NIMR Library blog

NIMR Library blog is moving

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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

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Electronic journals available 10 August 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 13 August 2007

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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

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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

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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

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Nature slips further from pole position

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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

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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

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Molecular biology archives

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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

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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

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Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 7 August 2007

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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

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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

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Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 3 August 2007

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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

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Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 2 August 2006

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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

Journals displayed in the Library - Wednesday 1 August 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 31 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 31 July 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 30 July 207

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Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 30 July 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 27 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 27 July 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 26 July 207

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Electronic journal available 25 July 2007

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FEBS Letters, Vol. 581, Iss. 19, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 26 July 2007

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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

Journals displayed in the Library - Wednesday 25 July 2007

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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

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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

Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 24 July 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 23 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 23 July 2007

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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

ejournal available 20 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 20 July 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 19 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 19 July 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 18 July 2007

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Electronic journals available 17 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Libary - Wednesday 18 July 2007

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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

Electroni journals available 16 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 17 July 2007

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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

Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 16 July 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 13 July 2007

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Electronic journals available 12 July 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 13 July 2007

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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

Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 12 July 2007

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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

Journals displayed in the Libary - Wednesday 11 July 2007

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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

Electronic journals available 10 July 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - Tuesday 10 July 2007

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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

Electronic Journals Available - 6th July 2007

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The Hippocampus book

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I can never see the point of book reviews that don't tell you

whether the book is worth reading/buying
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.

Journals Displayed in the Library - 9th July 2007

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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

Elsevier's prices - 2008

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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.

Electronic Journals Available - 5th July 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 6th July 2007

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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

Journals Displayed in the Library - 5th July 2007

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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

Electronic Journals Available - 3rd July 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 4th July 2007

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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

Electronic Journals Available - 2nd July 2007

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NLM advice on web browsers for using PubMed

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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)

Journals Displayed in the Library - 3rd July 2007

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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

Journals Displayed in the Library - 2nd July 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, July 2007, Vol. 1772 No. 7
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research, July 2007, Vol. 1773 No. 7
Bioinformatics, 1 June 2007, Vol. 23 No. 11
Current Opinion in Cell Biology, June 2007, Vol. 19 No. 3
Journal of Molecular Biology, 20 July 2007, Vol. 370 No. 4
Structure, June 2007, Vol. 15 No. 6

Electronic Journals Available - 29th June 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 2nd July 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, July 2007, Vol. 1772 No. 7
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research, July 2007, Vol. 1773 No. 7
Bioinformatics, 1 June 2007, Vol. 23 No. 11
Current Opinion in Cell Biology, June 2007, Vol. 19 No. 3
Journal of Molecular Biology, 20 July 2007, Vol. 370 No. 4
Structure, June 2007, Vol. 15 No. 6

Electronic Journals Available - 28th June 2007

2007-06-28T13:27:00.000+01:00

Journals Displayed in the Library - 29th June 2007

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Developmental Biology, 1 June 2007, Vol. 306 No. 1
Journal of Molecular Biology, 13 July 2007, Vol. 370 No. 3
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, May 2007, Vol. 100 No. 5
Nature, 28 June 2007, Vol. 447 No.7148
New Scientist, 30 June 2007, Vol. 194 No. 2610
Revista de Saude Publica, June 2007, Vol. 41 No. 3
Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, March 2007, Vol. 211 No. 3
Virology, 20 July 2007, Vol. 364 No. 1

Journals Displayed in the Library - 28th June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, July 2007, Vol. 1771 No. 7
Biologist, May 2007, Vol. 54 No. 2
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, June 2007, Vol. 17 No. 3
Endocrinology, May 2007, Vol. 148 No. 5
International Journal of Developmental Biology, 2007, Vol. 51 No. 4
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, April 2007, Vol. 100 No. 4
Scientific American, June 2007, Vol. 296 No. 6
Social Sciences, Summer 2007, No. 66
Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, April 2007, Vol. 211 No. 4

Electronic Journals Available - 27th June 2007

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Electronic Journals Available - 26th June 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 27th June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, July 2007, Vol. 1768 No. 7
Development, June 2007, Vol. 134 No. 12
FEBS Letters, 26 June 2007, Vol. 581 No. 16
Journal of Cell Science, 15 June 2007, Vol. 120 No. 12
Journal of Physiology, 15 June 2007, Vol. 581 No. 3
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, March 2007, Vol. 100 No. 3
Mechanisms of Development, July 2007, Vol. 124 No. 6
Molecular Pharmacology, May 2007, Vol. 71 No. 5
Science, 15 June 2007, Vol. 316 No. 5831
Scientific American, July 2007, Vol. 297 No. 1

Electronic Journals Available - 25th June 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - 26th June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, 6 June 2007, Vol. 1772 No. 6
Cell, 1 June 2007, Vol. 129 No. 5
Developmental Cell, June 2007, Vol. 12 No. 6
Journal of Molecular Biology, 6 July 2007, Vol. 370 No. 2
Journal of Neuroscience, 6 June 2007, Vol. 27 No. 23
Journal of Immunology, 15 June 2007, Vol 178 No. 12
Neuron, 7 June 2007, Vol. 54 No. 5
Neuroscience, 8 June 2007, Vol. 146 No. 4
Proteins, 1 August 2007, Vol. 68 No. 2
Science, 8 June 2007, Vol. 316 No. 5830
Virology, 5 July 2007, Vol 363 No. 2

Chemistry Databases fixed

2007-06-22T18:02:00.000+01:00

We are currently unable to connect to MDL CrossFire to access the Beilstein and Gmelin databases. The problem has been reported to MIMAS who provide the service and they are investigating.

Update: 5.30pm
Access has been restored. It was due to unannounced changes in our local firewall. Computing have been made aware of the consequences of their actions.

Database downtime on 3rd July

2007-06-22T17:47:00.000+01:00

All our databases hosted at MIMAS will be down for approximately 10mins at some time between 7.30am and 8am on Tuesday 3rd July. This is due to an essential network upgrade.

Databases affected are:

CrossFire
Zetoc
Web of Knowledge i.e. Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports

Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 25 June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, June 2007, Volume 1767, Number 6
BMJ, 23 June 2007, Volume 334, Number 7607
Current Biology, 5 June 2007, Volume 17, Number 11
EMBO Journal, 20 June 2007, Volume 26, Number 12
Journal of General Virology, July 2007, Volume 88, Number 7
Lancet, 23 June 2007, Volume 369, Number 9579
Pharmacological Reviews, June 2007, Volume 59, Number 2
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 5 June 2007, Volume 104, Number 23
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 7 July 2007, Volume 274, Number 1618
Public Library of Science Biology, April 2007, Volume 5, Number 4

Electronic journals available 22 June 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 22 June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Proteins and Proteomics, June 2007, Volume 1774, Number 6
Development, June 2007, Volume 134, Number 11
Hirosaki Medical Journal, 2007, Volume 58, Numbers 1-4
Journal of Cell Science, 1 June 2007, Volume 120, Number 11
Nature, 21 June 2007, Volume 447, Number 7147
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, June 2007, Volume 14, Number 6
New Scientist, 23 June 2007, Volume 194, Number 2609
Trends in Biochemical Sciences, June 2007, Volume 32, Number 6

Electronic journals available 21 June 2007

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Elsevier electronic books

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Elsevier are allowing us to access 500 of their ebooks until 1st September 2007, as a free trial. The books are available on ScienceDirect - you can see a list of the books available (but note that this also includes the Elsevier book series that we already subscribe to).

Some of the books available are

New websites from Nature

2007-06-20T18:21:00.000+01:00

Nature are launching new websites right left and centre at the moment. They have just announced two new services:

Nature Precedings is for the things in life that come before, or support, the published paper. You’re encouraged to upload and view slides, posters, white papers, unpublished manuscripts and other such material. Users can download the documents, vote and comment on them. As the site is brand new, they’re looking for early adopters and to upload files and test out the systems – so have a go. The idea of this new site is discussed in a news item in The Scientist.

Scintilla is a website you can customize to display the latest content from your favorite news sources, science blogs, journals, podcasts and the various other media that make up the increasingly diverse ecology of scientific information. You can rate, recommend and find similar items.

Online tuberculosis textbook

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Tuberculosis 2007 is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. The 687 page work is available free electronically as a single PDF or a series of PDF files.

The preface says:

Tuberculosis 2007 is the result of a joint effort in response to the Amedeo Challenge to write and publish a medical textbook on tuberculosis. This non-profit-making initiative is particularly attractive due to several reasons. First, the medium chosen for dissemination: the book will be readily available on the internet and access will be free to anyone. Second, its advantage over books published via traditional media is the ease to update the information on a regular basis. Third, with the exception of Spanish and Portuguese, no copyright is allocated and the translation of Tuberculosis 2007 to all other languages is highly encouraged.

http://www.tuberculosistextbook.com/

Electronic journal available 20 June 2007

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Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 17, Iss. 14, 2007

Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 21 June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, June 2007, Volume 1771, Number 6
Current Science, 25 March 2007, Volume 92, Number 6
European Journal of Neuroscience, June 2007, Volume 25, Number 11
Journal of Endocrinology, June 2007, Volume 193, Number 3
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 15 June 2007, Volume 195, Number 12
Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 2007, Volume 51, Number 1

Journals displayed in the Library - Wednesday 20 June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Biomembranes, June 2007, Volume 1768, Number 6
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 15 June 2007, Volume 44, Number 12
Genetics, May 2007, Volume 176, Number 1
Human Molecular Genetics, 15 May 2007, Volume 16, Number 10
Journal of Neuroscience, 30 May 2007, Volume 27, Number 22
Journal of Structural Biology, June 2007, Volume 158, Number 3
Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 2007, Volume 50, Number 4

Electronic journals available 18 June 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Tuesday 19 June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Gene Structure and Expression, May/June 2007, Volume 1769, Numbers 5-6
European Journal of Immunology, June 2007, Volume 37, Number 6
FEBS Letters, 19 June 2007, Volume 581, Number 15, Vienna Special Issue
Gene Expression Patterns, June 2007, Volume 7, Number 6
Human Molecular Genetics, 1 May 2007, Volume 16, Number 9
Scientific American, May 2007, Volume 296, Number 5
Trends in Cell Biology, June 2007, Volume 17, Number 6
Virology, 20 June 2007, Volume 363, Number 1

Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 18 June 2007

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BMJ, 16 June 2007, Volume 334, Number 7606
EMBO Journal, 16 May 2007, Volume 26, Number 10
Genes and Development, 15 May 2007, Volume 21, Number 10
Lancet, 16 June 2007, Volume 369, Number 9578
Molecular Pharmacology, June 2007, Volume 71, Number 6
Nature Neuroscience, June 2007, Volume 10, Number 6
Neuroscience, 25 May 2007, Volume 146, Number 3
Virology, 5 June 2007, Volume 362, Number 2

New Books

Brown, Andrew. J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science, 2005
Methods in Molecular Biology 326: In Situ Hybridization Protocols 3rd edition, edited by Ian A. Darby and Tim D. Hewitson, 2006

Electronic journals available 15 June 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Friday 15 June 2007

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Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, June 2007, Volume 17, Number 3
FEBS Letters, 12 June 2007, Volume 581, Number 14
Journal of Neuroscience, 23 May 2007, Volume 27, Number 21
Journal of Structural Biology, May 2007, Volume 158, Number 2
Nature, 14 June 2007, Volume 447, Number 7146
NewScientist, 16 June 2007, Volume 194, Number 2608
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 29 May 2007, Volume 104, Number 22
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, June 2007, Volume 28, Number 6

Electronic journals available 14 June 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Thursday 14 June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Molecular Cell Research, June 2007, Volume 1773, Number 6
Journal of Biomolecular NMR, June 2007, Volume 38, Number 2
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1 June 2007, Volume 195, Number 11
Journal of Magnetic Resonance, April 2007, Volume 185, Number 2
Journal of Molecular Biology, 29 June 2007, Volume 370, Number 1
Trends in Immunology, June 2007, Volume 28, Number 6

Electronic journals available 13 June 2007

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Journals Displayed in the Library - Wednesday 13th June 2007

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Bioinformatics, 15 May 2007, Vol.23 No.10
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1 June 2007, Vol.44 No.11
Journal of Biochemistry, May 2007, Vol.141 No.5
Journal of Biomolecular NMR, May 2007, Vol.38 No.1
Journal of Immunology, 1 June 2007, Vol.178 No.11
Neuron, 24 May 2007, Vol.54 No.4
Neuroscience, 11 May 2007, Vol.146 No.2
PEDS - Protein Engineering Design & Selection, May 2007, Vol.20 No.5
Proteins - Structure Function Bioinformatics, July 2007, Vol.68 No.1

Electronic Journals Available - 12th June 2007

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Developmental Biology, Vol. 307, Iss. 1, 2007

Journals Displayed in the Library - 12th June 2007

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, July 2007, Vol.1770 No.7
Developmental Biology, 15 May 2007, Vol.305 No.2
Embo Reports, May 2007, Vol.8 No.5
Immunology, July 2007, Vol.121 No.3
International Journal of Developmental Biology, 2007, Vol.51 No.3
Journal of Molecular Biology, 22 June 2007, Vol.369 No.5
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, July 2007, Vol.101 No.7
Trends in Parasitology, June 2007, Vol.23 No.6
Virology, 25 May 2007, Vol.362 No.1

Electronic Journals Available - 11th June 2007

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Journals displayed in the Library - Monday 11 June 2007

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BioEssays, June 2007, Volume 29, Number 6
BMJ, 9 June 2007, Volume 334, Number 7605
EMBO Journal, 6 June 2007, Volume 26, Number 11
EMBO Reports, January 2007, Volume 8, Number 1
EMBO Reports, February 2007, Volume 8, Number 2
European Journal of Neuroscience, May 2007, Volume 25, Number 10
Lancet, 9 June 2007, Volume 369, Number 9577
Trends in Genetics, June 2007, Volume 23, Number 6

Word 2007 causes problems for journal submissions

2007-06-08T14:08:00.000+01:00

Both Science and Nature have recently updated their publication guidelines and note that native Microsoft Office 2007 file format documents will not be accepted for initial review or revision. While users can obviously save documents in the legacy versions, the Science instructions for authors go on to state that the equation editor supplied with Word 2007 causes them problems too.

See ZDNet blog posting for further information.