Insects and Biofuels

Researchers are studying the interactions of insects, plants, fungi & microbes for clues to maximizing the production and efficiency of biofuels...

• Special issue of Insect Science (June 2010): "Exploring and integrating cellulolytic systems of insects to advance biofuel technology"

• UW Libraries Research Guide - Bioenergy: Plants and Microbes

• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

More resources:

• Journal of Economic Entomology

• Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

• Journal of Insect Physiology

• Biotechnology for Biofuels

• Biomass & Bioenergy

• Bioresource Technology

• Bioenergy Research

• Global Change Biology Bioenergy

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)

ScienceAccelerator.gov - new & improved search

The Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy has added new features to ScienceAccelerator.gov, the search engine for 10 key DOE sites.

Customize Your Search

New search and retrieval features and capabilities have been added:

• automatically spell check your search terms
• e-mail your search results
• export results into your citation management software
• links to EurekAlert! Science News and Wikipedia
  
• clusters results by topic and/or by date
  

Other search and retrieval features include:

• advanced searching
• searching within a search
• sorting search results
• narrowing your search results by individually selecting items of interest

Science Accelerator helps you to find research and development reports; e-prints; science conference proceedings; DOE patents, accomplishments, project descriptions, and software; DOE-associated Nobel Prize Winners; and more.