BHL Notes

Biodiversity Heritage Library scanned MBLWHOI volumes are now directly accessible through the MBLWHOI Library catalog.

By searching for a journal or book title in the MBLWHOI Library catalog - many of the 6000+ of our volumes which have already been scanned for the BHL and EOL projects are now also directly accessible from the MBLWHOI Library catalog record.

The BHL platform also incorporates uBio species name finding tools, developed at MBL.

Book example: Illustrated flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions
http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/display_BHLmultivol.php?titleID=illustratedfloraXXbrit

Serial example: Canadian Field Naturalist
http://cecelia.whoi.edu/BHL/display_BHLmultivol.php?titleID=ottawanaturalistXXotta

These examples represent a small sampling of the BHL holdings accessible through the MBLWHOI Library catalog. As this project develops, much of our pre 1923 holdings as well as copyright cleared titles from other years will be scanned and added to our catalog. Scanned holdings from the 10+ other libraries participating in the BHL project will also be added to our catalog, and migrated as well to a new version of our A-Z list of electronic holdings. This process will take place over time, thanks for your patience.

2collab.com

Last month we offered trial access to to BioMed Central's Faculty of 1000 Biology...

Here is a freely accessible collaborative networking tool which is called 2collab.com this is mentioned in the ScienceDirect information directly below.

Recent serials platform enhancements/changes of note

The publisher Elsevier ScienceDirect has rolled out a number of new functionalities in journal article presentation. For example, a "cited by" feature is now in place.

-A new navigation pane on the search results page provides a view of the research output on a subject by year, by content type, or by journal/book titles with the most results. By using these filters you can refine your search results without having to return to the search form.

-A new article toolbox brings together all of the article-related functionality including 'Cited By', 'Download PDF', 'E-mail Article' and more, into one easy-to-find location.

-Being launched in phases: the integration of article comments and ratings from Elsevier's social collaboration site, 2collab will enable you to evaluate papers according to colleague-driven comments and ratings of articles right on the article page. ScienceDirect summarizes these features below:
http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/news/releases/

JSTOR new platform

JSTOR, the platform which provides much of our electronic archival serials access has released a new platform with new functionality- the most important feature to note (not necessarily the best feature) is that when you save citations, you need to create a username and password in order to do so.

All of the JSTOR changes are summarized here:
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/newFeatures.jsp

Scientific Global Diversity of Literature

The Open Science Directory, developed by the UNESCO and EBSCO Information Services and Hasselt University, Belguim brings together in a single platform over 13,000 freely accessible scientific publications. http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

Subject: Trial for Faculty of 1000 Biology now active

This is the third of a number of recent updates informing you of changes in our serials collection:

Following expressions of interest from the MBL and WHOI communities, we have arranged with the British open access publisher BioMed Central, to have access to a one month trial beginning now for the online resource The Faculty of 1000 Biology

http://www.f1000biology.com/my/

Faculty of 1000 Biology is a resource which combines your interests with reviews and comments of over 2000 colleagues in a subject specific manner.

The following link is to a Power Point provided by BioMed Central which fully explains the features of Faculty of 1000: http://www.f1000biology.com/walkthru/PPT/presentation.ppt

Please note: you will be able to click through at the article level only to titles we subscribe to. Journal titles we don't subscribe to, please place an Interlibrary Loan request: http://mir.mbl.edu/illiad/logon.html

We would appreciate any feedback you may have regarding this resource to Matt Person x7345 or

This is the first of a number of updates this winter informing you of changes in our serials collection:

The following Elsevier titles previously received in print format are now available online through the below links, in the Library catalog, through the Library's A-Z list of electronic serials,and are linked to directly though Library subscribed databases:

Methods in Enzymology v. 311 +
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00766879

Methods in Cell Biology v.76 +
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/0091679X

Advances in Applied Microbiology v.47 +
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00652164

Advances in Ecological Research v. 31 +
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00652504

Advances in Parasitology v.45 +
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/0065308X

Advances in Protein Chemistry v.53 +
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00653233

AGU -- American Geophysical Union

All AGU journals content and archives (beyond our subscribed to journals) will be accessible in 2008 only due to a one year trial granted to the MBLWHOI Library. Click the link below for the AGU gateway:

http://www.agu.org/pubs/dlibrary/journals.shtml

Earth Interactions
G3
Geophysical Research Letters
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
JGR
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Paleoceanography
Radio Science
Reviews in Geophysics
Tectonics
Water Resources Research

Inter-Research

NIID

The next "winter serials notes" with additional online access available will be made available soon.