equations/Tables (G.E.T.) search tab
• Improved search results display
• Keyword auto-complete
• Spell check
• Suggested search terms

Graphs, Equations & Tables search

You can search for numeric and other tabular data contained in Knovel's interactive graphs, equations and tables from over 2,000 books and databases. Data can be sorted, filtered, and extracted to other formats, such as Excel and HTML. Types of data you can search:

• Acid-base properties: acceptor or donor number


• Applications: use, human or veterinary therapeutic category


• Bearing properties: bearing strength, bearing yield strength, shear modulus, shear strength


• Combustion properties: calorific value, combustion products/fuel ratio, flame temperature, heat per volume of standard air, ignition energy, ignition temperature, laminar flame velocity, percent theoretical air, rate of pressure rise, research octane number, stoichiometric combustion product, terminal oxygen concentration, Wobbe index


• Creep properties: creep stress, stress to rupture


• Electrical properties: arc resistance, dielectric conststant, dielectric strength, dipole moment, dissipation factor, electric conductivity, IACS electric conductivity, formation resistivity factor, specific resistivity at min temp, specific resistivity at max temp, standard electrode potential V, static decay time, surface resistance, surface resistivity, thermoelectric voltage, voltage, volume resistivity


• Electrochemical properties: reduction potential


• Energy and power consumption: degree days, mean daily temperature range, power consumption


• Environmental characteristics: acidification, atmospheric half life, bioconcentration factor, chemical oxygen demand, log bioconcentration factor, energy use, eutrophication, global warming potential, greenhouse gas emissions, ozone precursors, urban ozone formation potential, theoretical oxygen demand


• Flexural properties: flexural modulus, flexural strength, flexural strength retained, flexural yield strength, fatigue properties, notched fatigue endurance, unnotched fatigue endurance


• Gas properties: altitude, compression ratio, odor threshold, percent humidity, residual water


• Geography: elevation, latitude


• Hazard-related properties: biodegradation probability, Biological Oxygen Demand, carcinogenicity, explosion limit, exposure limit, flammability, flammability limit, flash point, flash point method, food law approvals, 100-yr global warming potential, Halocarbon global warming potential, hazard rating, HMIS health, HMIS flammability, HMIS reactivity, ignition temperature, lower flammability limit, maximum workplace concentration, terminal oxygen concentration, mutagenicity, NFPA flammability, NFPA Health, NFPA Instability, NFPA Reactivity, oxygen index, ozone depletion potential, personal protection, reproductive/developmental toxicity, RTECS No., safety group, threshold limit, TLV - TWA, toxicity, UN risk phrases, UN safety phrases


• Ion exchange properties: dry exchange capacity, exchange swelling, wet exchange capacity


• Material composition: ash content, azeotropic concentration component A, carbon residue, filler content, material composition, H/C ratio, nominal composition, nutrient content, energy basis, nutrient content, mass basis, other metals, volatiles content, water content, content of individual elements


• Materials and substances: additives, alloy number, atomic number, CAS Registry no., chemical category
  color (including Gardner scale or platinum-cobalt scale), common formula, class/condition/temper, DOT no., DPR, EC no., EEC, EINECS No., empirical formula, entry code, EPA, form, ICSC, ingredients, linear structure, manufacturer, IUPAC name, material or substance name, material class, material DIN No., molecular formula, odor, P number, physical state, schedule number, specification, supplier, trade or common name, type or grade, UNS no., valence, yellowness index change


• Mechanical hardness: Brinell hardness, Durometer hardness, hardness, Rockwell hardness, Rockwell B hardness, Rockwell C hardness, Shore hardness, Shore hardness change, static load, Sward hardness


• Mechanical properties: Poisson's ratio, reduction of area


• Optical properties: band gap, band gap pressure coefficient, band gap temperature coefficient, molar refraction, refractive index, specific rotation


• Organisms: species


• Permeability: permeation rate, vapor transmission rate


• Physical constants: acceleration of gravity, acentric factor, API gravity, atomic weight, boiling point, critical compressibility, critical density, critical pressure, critical temperature, critical molar volume, critical volume, density, density temperature coefficient, diffusion coefficient, dissociation constant, freeze point, gas/liquid volume ratio, gas specific gravity, lattice constants, melting point, molecular mass, molecular weight, molar density, molar volume, natural abundance, parachor, pour point, property code, radius of gyration, refractive index, saturation temperature, second virial coefficient, sedimentation constant, specific gravity, specific volume, specific weight, theoretical oxygen demand, triple point pressure, triple point temperature, van der Waals' area, van der Waals' volume, vapor pressure, weight, weight per unit length


• Process conditions: conversion, yield


• Processing properties: application method, machinability rating, melt flow index, melt temperature, molding pressure, polydispersity index, processing method, processing temperature, shrinkage


• Radiation and radiation safety: Archer Fitting Coefficient alpha, Archer Fitting Coefficient beta, Archer Fittin, Coefficient gamma, air kerma, Beta (v/c), distance, energy/mass, effective dose, field size, Gamma (1-2)(1/2), T/A kinetic energy per nucleon, momentum, operating potential, removal mean free path, workload


• Reaction kinetics: first order rate constant


• Rheology: Darcy friction factor, dynamic viscosity, kinematic viscosity, melt flow index, Reynolds number, thixotropic index, viscosity


• Shear properties: bearing strength, shear modulus, shear strength, shear yield strength, tear strength


• Size: area, AWG, diameter, diameter change, length change, metric designator, thickness, volume, volume change


• Solution properties: pK acid dissociation constant, acid number, cation exchange capacity, concentration, cryoscopic constant, Davies scale, detection limit, ebullioscopic constant, free energy function, Hansen solubility parameter, Henry's law constant, Hildebrand solubility parameter, iodine value, Kauri butanol number, mol fraction of substance, Negative Log Solubility Product pKsp, octanol-water partition coefficient, log octanol-water, partition coefficient, pH polarity parameter, saponification value, solubility, solubility parameter, solubility product constant, solvent, supersaturation ratio, suspended solids, water solubility
• Special indices: datatype, graph index, properties index, subject index


• Spectroscopic properties: absorption coefficient, anisotropy factor, attenuation coefficient, chemical shift, effective attenuation coefficient, emission lifetime, emissivity, energy, molar extinction coefficient, frequency, gain cross section, ionization potential, magnetic moment, nuclear spin quantum number, quadrupole moment, relative sensitivity, saturation fluence, scattering coefficient, spectral wavelength, transport scattering coefficient, width


• Stability: log formation constant, corrosion rate, corrosion resistance, deflection temperature, material consumption rate, maximum continuous service temperature, NACE resistance rating, PDL Rating, water absorption, weight loss


• Stoichiometric properties: mass ratio, stoichiometric excess, volume to mass ratio, volumetric ratio


• Surface properties: adsorption capacity, apparent porosity, closed pores, Freundlich coefficient, Freundlich exponent, particle diameter, particle length, pitting depth, relative roughness, sorption coeffcient, log sorption coeffcient, specific surface area, surface tension, surface area
  
• Tensile/compressive properties: allowable stress, compressive modulus, compressive strength, compression ratio, compressive stress, compressive yield strength, elastic limit, elongation, elongation retained, endurance limit, fatigue strength, fracture toughness, load ratio, modulus of elasticity, modulus retained, rupture strength, stress intensity, tear resistance, tensile modulus, tensile strength, tensile strength retained, tensile stress, tensile yield strength


• Test/exposure conditions: PV value, acid concentration, activity, allowed working pressure, chromic acid, inhibitor concentration, concentration, copper sulfate inhibitor concentration, experimental parameters, exposure medium, exposure strain, exposure medium class, exposure stress, ferric chloride inhibitor concentration, light intensity, load, load/deformation type, nitric acid inhibitor concentration, penetrant, route of entry, sample geometry, temperature, testing apparatus, time


• Thermal properties: area heat flow, ASME temperature limit, brittleness temperature, elongation, glass transition temperature, maximum continuous service temperature, melting point, melting range, minimum continuous service temperature, phase transition temperature, Thermal Diffusivity, thermal expansion coefficient, UL RTI rating, vapor pressure, Vicat softening point, working pressure


• Thermodynamic properties: acentric factor, adiabatic compressibility, compressibility factor, dry-bulb temperature, enthalpy of combustion, enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of fusion, enthalpy of solution, enthalpy of sublimation, enthalpy of vaporization, entropy, entropy of fusion, entropy of formation, free energy function, Gibbs free energy of formation, Cp heat capacity, heat of adsorption, heat of combustion, heat of solution, Helmholtz free energy of formation, internal energy of formation, isothermal compressibility factor, log equilibrium constant, mean coincident design wet-bulb temperature, molar enthalpy, molar entropy, molar heat of vaporization, Prandtl Number, Q quality factor, h specific enthalpy, s specific entropy, cp specific heat, specific heat at constant pressure, cv specific heat at constant volume, specific heat ratio, u specific internal energy, v specific volume, specific volume change at min pressure, specific volume change at max pressure, w speed of sound, thermal conductivity, thermal resistivity, van der Waals’ coefficient, velocity of sound, wet-bulb temperature


• Thermodynamic variables: pressure, temperature


• Tissues: tissue, tissue source, tissue preparation


• Toughness: fracture energy, impact strength retained, normalized Izod impact strength, notched impact strength, plane strain fracture toughness, relative critical crack-size index, unit Charpy impact strength, unit propagation energy, unnotched impact strength, work to maximum load


• Transport properties: diffusion coefficient, dynamic viscosity, energy gradient, friction gradient, headloss, solute retention, specific resistance, thermal conductivity, transport number at min concentration, transport number at max concentration, volumetric flow rate, volumetric flow rate per unit area, volumetric flow rate/pressure, water absorption


• Transportation: DOT class, ICAO/IATA Class/packing group, IMDG Class/packing group, TDG class, UN/NA class, UN number, UN packaging group


• Tribological properties/wear: coefficient of friction, tribological conditions, wear coefficient, wear mechanisms, wear rate


• Velocity


• Volatility: relative evaporation rate

Sustainable Energy & Development e-books

UW-Madison Libraries have added access to the "Sustainable Energy & Development" collection of e-books through our Knovel subscription. Titles of interest include:

• Biofuels Refining and Performance (2008)
  
• Biodiesel Handbook (2005)
• Biomass Assessment Handbook - Bioenergy for a Sustainable Environment (2007)
• Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals (1998)
• Bioprocessing for Value-Added Products from Renewable Resources - New Technologies and Applications (2007)
• Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals - The Twenty-Eighth Symposium (2007)
• Dictionary of Energy (2006)
• Encyclopedia of Energy, Volumes 1 - 6 (2004)
• Energy Harvesting Materials (2005)
• Environmentally Conscious Alternative Energy Production (2007)
• Food System - A Guide (2009)
• Future Energy - Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for Our Planet (2008)
• Handbook of Organic Food Processing and Production (2nd Edition) (2000)
• Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought - A Global Study (2005)
• Pesticide Detox - Towards a More Sustainable Agriculture (2005)
• Pesticide Residues in Food and Drinking Water - Human Exposure and Risks (2004)
• Pesticide, Veterinary and other Residues in Food (2004)
• Renewable Bioenergy - Technologies, Risks, and Rewards (2003)
• Renewables-Based Technology - Sustainability Assessment (2007)
• Sustainability and Environmental Impact of Renewable Energy Sources (2003)
• Sustainability in Agriculture (2005)
• Tropical Soils - Properties and Management for Sustainable Agriculture (2003)
• Water Encyclopedia, Volumes 1-5 (2005)

Try it: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Springer E-books

Each year, the UW-Madison Libraries explore potential database purchases by signing up for free trial access. Some of these are only available to library staff, while others are open to all patrons.

Please let me know what you think about the following resources:

Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990+)

• Trial period: through 4/23/09
• Interface: ISI Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge / Web of Science
• Content: an index of conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in the sciences and social sciences, including: Acta Horticulturae, Communications in Soil Science and Analysis, Crop Science, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Functional Plant Biology, Seed Science Research, and Weed Science
  

Springer E-books (1997+ book series, plus all content from 2005-2009)

• Trial period: through 4/30/09
• Interface: SpringerLink
• Content: 20,000+ books, including: Abiotic stress tolerance in plants, Advances in Molecular Breeding Toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops, Agricultural Biotechnology in China, Agricultural Research Management, Agrobacterium: From Biology to Biotechnology, Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases, Allelopathy in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control, Applications of Plant Metabolic Engineering, Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Temperate Species, Cell Biology of Plant Nematode Parasitism, Cereal Genomics, The Ecophysiology of Plant-Phosphorus Interactions, Encyclopedia of Entomology, Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology, Flower Breeding and Genetics, General Concepts in Integrated Pest and Disease Management, Genetic Improvement of Bioenergy Crops, Genetics and Genomics of Soybean, Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement, Handbook of Maize: Its Biology, Haploids in Crop Improvement II, Improvement of Crop Plants for Industrial End Uses, Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory, Integrated Management and Biocontrol of Vegetable and Grain Crops Nematodes, Integrated Management of Diseases Caused by Fungi, Phytoplasma and Bacteria, Invasive Plants: Ecological and Agricultural Aspects, Liquid Culture Systems for in vitro Plant Propagation, Micronutrient Deficiencies in Global Crop Production, Molecular Marker Systems in Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement, Multiplication of RNA Plant Viruses, Organic Crop Production – Ambitions and Limitations, PGPR: Biocontrol and Biofertilization, Plan Tissue Culture Engineering, Plant Cryopreservation: A Practical Guide, Plant disease epidemiology: facing challenges of the 21st Century, Plant Proteomics, Plant Responses to Air Pollution and Global Change, Plants and Climate Change, Protocols for Micropropagation of Woody Trees and Fruits, Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook
  

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the result of the efforts of these natural history museum and research libraries to digitize over two million volumes of published literature held in their collections:

• American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
• Field Museum (Chicago, IL)
• Harvard University Botany Libraries (Cambridge, MA)
• Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, MA)
• Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, MA)
• Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, MO)
• Natural History Museum (London, UK)
• New York Botanical Garden (New York, NY)
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Richmond, UK)
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington, DC)
• University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, IL)

As of today 30,808 volumes have been scanned, dating from the year 1480 to 2006. Subjects currently with strong representation in include:

• Agriculture
• Biology
• Botany
• Classification
• Entomology
• Insects
• Natural history
• North America
• Periodicals
• Pictorial works
• Plants
• Scientific expeditions, societies, etc.
• United States
• Zoology

A few books of interest to Wisconsin researchers:

• Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society (1909-1911)
• Phytoplankton of the inland lakes of Wisconsin (1920)
• Polyporaceae of Wisconsin (1914)
• Provisional list of the parasitic fungi of Wisconsin (1914)
• Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (1870+)
• Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1852+)
• Transactions of the State Horticultural Society (1871+)

See also, UW Digital Collections.

Library database outage: 2/15

Notice: Electronic Resources Outage

Due to scheduled system maintenance, access to licensed UW-Madison Libraries online databases and journals will be unavailable for off-campus users between 6-10am on Sunday, February 15th, 2009.

Knovel e-books: Acrobat 9.0 bug

Update 2/17/09: Knovel believes they have fixed the problem described below.
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If you use Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 (the latest version), you may currently experience difficulties accessing PDF documents in the Knovel e-book database.

Knovel is working on the issue, but they do not have a time estimate for fixing this bug.

Titles affected include:

• Agricultural Chemicals and the Environment
• Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology
• Biology Data Book
• Cereals: Novel Uses and Processes
• Cereals Processing Technology
• Chemistry and Technology of Agrochemical Formulations
• Dictionary of Agricultural and Environmental Science
• Encyclopedia of Agrochemicals
• Fruit and Vegetable Biotechnology
• Fruit and Vegetable Flavour - Recent Advances and Future Prospects
• Fruit and Vegetable Processing - Improving Quality
• Fundamentals of Soil Behavior
• Handbook of Farm, Dairy, and Food Machinery
• Handbook of Herbs and Spices
• Handbook of Organic Food Processing and Production
• Handbook of Residue Analytical Methods for Agrochemicals
• Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water
• Lockhart & Wiseman's Crop Husbandry - Including Grassland
• Mycotoxins in Food - Detection and Control
• Pesticide Residues in Food and Drinking Water - Human Exposure and Risks
• Practical Dehydration
• Renewable Bioenergy - Technologies, Risks, and Rewards
• Stability and Shelf-life of Food
• Sustainability in Agriculture
• Technology of Cereals
• Water Encyclopedia
• Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology

Links to Google Books added to MadCat library catalog

UW-Madison libraries have added 1000's of links from the MadCat library catalog to online versions in Google Books and the Big 10's shared digital repository, HathiTrust.

If an item we have in MadCat has been digitized by Google, the MadCat record will include the link: View available text online.

If a cover image is available, it will be shown in the MadCat record with the link: More Information At Google Books - whether or not the text is searchable or can be read online.

More E-books!

The libraries buy 1000's more online e-books, and provide access to many free e-books. Most of these are available through MadCat, and/or the following:

• American Memory - Library of Congress
• ASABE Technical Library - Am Soc of Ag & Bio Engineers
• Digital National Security Archive
• EngNetBase - technical handbooks & textbooks
• FAO Corporate Document Repository
• Kirk-Othmer - encyclopedia of chemical technology
• Knovel - technical handbooks & textbooks
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• National Academy Press - many subjects
• NCBI Bookshelf - health sciences
• NetLibrary - many subjects
• Safari Techbooks - programming
• Stat!Ref - health sciences
• StatsRefBase - statistics handbooks & textbooks
• Synthesis Digital Library - engineering, computer science
• UW Digital Collections - historical, local