You can also see much of the information in this message at the MBLWHOI Library Twitter feed (which we invite you to follow):

In 2010, we have been able to respond to community requests for online subscriptions to a number of new titles:

JOVE: the Journal of Visualized Experiments (new request) http://www.jove.com/

ISME Journal (new request) http://www.nature.com/ismej/archive/index.html

Age (new request) http://www.springerlink.com/content/0161-9152

POLAR Research (former exchange title now online) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118495134/home

Wetlands (shifted from BioOne to Springer) http://www.springerlink.com/content/121537

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (publisher has granted access in 2010) http://jrse.aip.org/

Current Aging Science (new request) http://www.bentham.org/cas/index.htm (note: access will be available shortly)

WIRES WIRES is an interdisciplinary portal developed by Wiley publishing, with the following titles freely available for the time being: Climate Change, Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, Systems Biology and Medicine, and Computational Statistics. Here is the URL for the portal: http://wires.wiley.com/WileyCDA/

PubGet PubGet is a resource developed by a former Harvard Medical School student which searches the PubMed database, and returns results as a list of PDF files, thereby reducing the number of clicks needed to access an article. Note: this service returns PDF's for articles in journals we subscribe to or are freely accessible. http://mbl.pubget.com

BioOne BioOne the publisher of current issues of scientific society journals has announced that it has the capacity to support in-article streaming video. BioOne journal titles: http://www.bioone.org/action/showPublications?type=byAlphabet

SERU - Shared E-Resource Understanding The MBLWHOI Library and Springer publishing have entered into a SERU agreement for the 38 current titles we subscribe to from Springer. SERU is an alternative licensing method in which both parties agree to a library-publishing industry standard covering online access to serials titles. Such an agreement streamlines the licensing process and saves significant staff time. SERU: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/seru

If you have questions or comments about any of this information, or any other comments about our serials collections, please let us know:

The MBLWHOI Library has arranged for trial access to the journal JOVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments during the month of August.

You will also find a link to this title on the A-Z list of journals on our website.
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The archives of the American Fisheries Society journals are now available back to the starting volume for each title:

• Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• North American Journal of Fisheries Management
• North American Journal of Aquaculture
• Journal of Aquatic Animal Health
• Marine and Coastal Fisheries
• Fisheries

The following titles are new subsciptions

• Annual Review of Marine Science
• Journal of Operational Oceanography
• Evolution and Development
• Theoretical Ecology

If you have questions, comments, or access issues, please let us know at:

Service News

SFX

By the end of the summer, how journal articles are linked to, from a database search will be improved using new software called SFX. On the patron side, this will also result in is a streamlined A-Z list of electronic and print resources as well as other service enhancements. We will inform you as these changes take place.

BLACKWELL-WILEY

The journal publishers Blackwell and Wiley have merged, and as of July 4, there are access issues for journal titles published by the new firm Wiley-Blackwell. These access issues are affecting all libraries and individual users. Thank you for your patience as Wiley-Blackwell resolves these issues.

New Electronic Access

The following journals have newly activated electronic access:

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Journal of Glaciology

American Statistician

Journal of the American Statistical Association

BioMed Central membership change effects open access publishing charges

The open access publisher BioMed Central publishes close to 200 journals, and they have published 8 MBL and WHOI authored articles in the last 12 months:

As open access publishing (making journal content freely accessible to anyone) is still relatively new, the BioMed Central publishing model has continued to evolve:

(1) In the first model a few years ago, MBLWHOI's membership in BioMed Central meant that a MBL or WHOI scientist could publish in a BMC journal without charges.

(2) In the second BMC membership model, the MBLWHOI Library was able to cover assessed per-article charges of between $600 - $2300 per article by creating a deposit account with Library subscription funds. In 2008 these charges have increased exponentially outside the limits of the Library's budget.

This necessitates the current model explained here:

(3) The MBLWHOI Library now pays an annual membership fee to BioMed Central, which no longer covers processing charges for articles accepted for publication (most libraries now follow this model)

If your article is now accepted for publication in a BMC journal, the Library's Supporter membership category in BMC provides that when you are charged article processing fees at a 15% discount off of regular fees. While this model is not ideal, it is the model our budget can now handle.

BHL Notes

Biodiversity Heritage Library scanned MBLWHOI volumes are now directly accessible through the MBLWHOI Library catalog. Close to 6 million pages have been scanned over the last year.

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

Serial examples:
Canadian Field Naturalist

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.

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.