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

Biotechnology Abstract database: New interface

Biotechnology Abstract moves to OvidSP, from WebSPIRS SilverPlatter

"Derwent Biotechnology Abstract is a Biotechnology Literature and Patents Information Service produced by Derwent Information Ltd. The subject coverage includes all aspects of biotechnology, from genetic manipulation to biochemical engineering and fermentation to downstream processing. All industrial uses of microorganisms, enzymes, and cell culture are covered, as well as plant micropropagation."

"Information is extracted from around 1200 major scientific publications, including primary journals and conference proceedings, and from the patents literature."

Journals indexed include:

• Agroforestry Systems


• Annals of Botany


• Biodiversity & Conservation


• Biologia Plantarum


• Biological Invasions


• Biological Reviews


• Euphytica


• European Journal of Plant Pathology


• FEBS Journal


• Genetic Resources & Crop Evolution


• Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics


• Journal of Experimental Botany


• Journal of Forensic Sciences


• Journal of Insect Behavior


• Medical & Veterinary Entomology


• Nature


• Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems


• Oikos


• Photosynthetica


• Plant & Cell Physiology


• Plant & Soil


• Plant Cell Tissue & Organ Culture


• Plant Journal


• Plant Pathology


• Precision Agriculture


• Soil Science


• Tropical Medicine & International Health

Light harvesting in plants

24 highly-cited papers from 2003 to 2009 form a "research front" on light harvesting in plants, as reported at Sciencewatch.com.

Topics covered include:

• Carotenoid and regulation of light harvesting
  
• Chloroplast protein kinase
• Light stress
  
• Organization of thylakoid proteins
  
• Photo-inhibition
  
• Photo-protection
  
• Photosystem I - crystal structure
• Photosystem II - core phosphorylation
• Photosystem II - light-harvesting antenna
• Photosystem II - repair
  
• Plant antenna protein
• Proteases in chloroplasts
  
• Quenching

Papers in the research front:

Title: Crystal structure of spinach major light-harvesting complex at 2.72 angstrom resolution
Journal: NATURE, 428 (6980): 287-292 MAR 18 2004
Authors: Liu, ZF; Yan, HC; Wang, KB; Kuang, TY; Zhang, JP; Gui, LL; An, XM; Chang, WR

Title: Crystal structure of plant photosystem I
Journal: NATURE, 426 (6967): 630-635 DEC 11 2003
Authors: Ben-Shem, A; Frolow, F; Nelson, N

Title: Carotenoid cation formation and the regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting
Journal: SCIENCE, 307 (5708): 433-436 JAN 21 2005
Authors: Holt, NE; Zigmantas, D; Valkunas, L; Li, XP; Niyogi, KK; Fleming, GR

Title: Supramolecular organization of thylakoid membrane proteins in green plants
Journal: BBA BIOENERGETICS, 1706 (1-2): 12-39 JAN 7 2005
Authors: Dekker, JP; Boekema, EJ

Title: Rote of chloroplast protein kinase Stt7 in LHCII phosphorylation and state transition in Chlamydomonas
Journal: SCIENCE, 299 (5612): 1572-1575 MAR 7 2003
Authors: Depege, N; Bellafiore, S; Rochaix, JD

Title: Molecular basis of photoprotection and control of photosynthetic light-harvesting
Journal: NATURE, 436 (7047): 134-137 JUL 7 2005
Authors: Pascal, AA; Liu, ZF; Broess, K; van Oort, B; van Amerongen, H; Wang, C; Horton, P; Robert, B; Chang, WR; Ruban, A

Title: Evidence for direct carotenoid involvement in the regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting
Journal: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE OF THE USA, 100 (8): 4377-4382 APR 15 2003
Authors: Ma, YZ; Holt, NE; Li, XP; Niyogi, KK; Fleming, GR

Title: Photoinhibition - a historical perspective
Journal: PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH, 76 (1-3): 343-370 2003
Authors: Adir, N; Zer, H; Shochat, S; Ohad, I

Title: Is PsbS the site of non-photochemical quenching in photosynthesis?
Journal: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 56 (411): 375-382 JAN 2005
Authors: Niyogi, KK; Li, XP; Rosenberg, V; Jung, HS

Title: Coordinated regulation and complex formation of YELLOW VARIEGATED1 and YELLOW VARIEGATED2, chloroplastic FtsH metalloproteases involved in the repair cycle of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thylakoid membranes Journal: PLANT CELL, 15 (12): 2843-2855 DEC 2003
Authors: Sakamoto, W; Zaltsman, A; Adam, Z; Takahashi, Y

Title: Molecular design of the photosystem II light-harvesting antenna: photosynthesis and photoprotection Journal:JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 56 (411): 365-373 JAN 2005
Authors: Horton, P; Ruban, A

Title: Dynamics of photosystem II: a proteomic approach to thylakoid protein complexes
Journal: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 56 (411): 347-356 JAN 2005
Authors: Aro, EM; Suorsa, M; Rokka, A; Allahverdiyeva, Y; Paakkarinen, V; Saleem, A; Battchikova, N; Rintamaki, E

Title: Photosystem II core phosphorylation and photosynthetic acclimation require two different protein kinases Journal: NATURE, 437 (7062): 1179-1182 OCT 20 2005
Authors: Bonardi, V; Pesaresi, P; Becker, T; Schleiff, E; Wagner, R; Pfannschmidt, T; Jahns, P; Leister, D

Title: FtsH-mediated repair of the photosystem II complex in response to light stress
Journal: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 56 (411): 357-363 JAN 2005
Authors: Nixon, PJ; Barker, M; Boehm, M; de Vries, R; Komenda, J

Title: Protein degradation machineries in plastids
Journal: ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY, 57: 599-621 2006
Authors: Sakamoto, W

Title: Photoprotection in an ecological context: the remarkable complexity of thermal energy dissipation
Journal: NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 172 (1): 11-21 2006
Authors: Demmig-Adams, B; Adams, WW

Title: Recent advances in the study of Clp, FtsH and other proteases located in chloroplasts
Journal: CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY, 9 (3): 234-240 JUN 2006
Authors: Adam, Z; Rudella, A; van Wijk, KJ

Title: Identification of a mechanism of photoprotective energy dissipation in higher plants
Journal: NATURE, 450 (7169): 575-U22 NOV 22 2007
Authors: Ruban, AV; Berera, R; Ilioaia, C; van Stokkum, IHM; Kennis, JTM; Pascal, AA; van Amerongen, H; Robert, B; Horton, P; van Grondelle, R

Title: Lack of the light-harvesting complex CP24 affects the structure and function of the grana membranes of higher plant chloroplasts
Journal: PLANT CELL, 18 (11): 3106-3120 NOV 2006
Authors: Kovacs, L; Damkjaer, J;Kereiche, S; Ilioaia, C; Ruban, AV; Boekema, EJ; Jansson, S;Horton, P

Title: Psb27, a cyanobacterial lipoprotein, is involved in the repair cycle of photosystem II
Journal: PLANT CELL, 18 (11): 3121-3131 NOV 2006
Authors: Nowaczyk, MM; Hebeler, R; Schlodder, E; Meyer, HE; Warscheid, B; Rogner, M

Title: Architecture of a charge-transfer state regulating light harvesting in a plant antenna protein
Journal: SCIENCE, 320 (5877): 794-797 MAY 9 2008
Authors: Ahn, TK; Avenson, TJ; Ballottari, M; Cheng, YC; Niyogi, KK; Bassi, R; Fleming, GR

Title: Zeaxanthin radical cation formation in minor light-harvesting complexes of higher plant antenna
Journal: JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 283 (6): 3550-3558 FEB 8 2008
Authors: Avenson, TJ; Ahn, TK; Zigmantas, D; Niyogi, KK; Li, Z; Ballottari, M; Bassi, R; Fleming, GR

Title: Interorganellar communication
Journal: CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY, 10 (6): 600-606 DEC 2007
Authors: Pesaresi, P; Schneider, A; Kleine, T; Leister, D

Title: How do environmental stresses accelerate photoinhibition?
Journal: TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 13 (4): 178-182 APR 2008
Authors: Takahashi, S; Murata, N

Recent publications from UW-Madison researchers

Recent publications by researchers affiliated with the departments of Agronomy, Entomology, Horticulture, and Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison:

• Allen, H.K.; Cloud-Hansen, K.A.; Wolinski, J.M.; Guan, C.H.; Greene, S.; Lu, S.; Boeyink, M.; Broderick, N.A.; Raffa, K.F.; Handelsman, J. (2009). Resident microbiota of the gypsy moth midgut harbors antibiotic resistance determinants. DNA and Cell Biology 28(3): 109-117.


• Broderick, N.A.; Robinson, C.J.; McMahon, M.D.; Holt, J.; Handelsman, J.; Raffa, K.F. (2009). Contributions of gut bacteria to Bacillus thuringiensis-induced mortality vary across a range of Lepidoptera. BMC Biology 7(11).


• Cardoza, Y.J.; Vasanthakumar, A.; Suazo, A.; Raffa, K.F. (2009). Survey and phylogenetic analysis of culturable microbes in the oral secretions of three bark beetle species. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 131(2): 138-147.


• Cavagnaro, P.F.; Chung S.M.; Szklarczyk, M.; Grzebelus, D.; Senalik, D.; Atkins, A.E.; Simon, P.W. (2009). Characterization of a deep-coverage carrot (Daucus carota L.) BAC library and initial analysis of BAC-end sequences. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 281(3): 273-288.


• Contreras-Govea, F.E.; Muck, R.E.; Armstrong, K.L.; Albrecht, K.A. (2009). Fermentability of corn-lablab bean mixtures from different planting densities. Animal Feed Science and Technology 149(3/4): 298-306.


• Copas, M.E.; Bussan, A.J.; Drilias, M.J.; Wolkowski, R.P. (2009). Potato yield and quality response to subsoil tillage and compaction. Agronomy Journal 101(1): 82-90.


• Dauer, J.T.; Mortensen, D.A.; Luschei, E.C.; Isard, S.A.; Shields, E.; Van-Gessel, M.J. (2009). Conyza canadensis seed ascent in the lower atmosphere. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149(3-4): 526-534.


• Duke, S.H.; Henson, C.A. (2009). A comparison of barley malt amylolytic enzyme activities as indicators of malt sugar concentrations. Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists 67(2): 99-111.


• Hatfield, R.D.; Marita, J.M.; Frost, K.; Grabber, J.; Ralph, J.; Lu, F.C.; Kim, H. (2009). Grass lignin acylation: p-coumaroyl transferase activity and cell wall characteristics of C3 and C4 grasses. Planta 229(6): 1253-1267.


• Konieczka, C.M.; Colquhoun, J.B.; Rittmeyer, R.A. (2009). Swamp dodder (Cuscuta gronovii) applied ecology in carrot production. Weed Technology 23(1): 175-178.


• Kramer, L.C.; Choudoir, M.J.; Wielgus, S.M.; Bhaskar, P.B.; Jiang, J.M. Correlation between transcript abundance of the RB gene and the level of the RB-mediated late blight resistance in potato. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (22)4: 447-455.


• Lorenz, A.J.; Coors, J.G.; de Leon, N.; Wolfrum, E.J.; Hames, B.R.; Sluiter, A.D.; Weimer, P.J. (2009). Characterization, genetic variation, and combining ability of maize traits relevant to the production of cellulosic ethanol. Crop Science 49(1): 85-98.


• Madritch, M.D.; Greene, S.L.; Lindroth, R.L. (2009). Genetic mosaics of ecosystem functioning across aspen-dominated landscapes. Oecologia 160(1): 119-127.


• Markham, M.Y.; Stoltenberg, D.E. (2009). Red:far-red light effects on corn growth and productivity in field environments. Weed Science 57(2): 208-215.


• Pethybridge, S.J.; Gent, D.H.; Esker, P.D.; Turechek, W.W.; Hay, F.S.; Nutter, F.W. (2009). Site-specific risk factors for ray blight in Tasmanian pyrethrum fields. Plant Disease 93(3): 229-237.


• Posner, J.L.; Frank, G.G.; Nordlund, K.V.; Schuler, R.T. (2009). A constant goal, changing tactics: the Krusenbaum dairy farm (1996-2005). Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 24(1): 8-18.


• Rhemtulla, J.M.; Mladenoff, D.J.; Clayton, M.K. (2009). Historical forest baselines reveal potential for continued carbon sequestration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106(15): 6082-6087.


• Rotenberg, D.; Krishna Kumar, N.K.; Ullman, D.E.; Montero-Astua, M.; Willis, D.K.; German, T.L.; Whitfield, A.E. (2009). Variation in tomato spotted wilt virus titer in Frankliniella occidentalis and its association with frequency of transmission. Phytopathology 99(4): 404-410.


• Shinners, K.J., Huenink, B.M., Muck, R.E., Albrecht, K.A. (2009). Storage characteristics of large round and square alfalfa bales: Low-moisture wrapped bales. Transactions of the ASABE 52(2): 401-407.


• Sonnentag, P.J; Jeanne, R.L. (2009). Initiation of absconding-swarm emigration in the social wasp Polybia occidentalis. Journal of Insect Science. 9: 11.


• Willis, D. K.; Kinscherf, T. G. (2009). Population dynamics of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato strains on tomato cultivars Rio Grande and Rio Grande-Pto under field conditions. Journal of Phytopathology 157(4): 219-227.


• Zedler, P.H.; Anchor, T.; Knuteson, D.; Gratton, C.; Barzen, J. (2009). Using an ecolabel to promote on-farm conservation: the Wisconsin Healthy Grown experience. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 7(1): 61-74.

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

White papers and pre-prints

Working papers, white papers, gray literature, pre-prints, technical reports, conference presentations...

There's a wealth of research publications that don't fall into the categories of "journal article" or "book" -

ASABE Technical Library

Publications of the American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers:

• Standards, meeting papers, conference proceedings, lecture series, journals, and more
  

Conference Papers Index

Index to presentations from such conferences as:

• Annual Conference of the American Society for Horticultural Science
• Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America
• Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology
• International Plant Protection Congress
• Symposium on Horticulture in Europe
• Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships

NTIS (National Technical Information Service)

Published results of U.S. federally-funded research, such as:

• Documentation and User Guides for SPBLOB: A Computer Simulation Model of the Joint Population Dynamics for Loblolly Pine and the Southern Pine Beetle (Forest Service)
  
• Honey (National Agricultural Statistics Service)
• Invasive Species Databases: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 12-13, 1998
• National Plant Genome Initiative: 2009-2013 (National Science and Technology Council)
• Rice: Situation and Outlook Yearbook 2008 (Economic Research Service)
• Soybean Rust: A Rising Star in Phytopathology (Department of Energy, Joint Genome Inst.)

Arxiv E-prints

The Quantitative Biology subject area includes subcategories for:

• Biomolecules
• Cell Behavior
• Genomics
• Populations and Evolution
• Subcellular Processes
• Tissues and Organs

Science Accelerator

Publications of the U.S. Department of Energy, such as:

• Bioenergy Alliance high-tonnage bioenergy crop production and conversion into conventional fuels
• Bioenergy Feedstock Development Program status report
• Development of a nematode biocontrol agent for agriculture
• Microbially derived agriculture crop protection products
  

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

Focus on socioeconomics, but still a source of plant and insect research such as:

• Actual Crop Water Use in Project Countries: A Synthesis at the Regional Level (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4288)
• Analysis of Crop Choice: Adapting to Climate Change in Latin American Farms (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4162)
• Conserving Crop Genetic Resources on Smallholder Farms in Hungary: Institutional Analysis (FEEM Working Paper No. 63.04)
• Crop Diversification in Orissa: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis (Jawaharlal Nehru University Working Paper Series)
  
• Insect Resistance Management for Bt Corn: An Assessment of Community Refuge Schemes (AgBioForum)
• Trends in Australian Agriculture (Productivity Commission Research Paper)