NIMR Library blog is moving

This blog is now closed, although its content will remain here for a while yet.

NIMR Library's new blog is now internal and can be accessed by NIMR staff at: http://nimri.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/blog/library.

A new blog for MRC wide information is under consideration.

Electronic journals available 13 August 2007

• Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 15, Iss. 19, 2007
• Developmental Biology, Vol. 308, Iss. 2, 2007
• FEBS Letters, Vol. 581, Iss. 21, 2007
• Gene Expression Patterns, Vol. 7, Iss. 7, 2007
• Lancet, Vol. 370, Iss. 9586, 2007
• Neuroscience, Vol. 148, Iss. 1, 2007
• Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 48, Iss. 36, 2007

Electronic journals available 10 August 2007

• Cell, Vol. 130, Iss. 3, 2007
• Gene, Vol. 399, Iss. 2, 2007
• Science, Vol. 317, Iss. 5839, 2007
• Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, Vol. 18, Iss. 3, 2007
• Vaccine, Vol. 25, Iss. 36, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 13 August 2007

• BMJ, 11 August 2007, Volume 335, Number 7614
• Genetics, July 207, Volume 176, Number 3
• Journal of Neuroscience, 25 July 2007, Volume 27, Number 30
• Lancet, 11August 2007, Volume 370, Number 9586
• Nature, 9 August 2007, Volume 448, Number 7154
• Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 2007, Volume 51, Number 2

News from the Royal Society's Library and Archives

As the library has a role in preserving the Institute's history as well as providing up-to-the-minute science information, we're always looking for web resources to use - this one came to light as a result of a Google search for something entirely different, the joy of serendipity.

The Royal Society's Library and Archives have a rather nice News page, where each month they highlight items from their collections including:

• Archive of the month - August entry: the creation of a science time capsule for 2057
• Fellow of the month - August entry: James Chadwick FRS (linked to the 75th anniversary celebrations of his discovery of neutrons)
• Picture of the month - Drawing of an Australian Cuttlefish by Sir Frederick McCoy FRS
• Book of the month - Lucretius "De rerum natura" looking at his early atomic theory of matter

You can see what has been covered in the past by browsing the New Archive. In the news archive I found two entries on archives which are related to NIMR: The Henry Dale Papers and the Sir John Henry Gaddum Papers . The entries are quite short, but do sometimes include search tips the Society's catalogues.

Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 10 August 2007

• FEBS Letters, August 2007, Volume 581, Number 20
• Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences, March 2007, Volume 54, Number 1
• NewScientist, 11 August 207, Volume 195, Number 2616
• Trends in Immunology, August 2007, Volume 28, Number 8
• Trends in Neurosciences, August 2007, Volume 30, Number 8
• Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, August 2007, Volume 28, Number 8

Electronic journals available 9 August 2007

• Analytical Biochemistry, Vol. 368, Iss. 2, 2007
• Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 371, Iss. 5, 2007
• New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 357, Iss. 6, 2007
• Vaccine, Vol. 25, Iss. 35, 2007
• Vaccine, Vol. 25, Supp. 1, 2007

Nature slips further from pole position

Nature, for long the top dog of scientific journals, has slipped down the ratings as judged by impact factor Richard Gallagher reports in his blog at The Scientist.

In 2004 it was the top journal with an impact factor of 31.9, then slipped marginally behind Science and Cell in 2005. But the latest figures, for 2006, show a further slip: Science comes in at 30.0, Cell at 29.2 and Nature at 26.7.

The numbers are calculated as the total number of citations in the year 2006 to papers published in the years 2004 and 2005, divided by the number of papers published in 2004 and 2005. That's three-and-a-half fewer citations on average for a Nature paper versus a Science paper.

The usual government health warning about impact factors applies: if they tell you what you already know then they're probably correct; if they contradict what you expect then feel free to ignore them.

Expect to see more review articles in Nature in the next couple of years - review articles attract disproportionately higher numbers of citation than research articles so they are a simple way to bump up a journal's impact factor.

Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 9 August 2007

• Journal of Biomolecular NMR, August 2007, Volume 38, Number 4
• Journal of Endocrinology, August 2007, Volume 194, Number 2
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 10 July 2007, Volume 104, Number 28
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 17 July 2007, Volume 104, Number 29
• Proteins: Structure, Function, ad Bioinformatics, 15 August 2007, Volume 68, Number 3
• Science, 3 August 2007, Volume 317, Number 5838

Electronic journals available 8 August 2007

• Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol. 361, Iss. 2, 2007
• Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 17, Iss. 17, 2007
• Experimental Cell Research, Vol. 313, Iss. 13, 2007
• Lancet, Vol. 370, Iss. 9585, 2007
• Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Vol. 35, Iss. 4, 2007

Molecular biology archives

The National Library of Medicine, a constituent institute of the National Institutes of Health, announces the release of an extensive selection from the papers of Sol Spiegelman (1914-1983), a pioneering molecular biologist whose discoveries helped reveal the mechanisms of gene action and laid the foundations of recombinant DNA technology, on the Profiles in Science website.

In a separate development, the notebooks used by Fred Sanger, Britain's most decorated scientist, to record experiments that won him two Nobel prizes have been saved for the nation, reports the Observer on 5th August . The Wellcome Trust has stepped in to take possession of the books in which Sanger noted down the progress of research that led to his winning a chemistry Nobel prize in 1958 and a second in 1980, a chemistry double that has never been matched. 'Sanger was the father of genome sequencing,' said Clare Matterson of the Wellcome Trust. 'With his notebooks, we now have a clear record of his influences and thought processes. It would have been tragic if these notebooks had ended up outside Britain.'

Journals displayed in the Library - Wednesday 8 August 2007

• Cell, 13 July 2007, Volume 130, Number 1
• Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1 August 2007, Volume 45, Number 3
• Endocrinology, August 2007, Volume 148, Number 8
• European Journal of Neuroscience, July 2007, Volume 26, Number 2
• Journal of Neuroscience, 18 June 2007, Volume 27, Number 29
• PLoS Biology, June 2007, Volume 5, Number 6

Electronic journals available 7 August 2007

• Current Biology, Vol. 17, Iss. 15, 2007
• Developmental Cell, Vol. 13, Iss. 2, 2007
• Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 48, Iss. 35, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 7 August 2007

• Bioinformatics, 1 July 207, Volume 23, Number 13
• BioTechniques, July 2007, Volume 43, Number 1
• EMBO Reports, August 2007, Volume 8, Number 8
• FEBS Letters, July 2007, Volume 581, Number 19
• Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences, December 2006, Volume 53, Number 4
• Trends in Parasitology, August 2007, Volume 23, Number 8

Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 6 August 2007

• BMJ, 4 August 2007, Volume 335, Number 7613
• Chinese Journal of Virology, 2007, Volume 23, Number 3
• Development, July 2007, Volume 134, Number 14
• Journal of Cell Science, 15 July 2007, Volume 120, Number 14
• Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences, September 2006, Volume 53, Number 3
• Lancet, 4 August 2007, Volume 370, Number 9585
• Leprosy Review, June 2007, Volume 78, Number 2
• Nature, 2 August 2007, Volume 448, Number
• NewScientist, 4 August 2007, Volume 195, Number 2615
• Science, 27 July 2007, Volume 317, Number 5837

Electronic journals available 3 August 2007

• FEBS Letters, Vol. 581, Iss. 20, 2007
• Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 371, Iss. 4, 2007
• Molecular Cell, Vol. 27, Iss. 3, 2007
• Neuron, Vol. 55, Iss. 3, 2007
• Science, Vol. 317, Iss. 5838, 2007
• Trends in Cell Biology, Vol. 17, Iss. 7, 2007
• Trends in Microbiology, Vol. 15, Iss. 8, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 3 August 2007

• Journal of Immunology, 15 July 2007, Volume 179, Number 2
• Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, September 2007, Volume 155, Number 1
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 29 August 2007, Volume 362, Number 1484
• Structure, July 2007, Volume 15, Number 7

Electronic journals available 2 August 2007

• Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Vol. 361, Iss. 1, 2007
• New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 357, Iss. 5, 2007
• Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Vol. 32, Iss. 8, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 2 August 2006

• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: General Subjects, August 2007, Volume 1770, Number 8
• Developmental Biology, 15 July 2007, Volume 307, Number 2
• Genes and Development, 1 July 2007, Volume 21, Number 13
• Journal of Magnetic Resonance, July 2007, Volume 187, Number 1
• Protein Science, July 2007, Volume 16, Number 7
• Revista de Saúde Pública, August 2007, Volume 41, Number 4