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.

Proquest maintenance: 1/30-1/31

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on January 30, 2010 for twelve (12) hours.

The window will take place from Saturday, January 30, 2010, at 9:00pm Central Time to Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 9:00am Central Time.

The following library subscriptions will be unavailable during these windows:

• ProQuest platform databases, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and American Periodicals Series


• Genealogy and local history databases including African American Heritage, Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest Online, Historic Map Works Library Edition, ProQuest Obituaries, and Digital Sanborn Maps


• Community of Science (COS) websites


• UMI products including ProQuest Digital Microfilm and online dissertation sites

More renewals on interlibrary loan books

When you request an interlibrary loan item from another University of Wisconsin System library ("universal borrowing"), you will now be allowed up to two renewals. The previous limit was one renewal.

Search the UW System Search online library catalog to find books and other items at these campuses:

• UW Colleges
• UW-Eau Claire
• UW-Green Bay
• UW-LaCrosse
• UW-Madison (including Wisconsin Historical Society Library)
  
• UW-Milwaukee
• UW-Oshkosh
• UW-Platteville
• UW-River Falls
• UW-Stevens Point
• UW-Stout
• UW-Superior
• UW-Whitewater
• Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

Click "Place Requests" to request an item to be sent to your chosen library at the UW-Madison.

This policy does not apply to interlibrary loan items requested via WorldCat or Library Express from institutions other than those listed above.

New online books!

UW-Madison Libraries have just inked a deal to offer hundreds more e-books on Elsevier's ScienceDirect, including:

A Practical Approach to Water Conservation for Commercial and Industrial Facilities

Advances in Experimental Biology
Advances in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology

Agroecological Economics
Beer
Bioactive Foods in Promoting Health
Biochemistry of Lipids, Lipoproteins and Membranes (Fifth Edition)Bioconjugate Techniques (Second Edition)

Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Bluetongue
British Mycological Society Symposia Series

Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Biology of 1-3 Beta Glucans and Related Polysaccharides
Citrus Fruit
Climate ChangeComprehensive Biochemistry

Computer Vision Technology for Food Quality Evaluation
Crop Physiology

Database Archiving
Desert Olive Oil Cultivation
Developments in Environmental Science
Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment
Developments in Soil Science
Ecological Understanding (Second Edition)

Electrochemical Sensors, Biosensors and their Biomedical Applications
Embedded Systems

Encyclopedia of Insects (Second Edition)
Environmental Geochemistry

Essentials of Stem Cell Biology (Second Edition)
Eukaryotic Transcription Factors (Fifth edition)
Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis
Forest Ecosystems (Third Edition)

Fundamentals of Toxicologic Pathology (Second Edition)
Future Energy
Gluten-Free Cereal Products and Beverages

Handbook of Agricultural Economics
Handbook of Glycomics

Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

Hierarchical Modeling and Inference in Ecology
Information Modeling and Relational Databases (Second Edition)
Infrared Spectroscopy for Food Quality Analysis and Control
Insect Immunology

Insect Resistance Management
Instrumentation Reference Book (Fourth Edition)

Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Major Accidents to the Environment
Methods in Enzymology
Microbial Glycobiology
Microscope Image Processing

Modern Biopolymer Science
Mycorrhizal Symbiosis (Third Edition)
Mycotoxins in Fruits and Vegetables

Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety
Nitrogen in the Environment (Second Edition)
Optical Biosensors (Second Edition)
Origin and Evolution of Viruses (Second Edition)
Paleobotany (Second Edition)
Perspectives for Agroecosystem Management
Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies
Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology (Fourth Edition)
Physiological Systems in Insects (Second Edition)

Physiology of Woody Plants (Third Edition)
Postharvest Handling (Second Edition)
Principles of Biomedical Informatics
Quantitative Ecology (Second Edition)
Radioactivity in the Environment
Renewable Energy Conversion, Transmission and Storage
Science and the Media
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist
Soilless Culture
Spectroscopy and Modeling of Biomolecular Building Blocks
Starch (Third Edition)
Statistical Aspects of the Microbiological Examination of Foods (Second Edition)
Terrestrial Ecology
The Manual of Scientific Style
The Produce Contamination Problem
The Triazine Herbicides
Theoretical Ecology Series
Urban Energy Transition
Waste Management for the Food Industries
What Can Nanotechnology Learn From Biotechnology?
Wine Science (Third Edition)
Wine Tasting (Second Edition)

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES)

The International Biometric Society has chosen Springer as the new publisher of their Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES), beginning in March 2010 (v.15). Backfiles to 2001 (v.6-14) will also be made available on SpringerLink.

JABES is a quarterly journal publishinging papers of interest to applied researchers and consultants in the agricultural, biological (including biotechnology), and environmental sciences (including natural resources). The focus of the journal is on new, interdisciplinary, and important statistical methods using real-world data.

JABES volumes from 2001-2009 (v.6-14) were previously made available from the website of the American Statistical Association. Volumes from 1996-2003 (v.1-8) will continue to be available from JSTOR.

Related journals:

• Biometrics
• Biometrika
• Journal of the American Statistical Association
• Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C - Applied Statistics
• Environmental and Ecological Statistics
• Environmetrics

Related books and proceedings:

• Statistical data analysis explained: applied environmental statistics with R
• Environmental statistics: methods and applications
• Statistical tools for environmental quality measurement
• Guide to QTL mapping with R/qtl
• Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R
• Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
• Statistics in human genetics and molecular biology
• Multiscale phenomena in biology: proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Mathematics and Biology, Okinawa, Japan, 4-6 November 2008
• Statistics at the bench: a step-by-step handbook for biologists
• Biostatistical analysis
• Bayesian methods for measures of agreement
• Computational intelligence methods for bioinformatics and biostatistics: 5th international meeting, CIBB 2008, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, October 3-4, 2008: revised selected papers
• Biostatistics and microbiology: a survival manual
  

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)

Potato & late blight genomes sequenced

The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium recently announced the complete genome sequencing of the cultivated potato plant, Solanum tuberosum L.

This comes hot on the heels of the genetic sequencing of one of its infamous enemies, Phytophthora infestans, the cause of late blight.

You may also be interested in...

Books:

• Genome mapping and molecular breeding in plants
• Potato cultivar genome analysis - chapter in Plant pathology: techniques and protocols v.508
• Genetic improvement of solanaceous crops
• Potato biology and biotechnology: advances and perspectives
• Genera Solanacearum: the genera of Solanaceae illustrated, arranged according to a new system
• Advances in potato chemistry and technology

Dissertations and theses:

• Molecular phylogeny of Solanum subgenus Potatoe, sections Lycopersicon and Petota
• Molecular characterization of the broad-spectrum potato late blight resistance gene RB
• Phylogenetic analysis of wild potato species, Solanum series Conicibaccata by morphology and conserved orthologous set II (COSII) markers
• Evolutionary relationships of Solanum series Piurana and related species in Solanum section Petota (wild potatoes)
• Morphometric study of species boundaries of the wild potato Solanum brevicaule complex: replicated field trials in Argentina and Peru
• Nuclear RFLP phylogenies of Solanum sect, Petota reflect biogeography but not EBN, ploidy, or genome designations
• Genetic analysis of R9 conditioning late-blight resistance in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)
• Late blight resistance linkages in a novel cross of the wild potato species Solanum paucissectum (series Piurana)

Conference proceedings:

• Proceedings of the IVth Balkan Symposium on Vegetables and Potatoes: Plovdiv, Bulgaria, September 9-12, 2008
• Solanaceae VI: genomics meets biodiversity: proceedings of the VIth International Solanaceae Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 23-27, 2006

Journal articles:

• High density molecular linkage maps of the tomato and potato genomes
• Organization of genes controlling disease resistance in the potato genome
• Comparative genomics enabled the isolation of the R3a late blight resistance gene in potato

News and blog posts:

• Draft Potato Genome Based On Unique Potato Variety (9/28/09)
• With Map Of Potato Genome, Scientists Hope To Improve Crop Yield (9/25/09)
• Potato blight reveals some secrets as genome is decoded (9/9/09)
• Blight affecting tomatoes and potatoes (7/5/09)

[Photo: Jack Delano, 1940, The Library of Congress Flickr collection, no known copyright restrictions]

Agricultural water use in Wisconsin

Data estimating water use in Wisconsin have been generated every 5 years since 1950. The latest report on state-wide water use has been released by the U.S. Geological Survey, compiling data through 2005.

Since 1950, water use for irrigation, industrial, commercial, domestic, and livestock purposes has increased 333%. The largest daily use of water is for cooling at thermoelectric-power plants: 6,898 million gallons per day (Mgal/d). Other findings include:

Irrigation (non-domestic)

• Irrigation water use = 402 million gallons per day (Mgal/d)
  
• 96% is from ground-water
  
• 97% is used for agriculture


• 3% is used for golf courses, commercial landscaping, athletic fields, parks, cemeteries, sod farms, nurseries, orchards, evergreen farms, greenhouses, specialty edibles, and botanical gardens


• Irrigated crop land = 386,000 acres


• Portage, Waushara, and Adams counties = highest agricultural irrigation water use; these counties lead the state in the production of potatoes, corn, and vegetables (snap beans, carrots, peas, etc.)
  
• Primary crops irrigated (by acreage) = assorted vegetables, corn, potatoes, soybeans, alfalfa
  
• Most intensively irrigated crops = berries, potatoes, corn

Non-irrigation (agricultural)

• Livestock use = 73 Mgal/d; 90% from ground-water
  
• Clark, Grant, and Marathon counties = highest livestock water use
  
• Aquaculture use = 82 Mgal/d; 52% from surface-water

Industrial

• The paper-products industry is the largest industrial water user = 357 Mgal/d

More resources:

• Best management practices for aquaculture in Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region
• Corn ethanol production in the Wisconsin agricultural context: energy efficiency, greenhouse gas neutrality and soil and water implications
• Estimated water withdrawals, water use, and water consumption in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin: 1950-95
• Great Lakes Compact law (2007 Wisconsin Act 227): new state water use regulations
• Regional water supply plan for Southeastern Wisconsin: newsletter
• Report to Governor Doyle, water conservation: a menu of demand side initiatives for water utilities
• Survey of water conservation and efficiency efforts: an analysis of Wisconsin water utilities
• Wisconsin municipal water use regulation: a summary of water use ordinances in Wisconsin