PubMed Central - free open access journals

PubMed Central is the free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journals, from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Journals recently added to PMC include:

• BioData Mining


• Bioinformation


• Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications


• Biophysical Journal


• BMC Systems Biology


• Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology


• CBE Life Sciences Education


• Comparative and Functional Genomics (formerly, Yeast)


• Cytotechnology


• Disease Models & Mechanisms


• Epigenetics & Chromatin


• Environmental Health Perspectives


• EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


• Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online


• Food & Nutrition Research (formerly, Scandinavian Journal of Food & Nutrition)


• Genes & Nutrition


• Genetics


• Genetics, Selection, Evolution: GSE


• HFSP Journal: frontiers of interdisciplinary research in the life sciences


• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases


• International Journal of Biomedical Imaging


• International Journal of Molecular Sciences


• Journal of Molecular Signaling


• Journal of Nematology


• Korean Journal of Parasitology


• Molecular Systems Biology


• Open Biochemistry Journal


• Open Microbiology Journal


• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences


• Protein Science: A Publication of the Protein Society


• Systems and Synthetic Biology

See also:

• UK PubMed Central (UKPMC)

Open access journals via Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell offers various open access options, including "OnlineOpen" (author or funding agency pays for individual articles to be publicly-accessible); policies regarding the NIH, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Wellcome Trust mandates; and "Open Access Backfiles" (society or funding agency pays for digitization of past issues). Journal backfiles available for free to the public include:

• Australian Journal of Entomology - Content older than 1997
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education - Content older than 2 years back to 2002
• Cellular Microbiology - Content older than 2 years
• FEBS Journal - Content older than 1 year
• Functional Ecology - Content older than 2 years
• Genes To Cells - Content older than 6 months
• Journal of Applied Ecology - Content older than 2 years
• Journal of Applied Microbiology - Content older than 3 years back to Jan 1st 1997
• Journal of Ecology - Content older than 2 years
• Journal of Evolutionary Biology - Content older than 2 years
• Letters In Applied Microbiology - Content older than 3 years back to Jan 1st 1997
• New Phytologist - Content older than 1 year
• Plant Cell & Environment - Content older than 3 years back to Jan 1st 1997
• Plant Pathology - Content older than 3 years back to Jan 1st 1997
• The Plant Journal - Content older than 1 year

Plant + insect movie archive

The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that preserves public access to websites, out-of-copyright book texts, audio (including live music), and video in digital format. Over 158,000 movies can be watched online, or downloaded as files, including:

• Andy Leigh: Terrestrial Plant Ecophysiology (2008) - "Biologist Andrea Leigh speaks to Shannon Jones about her research into how leaves deal with heat." University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.


• Gardening (1940) - "Follows a boy and a girl through a garden-raising project from the selection of seeds to the harvesting of the crops. Includes radishes, carrots, tomatoes and potatoes. Emphasizes aspects of soils, growth, role of the sun, insect pests and the various parts of plants used for food--leaves, stems, buds and roots."


• Goodbye, Mr. Roach (ca.1959) - "Detailed film about cockroaches, their habits and methods of extermination, with a harrowing sequence of roach nymphs hatching." Clemson College Extension Service.


• Goodbye, Mrs. Ant (1959) - "The life cycle and habits of the ant, and how to control and exterminate them with insecticides. Begins with a wonderful sequence in which we hear ants screaming "We're hungry! We're hungry!"" University of Georgia, Agricultural Extension Service.


• Hemp for Victory (1942) - "U.S. government propaganda film made during WWII touting the virtues of hemp. The film was aimed at farmers at a time when the miltary was facing a shortage of hemp, it shows how hemp is grown and processed into rope and other products."
  


• The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) - "Classic drama which details the Great Plains during the Depression. With Cinematography by Leo Hurwitz, Ralph Steiner, Paul Ivano and Paul Strand. Selected for the 1999 National Film Registry of "artistically, culturally, and socially significant" films."


• The Southerner (1945) - "Jean Renoir's classic tale of a cotton picker (Zachary Scott) who moves his wife (Betty Field) and children to a run down farm in hopes that they can grow their own cotton and make for a better future."


• Weed Ecology: Competition (2008) - "[Powerpoint] lecture about crop/weed competition for resources." Andrew Kniss, University of Wyoming.
  


• Who Shall Reap? (1969) - "Insects or humans? Weeds, diseases, and other pestilence that confound farmers and threaten the worlds food supply."


• Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth protecting pollinators (2008) - "Northern Michigan teens are on a mission to protect pollinators by helping butterflies and restoring native plants to areas of the Upper Peninsula."

Grants Information Collection workshops

Identifying Grants for Research & Project Funding
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:30–12noon
Thursday, March 5, 2009 1–2:30pm
Emphasis is on funding for academic pursuits.

Grants for Your Education
Friday, February 13, 2009 11:45–1:15pm
For current and future Wisconsin students of any institute of higher education interested in scholarships, fellowships and grants. Identify funding sources beyond those that are available through most offices of financial aid.

Intro to Foundation Grants for Non-Profits
Thursday, February 19, 2009 1–2:45pm
Friday, March 13, 2009 9–10:45am
Orientation to the Collection, background on the world of grantmaking, information on how to build a credible nonprofit organization, and general grantseeking tips. Suitable for staff of nonprofit organizations and UW clientele.

Foundation Directory Online
Thursday, February 19, 2009 3–4pm
Friday, March 13, 2009 11–12noon
Gain hands-on experience using this Foundation Center database.

More Info
Fee: None, FREE to all
Registration: Not required, but seating is limited
Location: Rm.436 Memorial Library (non-UW participants can get a day pass with an ID at the entrance)
Questions? Contact Nikki Busch at (608) 262-6431, or grantsinfo@library.wisc.edu

Wiscard photo ID cards + Library cards

Photo ID cards
Beginning January 5th, students, staff and faculty will visit the Wiscard office’s new location in Rm.4316 Memorial Union for UW-Madison photo ID cards, passport photos and other services. The old Union South office's last open day is December 22nd. Upon completion in summer 2011, the Wiscard office will return to the new Union South.

Library cards
UW-Madison students, staff & faculty use Wiscard as a library card. For MadCat, WorldCat or Library Express book & article delivery requests, use your Wiscard ID number (the 10 digits under your name plus the 11th "issue code" digit. Use your NetID instead for off-campus access to e-books & online journal subscriptions.

Wisconsin residents can get a FREE borrowing card to check out materials at Steenbock Library (agricultural & life sciences) and Ebling Library (health sciences), or Wisconsin's Water Library.

The following are additionally eligible for a FREE courtesy card to borrow materials from ANY UW-Madison library:

• Spouses, domestic partners, & children of UW-Madison faculty, staff & students
• Employees of the Wisconsin Historical Society, UW Credit Union, Wisconsin Union, State of Wisconsin, Dane County, & City of Madison
• Wisconsin social work coordinators and public PK-12 educators
• Faculty of Wisconsin private colleges, MATC, Edgewood College, Beloit College, CIC & OCLC institutions
• Students & staff of MATC, Edgewood College, and Beloit College
• Donors (Friends of the Libraries)

For $30 per year, the following are eligible for an annual fee card to borrow materials from ANY UW-Madison library:

• Wisconsin residents
• Corporations registered with the Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions

All other individuals and businesses may use their public library's interlibrary loan services, or one of our fee-based information services on campus.

Anyone can use UW-Madison library resources on site for FREE.

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

FREE! Bio/chem software

Did you know?
UW faculty, staff & students can download these chemical software tools for free!

ChemBioOffice 2008

• Includes ChemDraw Std 11.0, ChemDraw ActiveX, and Chem3D ActiveX
  
• Draw chemical reactions and structures - MS Office integration, customizable arrow tools, color faded shapes, and terminal carbon labeling
• Query online databases and view & publish online structures

SciFinder Scholar

• World's largest collection of organic & inorganic substance information
• 16 million+ chemical reactions
• 1 billion+ predicted & experimental properties
• CAS Registry number database
• Patent records within 2 days of issue
• Sequences from CAS and GenBank, linked to the literature
• Article abstracts from 10,000+ currently published journals
• Regulatory and supplier information
  

Beilstein / Gmelin MDL Crossfire Commander

• Beilstein (organic) & Gmelin (inorganic/organometallic) databases provide preparations, reactions and properties of chemical substances
  
• Searchable by chemical structure, formula, physical property parameters, chemical reaction, and literature citation
• Beilstein also includes pharmacological, ecotoxicological and bioactivity data

More tools

• Chemistry Computing Center software
• Condor - distributed, high-throughput computing
• Game of Life
• Mauve - genome evolution
• OME at LOCI - microscopy visualization
• Steenbock Library Infolab - Amino Acids, Stryer's Biochemistry, etc.
• WinPLT - chemical structures