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

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]

Wiley Interscience downtime: 4/14

The libraries have been informed that due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley Interscience will be temporarily unavailable on:

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
3:00am - 4:00 am Central Time

Subscription journals affected include:

• Acta biotechnologica


• Aquatic conservation


• Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology


• Biochemistry and molecular biology education


• BioEssays


• Biofuels, bioproducts & biorefining


• Biotechnology and bioengineering


• Biotechnology progress


• Chembiochem
• Encyclopedia of Biostatistics


• Environmental quality management


• Environmental toxicology and water quality


• Environmetrics


• International journal of climatology


• International review of hydrobiology


• Journal of basic microbiology


• Journal of morphology


• Journal of plant nutrition and soil science


• Journal of research in science teaching


• Journal of the science of food and agriculture
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
  
• Land degradation & development


• Macromolecular bioscience


• Meteorological applications


• Molecular reproduction and development


• Natural toxins


• New directions for adult and continuing education


• New directions for higher education


• New directions for institutional research


• New directions for teaching and learning


• Pest management science


• Pesticide science


• Phytotherapy research


• Proteomics


• Science education


• Starch


• Statistical analysis and data mining


• Weather


• Yeast

"Grow your soup": Donate seeds with a click!

When you visit HelpGrowYourSoup.com and click on "GROW," Campbell Soup Co. will donate 50 seeds to Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapters across the country.

Plus, each can of condensed soup has a code that you can enter on the site to receive a free packet of tomato seeds to grow at home. The campaign lasts through June 21 and you can click every day!

Community Projects

Along with a group called Urban Farming, Campbell is partnering with FFA chapters to plant community gardens in New York, NY (April 16); Atlanta, GA (April 21); Camden, NJ (May 2); Chicago, IL (May 12) and Detroit, MI (May 20).

Campbell is also working with FFA to help restore five barns in Clackamas, OR; Cherryvale, KS; Reddick, IL; Nashville, TN and Corfu, NY.

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)

Organic vs Conventional Production: Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial

Researchers performing long-term agricultural studies in Wisconsin conclude that "...organic systems were more profitable than the Midwestern standards of continuous corn, no-till corn and soybeans, and intensively managed alfalfa" while "rotational grazing of dairy heifers was as profitable as the organic systems."

Further, "...organic forage crops can yield both as much dry matter as their conventional counterparts and with quality sufficient to produce as much milk..." and organic corn, soybean, and winter wheat "can produce 90% as well as their conventionally managed counterparts..." with weed control being a problem on average in one out of three years, and production being almost identical in two out of three years.

Original articles:

Chavas, J-P., Posner, J.L., Hedtcke, J.L. (2009). Organic and conventional production systems in the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial: II. Economic and risk analysis 1993-2006. Agronomy Journal 101:2, 288-295.

• Currently free - future access via UW-Madison library online subscription

Posner, J.L., Baldock, J.O., Hedtcke, J.L. (2008). Organic and conventional production systems in the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trials: I. Productivity 1990-2002. Agronomy Journal 100:2, 253-260.

• UW-Madison access via library online subscription

More information:

• Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial Project


• Report of the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial Project (1989-2006)


• Vertical distribution of phosphorus at the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (2004)


• Low-input forage rotation: similar returns, reduced costs (2001)


• Cropping systems trial provides unique analysis (1999)


• Diversity pays off on cash grain farms (1999)


• Gross margins comparison of three cash grain cropping systems 1991-1994 (1995)


• Long-term study evaluates impacts of six Wisconsin cropping systems (1993)


• Baseline data for a coorientational approach to evaluation of changes produced by a sustainable agricultural demonstration program: the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (1993)

Informaworld downtime: 4/10, 4/17

The Informaworld database will be down:

• Friday, April 10th 6:00pm - Saturday, April 11th 2:00am
• Friday, April 17th 10:00pm - Saturday, April 18th 6:00am

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

Try it: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Springer E-books

Each year, the UW-Madison Libraries explore potential database purchases by signing up for free trial access. Some of these are only available to library staff, while others are open to all patrons.

Please let me know what you think about the following resources:

Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990+)

• Trial period: through 4/23/09
• Interface: ISI Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge / Web of Science
• Content: an index of conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in the sciences and social sciences, including: Acta Horticulturae, Communications in Soil Science and Analysis, Crop Science, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Functional Plant Biology, Seed Science Research, and Weed Science
  

Springer E-books (1997+ book series, plus all content from 2005-2009)

• Trial period: through 4/30/09
• Interface: SpringerLink
• Content: 20,000+ books, including: Abiotic stress tolerance in plants, Advances in Molecular Breeding Toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops, Agricultural Biotechnology in China, Agricultural Research Management, Agrobacterium: From Biology to Biotechnology, Allelochemicals: Biological Control of Plant Pathogens and Diseases, Allelopathy in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, An Ecological and Societal Approach to Biological Control, Applications of Plant Metabolic Engineering, Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Temperate Species, Cell Biology of Plant Nematode Parasitism, Cereal Genomics, The Ecophysiology of Plant-Phosphorus Interactions, Encyclopedia of Entomology, Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology, Flower Breeding and Genetics, General Concepts in Integrated Pest and Disease Management, Genetic Improvement of Bioenergy Crops, Genetics and Genomics of Soybean, Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement, Handbook of Maize: Its Biology, Haploids in Crop Improvement II, Improvement of Crop Plants for Industrial End Uses, Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory, Integrated Management and Biocontrol of Vegetable and Grain Crops Nematodes, Integrated Management of Diseases Caused by Fungi, Phytoplasma and Bacteria, Invasive Plants: Ecological and Agricultural Aspects, Liquid Culture Systems for in vitro Plant Propagation, Micronutrient Deficiencies in Global Crop Production, Molecular Marker Systems in Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement, Multiplication of RNA Plant Viruses, Organic Crop Production – Ambitions and Limitations, PGPR: Biocontrol and Biofertilization, Plan Tissue Culture Engineering, Plant Cryopreservation: A Practical Guide, Plant disease epidemiology: facing challenges of the 21st Century, Plant Proteomics, Plant Responses to Air Pollution and Global Change, Plants and Climate Change, Protocols for Micropropagation of Woody Trees and Fruits, Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook
  

Proquest/CSA/Refworks/COS down: 4/18

CSA Illumina / Proquest database maintenance

• Saturday, April 18 at 9:00 p.m. to Sunday, April 19 at 5:00 a.m.

Library tools affected include:

• ABI/Inform - business
• Alt-Press Watch
• American Periodicals Series - historical (1741-1900)
• ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
• Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts
• Community of Science - 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
• Refworks - research citation bibliography manager

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the result of the efforts of these natural history museum and research libraries to digitize over two million volumes of published literature held in their collections:

• American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
• Field Museum (Chicago, IL)
• Harvard University Botany Libraries (Cambridge, MA)
• Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, MA)
• Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, MA)
• Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, MO)
• Natural History Museum (London, UK)
• New York Botanical Garden (New York, NY)
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Richmond, UK)
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington, DC)
• University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, IL)

As of today 30,808 volumes have been scanned, dating from the year 1480 to 2006. Subjects currently with strong representation in include:

• Agriculture
• Biology
• Botany
• Classification
• Entomology
• Insects
• Natural history
• North America
• Periodicals
• Pictorial works
• Plants
• Scientific expeditions, societies, etc.
• United States
• Zoology

A few books of interest to Wisconsin researchers:

• Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society (1909-1911)
• Phytoplankton of the inland lakes of Wisconsin (1920)
• Polyporaceae of Wisconsin (1914)
• Provisional list of the parasitic fungi of Wisconsin (1914)
• Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (1870+)
• Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1852+)
• Transactions of the State Horticultural Society (1871+)

See also, UW Digital Collections.