Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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

Monday, January 25, 2010

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.

Friday, January 22, 2010

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 Change
Comprehensive 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)

Monday, December 21, 2009

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:
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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:

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:

Monday, November 16, 2009

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

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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)