Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Wednesday 1 August 2007

  • ATLA [ Alternatives To Laboratory Animals ], June 2007, Volume 35, Number 3
  • BioEssays, August 2007, Volume 29, Number 8
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research, May 2007, Volume 125, Number 5
  • Journal of Molecular Biology, 10 August 2007, Volume 371, Number 2
  • Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, August 2007, Volume 154, Number 2
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society, 7 August 2007, Volume 274, Number 1620
  • Protein Engineering Design and Selection, June 2007, Volume 20, Number 6
  • Scientific American, August 2007, Volume 297, Number 2

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Electronic journals available 31 July 2007

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 31 July 2007

  • Current Biology, 17 July 2007, Volume 17, Number 14
  • Developmental Cell, July 2007, Volume 13, Number 1
  • EMBO Journal, 25 July 2007, Volume 26, Number 14
  • Genome Research, July 2007, Volume 17, Number 7
  • Journal of General Virology, August 2007, Volume 88, Number 8
  • Science, 20 July 2007, Volume 317, Number 5836

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Electronic journals available 30 July 207

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Friday, July 27, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 30 July 2007

  • BMJ, 28 July 2007, Volume 335, Number 7612
  • Immunological Reviews, August 2007, Volume 218
  • Indian Journal of Medical Research, March 2007, Volume 125, Number 3
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases, 15 July 2007, Volume 196, Number 2
  • Journal of Molecular Biology, 3 August 2007, Volume 371, Number 1
  • Journal of Neuroscience, 11 July 2007, Volume 27, Number 28
  • Lancet, 28 July 2007, Volume 370, Number 9584
  • Trends in Biotechnology, August 2007, Volume 25, Number 8

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Electronic journals available 27 July 2007

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 27 July 2007

  • Bioinformatics, 15 June 2007, Volume 23, Number 12
  • FEBS Letters, 24 July 2007, Volume 581, Number 18
  • Human Molecular Genetics, 15 July 2007, Volume 16, Number 14
  • Nature, 26 July 2007, Volume 448, Number 7152
  • Neuroscience, 13 July 2007,, Volume 147, Number 3
  • NewScientist, 28 July 2007, Volume 195, Number 2614
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 3 July 2007, Volume 104, Number 27
  • Virology, 15 August 2007, Volume 365, Number 1

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Electronic journals available 26 July 207

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Electronic journal available 25 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 26 July 2007

  • Current Biology, 3 July 2007, Volume 17, Number 13
  • Chinese Medical Journal, 20 April 2007, Volume 120, Number 8
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases, 15 July 2007, Volume 45, Supplement 1
  • European Journal of Neuroscience, July 2007, Volume 26, Number 1
  • Journal of Neuroscience, 4 July 2007, Volume 27, Number 27
  • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, June 2007, Volume 102, Number 3
  • Neuroscience, 29 June 2007, Volume 147, Number 2
  • PLoS Biology, May 2007, Volume 5, Number 5

New Book

  • Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 36, edited by Douglas C. Rees, Michael P. Sheetz and James R. Williamson, 2007

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Wednesday 25 July 2007

  • American Scientist, July-August 2007, Volume 95, Number 4
  • BBA: Bioenergetics, July 2007, Volume 1767, Number 7
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases, 15 July 2007, Volume 45, Number 2
  • European Journal of Immunology, July 2007, Volume 37, Number 7
  • Human Molecular Genetics, 1 July 2007, Volume 16, Number 13
  • Journal of Endocrinology, July 2007, Volume 194, Number 1
  • Molecular Cell, 6 July 2007, Volume 27, Number 1
  • Neuron, 5 July 2007, Volume 55, Number 1

Reports

  • Fox Chase Cancer Center Scientific Report 2006
  • Novartis Foundation Annual Report and Handbook 2007
  • Royal College of Physicians Annual Report and Accounts 2006

PubMed browser compatibility

NCBI has completed work on a new system that forms the foundation for the next generation of new features and capabilities for PubMed and the other NCBI databases. Users may need to upgrade or change to another browser.

PubMed has been tested on the following browsers although other versions may work without difficulties:

Browsers that have been exhaustively tested:

  • Windows: IE 7.0, IE 6.0, Firefox 2.0, Opera 9
  • Macintosh: Safari 2.0 on OSX 10.4, FireFox 2.0 on OS X 10.2-10.4, Opera 9
  • Solaris (Sun OS 10): FireFox 2.0, Opera 9

Browsers that have been tested and seem to work reasonably well:

  • Windows: FireFox 1.5, SeaMonkey 1.1.2, Netscape 8.2 & 9.0
  • Macintosh: FireFox 1.5, iCab on OS 9 (with some problems)

Browsers that do not work well and should be upgraded:

  • Windows: Netscape 7.2, Mozilla 1.7, IE 5.0, IE 5.5 SP2
  • Macintosh: Safari, all pre 2.0 versions, Mozilla 1.7, IE (Microsoft no longer supports Macintosh IE, please try another browser such as Safari, FireFox or iCab)
Information taken from:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html#browsers

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Monday, July 23, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 24 July 2007

  • Cell, 29 June 2007, Volume 129, Number 7
  • Chinese Medical Journal, 5 April 2007, Volume 120, Number 7
  • Current Opinion in Structural Biology, June 2007, Volume 17, Number 3
  • Genes and Development, 15 June 2007, Volume 21, Number 12
  • Molecular Cell, 22 June 2007, Volume 26, Number 6
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 19 June 2007, Volume 104, Number 25
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 26 June 2007, Volume 104, Number 26
  • Virology, 1 August 2007, Volume 364, Number 2

New Book

  • Davies, Brian E. Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know? 2003
  • Iron Transport in Bacteria, edited by Jorge H. Crosa, Alexandra R. Mey and Shelley M. Payne, 2004
  • Salyers, Abigail A. and Whitt, Dixie D. Revenge of the Microbes: How Bacterial Resistance Is Undermining the Antibiotic Miracle, 2005

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Electronic journals available 23 July 2007

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Friday, July 20, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 23 July 2007

  • BMJ, 21 July 2007, Volume 335, Number 7611
  • Chinese Medical Journal, 5 March 2007, Volume 120, Number 5
  • Genetics, June 2007, Volume 176, Number 2
  • Immunology, August 2007, Volume 121, Number 4
  • Lancet, 21 July 2007, Volume 370, Number 9583
  • Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, July 2007, Volume 28, Number 7

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ejournal available 20 July 2007

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 20 July 2007

  • Journal of Physiology, 15 July 2007, Volume 582, Number 2
  • Journal of Structural Biology, July 2007, Volume 159, Number 1
  • Nature, 19 July 2007, Volume 448, Number 7151
  • New Scientist, 21 July 2007, Volume 195, Number 2613
  • Science, 13 July 2007, Volume 317, Number 5835
  • Trends in Neurosciences, July 2007, Volume 30, Number 7

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Electronic journals available 19 July 2007

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 19 July 2007

  • Endocrinology, June 2007, Volume 148, Number 6
  • Journal of Cell Science, 1 July 2007, Volume 120, Number 13
  • Journal of Immunology, 1 July 2007, Volume 179, Number 1
  • Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, July 2007, Volume 14, Number 7

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Electronic journals available 18 July 2007

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Electronic journals available 17 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Libary - Wednesday 18 July 2007

  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Proteins and Proteomics, July 2007, Vol 1774, No 7
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1 July 2007, Vol 45, No 1
  • Developmental Biology, 1 July 2007, Vol 307, No 1
  • EMBO journal, 11 July 2007, Vol 26, No 13
  • Journal of Neuroscience, 27 June 2007, Vol 27, No 26
  • Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical, May-June 2007, Vol 40, No 3

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Monday, July 16, 2007

Electroni journals available 16 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 17 July 2007

  • BMJ, 14 July 2007, Vol 335, No 7610
  • Cell, 15 June 2007, Vol 129, No 5
  • Development, July 2007, Vol 134, No 13
  • Developmental Biology, 15 June 2007, Vol 306, No 2
  • Journal of Neuroscience, 20 June 2007, Vol 27, No 25
  • Lancet, 14 July 2007, Vol 370, No 9582
  • Neuron, 21 June 2007, Vol 54, No 6
  • Science, 6 July 2007, Vol 317, No 5834

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 16 July 2007

  • Current Science, 10 April 2007, Volume 92, Number 7
  • Current Science, 25 April 2007, Volume 92, Number 8
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society, 22 July 2007, Volume 274, Number 1619
  • Romanian Archives of Microbiology and Immunology, January-June 2006, Volume 65, Numbers 1-2
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, August 2007, Volume 101, Number 8

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Electronic journals available 13 July 2007

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Electronic journals available 12 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 13 July 2007

  • Annual Report of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health 57, 2006
  • Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases, May 2007, Volume 60, Numbers 2-3
  • Nature, 12 July 2007, Volume 448, Number 7150
  • NewScientist, 14 July 207, Volume 195, Number 2612
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 12 June 2007, Volume 104, Number 24

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 12 July 2007

  • Journal of Parasitology, June 2007, Volume 93, Number 3
  • Molecular Pharmacology, July 2007, Volume 72, Number 1
  • Nature Neuroscience, July 2007, Volume 10, Number 7
  • Romanian Archives of Microbiology and Immunology, January-December 2005, Volume 64, Numbers 1-4

Thesis

  • Berend Rah, MD - Division of Neurobiology
  • A Rat Assay for CNS Repair

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Journals displayed in the Libary - Wednesday 11 July 2007

  • Acta Medica et Biologica, June 2007, Vol. 55, No.2
  • Human Molecular Genetics, 1 June 2007, Vol. 16, No. 11
  • Human Molecular Genetics, 15 June 2007, Vol. 16, No. 12
  • Journal of Antibiotics, 4 April 2007, Vol. 60, No. 4
  • Science, 29 June 2007, Vol. 316, No 5833
  • Trends in Genetics, July 2007, Vol. 23, No. 7
  • Trends in Immunology, July 2007, Vol. 28, No. 7

New Books

  • Cold Spring Harbor Symposia On Quantitative Biology, Volume LXXI: Regulatory RNAs, 2006
  • Novartis Foundation Symposium 284, Tinkering: The Microevolution of Development, 2007
  • Tambyah Paul & Leung Ping-Chung. Bird Flu: A Rising Pandemic in Asia and Beyond? 2006

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Monday, July 09, 2007

Electronic journals available 10 July 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - Tuesday 10 July 2007

  • BioTechniques, June 2007, Volume 42, Number 6
  • Developmental Dynamics, June 2007, Volume 236, Number 6
  • FEBS Letters, 10 July 2007, Volume 531, Number 17
  • Genome Research, June 2007, Volume 17, Number 6
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1 July 2007, Volume 196, Number 1
  • Journal of Physiology, 1 July 2007, Volume 582, Number 1

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Friday, July 06, 2007

Electronic Journals Available - 6th July 2007

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The Hippocampus book

I can never see the point of book reviews that don't tell you
  1. whether the book is worth reading/buying
  2. anything about what the book contains
Luckily the latest oeuvre* from Tim Bliss (late of NIMR's Division of Neurophysiology) has been well-served with two glowing reviews, one today in Science and another in May's Nature Neuroscience.

The review in Science said:
"...with a gestation period of 20 years, written by a team of 23 researchers, styled by 5 editors, weighing nearly 6 pounds, and running over 850 pages [the book] summarizes 50 years of anatomical, physiological, and behavioral research on the sea horse-shaped structure buried deep within the brain's medial temporal lobe. It is, however, much more than a reference work. The book also captures the lore of the field and will serve as a reliable guide for the next generation of hippocampologists."
The reviewer goes on to describe the various chapters, in enthusiastic tones. He ends:
The hippocampus has served as a Rosetta stone, and deciphering its secrets is helping us to understand many core principles of brain function. The Hippocampus Book records the impressive results of our decoding to date and passes the torch to the next generation.

The Nature Neuroscience review was rather more poetic and less enumerative, but leaves us in no doubt about his view of the worth of the book:
"this most magnificent compilation ever written about the the hippocampus in the brain ... serves as a precise guide to hippocampal discoveries, and hence we can forget about PubMed: here we have almost all of the important information about the hippocampus, in context".
Although I can't imagine ever "forgetting about PubMed" I see what he means.

He closes his review thus:
The elusive sea dragon of the brain is guarding its secrets tightly, leaving future researchers plenty to study and discover.


* The book in question is:
The Hippocampus Book

Edited by Per Andersen, Richard Morris, David Amaral, Tim Bliss and John O'Keefe
Oxford University Press, 2006
872 pp, hardcover , $125.00
ISBN 0195100271


We do have a copy in the Library if you want to read it for yourself.

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 9th July 2007

  • BMJ, 7 July 2007, Vol. 335 No. 7609
  • Current Biology, 19 June 2007, Vol. 17 No. 12
  • Genes and Development, 1 June 2007, Vol. 21 No. 11
  • Journal of Magnetic Resonance, June 2007, Vol. 186 No. 2
  • Lancet, 7 July 2007, Vol. 370 No. 9581
  • New Scientist, 7 July 2007, Vol. 195 No. 2611
  • Protein Science, June 2007, Vol. 16 No. 6

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Elsevier's prices - 2008

Frank Vrancken Peeters, Global Sales Director for Elsevier, recently sent out a message to customers. It contains the usual soft soap about how "Elsevier is committed to delivering value for customers by continually improving our customer service and product functionality in addition to supporting ongoing growth in the number of articles published and rapidly expanding online usage", and the fact that "in our most recent survey, customers ranked Elsevier higher than other publishers in 8 out of 10 categories, an improvement over last year".

We then learn that
"For decades, the number of research articles published each year has grown by around 3-4% annually. Last year was no exception and in fact, growth of
Elsevier-published articles increased above this long-term rate. Online
usage of Elsevier-published articles on ScienceDirect continues to increase
by more than 20%: ScienceDirect recently passed the milestone of 1 billion
articles downloaded".

and that

"Downloads onto the desktops of over 16 million researchers, clinicians, and students around the globe now continue at a rate exceeding on average over 700 articles per minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

Finally we get to the news we were looking for:

"Elsevier is targeting a price increase of just below six percent on average across our journals in 2008. ... Elsevier's price increase has placed us in the lowest quartile of the industry for the past six years, and we hope that this year's increase will enable us to remain in this range. As a point of reference, the 2007 average increase across all STM publishers was 7.89% in Europe and 8.73% in the U.S."

More customer-speak follows, to make us feel loved and valued.

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Electronic Journals Available - 5th July 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 6th July 2007

  • Endocrinology, July 2007, Vol. 148 No. 7
  • European Journal of Neuroscience, June 2007, Vol. 25 No. 12
  • International Immunology, June 2007, Vol. 19 No. 6
  • Journal of Biomolecular NMR, July 2007, Vol. 38 No. 3
  • Journal of Neuroscience, 13 June 2007, Vol. 27 No. 24
  • Nature, 5 July 2007, Vol. 448 No. 7149
  • Neuroscience, 15 June 2007, Vol. 147 No. 1

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Journals Displayed in the Library - 5th July 2007

  • Acta Medica Okayama, June 2007, Vol.61 No.3
  • BioEssays, July 2007, Vol.29 No.7
  • Embo Reports, July 2007, Vol.8 No.7
  • Embo Reports, July 2007, Vol.8 Special Issue
  • Journal of Antibiotics, March 2007, Vol.60 No.3
  • Journal of Molecular Biology, 27 July 2007, Vol.370 No.5
  • Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, July 2007, Vol.154 No.1
  • Trends in Biotechnology, July 2007, Vol.25 No.7
  • Trends in Parasitology, July 2007, Vol.23 No.7

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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Electronic Journals Available - 3rd July 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 4th July 2007

  • Indian Journal of Medical Research, February 2007, Vol. 125 No. 2
  • Kawasaki Medical Journal, 2007, Vol. 33 No. 1
  • Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society - Series B - Biological Sciences, 29 July 2007, Vol. 362 No. 1483

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Monday, July 02, 2007

Electronic Journals Available - 2nd July 2007

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NLM advice on web browsers for using PubMed

Which Web browsers will work with PubMed?

PubMed has been tested on the following browsers although other versions may work without difficulties:

Browsers that have been exhaustively tested:

  • Windows: IE 7.0, IE 6.0, Firefox 2.0, Opera 9
  • Macintosh: Safari 2.0 on OSX 10.4, FireFox 2.0 on OS X 10.2-10.4, Opera 9
  • Solaris (Sun OS 10): FireFox 2.0, Opera 9

Browsers that have been tested and seem to work reasonably well:

  • Windows: FireFox 1.5, SeaMonkey 1.1.2, Netscape 8.2 & 9.0
  • Macintosh: FireFox 1.5, iCab on OS 9 (with some problems)

Browsers that do not work well and should be upgraded:

  • Windows: Netscape 7.2, Mozilla 1.7, IE 5.0, IE 5.5 SP2
  • Macintosh: Safari, all pre 2.0 versions, Mozilla 1.7, IE (Microsoft no longer supports Macintosh IE, please try another browser such as Safari, FireFox or iCab)

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 3rd July 2007

  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer, June 2007, Vol. 1775 No. 2
  • British Medical Journal, 30 June 2007, Vol. 344 No. 7608
  • Cell Motility and the Exoskeleton, 26 February 2007, Vol. 64 No. 7
  • Lancet, 30 June 2007, Vol. 369 No. 9580
  • Molecular Cell, 25 May 2007, Vol. 26 No. 4
  • Molecular Cell, 8 June 2007, Vol 26 No. 5
  • Science, 22 June 2007, Vol. 316 No. 5832

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