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.

ScienceDirect outage: 4/4

ScienceDirect and 2collab will be unavailable 5:00 p.m. Saturday, April 4th - 2:00 a.m. Sunday, April 5th, due to scheduled maintenance.

Affected journals include:

• Acta Agronomica Sinica
• Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
• Agricultural Systems
• Agricultural Water Management
• Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
• Animal Feed Science and Technology
• Applied Soil Ecology
• Aquatic Botany
• Biological Control
• Cell
• Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
• Crop Protection
• Current Opinion in Plant Biology
• Ecological Informatics
• Environmental and Experimental Botany
• European Journal of Agronomy
• European Journal of Soil Biology
• Field Crops Research
• Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants
• Forest Ecology and Management
• Fungal Biology Reviews
• Fungal Ecology
• Fungal Genetics and Biology
• Gene
• Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
• Industrial Crops and Products
• Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Journal of Cereal Science
• Journal of Informetrics
• Journal of Insect Physiology
• Journal of Plant Physiology
• Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
• Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
• Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
• Phytochemistry
• Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
• Plant Science
• Postharvest Biology and Technology
• Rice Science
• Science of The Total Environment
• Scientia Horticulturae
• Soil Biology and Biochemistry
• Soil and Tillage Research
• South African Journal of Botany
• Trends in Plant Science
• Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
• Virology

Plant Variety intellectual property seminar: 4/24

"Plant Variety Protection Boot Camp"
Graduate School Seminar Series

Friday, April 24, 2009
1:30 – 3:30 PM
Biotechnology Center Auditorium
425 Henry Mall, Madison, WI

This seminar will provide useful information for plant researchers regarding the "ins and outs" of the plant variety protection act. Specifically, this seminar will examine the steps involved in filing a plant variety protection act application, including suggestions for collecting the information required for filing a plant variety protection act application and enforcement of plant variety protection certificates, including a discussion of "essentially derived varieties."  Presented by Lisa Mueller, Attorney, Dykema Gossett PLLC.

Graduate School Seminar Series sessions are open to all members of the campus community.

Registration is required, through the Office of Human Resource Development website.  To register, you must know the titles of both the series and the session.

UW impact ranking in agricultural sciences

Thomson Reuters, vendors of ISI Web of Science, have released "Institution Rankings in Agricultural Sciences, 1998-2008" based on citations per paper among institutions with 5,000 or more citations.

The University of Wisconsin is ranked #5 with 1,428 indexed papers garnering 14,326 citations, averaging 10.03 citations per paper.

Institutions ranked highly include:

#1 Tufts University - 18.08 citations per paper
#4 Cornell University - 10.98
#5 University of Wisconsin - 10.03
#6 University of California - Davis - 9.96
#10 Oregon State University - 9.63
#14 Rutgers State University - 9.3
#15 University of Massachusetts - 9.05
#16 Penn State University - 8.87
#17 University of Nebraska - 8.86
#18 Michigan State University - 8.82
#19 University of Illinois - 8.8

Related links:

• Web of Science / Web of Knowledge (h-index)
  
• Journal Citation Reports (impact factor, eigenfactor)
  

UW professor to lead Entomology Society of America

Professor David B. Hogg of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Entomology has been elected the next president of the Entomological Society of America.

Steenbock Library subscribes to the following ESA publications:

• Annals of the Entomological Society of America (online: 1900-1950, 2000+)
  
• Environmental Entomology (online: 2000+)
  
• Journal of Economic Entomology (online: 2000+)
  
• Journal of Medical Entomology (online: 2000+)
  
• American Entomologist (online: 2001+ (most recent 2 years unavailable))
  
• Arthropod Management Tests (online: 2005+)
  

The following books, proceedings and more published by ESA can be found at Steenbock or Plant Pathology library:

• Handbook of Corn Insects
• Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects
• Handbook of Household and Structural Insect Pests
• Handbook of Small Grain Insects
• Handbook of Soybean Insect Pests
• Handbook of Turfgrass Insect Pests
• Use and management of insecticides, acaricides and transgenic crops
• Revision of the subfamily Macrocentrinae (Hymenoptera:Braconidae) in America north of Mexico
• New World treehopper tribe Microcentrini (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Stegaspidinae): monographic revision and phylogenetic position
• For nonnative crops: whence pollinators of the future?
• Bees and crop pollination: crisis, crossroads, conservation
• Balancing nature: assessing the impact of importing non-native biological control agents, an international perspective

Native Plant Sale: 5/9

The Friends of the UW Arboretum sponsor an annual Native Plant Sale, which will take place on May 9th from 9:00am-2:00pm, next to the Arboretum Visitor Center, Madison, Wisconsin.

More than a hundred species of native plants will be available. Information about soil and light conditions, bloom dates, plant height and color are provided for selection decisions.

Possible shrubs, vines & trees include:

• Blueberry
• Cranberry
  
• Dogwood
• Elderberry
• Hazelnut
• Hickory
• Ninebark
• Plum
• Viburnum

Possible ferns include:

• Cinnamon fern
• Interrupted fern
• Lady fern
• Maidenhair fern
• Royal fern
• Sensitive fern
• Wood fern

Possible woodland plants include:

• Anemone
• Baneberry
• Blue cohosh
• Dutchman's breeches
• Ginger, Wild
• Grass, Bottlebrsh
• Greendragon
• Jack-in-the-pulpit
• Jacob's Ladder
• Leek, Wild
• Mayapple
• Mitrewort
• Phlox, Wild Blue
• Sedge, Pennsylvania
• Solomon's Seal
• Trillium
• Trout lily
• Violet, Yellow Forest

Possible prairie plants include:

• Alumroot
• Baptisia
• Bergamot
• Blue-eyes grass
• Boneset
• Butterfly weed
• Cardinal flower
• Compass plant
• Coneflower
• Culver's Root
• Cup plant
• False dragonhead
• Gentians
• Grass, Side-oats Grama
• Harebell
• Hyssop, Lavender
• Iris, Wild
• Ironweed
• Joe-pye weed
• Leadplant
• Liatris
• Lupine
• Petunia, Wild
• Prairie Smoke
• Prickly Pear Cactus
• Rattlesnake Master
• Shooting Star
• Spiderwort
• St. John's Wort
• Strawberry, Wild
• Thimbleweed
  

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."