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]

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.

American Journal of Potato Research

View and search the full run of the American Journal of Potato Research online, from 1923-2009!

UW-Madison's own John Bamberg, Professor of Horticulture, is the Editor-in-Chief of this publication of The Potato Association of America.

Our library patrons have access to 419 full-text journal titles from the same interface (SpringerLlink), as well as several reference e-books:

• Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Informatics


• Encyclopedia of Parasitology


• Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology


• The Prokaryotes (volumes 1-7)


• Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook (pt.2, ch.2: Classification of Plant Pathogens)

The American Journal of Potato Research is just one of 1000's of journals whose articles can be searched at one time, from the following subscription databases:

• AGRICOLA


• Biological Abstracts


• Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)


• Food Science and Technology Abstracts

Journal permission changes in Proquest

The UW-Madison Libraries provide access to many databases on the Proquest platform, including:

• ABI / Inform Global (business)
• Alt-Press Watch (alternative and independent media)
• Dissertations & Theses
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• GenderWatch
• Hoover's Company Records
• National Newspaper Abstracts
• Proquest Research Library (multidisciplinary)

New Content (selected):

• Biota Neotropica - new citation, full text, and page image coverage
• New Zealand Journal of Ecology - new citation, abstract, full text, and page image coverage

Permission Changes (selected):

• Annals of Botany - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
• Behavioral Ecology - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
• Biometrika - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• Biostatistics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• Briefings in Bioinformatics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• Briefings in Functional Genomics & Proteomics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• European Review of Agricultural Economics discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
• Glycobiology -discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
• IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics - discontinued citation, abstract and page image coverage
• Integrative and Comparative Biology - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• International Journal on ELearning - discontinued full text, page image, and text+graphics coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia - discontinued full text and page image coverage; dtation and abstract coverage continues
• Journal of Technology and Teacher Education - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• Journal of Heredity - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• Mathematical Medicine and Biology - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
• Molecular Biology and Evolution - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
• Plant & Cell Physiology - discontinued citation, abstract and page image coverage
• What Works in Teaching and Learning - ceased publication

Dow Jones Factiva periodical database

The UW-Madison libraries subscribe to the Factiva database of business and finance publications, newswires, photographs and multimedia content.

New features:

• Automated translation from Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese & Chinese (traditional and simple) into English, and vice versa


• Exclusive online content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Dow Jones Newswires


• "Concept Explorer" uses semantic technology to connect words, ideas & people from multiple industries, including Agriculture & Forestry

Periodicals searched include:

AgExporter
AGRA Alimentation (Abstracts)
Agra Europe
Agrarisch Dagblad (Agricultural Daily) (Dutch)
Agrarnaya nauka (Russian)
Agrarwirtschaft (German)
Agrarzeitung Ernährungsdienst (German)
Agri Marketing (Abstracts)
Agribusiness (Abstracts)
Agricultural Chemical News (Abstracts)
Agricultural Research
Agriculture Week
Agropromyshlennaya gazeta Yuga Rossii (Russian)
Agrow Online Plus
AGROW World Crop Protection News
Agweek (MCT) (N.D.)
AIZ - Agrarisches Informationszentrum Pressedienst (German)
American Gardener (Abstracts)
Apply
Arable Farming (U.K.)
ASI Agricultural Supply Industry News
ASI Online Plus
Australian Cotton Outlook
Australian Farm Journal
Australian Life Scientist
Avicultura Profesional (Spanish)
Bee Culture
Biomolecular Diagnostics News
Bit (Dutch)
Boerderij (Dutch)
Boerderij Melkvee 100Plus (Dutch)
Boerderij Regionaal (Dutch)
Boerderij Verdieping (Dutch)
Cap Weekly
China Green Times (Chinese - Simplified)
China Green Times (Chinese - Traditional)
China Land and Resources Newspaper (Chinese - Simplified)
China Land and Resources Newspaper (Chinese - Traditional)
Corn & Soybean Digest
Cotton Grower (Abstracts)
Crop Science (Abstracts)
Croplife (Abstracts)
CropLife (Abstracts)
Crops (Abstracts)
Delta Farm Press
Department of Agriculture Documents
Ekonomika selskogo hozyaistva Rossii (Russian)
Europolitics Agriculture
Europolitique Agriculture (French)
Farm Chemicals (Abstracts)
Farm Chemicals International (Abstracts)
Farm Industry News
Farm Journal (Midwest/Central Edition)
Farm Weekly
Farmers Guardian
Farmers Weekly
Farmers Weekly (Abstracts)
Farming News
Feed & Grain
Feed Mix
Feed Tech
Feedmagazine Kraftfutter (German)
Focus on Intermediates & Contract Chemicals (Abstracts)
Food Review
Fruit & Veg Tech
Global Pesticide Campaigner (Abstracts)
Grain: World Markets and Trade
Greenhouse Grower (Abstracts)
Groenten en Fruit (Dutch)
Grounds Maintenance
Grower
Hay & Forage Grower
Het Schaap (Dutch)
Horticulture
Horticulture News [NZ]
Horticulture Week
Interfax: China Commodities Daily - Grain & Softs
Interfax: Food & Agriculture Report (Russian)
Interfax Food and Agriculture (Abstracts)
Interfax: Russia & CIS Food & Agriculture Weekly
Irrigation Journal
The Japan Agricultural News (Japanese)
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Kiplinger Agriculture Letter
Krestyanskaya Rossiya (Russian)
Krestyanskie vedomosti (Russian)
KZ Press-Club: Agriculture (Russian)
Land Letter
The Land
Landcare
Lesnoi region (Russian)
Lesnye novosti (Russian)
Magasin Agricole (Abstracts)
Milling & Baking News
Montana Business Quarterly
New York State Conservationist
NOVECON: Russia/CIS Agribusiness Digest (Russian)
Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
Outlooks on Pest Management (Abstracts)
Pluimveehouderij (Dutch)
Pro
Pro Farmer
Ranch and Rural Living
Relations Culture (Abstracts)
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (Abstracts)
Resource Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
Resource News International
Ryba Kamchatskogo kraya on-line (Russian)
Rybak Severa (Russian)
Selskaya gazeta (Russian)
Selskaya zhizn (Russian)
SinoCast Agriculture Beat
Soil Science Society of America Journal (Abstracts)
Southeast Farm Press
Southwest Farm Press
Straight Furrow [NZ]
The Tablelander
Tasmanian Country
Terra e Vita (Abstracts)
Terre & Nature (French)
The Main Report’s Profitable Agri-Business
Timber Trade Journal
Top Producer
Trekker (Dutch)
TTJ - The Timber Industry Magazine
UkrAgroConsult (Russian)
Vakblad AGF (Dutch)
The Weekly Times
Western Farm Press
What's new in Farming
Xinhua CEIS - Agricultural & Food Product News (Chinese - Simplified)
Xinhua CEIS - Agricultural & Food Product News (Chinese - Traditional)
Yard & Garden
Zemedelske Noviny (Czech Republic, Abstracts)

Proquest/COS/CSA down: 9/26-27

Database maintenance

• 9:00pm Saturday, September 26th - 9:00am Sunday, September 27th
• Improvement: The New York Times will now include browse/search capability for over 3 million assigned subject terms from 1851-1993

Library tools affected include:

• ABI/Inform - business
• Alt-Press Watch - alternative press
• American Periodicals Series - historical (1741-1900)
• ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
• Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
• Chadwyck-Healey databases
• Community of Science (COS) - research collaboration and funding
• Conference Papers Index - environmental and life sciences focus
• CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences - search images, charts, graphs, tables
• CSA Technology Research Database collection
• Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest Digital Dissertations)
• EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• GenderWatch
• Hoover's Company Records
• NTIS - technical reports of federal government-funded research
• Oceanic Abstracts
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers - New York Times, etc.
• ProQuest Newspapers
• ProQuest Research Library - multidisciplinary

MadCat library catalog upgrade: 8/14

The MadCat online library catalog is being upgraded until approximately 11:00am, Friday, August 14th.

Unrelated services are not affected, including:

• UW-Madison libraries website
• Ask a Librarian services (IM, e-mail, etc.)
• Online databases for journal articles and e-books
• E-Journals list of online journal subscriptions
• Find It tool for locating specific articles
• Library Express article and book delivery
• Research guides
• Library Course Pages
• WorldCat library catalog
• Laptop and equipment check-out
• Study and meeting room online reservations
• Online tutorials
• Workshops & tours

"MadCat" is the UW-Madison's name for our online library catalog (once called a "card catalog"). A library catalog is a way to search or browse to find materials which the libraries have collected: books, journals, magazines, newspapers, movies and other visual works, music and other audio works, software for check-out, maps, kits, realia, government documents, technical reports, databases and data sets, standards and codes, etc.

New campus library website!

The new UW-Madison Libraries website launched this week. The new design features:

• A single tabbed search box for Articles, Books, Journals, Databases, and Site Search
• Re-worded links, based on user testing
• No deleted content
• A commitment to continuous improvement

If you'd like assistance finding the new location for your favorite resources or services, please let me know.

As always, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Note: the MadCat library catalog will soon undergo design changes, as well.

Coming soon: A new look for PubMed

The National Library of Medicine has announced that the PubMed database will soon undergo an interface redesign. Stated goals are to make PubMed easier to use, simplify the interface, refresh the look, better organize the text on the screen, and promote scientific discovery. NLM anticipates that the new design will be ready in mid-September.

Among the expected changes is the replacement of the current tab system (Limits, Preview/Index, History, Clipboard, Details) with a single screen combining many features onto one page.

The campus libraries offer hands-on training for PubMed (and many other research tools) - check soon for the Fall workshop schedule.

FAQ:

• What is the launch date? Proposed for mid-September.


• Where have changes been discussed? June issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin.


• Where will Single Citation Matcher & Clinical Queries be? Links will be on the front page and on Advanced Search.


• Is “Preferences” replacing “MyNCBI”? Undecided.


• What are the most results we can view on a page? Changing from 500 to 200 as a max.


• Will there still be links to the MeSH database? Yes.


• Will there be a direct export function to bibliographic management software? No, can’t support the many types of software.


• Is Advanced Search changing? Not at this point.


• Why not call it MySavedSearches instead of Preferences or MyNCBI? Because it includes functionality for all of the other Entrez systems.


• Are there any plans for adjacency searching? No. Not part of the base technology.


• Where will clipboard items be displayed? A link to access clipboard items will be available in the upper right hand corner, similar to the Limits message.


• Will saved searches be lost when the new interface goes into effect? No.


• Will LinkOut still exist? Yes


• Will search screens for other NCBI databases change as well? Others will eventually change, unsure which ones and on what timeline.


• Will cross-database searching be available? They are not implementing a new technology, just a change in appearance. The only cross database search capability is found on the Entrez home page.


• Will it be possible to e-mail to more than one address? Not at this point as far as we know.


• Will the library links to full text still be there? Yes, probably in the upper right corner on individual citation display.


• Will we still have the ability in history to combine search numbers? Yes, will probably have to go to Advanced Search page.


• What citation display views will we still have? All, except Citation and AbstractPlus won’t exist anymore.


• Is it still possible to display text on the screen not as HTML? Yes, in Summary and Abstract views.


• Will the hyperlinked MeSH terms in the display run a search or link to the database? They will probably only run a search, not link to MeSH database.


• Where is "details"? Only by clicking into AdvancedSearch at this point.


• Will Journals and MeSH database be available like on the sidebar now? Yes, on front page and through a drop-down menu above search box. Drop-down menu should be customizable in MyNCBI.


• Is there a limit to the number of buttons for full-text access? Not that we are aware of.


• Will the preview function still exist? Yes, on Advanced Search.


• Will Powerpoint slides be available? Yes, in the June TB issue. A webinar recording will also be available later.


• Are the limits available for both search boxes? There is only one search box.


• Will there be another orientation when the new look debuts? Yes, including tutorials, quicktours, etc.


• Where will limits be? Advanced Search page.


• Where will history be? Advanced Search page.


• Where will single citation matcher be? On the home page and on Advanced Search page.


• Can you select to view MeSH terms in the citation record? Yes, you can set that preference in MyNCBI.


• Can Advanced Search be set as the default searching page? No, the search box will be at the top of every page, so the page itself can’t be set.


• Is it possible to get rid of the boxes on the right-hand side? You can click the minus sign, but they won’t totally go away.


• Will we have to change our OutsideTool settings? No.


• How much of a heads-up will we get? As much as we can get from NCBI.

[Thanks to Ebling Library blog]

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory maintenance: 7/31

The UW Libraries subscription to Ulrich's Periodicals Directory may be unavailable for as long as six hours on Friday, July 31, from 8:00 pm – 2:00 am Central Time.

Ulrichsweb.com is an authoritative source of information on and reviews for more than 300,000 periodicals — scholarly journals (including open access publications), magazines, newspapers, newsletters, zines and more from around the world.

Search for active, ceased and forthcoming periodicals by title, ISSN, subject, publisher/distributor, peer reviewed/refereed status, keyword, abstracting and indexing services, country/state/city of publication, language, frequency, open access status, price, etc.

Ulrich's is also connected to Journal Citation Reports (JCR), WorldCat, and UW-Madison's "Find It" tool.

Informaworld maintenance: 8/1

The Informaworld database will be down:

• Saturday, August 1st 5:00am- 7:00am
  

Informaworld is the interface for several publisher imprints, including Taylor & Francis and Routledge. Publications affected include:

• Bioremediation journal
• Chronobiology international
• Communications in soil science and plant analysis
• Critical reviews in biochemistry & molecular biology
• Critical reviews in biotechnology
• Critical reviews in microbiology
• Critical reviews in plant sciences
• Encyclopedia of Animal Science
• European journal of agricultural education and extension
• European journal of phycology
• Food & foodways
• Geomicrobiology journal
• Historical biology
• International journal of phytoremediation
• International journal of remote sensing
• International Journal of Science Education
• The Journal of agricultural education and extension
• Journal of Agricultural & Food Information
• Journal of Agromedicine
• Journal of Applied Statistics
• Journal of Further and Higher Education
• Journal of Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants
• Journal of New Seeds
• Journal of sustainable agriculture
• Journal of Sustainable Forestry
• Landscape Research
• Research into higher education abstracts
• Scandinavian journal of forest research
• Science as Culture
• Science & Technology Libraries
• Society & natural resources
• Soil & sediment contamination
• Studies in science education

Journal use at the UW-Madison

Online journal usage statistics for selected titles related to the plant and insect sciences at the UW-Madison:

Title - # Articles Accessed 2008

Cell - 26,926
Journal of Molecular Biology - 13,134
Current Biology - 9,482
Molecular Cell - 8,752
FEBS Letters - 7,193
Molecular Microbiology - 4,770
Virology - 4,344
Gene - 4,200
Forest Ecology and Management - 3,939
Current Opinion in Cell Biology - 3,629
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 3,306
Chemistry & Biology - 3,247
Trends in Ecology and Evolution - 3,199
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology - 3,071
Trends in Cell Biology - 3,069
Atmospheric Environment - 2,971
Current Opinion in Structural Biology - 2,967
Biological Conservation - 2,849
Current Opinion in Plant Biology - 2,810
Current Opinion in Biotechnology - 2,791
Trends in Genetics - 2,625
Trends in Plant Science - 2,561
Soil Biology and Biochemistry - 2,451
Current Opinion in Microbiology - 2,435
Remote Sensing of Environment - 2,387
Ecological Modelling - 2,367
Journal of Power Sources - 2,290
Journal of Biotechnology - 2,260
Trends in Microbiology - 2,253
FEBS Journal - 2,139
Conservation Biology - 2,137
Chemosphere - 1,948
Biotechnology and Bioengineering - 1,888
Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment - 1,799
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology - 1,643
Cellular and molecular life sciences (CMLS) - 1,523
New Phytologist - 1,488
Proteomics - 1,480
Global Change Biology - 1,454
Oecologia - 1,452
Ecology Letters - 1,336
Science of the Total Environment - 1,334
Molecular Ecology - 1,317
FEMS Microbiology Letters - 1,264
Journal of Cellular Physiology - 1,249
Environmental Microbiology - 1,223
BioEssays - 1,208
Genomics - 1,204
Bioresource Technology - 1,074
Fungal Genetics and Biology - 1,064
FEMS Microbiology Letters - 1,049
Journal of Applied Microbiology - 1,024
Restoration Ecology - 997
Cellular Microbiology - 964
Landscape Ecology - 963
Animal Feed Science and Technology - 880
Plant Molecular Biology - 874
Ecosystems - 863
Plant Science - 859
Biometrics - 839
Journal of Applied Ecology - 808
Planta - 791
Environmental Management - 757
Biotechnology Letters - 695
Climatic Change - 679
Cytometry Part A - 639
Plant Cell & Environment - 623
FEMS Microbiology Ecology - 576
Plant and Soil - 573
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology - 564
Microbial Ecology - 563
Global Environmental Change - 551
Journal of Ecology - 546
Euphytica - 542
Biological Invasions - 534
Journal of Biogeography - 519
Plant Ecology - 483
Virus Research - 483
Biodiversity and Conservation - 470
Molecular genetics and genomics (MGG) - 463
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture - 459
Biogeochemistry - 441
Journal of Cereal Science - 436
Archives of Microbiology - 429
Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology - 417
Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology - 415
Oikos - 412
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - 365

Coming soon: Proxy changes for licensed database access

Proxy changes for licensed database access

The UW Libraries are changing how we manage access to our online, licensed resources from campus computers. These changes have already been implemented for our library computer networks and now it's time to implement them for the rest of campus.

In order to better control access and remain in compliance with our license agreements, beginning on July 1st, all links from our http://library.wisc.edu pages to licensed, e-resource links, will be routed through our proxy server. For computers within the campus IP space, this routing will occur without the need for any user authentication. The only thing you will notice is a URL with an "ezproxy" string embedded in it. Computers outside of the campus IP space route through the proxy as they do now, with a need to authenticate with a valid NetID and password.

Users who have direct links or bookmarks to licensed resources, such as http://www.sciencedirect.com from campus computers will continue to be able to do so in the short term, but eventually as we notify vendors to only accept sessions from our proxy server IP address, they will be denied.

The most reliable way to maintain access to resources is to access them via our library web pages where all appropriate proxying is automatic. We do however realize that some users will wish to use direct links to licensed content. In order to facilitate this, we will be promoting a simple "bookmarklet" that will insert the proxy string into any URL. Users will be able to easily insert the proxy string using this bookmarklet and then create new bookmarks for future use. Information on this "bookmarklet" can be found at: http://www.library.wisc.edu/off-campus/#what-is-it

Why are we making this change?

The main reason we're making this change is because of the increasingly dynamic nature of the campus IP space and the proliferation of VPNs. With our current system if there are changes to the campus IP range (for example, an extension of a campus subnet to Research Park) or creation of VPN ranges, we must communicate it to hundreds of resource vendors. By bringing IP control back to our proxy server, we can make the changes locally (forcing authentication or not) and only require our vendors to allow sessions from the few proxy server IPs.

Why is this so complicated?

The main complicating issue is the way in which we license resources. The vast majority of them are licensed to allow anybody to use them while physically on the UW campus. In addition, any staff, faculty or student may use them from anywhere. So, we use a proxy server to confirm if a user is on campus, and if they are not, we force them to login to ensure they are staff, faculty or students.

Please let us know if you have questions or concerns about any of these changes, or if problems arise with resource access.