New Interface Tutorials:
General WOK: http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/wok/
Web Of Science: http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/wos/
BIOSIS:
http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/biosis/
Medline: http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/medline/
Zoological Record: http://scientific.thomson.com/support/recorded-training/zr/
Please let me know if you have any questions about this change.
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Steve]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2008/02/isi_web_of_knowledge_enhancements.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2008/02/isi_web_of_knowledge_enhancements.html Changes Interdisciplinary New Resources BIOSIS Medline Web of Science Zoological Record Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:09:41 -0500 Most of us have a particular path that we follow when we're doing research. We have our favorite databases, journals, books, and other resources that have helped us get what we've needed in the past. Then, along comes a new tool that changes the way we do things.

The Google search engine has changed the research habits of many a scholar in the past few years. To many, this is old news, but Google now has a specialized interface for searching the journal literature called Google Scholar that provides direct links to peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Although it is not as standardized, thorough, or reliable as BIOSIS, Web of Science and other scholarly literature databases, Google Scholar has a simple interface that appeals to many.

Google Scholar Feature Highlights:

• Citation Tracking
• FindIt@PUL Option
• RefWorks Export Option

For More Information on Google Scholar:

• Google Scholar Help
• Google Scholar Advanced Search
• Advanced Search Tips

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BioOne is a collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector that seeks to make high-impact bioscience research journals more accessible. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and other not-for-profit organizational publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.

Princeton University Library has recently purchased the BioOne.2 Collection in an effort to continue to increase the size of our electronic journal holdings. Click on these links to browse the titles in the BioOne.1 Collection, which we have had access to since 2001, and our new BioOne.2 Collection.

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Steven M. Adams ]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/10/bioone2_collection_journal_backfile_collection.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/10/bioone2_collection_journal_backfile_collection.html New Resources New Resources Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:57:23 -0500

Now and then we all need to quick answers to scientific questions. AccessScience is an excellent resource for many of your scientific fact finding missions. AccessScience Features:

• Over 8,500 online articles the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition
• Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
• 110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
• 15,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
• Content contributed by more than 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners
• Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®
• The latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos
• Continuously updated, fully-searchable, media-rich content, terms, images and videos

The site was recently updated, the videos and images are probably the best improvement to the site. Click Here to see a video news report about "bomb sniffing yeast" that is featured in AccessScience.

Princeton University Library now subscribes to CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences (1997-Present), a new kind of tool for finding scholarly literature in the biological, environmental, and aquatic sciences. CSA Illustrata is unique in that it makes the images, tables, graphs, and figures in over 880 journals fully searchable. Each article's images are indexed individually and displayed in the database with the source article's abstract and bibliographic data. This "deep indexing" technique makes images more accessible for scholars who need to do a through literature search. Try this database at your leisure and send me your feedback via the comment form below.

Also, watch this video for a more in depth explanation of the concept; it features our own Sam Flaxman from the Levin Lab in EEB and Maria Prokopenko from Princeton's Geosciences department.

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Steve]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/08/csa_illustratanatural_sciences.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/08/csa_illustratanatural_sciences.html Interdisciplinary New Resources Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:34:58 -0500

Princeton University Library recently purchased the backfiles of The Lancet, one of the top international medical journals. This full-text searchable backfile begins with the first issue in 1823, offering over 180 years of excellent coverage of advances in health and medicine. In this time span you will find the best and the worst in the history of medical practice.

For those of you interested in the current issues, keep in mind that The Lancet also provides a convenient RSS Feed of the new articles in each week's issue, Click Here to subscribe. This is also available for hundreds of other Elsevier journals, click here to read more about Elsevier RSS Feeds

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Steve]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/07/lancet_backfile.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/07/lancet_backfile.html Interdisciplinary New Resources Backfiles Health History of Science Medicine New Resources Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:37:53 -0500

Princeton University now has access to Scopus, an interdisciplinary science literature database that provides abstracts, citation data, rss feeds and more. Scopus provides citation data for it's contents, similar to the Web of Science Database. It is best for more recent literature (1996 to Present) and patent searching.

Take a guided tour through Scopus by clicking here.

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Steve]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/07/scopus_database.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/07/scopus_database.html Interdisciplinary New Resources Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:09:42 -0500

The Nature Publishing Group, in partnership with the British Library and the Wellcome Trust, has introduced Nature Precedings, a new way for scholars to distribute their preliminary findings. Here is an excerpt from their description of the site:

"Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share documents, including presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and manuscripts. It provides a rapid way to disseminate emerging results and new theories, solicit opinions, and record the provenance of ideas. It also makes such material easy to archive, share and cite. The whole service is free of charge."

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Steve

Watch the videos below. The first is a an entertaining montage explaining and demonstrating the concept, the second is Edward O. Wilson's TED Prize acceptance speech where he shares his wish for this project.

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Here at Princeton, we clearly face the same issues as Harvard regarding the crisis in scholarly communication. If you have strong opinions or significant experiences you would like to share dealing with publishing (or not publishing) in open access journals, please click on the comments link below and discuss them.

Steve

The University of Cambridge is sponsoring the Darwin Correspndence Project. Founded in 1974 by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith, the initial goal of the project was to "locate, research and publish" Charles Darwin's letters. The project later grew to include all letters written to Darwin, they have thus far located approximately 14,500 letters and new letters still being to be discovered. The letters range from 1821 to 1882 when Darwin died. This is an invaluable resource for scholars of history, evolution, genetics, and religion.

The project is celebrating the launch of their redesigned website, which features a full-text database of 5,000 letters written by and to Charles Darwin. Darwin's correspondents include Emma Darwin (his cousin and wife), Robert Fitzroy (captain of the Beagle), and Alfred Russel Wallace (another evolution scholar). The site also contains a special section that deals Darwin's religious beliefs, meant to provide clarity in the evolution vs. creation debate.

There are also two other websites for those interested in Darwin:The Darwin Digital Library, run by the American Museum of Natural History; and The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, another University of Cambridge project.

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Steve]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/05/darwin_correspondence_project.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/05/darwin_correspondence_project.html Interdisciplinary Leisure New Resources Darwin Evolution Leisure Reading letters Mon, 21 May 2007 07:21:56 -0500

Social Networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have received lots of press for capturing the attention of young people and changing the social landscape of college campuses and K-12 schools . Although a few scientists have MySpace and/or Facebook accounts, but many would be uncomfortable networking in these virtual environments due to their focus on students and youth culture.

Enter Nature Network, a virtual community (managed by Nature Publishing Group) that allows you to create and join blogs, social groups, and discussions centered on your scientific interests. Read the About The Network page for a detailed description of this initiative. The site is brand new and ripe for contribution.

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Steve]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/05/nature_network_social_networking_for_scientists.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/05/nature_network_social_networking_for_scientists.html Interdisciplinary New Resources Blogs Nature Publishing Group Social Networking Web 2.0 Mon, 07 May 2007 23:00:34 -0500
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James Gould and Carol Grant Gould are celebrating the release of their new book Animal Architects, which we own two copies of in the Biology Library (Call Number: QL756 .G57 2007). According to the book jacket:

Animal Architects examines animal architecture across a range of species, from those whose blueprints are largely innate (such as spiders and their webs) to those whose challenging structures seem to require intellectual insight, planning, and even aesthetics (such as bowerbirds' nests, or beavers' dams). Beginning with instinct and the simple homes of solitary insects, James and Carol Gould move on to conditioning; the "cognitive map" and how it evolved; and the role of planning and insight. Finally, they reflect on what animal building tells us about the nature of human intelligence-showing why humans, unlike many animals, need to build castles in the air.

Animal Architects was recently reviewed in the May 3rd issue of Nature. Congratulations Jim!

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Steve]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/04/faculty_publication_spotlight_james_gould.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/04/faculty_publication_spotlight_james_gould.html Faculty Leisure Book Review Faculty Publication Faculty Spotlight Leisure Reading Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:34 -0500 BIOSIS, PubMed and Web Of Science don't meet your needs, Princeton University Library has a wealth of other resources to support research that crosses disciplinary boundaries. In this post, I will give an overview of resources in neuroscience and psychology that scholars in MolBio or EEB may find useful.

PsycINFO (1800's+) is the most comprehensive index of the scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences; but don't overlook PsycARTICLES, which offers the full-text of 48 American Psychological Association journals from 1988 to the present; PsycBooks, which provides full-text PDF's of scholarly titles published by APA Books; PsycEXTRA for gray literature and other information found outside traditional peer-reviewed publications; PsycCRITIQUES for book reviews; and NeuroSciNow, a robust collection of online books and journals by Humana Press. MIT CogNet is a collection of journals, books, reference works, OpenCourseWare (Free Syllabi, Lecture Notes, Podcasts, and more), and videos. If you want to keep track of neuroscience and psychology literature, Annual Review of Neuroscience and Annual Review of Psychology both provide excellent coverage.

Several major reference works in the behavioral sciences are now available online: The DSM-IV (via Psychiatry Online), Mental Measurements Yearbook (for vocational, educational, and psychological tests), The Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, The Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences, and The Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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Steven M. Adams
Biological and Life Sciences Librarian
(609) 258-5484
smadams@princeton.edu]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/04/its_an_interdisciplinary_world.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/04/its_an_interdisciplinary_world.html Interdisciplinary Databases Interdisciplinary Resources Neuroscience OpenCourseWare Podcasts Psychology Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:16:59 -0500 RSS feeds, or in a podcast directory such as iTunes.

Science Friday
Excellent weekly coverage of the top stories in science and technology.

SEED
SEED is a is magazine that approaches science from a hip and stylish perspective; but it also accentuates the policial relevance of scientific issues. Imagine combining Wired, Scientific American, and The Economist; SEED is something like that. "Science Is Culture" is their mantra, and their Podcasts reflect this focus on the relevance of science to our lives.

Nature
Nature Publishing Group produces a rich array of podcasts that highlight stories covered in their journals. There is also a blog on the site that facilitates discussion of each episode. All podcasts are archived on the site back to the first episode in October 2005.

Science
In December 2005, around the time podcasts became popular in the mainstream, Science started producing their podcasts as a pilot project. They have been posting new episodes to their site twice a month since then. These shows contain excellent coverage of articles published in the journal, but with an interesting down-to-earth tone appropriate for any audience.

Scientific American
Sciam.com has two podcast series: 60-Second Science and Science Talk. 60-Second Science is posted every weekday and contains 1 minute reports that explore 1 interesting scientific topic each. With this one, you can't claim you don't have time to listen to a podcast. Science Talk, on the other hand, is posted weekly and covers a variety of scientifc topics in each 20-minute show.

New Scientist
This weekly show highlights many topics in each 30-minute episode and includes science news stories and interviews with top scientists.

Digg Podcasts: Science and Medicine
Digg is a website that unites people on the web around their interests. According to their "about" site,"Digg is a user driven social content website." Everything on digg has been submitted by the Digg community. If you like something on the site you can "Digg It" (vote for it) to affirm it's usefulness, or "Bury It" if you dislike it. This site is great for news and for finding our what the hottest sites on the web are. The Podcast section has a special category for science and medicine. This a great way to discover science podcasts, tell others about them, and discuss their content (each entry has an associated blog).

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Steve]]> http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/03/science_podcasts.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/BiologyLibrary/2007/03/science_podcasts.html Leisure Leisure Podcasts Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:03:54 -0500