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)

Biological databases and bioinformatics

Oxford Journals has launched the open access journal Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.

The new journal aims to publish "novel ideas in database research and the curation of biological information... to strengthen the bridge between database developers, curators and users." More specifically, it "will publish detailed descriptions of databases, database tools and curation strategies in the broad arena of biology... shorter papers describing significant updates to established databases... user tutorials and technical notes...".

Related journals:

• Advances in Bioinformatics
• BioData Mining
• Biodiversity Informatics
• Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics and Biology Insights
• Bioinformation
• Biostatistics
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Briefings in Bioinformatics
• Chem-Bio Informatics Journal
• Ecological Informatics
• Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online
• Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
• International Journal of Biostatistics
• Journal of Biology, Biological Systems & Bioinformatics
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics
• Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics
• Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics
• Open Bioinformatics Journal

Related books, e-books & proceedings:

• Biodiversity databases : techniques, politics, and applications
• Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics: A Practical Approach
• Biological database modeling
• Data integration in the life sciences: 5th international workshop, DILS 2008, Evry, France, June 25-27, 2008, proceedings
• Evolutionary computation, machine learning and data mining in bioinformatics: 6th European Conference, EvoBIO 2008, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008: proceedings
• Genomes, browsers, and databases: data-mining tools for integrated genomic databases
• Plant bioinformatics: methods and protocols
• Plant proteomics: methods and protocols

Top-ranked Journals in Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Top-ranked Journals in Ecology and Environmental Sciences

1. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics (1970+ online)
2. Nature (1869-1875, 1950+ online)
3. Science (1880+ online)
4. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (1995+ online)
5. Ecological Monographs (1931+ online)
6. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1915+ online)
7. Systematic Biology (1992+ online)
8. Ecology (1920+ online)
9. Ecology Letters (1998+ online)
10. The American Naturalist (1867+ online)
11. Conservation Biology (1987+ online)
12. Environmental Health Perspectives (1972+ online)
13. Molecular Ecology (1992+ online)
14. Ecological Applications (1991+ online)
15. Journal of Ecology (1913+ online)
16. Global Change Biology (1997+ online)
17. Journal of Applied Ecology (1964+ online)
18. Oecologia (1968+ online)
19. Ecosystems (1968+ online)
20. Environmental Science & Technology (1967+ online)

Based on citations per paper among journals with 10,000 or more citations, 1998-2008.

[Source: Thomson Reuters Science Watch; Sci-Bytes; What's New in Research: April 12, 2009]

Top 100 Plant Science Questions

"How can plant scientists change the world?"

Initiated by researchers in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, "100 Plant Science Questions" invites submissions of pressing plant-related research issues facing the world today. Deadline: March 31st, 2009.

A panel drawn from academia, the public services sector and the corporate world will screen submissions.

From the website:

"Plant science is helping to address many of the big issues facing society today, such as food security, biofuels, and the effects of climate change, but what are the key questions that you think the next generation of plant scientists should be addressing?

Anyone is welcome to contribute their question, including members of the general public; agriculture, horticulture and forestry industries; ecologists; charities; policy makers; food, fibre, fuel and pharmaceutical industries; funding bodies; and researchers."

Impact factors: Food science journals

Food science & technology journals
ranked by 2007 impact factor:

1. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition


2. Trends in Food Science and Technology


3. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research (was Die Nahrung / Food)


4. Food Chemistry


5. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease


6. International Journal of Food Microbiology


7. Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry


8. Food Hydrocolloids


9. Journal of Dairy Science


10. Food Research International

"The 2007 impact factor is calculated by taking the number of all current citations to source items published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing by the number of articles published in the journal during the same period--in other words, a ratio between citations and recent citable items published."

[Source: ScienceWatch, 2/1/09]

Impact Factors: "Parasites & Vectors" + "Plant Methods"

Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that two of its journals, Parasites & Vectors and Plant Methods, have been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters (vendors of ISI Web of Science) and will both receive "Impact Factors" in 2010.

"Parasites & Vectors expands upon the scope of two former BioMed Central publications, Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease and Filaria Journal, both of which ceased publication in December 2007. Launched in January 2008, the journal has rapidly become an authoritative home for research in parasitology, reflected by its acceptance for tracking by Thomson Reuters from its first issue."

"Launched in 2005, Plant Methods encompasses all aspects of technological innovation in the plant sciences. The journal seeks to stimulate the development and adoption of new and improved techniques and research tools and, where appropriate, to promote consistency of methodologies for better integration of data from different laboratories."

"These journals bring to a total of 71 BioMed Central journals that are tracked by Thomson Reuters and either have or are on course to receive an Impact Factor."

[Source: KnowledgeSpeak.com]

UW Digital Collections

The UW Digital Collections Center has digitized images and texts across many subject areas.

Here are those most relevant to plant & insect sciences:

Aldo Leopold Archives

• Main site
  

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts & Material Culture

• Main site
  
• Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening

Ecology and Natural Resources Collection

• Main site
  
• Arboretum Unpublished Research Works
• Minerals Yearbook
• Our first 50 years: the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum 1934-1984
• Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Wetlands Restoration and Creation
• Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conference
• Research Report (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)
• Soils of Wisconsin
• Technical Bulletin (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)
• Transport, Fate and Effects of Silver in the Environment
• Virginia M. Kline Collection: Ecological Communities of Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Groundwater Research and Monitoring Program Reports
• Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Maps (Bordner Survey)

History of Science and Technology

• Main site
  
• Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and their Practical Application
• Pioneer Microbiologists of America
• Root Nodule Bacteria and Leguminous Plants
• Smithsonian Science Series

Science Collection

• Main site
  
• University of Wisconsin - Madison Botany Department Teaching Collection

State of Wisconsin Collection

• Main site
  
• A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin
• History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life
• Wisconsin Horticulturist: issued monthly by the WI State Horticultural Society

Wisconsin Cranberry School Proceedings

• Main site
  

Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records

• Main site