MBLWHOI Library

dr. cornelia clapp, the mbl, and the biodiversity heritage library...on this women's history month

Cornelia Clapp was a biologist, professor at Mount Holyoke College, MBL Trustee, and Librarian of the MBL Library at the turn of the last century. The MBLWHOI Library has worked recently with our partner Biodiversity Heritage Library to develop a collection within the BHL called Women in Natural History. One element of this collection is the 1899 doctoral dissertation of Cornelia Clapp: The lateral line system of Batrachus tau. (toadfish) , published by the University of Chicago in 1899. 

After her passing in 1934, Dr. Frank Lillie, the University of Chicago biologist and second Diector of the MBL wrote in memorial to Cornelia Clapp:

“Dr. Cornelia M. Clapp was always a beneficent presence at the Marine Biological Laboratory from the day of its opening in 1888. In the first annual report her name appears as investigator. From that time until 1934, the year of her death, very few indeed were the sessions not graced by her presence. Enthusiasm and loyal devotion, humor, modesty and wisdom combined to make her a unique personality, respected and beloved by all her associates...Miss Clapp was elected trustee in 1910 and served for the remainder of her life. I have been asked to write a few lines concerning her relationship to the Laboratory as a trustee. But indeed it was impossible that this official relationship should increase her devotion to the ideals of the laboratory in scientific research or organization. Her election was a recognition of this devotion, rather than an expectation of getting more. For many years before her election there had been no woman on the Board although the Woman's Education Society of Boston had maintained a seaside laboratory at Annisquam in cooperation with the Boston Society of Natural History from 1880 to 1886, and it was largely through their influence that the Marine Biological Laboratory was established at Woods Hole to take its place. Accordingly there were two women, Miss Susan Minns and Miss Anna D. Phillips, on the first Board of Trustees consisting of nine members only; a third woman, Miss Florence M. Cushing, was shortly afterwards elected to fill a vacancy. But, as these women retired, their places were taken by men, until Miss Clapp's election. The Laboratory should always remember with gratitude the prominent part played by women in the early development of the institution."

The MBLWHOI Library recognizes the achievements of women in science, and the role scientists like Dr. Clapp have played in the development of science in Woods Hole and in the world.

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MBLWHOI Library winter notes:

Journal Changes for 2013

posted February 8, 2013

As always, the MBLWHOI Library relies on a wide variety of data sources to determine the most appropriate journal purchases that meet the needs of our scientists.  This includes input from the scientific community in the form of surveys, meetings, discussions and requests in additional to a number of usage statistics.

 Journal prices continue to increase at rates much higher than inflation.  The Library has added 11 new titles to the collection, based upon needs scientists have communicated to the Library Staff. In order to accommodate the 2013 MBLWHOI Library budget as developed by the administrations of MBL and WHOI, difficult serials titles cuts have been implemented. These title cuts were decided through an ongoing consultation program with scientists at MBL and WHOI, and the administrations of both institutions.  Some changes will be implemented over a period of a few months.

The Library would like to thank the Biological Bulletin and the MBL for the generous decision made to offer complimentary access to Biological Bulletin to MBLWHOI Library users in 2013.

 Contact:  ejournals [at] mbl [dot] edu for specific questions about journal titles.

The following 11 titles have been added to the collection in 2013

• The Holocene (access is forthcoming)
• Cold Regions Science and Technology: now accessible
• Energy Policy: now accessible
• Epigenetics: now accessible
• Gene Expression Patterns: now accessible

• Global Environmental Change: now accessible

• Nature Climate Change: now accessible
• Reproductive Toxicology: now accessible
• Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology: now accessible
• Trends In Endocrinology and Metabolism: now accessible
• Trends in Plant Science: now accessible

The below 42 titles have been cancelled; generally, access to years we have previously paid for will continue to be available electronically. 

please note: the below changes take place over the next couple of months as publishers update their systems; at any given time the access we have is the access you are able to retrieve through our website/database services.

Contact:  ejournals [at] mbl [dot] edu for specific questions about journal titles.

1. Advances in Insect Physiology
2. Advances in Parasitology
3. Analytical Biochemistry
4. Behavioural Brain Research
5. Biosensors and Bioelectronics
6. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries = Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (print)
7. Canadian Journal of Forest Research
8. Chemical Senses
9. Development Growth & Differentiation
10. Developmental & Comparative Immunology
11. Electrochimica Acta
12. Environmental and Experimental Botany
13. European Journal of Cell Biology
14. Experimental Cell Research
15. Fish & Shellfish Immunology
16. Free Radical Biology and Medicine
17. International Journal for Parasitology
18. Journal of African Earth Sciences
19. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
20. Journal of Coastal Research. Special Issue
21. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
22. Journal of Endocrinology
23. Journal of General Physiology
24. Journal of Geodynamics
25. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
26. Journal of Insect Physiology
27. Journal of Molecular Biology
28. Journal of Neurochemistry
29. Journal of Physiology
30. Marine Resource Economics (now available through BioOne)
31. Mechanisms of Development
32. Microbes and Infection, and Research in Microbiology
33. Molecular Biology of the Cell
34. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
35. Molecular Immunology
36. Nature Medicine
37. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
38. Physiological Reviews
39. Physiology & Behavior
40. Plant Cell & Environment
41. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
42. Vision Research

Below are the 26 exchange titles which have been cancelled in 2013

EXCHANGE PROGRAMS are one method that most libraries in the 20th Century used to build up their collections in an economical manner. Starting in the 19th Century postal services would grant discounts to institutions which exchanged published publications to assist in the dissemination of knowledge. MBL exchanged the Biological Bulletin, and WHOI exchanged Oceanus with hundreds of other science institutions worldwide. In 2012, a program which once numbered in a couple of thousand exchange titles had been reduced over the past 2 decades to 26 titles spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The MBL exchange program was administered as a partnership between the Biological Bulletin and the MBLWHOI Library. On the WHOI side of the Library, the partnership was with Oceanus and other WHOI publications.

The MBLWHOI Library thanks the Biological Bulletin and the MBL for this 125 year partnership. We also thank Oceanus and WHOI for over a half century of exchange cooperation. 

     

You can extrapolate a number of historical elements from the below list, including MBL's long and unique relationship with Japan, WHOI's long and ground breaking relationship with institutions in the former Soviet Union, MBL's from it's inception relationship with its sister institution Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, and MBL's relationship with other cornerstone institutions in the history of biology such as: the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, and the American Museum of Natural History.

Cancelled exchange titles:

1. Activity Report; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli (print)
2. American Philosophical Society Yearbook (print)
3. Annales Zoologici Fennici (print)
4. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (print)
5. Boreal Environment Research (print)
6. Bulletin of Marine Science (electronic)
7. Cytologia (print)
8. Ecological Research(Japan-print)
9. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution (print)
10. Genetika(print)
11. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (print)
12. Indian Journal of  Marine Science (print)
13. International Microbiology (print)
14. Japanese Journal of Ecology (print)
15. Journal of Biochemistry (Japan-print)
16. Journal of the Geological Society (electronic)
17. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (electronic)
18. Natural History (print)
19. Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (print)
20. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (print)
21. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (print)
22. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (print)
23. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences (print)
24. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (print) 
25. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (print)
26. Tsitologiya (print)

For more information, contact: ejournals [at] mbl [dot] edu

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MBLWHOI Library Winter Notes #4 -11

posted December 20, 2012

Open Data gathering in the Grass Reading Room during October's Open Access Week

#4: Holiday Wishes to You!

MBLWHOI Library co-Directors Lisa Raymond of WHOI and Diane Rielinger of MBL

extend the warm wishes of the holiday season, from the Library Staff to the MBL and WHOI research communities.

One of the ways we serve WHOI and MBL scientists year round is through the Library Liaison program. Our services are both well defined and defined by whatever your unique needs may be, so please feel free to speak with us at your convenience: library [at] mbl [dot] edu

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#5: Big Data and big science.

A note to the community from Data Librarian Liza Coburn:

Data, and the management of data, have long been important areas of interest in the library,

but conversation about data management has increased in all venues. 

Data is quickly becoming a "first class citizen": http://datapub.cdlib.org/?p=1201, and the library is prepared to support this. 

Library staff members have been reaching out to the local research community through departmental data management presentations, individual consultations with researchers upon request, and Open Access Week events.

We have also been communicating the substance of our data related work, especially in the realm of informatics, to the broader research community...through conferences and meetings.  Most recently, MBLWHOI Library Co-Director Lisa Raymond and Data Librarian Liza Coburn attended the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.  Their experience at AGU was that the informatics program, and the interest and participation in the program, have grown dramatically, and are likely to continue.  This is  a very exciting time for research libraries and librarians. 

For more information about data management or data-centric library activities please contact Data Librarian Liza Coburn at ecoburn [at] whoi [dot] edu.  We also invite you to browse our web page on data management: http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/data-management-resources.

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#6: The Biological Bulletin in hand and in history.

The MBLWHOI Library Bay Reading Room (in the Lillie Building) bookshelves are now home to MBL’s historic Biological Bulletin, WHOI’s Oceanus, and WHOI’s historic Collected Reprints (from 1930-1956). Fifteen or so years ago, the Bay Reading Room was literally bursting at the seams with current journals issues. This current repurposing the shelving space in the reading room follows through on a suggestion made in 2012 by recently retired MBL Director Gary Borisy to make the Bay Reading Room shelved content more Woods Hole-centric.   

Bay Reading Room

Related note of great interest on the Biological Bulletin...

In 1988 Pamela Clapp Hinkle, now MBL Director of Development wrote The History of the Biological Bulletin which was published in both The Collecting Net, and the Biological Bulletin. You can view this article here: http://www.biolbull.org/content/174/1/1.full.pdf+html

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#7: More open access publications, and the venerable and cutting edge Biological Bulletin.

We work to keep you informed about  new open access publications of interest to the Woods Hole community, now online or soon-to-be online:

eLife, peerJ, elementa, and ieee access,

http://elife.elifesciences.org/

https://peerj.com/

http://elementascience.org/

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

The Library held 2 Open Access events in October. We are committed to open discussion of all points of view related to this, and are pleased to offer any assistance requested from anyone in the Community about the new world of publishing and how it impacts authors. 

Did you know?... that in addition to all content being freely available after 12 months, the Biological Bulletin regularly selects a current article to be freely accessible. Also, the WHOI publication Oceanus is always freely accessible online.   

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#8: Alt-metrics has begun to impact the impact of impact factors.

This week (12/18/12) Highwire Press, the publishing platform of many scientific societies, announced “a strategic collaboration with ImpactStory, a researcher led, non-profit organization, with a drive to help redefine the impact of research articles. Article level metrics monitor the conversations around an article, as a complement to citation reports which measure a journal’s overall impact. ImpactStory aggregates impact data – the number of times an article is accessed and mentioned in editorials, news, tweets and blogs, as well as bookmarked, favorited, and recommended, in addition to those cited by another research paper, from sources such as CrossRef, Mendeley, and PubMed."

Later this Winter, the MBLWHOI Library will hold a open Woods Hole scientific community program about Altmetrics.

Please let us know if you have an interest in taking a lead in this discussion: ejournals [at] mbl [dot] edu

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#9: White paper redefines the research library.

Library Scholar Cathy Norton and former Library Director Holly Miller (now at Florida Institute of Technology), along with colleagues from the libraries of Rockefeller University, Cold Spring Harbor, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center will shortly be publishing a white paper entitled Data management: Librarians or science informationists? Mention of this paper was published in Nature Correspondence on 18 October, 2012. We will inform you when this paper is published. 

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#10: For your interest: 

As multi-instiutional projects with hubs emanating from the MBL Center for Library and Informatics and the MBLWHOI Library, the Encyclopedia of Life and the Biodiversity Heritage Library join forces on a regular basis, at conferences such as the Ecological Society of America...jointly administering  exhibition booths, to communicate with the scientific community about these uniquely related projects. Additionally, the two projects cooperate in a crowd sourced project to transform BHL content scientific illustrations into ready-to-use illustrations on EOL species pages.  Below, the most recent newsletters for EOL and BHL. 

EOL Encyclopedia of Life newsletter

http://www.icontact-archive.com/NsBpmvLZIc-0HxWqFcFUMJrx2mc4B8xH?w=3#11

BHL Biodiversity Heritage Library newsletter

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs181/1103622715135/archive/1111505098849.html

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#11:  A Closing Remark for this issue of MBLWHOI Library Winter Notes, from a 1908 issue of Science, by Dr. Frank R. Lillie: 

Frank R. Lillie

“The problems in the various departments of biological research are so intricately interrelated that each department is sure to be of aid to others in many ways often curious and unexpected. This is not a matter for surprise. It only emphasizes the necessity of the broadest organization of our work if any subject is to march forward with the least degree of impediment.” -
Frank R. Lillie, second MBL Director, first President of the Board of Trustees of WHOI

from:  Science, New Series, Vol. 27, No. 688 (Mar. 6, 1908), pp. 369-386

The next issue of MBLWHOI Library Winter Notes will appear here in January 2013.

Any comments or suggestions about this publication?, please feel free to let us know: ejournals [at] mbl [dot] edu 

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MBLWHOI Library Winter Notes, #1-3 :

posted November 19, 2012
 

 1.

SpringerLink, the publishing platform for Springer Journals will migrate to a new website on Monday, November 26th. The migration should be seamless, and should be completed by noon on Monday the 26th.

However, Springer has informed us that anyone who uses the My SpringerLink account feature, (which allows one to indicate favorites, saved searches, and alerts), will lose that information in the new iteration of My SpringerLink. 

Additionally, the new Springer website will allow you to log into MySpringer Link, but you will be beginning without the data from the previous My SpringerLink. 

Any questions- please email Matt Person at ejournals [at] mbl [dot] edu

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Many thanks to those who attended and lead our 6th Open Access Week program, particularly
Michael Moore of WHOI, Roger Hanlon, and Carol Schachinger, both of MBL.

Our first program of the week was on Open Data, led by Library Co-Director Lisa Raymond and librarians Liza Coburn and Jen Walton. A lively discussion with lots of Q&A and experience-sharing across the institutions took place. For anyone with an interest in managing their data in the present information and work environment who is interested in or needs to discuss these issues as it relates to their work, MBLWHOI Library staff are available for this purpose:

email:  library [at] mbl [dot] edu  phone 508-289-7002



Have you ever received requests from journals you are unfamiliar with to publish or serve on their editorial boards? In the present scientific publishing environment such spam is
common, and you may wish to consult Beall's List of Predatory Open Access Publishers to help determine if such requests are legitimate.

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Over the summer months the Directors of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced the historic first co-directorship of the MBLWHOI Library. Lisa Raymond of WHOI and Diane Rielinger of MBL are now the Co-directors of the MBLWHOI Library.

Diane Rielinger (l), Lisa Raymond (r)

Also over this past year we have instituted our Library Liaison Program,

Librarian Jen Walton explaining

Library services to summer students.

which we have purposed to assist MBL and WHOI scientists with their information needs.
This assistance ranges from data management assistance, to finding an article in a journal, to open access, WHOAS repository, and other expertise. 
Any questions on any of the above, or to speak with your liaison please contact the Library: email library [at] mbl [dot] edu phone: 289-7002

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Two Cities Named Cambridge and One Library Named the Biodiversity Heritage Library

note: this is a reprint written by MBLWHOI Library staff member Matt Person from the Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog, originally posted Wednesday October 3rd 2012 at  http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/10/two-cities-named-cambridge-and-one.html

Last week the BHL Librarian and Technical Staff met at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for one of our invaluable staff meetings (our last face to face meeting was about one year ago right after the BHL Chicago Life and Literature Conference.)  These meetings are always lively and packed full of agenda items that we generate during our monthly teleconference calls…and usually a memorable meal or some cultural event are also included! After each of these meetings we return to our home libraries laden down with an armful of tasks to complete within a specific timeframe (which we try to stick to!). Check back soon for a post about the Meeting.
 

Matthew Person

A month ago one of our librarians, Matthew Person of the MBLWHOI Library in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, was given the unique opportunity to speak about the BHL to Science Historians and digital media specialists who were meeting in the other Cambridge: that’s Cambridge University in England! Matt was attending the 9th Digital History and Philosophy of Science Workshop at Cambridge University as a member of the Arizona State University/Marine Biological Laboratory History and Philosophy of Science Program of MBL's Center for Library and Informatics.

The opening day afternoon of the Cambridge UK conference was themed “If you build it will they come? Mobilizing online Communities for Research.” Matt was asked by Dr. Alison Pearn, who is Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, if he would give a presentation about BHL's social media work, our use of crowd sourcing, and games development, all which assist our BHL development. The presentation Matt gave was titled “Building a large digital library and interacting with the World”, and this was just one of a number of interesting presentations made that day by staff of: The Genizah Project (Dr. Ben Outhwaite of Cambridge University), the oldWeather Project (Dr. Philip Brohan of the MetOffice UK), and the Chymistry of Issac Newton Project (Dr. Wally Hooper of Indiana University), to name just a few of about 20 projects and presenters who spoke during the 3 day workshop.

Matt consulted with BHL colleagues Gilbert Borrego, Grace Costantino, Suzanne Pilsk, and Martin Kalfatovic of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Diane Rielinger and Cathy Norton of the MBLWHOI Library, Trish Rose-Sandler and Chris Freeland of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Connie Rinaldo of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, in preparation for his BHL talk, the first part of which was a concise account of the purpose, history, and function of the BHL. The second part of the talk detailed our working with the tools of social media websites such as facebook, twitter, and flickr, and our daily use of an issue resolution tool informed by our BHL library users called Gemini. Matt also spoke of our thoughts on the development of a mobile device type of game App, which could assist us with scanned text correction, for example.*

The Biodiversity Heritage Library goes beyond being a virtual biodiversity library serving scholars and citizen scientists. Our work on Flickr isolates some of the remarkable corpus of illustrations in the scanned BHL literature, and works with our partner the Encyclopedia of Life to hold flickr tagging events to have the “crowd sourced” community establish appropriate descriptive metadata for the illustrations so that they can be uploaded to EOL species pages. Our work in social media is dynamic, ongoing and developing, and the talk Matt gave at the Digital History and Philosophy of Science Workshop in Cambridge, UK, was well received by scholars and technicians who both use the BHL and have wondered a bit about what’s behind those 39 million+ scanned pages!

The image of a science historian or any scholar working solely in print materials these days is being replaced by dynamic projects that combine digital versions of scanned historic text with the most advanced computational and visualization tools of the day. Many of these tools have been developed by the BHL partner libraries, and many are also being developed by the History and Philosophy of Science community. This work expands dramatically the scope and depth of the study of the history of science. 

We asked Matt, who lives near Cambridge, Massachusetts, to comment on these two cities which figured in BHL life this September…named Cambridge…the one in Massachusetts and the other in England. He told us, “Both cities named Cambridge are relatively small in size, but huge in scholarly content; both cities have bucolic riverside settings, and also are on the forefront of knowledge creation, and have been so for centuries.” So it’s quite appropriate that in September 2012 both historic cities named Cambridge figured in the life of the historic and ground breaking Biodiversity Heritage Library!

- Matthew Person, Technical Services Coordinator, MBLWHOI Library

* BHL is not, at this time, performing any development with gaming Apps, though we are exploring the possibility of doing so one day.

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SPIN THE GLOBE OVER THREE WEEKS
AS MBLWHOI LIBRARY STAFF MEMBERS ATTEND FASCINATING MEETINGS IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND

The schedule:

Week of Aug. 20:

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friday evening literature, august 17, 2012

Dr. Bonnie L. Bassler

Dr. Bonnie L. Bassler, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute will deliver the final Friday Evening Lecture of 2012, “How Bacteria Talk To Each Other” August 17, 8:00pm at the MBL Lillie Auditorium.

Please see the MBL website for more information about this lecture.

Below are listed selected publications of Dr. Bassler:

Ng WL, Perez L, Cong J, Semmelhack MF, Bassler BL. (2012) Broad spectrum pro-quorum-sensing molecules as inhibitors of virulence in vibrios. PLoS Pathogens. 8: e1002767. 

Shao Y, Bassler BL. (2012) Quorum-sensing non-coding small RNAs use unique pairing regions to differentially control mRNA targets. Molecular  Microbiology. 83: 599-611. 

Wei Y, Ng WL, Cong J, Bassler BL. (2012) Ligand and antagonist driven regulation of the Vibrio cholerae quorum-sensing receptor CqsS. Molecular  Microbiology. 83: 1095-1108. 

Chen G, Swem LR, Swem DL, Stauff DL, O'Loughlin CT, Jeffrey PD, Bassler BL, Hughson FM. (2011) A strategy for antagonizing quorum sensing. Molecular Cell. 42: 199-209. 

Rutherford ST, van Kessel JC, Shao Y, Bassler BL. (2011) AphA and LuxR/HapR reciprocally control quorum sensing in vibrios. Genes & Development. 25: 397-408. 

Wei Y, Perez LJ, Ng WL, Semmelhack MF, Bassler BL. (2011) Mechanism of Vibrio cholerae autoinducer-1 Biosynthesis. ACS Chemical Biology Biol. 6: 356-365. 

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Friday evening literature, august 10, 2012

Dr. Leslie B. Vosshall

Dr. Leslie B. Vosshall, Robin Chemers Neustein Professor at the Rockefeller University and Investigator, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will deliver the Friday Evening Lecture August 10, 2012, the Joshua Lederberg Lecture: "Food and Sex: The Neurogenetics of Innate Behavior". 

Please see the MBL website for more information about this lecture

Below are listed selected publications of Dr. Vosshall:

Tatsuro Nakagawa, Maurizio Pellegrino, Koji Sato, Leslie B. Vosshall, Kazushige Touhara
Amino Acid Residues Contributing to Function of the Heteromeric Insect Olfactory Receptor Complex
PLoS ONE 7(3): e32372. (2012)

Maurizio Pellegrino, Nicole Steinbach, Marcus C. Stensmyr, Bill S. Hansson, and Leslie B. Vosshall
A natural polymorphism alters odour and DEET sensitivity in an insect odorant receptor
Nature. v.478:511-514 (2011)

Shelli F. Farhadian, Mayte Suarez-Farinas, Christine Cho, Maurizio Pellegrino, & Leslie B. Vosshall
Post-fasting olfactory, transcriptional, and feeding responses in Drosophila
Physiology & Behavior. v.105:544-553 (2012)

Leslie B. Vosshall and Bill S. Hansson
A Unified Nomenclature System for the Insect Olfactory Coreceptor
Chem. Senses. v.36 (6): 497-498 (2011)

Maurizio Pellegrino, Takao Nakagawa, & Leslie B. Vosshall
Single Sensillum Recordings in the Insects Drosophila melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) 2010 Feb 17; (36). pii: 1725. doi: 10.3791/1725.

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friday evening literature, August 4, 2012

Arthur L. Horwich

Dr. Arthur L. Horwich Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics at Yale University, and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will deliver the MBL Friday Evening Lecture, the Glassman Lecture: “Protein Folding in the Cell: The final Step of Information

Transfer”, August 3, 2012, 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium.

Please see the MBL website for more information about the lecture:

http://www.mbl.edu/events/glassman12_horwich/

Below are listed selected publications of Dr. Glassman:

Elad, N., Farr, G.W., Clare, D.K., Orolova, E.V., Horwich, A.L., and Saibil, H.R. (2007). Topologies of a substrate protein bound to the chaperonin GroEL. Molecular Cell v.26, 415-426.   

Apetri, A.C. and Horwich, A.L. (2008) Chaperonin chamber accelerates protein folding through passive action of preventing aggregation. Proceedings of the National Academy of  Science. USA v.105, 17351-17355.

Wang, J., Farr, G.W., Zeiss, C.J., Rodriguez-Gil, D.J., Wilson, J.H., Furtak, K., Rutkowski, D.T., Kaufman, R.J., Ruse, C.I., Yates, J.R. III, Perrin, S., Feany, M.B., and Horwich, A.L. (2009) Progressive aggregation despite chaperone associations of a mutant SOD1-YFP in transgenic mice with ALS. Proceedings of the National Academy of  Science. USA v.106, 1392-1397.

Farr, G.W., Fenton, W.A., Ying, Z., and Horwich, A.L. (2011) Hydrogen-deuterium exchange in vivo to measure turnover of an ALS-associated mutant SOD1 protein in spinal cord of mice. Protein Science, July 20 (Epub ahead of print)

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friday evening literature, july 27, 2012

posted July 23, 2012

Jed Z Buchwald                                             Paul Hoyningen-Huene

Drs. Jed Z Buchwald of California Institute of Technology and Paul Hoyingen-Huene of the Leibniz University of Hannover will be giving this week's Friday Evening Lecture “Is Science Revolutionary? Thomas Kuhn and the Structure of Science”.

This special lecture is sponsored by the MBL Center for Library and Informatics - MBL/ASU History and Philosophy of Science Program, and the lecture will be introduced by the director of the HPS Program Dr. Jane Maienschein, Director of the Center for the History of Biology and Society at Arizona State University.

On Saturday, July 28 from 10:00am-noon please join us for a related lecture:

MBL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE DISCUSSION:
Why Do We Want Science to be Revolutionary, and Should We?
Panelists include: Gary Borisy, President and Director, MBL: Jed Buchwald, CIT; James Collins, ASU; Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Leibniz University of Hanover; Manfred Laubichler, ASU
Saturday, July 28, 10 AM - 12 PM
Candle House, Room 104, 127 Water St., Woods Hole

This week we depart from our traditional lecture literature format, to direct you to the selected literature homepages of both speakers: 

Jed Z Buchwald selected literature:

http://jzbuchwald.caltech.edu/Site/Articles.html

 Paul Hoyningen-Huene selected literature:

http://www.philos.uni-hannover.de/hoypub.html?&L=1

Please see the MBL website for more information

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friday evening literature, july 20, 2012

posted July 18, 2012

Dr. Baldomero M. Olivera

Dr. Baldomero M. Olivera, Distinguished Professor of Biology of the University of Utah and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will be giving this week’s Friday Evening Lecture, The Forbes Lecture: “Using Deadly Cone Snails to Understand Nervous Systems” July 20, 2012, 8:00 PM, Lillie Auditorium

For more information about this lecture, see the MBL website.

 A number of recent publications by Dr.Olivera are:

Twede, V.D., Teichert, R.W., Walker, C.S., Gruszczynski, P., Kazmierkiewicz, R., Bulaj, G., and Olivera, B.M., Conantokin-Br from Conus brettinghami and selectivity determinants for the NR2D subunit of the NMDA receptor. Biochemistry, v.48:19 (2009):4063-4073.

Olivera, B. M., Quik, M., Vincler, M., and McIntosh, J.M. Subtype-selective conopeptides targeted to nicotinic receptors: Concerted discovery and biomedical applications. Channels (Austin), v.2:2 (2008):143-152.

Olivera, B.M. Conus peptides: biodiversity-based discovery and exogenomics. Journal of Biological Chemistry, v.281:(2006):31173-31177.

Vincler, M., Wittenauer, S., Parker, R., Ellison, M., Olivera, B.M., and McIntosh, J.M., Molecular mechanism for analgesia involving specific antagonism of alpha9alpha10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, v.103: (2006) 17880-17884.

Terlau, H., and Olivera, B.M., Conus venoms: a rich source of novel ion channel-targeted peptides. Physiological Reviews, v.84: (2004) 41-68.

Ferber, M., Sporning, A., Jeserich, G., DeLaCruz, R., Watkins, M., Olivera, B.M., and Terlau, H., A novel Conus peptide ligand for K⁺ channels. Journal of Biological Chemistry, v.278: (2003) 2177-2183.

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friday evening literature, July 13, 2012

posted July 12, 2012

Dr. Jesse H. Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University and a Vice President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be giving this week’s MBL Friday Evening Lecture, July 13, 8:00pm, Lillie Auditorium: “Earth at Seven Billion”

For more information about this lecture, see the MBL website

A number of recent publications by Dr. Ausubel are:

A Rautiainen, I Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel, PE Kauppi. A National and International Analysis of Changing Forest Density . PLoS ONE v.6(5): 2011.

IL Boyd, G Frisk, E Urban, P Tyack, J Ausubel, S Seeyave, D Cato, B Southall, M Weise, R Andrew, T Akamatsu, R Dekeling, C Erbe, D Farmer, R Gentry, T Gross, A Hawkins, F Li, K Metcalf, JH Miller, D Moretti, C Rodrigo, and T Shinke. An International Quiet Ocean Experiment . Oceanography v.24(2): 174-181, 2011.

MJ Williams, JH Ausubel, I Poiner, SM Garcia, DJ Baker, MR Clark, H Mannix, K Yarincik, PN Halpin. Making marine life count: A new baseline for policy . PLoS Biology v.8(10): 2010.

JH Ausubel. Rethinking Light and Sound . Seed Magazine Nov. 23, 2009.

JH Ausubel, PE Waggoner. Dematerialization: variety, caution, and persistence . Proceedings of the  National Academy of Sciences v.105(35): 12774-12779, 2008

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friday evening literature, july 6, 2012

posted July 5, 2012

Dr. Elly M. Tanaka

Dr. Elly M. Tanaka of the Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, will be giving this week’s MBL Friday Evening Lecture, July 6: “Deconstructing the Complexity of Vertebrate Limb and Spinal Cord Regeneration”

For more information about this lecture, see the MBL website.

Recent publications by Dr. Tanaka are:

Kragl M, KnappD, Nacu E, Khattak S, Maden M, EpperleinHH, Tanaka EM (2009):Cells keep a memory of their tissue origin during axolotl limb regeneration.Nature 460, 60-5.

Lööf S, Straube WL, Drechsel D, Tanaka EM, Simon A. (2007): Plasticity of mammalian myotubes upon stimulation with a thrombin-activated serum factor. Cell Cycle. 6, 1096-101.

Mchedlishvili L, Epperlein HH, Telzerow A, Tanaka EM. (2007): A clonal analysis of neural progenitors during axolotl spinal cord regeneration reveals evidence for both spatially restricted and multipotent progenitors. Development. 134, 2083-93.

Sobkow L, Epperlein HH, Herklotz S, Straube WL, Tanaka EM. (2006): A germline GFP transgenic axolotl and its use to track cell fate: dual origin of the fin mesenchyme during development and the fate of blood cells during regeneration. Developmental Biology. 290, 386-97.

Mercader N, Tanaka EM, Torres M (2005): Proximodistal identity during vertebrate limb regeneration is regulated by Meis homeodomain proteins. Development. 132, 4131-42.

Schnapp E, Kragl M, Rubin L, Tanaka EM (2005): Hedgehog signaling controls dorsoventral patterning, blastema cell proliferation and cartilage induction during axolotl tail regeneration. Development. 132, 3243-53.

Echeverri K, Tanaka EM (2005): Proximodistal patterning during limb regeneration. Developmental  Biology. 279, 391-401.

Schnapp E, Tanaka EM (2005): Quantitative evaluation of morpholino-mediated protein knockdown of GFP, MSX1, and PAX7 during tail regeneration in Ambystoma mexicanum. Dev Dyn. 232, 162-70.

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friday evening literature, june 29, 2012

posted June 25, 2012

Elaine Ostrander

Dr. Elaine A Ostrander, Chief and Senior Investigator of the Cancer Genetics Branch and Head of the Comparative Genetics section of the National Human Genome Research Institute will be giving the Friday Evening Lecture on June 29, 8:00pm in the MBL Lillie Auditorium: “Genetics of Complex Traits in the Domestic Dog”

For more information about the lecture, see the MBL website.

Recent publications of Dr. Ostrander include:

Sutter, N.S., Eberle, M.A., Parker, H.G., Pullar, B. J., Kirkness, E.F., Kruglyak, L., Ostrander E.A. Extensive and breed specific linkage disequilibrium in Canis familiaris. Genome Res, 12:2388-96. 2004.

Ostrander, E.A., and Wayne, R.K. The canine genome. Genome Research, (12):1706-16. 2005.

Malone, K.E., Daling, J.R., Doody, D.R., Hsu, L., Bernstein, L., Coates, R.J, Marchbanks, P.A., Simon, M.S., McDonald, J.A. Norman, S.A. Strom, B.L., Burkman, R.T., Ursin, G., Deapen, D., Weiss, L.K., Folger, S.F., Madeoy J.J., Friedrichsen, D.F., Suter, N.M., Humphrey, M.C,. Spirtas R., Ostrander E.A. Prevalence and predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in a population-based study of breast cancer in white and black American women ages 35 to 64 years. Cancer Research, 66:8297-308. 2006.

Khanna, C., Lindblad-Toh, L., Vail, D., London, C., Bergman, P., Barber, L., Breen, M., Kitchell, B., McNeil, E., Modiano, J.F., Niemi, S., Comstock, K.E., Ostrander, E., Westmoreland, S., Withrow S. The dog as a cancer model. Nature Biotechnol, 24:1065-6. 2006.

Suuriniemi, M., Aaliu I., Schaid D.J., Johanesson, B., McDonell, S.K., Iwasaki L., Stanford J.L., Ostrander E.A. Confirmation of a positive association between prostate cancer risk and a locus at chromosome 8q24. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers, and Prevention 16(4):809-14. 2007.

Sutter, N.B., Bustamante, C.D., Chase K., Gray M.M.., Zhao K., Zhu L., Padhukasahasram, B., Karlins, E., Davis, S., Jones, P.G., Quignon, P., Johnson, G.S., Parker, H.G., Fretwell, N., Mosher, D.S., Lawler, D.F., Satyaraj, E., Nordborg, M., Lark, K.G., Wayne, R.K., Ostrander E.A. A Single IGF1 Allele is a Major Determinant of Small Size in Dogs. Science, 316(5821):112-5. 2007.

Mosher D., Quignon, P., Sutter, N.B., Mellersh C.S., Ostrander E.A. (2007). A mutation in the myostatin gene increases muscle mass and enhances racing performance in heterozygote dogs. PLoS Genetics 5, 3(5):e79. 2007.

Schaid D.J., Stanford J.L., McDonnell, S.K., Suuriniemi M., McIntosh, L., Karyadi, D.M., Carlson E., Deutsch K., Janer M., Hood L. Ostrander E.A. Genome-wide linkage scan of prostate cancer Gleason score and confirmation of chromosome 19q. Human Genetics, 121:729-35. 2007.

Parker H.G., Kukekova A.V., Akey D.T., Goldstein O., Kirkness E. F., Baysac K.C., Mosher D.S., Aguirre G.D. Acland G.M., Ostrander E.A. Breed relationships facilitate fine mapping studies: A 7.8 Kb deletion cosegregates with collie eye anomaly across multiple dog breeds. Genome Research, 17:1562-1571. 2007.

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June 20, 2012

Friday evening Literature, Friday June 29.

Dr. Eric Betzig

June 11, 2012

big bhl weeks in europe and africa

These are landmark weeks for the MBLWHOI Library and our partner the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The BHL biodiversitylibrary.org is now at 39 million scanned pages of biodiversity literature, and this content is directly linked to the MBL Center for Library and Informatics component, the Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org .

Last week in Berlin was the official launch of BHL Europe, with BHL staff in attendance http://bit.ly/KgxODc , and also the 3rd Global and Technical meeting of the BHL was held.

This week MBLWHOI Library colleagues, BHL staff from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the Missouri Botanical Garden, led by BHL Director Martin Kalfatovic, BHL Technical Director Chris Freeland and SIL Libraries Director Nancy Gwinn are in South Africa to attend the Biodiversity Information Management Forum in Cape Town http://bit.ly/Li0A2E .
 

Later in the week BHL staff will be at the BHL Africa Organization meeting...there are now BHL operating nodes in the United States, Brazil, Europe, Egypt, Australia, and China. This project has broken a lot of ground in the creation of a global science library which serves anyone with an internet collection, anywhere. Moreover the BHL staff has become an international leader in virtual library management, and scientists and citizen scientists worldwide use the Library every day. And that would be close to 5 million pages of content in the BHL from the MBLWHOI Library alone!

May 16, 2012

the future of scientific communication

In March, Stanford University brought together a group of progessive scientific publishers and held a workshop entitled: 

Colloquium on Rethinking the Future of Scientific Communication. This group of 19 included leaders whom the MBLWHOI Library has worked with over the years to better serve the Woods Hole Scientific Community, such as Vicky Reich of the digital preservation organization LOCKSS, Moshe Pritsker founder of the Journal of Visualized Experiments, and John Sack, founder of Highwire Press. Among the points made as detailed in their final report  is the point that while scientists are still rather traditional in how they see the workflow of scholarly communication (a point made by John Sack), reality is that journals for example are just one node in the knowledge process. The report above is worth reading as it highlights many issues in scientific publication from the perspective of the smaller progressive publisher.  One side point made in the report is the statement of there being a "weird disconnect" between scientific research and social media. This is something worth a moment's thought. What is the relationship between science and social media? In some circles social media provides broad support network for the process of science, in other areas it does not even enter into the picture. The workshop summary went on to say eventually social media and science will eventually converge. The most valuable point made as mentioned above is that scientific communication has changed to become a multiple access point process. None of these access points are complete and fully developed to serve the needs of cutting edge science as of yet; this discussion will continue for some time to come.

May 9, 2012

MBL's catalyst highlights MBL CLI and MBLWHOI library

The Marine Biological Laboratory's publication, CATALYST is out with a new issue. This issue is entitled Biodiversity: Exploring Life on Earth, and includes articles on the Biodiversity Heritage Library BHL : Life, Literature, and the Pursuit of Global Access, and the Encyclopedia of Life EOL as well.

In two articles about the Encyclopedia of Life, MBL Center for Library and Informatics Director Nathan Wilson speaks about EOL, his own interests and the dynamic field of biodiversity informatics.  Both MBLWHOI Library Scholar Cathy Norton and Biodiversity Heritage Library Director Tom Garnett were interviewed for the article "Life, Literature, and the Pursut of Global Access". The BHL has been a pioneer in the development of virtual library systems and services, as well as being the linked to literature base of the Encyclopedia of Life. Garnett points out that "Identification of organisms requires access to prior descriptions...Imagine an entomologist in a tropical rainforesrt who collects an insect she can't identify. The only information about it may be in one book in a library thousands of miles away"; Garnett goes on to say that if that book has been scanned into BHL, it is available online to anyone anywhere with a networked computer. 

The BHL has undergone interesting growth since the MBLWHOI Library first began in the original 11 library partnership. Since 2009, the BHL has expanded globally. The European Commission’s eContentPlus program has funded the BHL-Europe project, with 28 institutions to assemble the European language literature. Additionally, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Atlas of Living Australia, Brazil (through SciELO) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina have created regional BHL nodes. These projects work together to share content, protocols, services, and digital preservation practices.

Catalyst is a periodic Marine Biological Laboratory publication which highlights news and research taking place at MBL.

April 23, 2012

where scientific publications and wikipedia dare to meet

In order to enhance computational mathematics coverage in Wikipedia, the open access title PLoS Computational Biology has created a new form of peer reviewed scientific publication called a "topic page", which is designed to be published in both PLos Computational Biology and Wikipedia. This phenomenon is described in an editorial published on March 29, 2012 in PLoS Computational Biology:

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002446

This is a proactive response by the Computational Mathematics community to broaden its reach while being aware of forces in science which are trying to act and react to the changes taking place in scientific publishing.  It will be interesting to see if other fields take notice of this tool and tailor it to their needs as an extension of possible readership on any subject. 

April 17, 2012

EOL, BHL, MBL, CLI, WHOI, MBLWHOI: a new beginning

FIRST CLI - MBLWHOI - EOL - BHL TOUR GIVEN AT THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, APRIL 16, 2012

A landmark! - The first MBL Center for Library and Informatics - Encyclopedia of Life - Biodiversity Heritage Library - MBLWHOI Library live non-virtual in-person tour was led by Kristin Lans of the CLI's Encyclopedia of Life group and Matthew Person of the MBLWHOI Library.

As this is school vacation week in Massachusetts, the tour was given to Cape Cod visiting students from the Concord Christian Academy of New Hampshire- and included Matt Person leading the MBLWHOI Library historic stacks tour, which included a print journal vs. digitized BHL content demonstration.

The tour was then led by Kristin Lans as she gave an in depth demonstration and explanation of the Encyclopedia of Life. This included a fascinating look at select highlights of the close to 1,000,000 and growing+ EOL species pages.

Kristin explained how the students can participate in EOL, and she also demonstrated how the Encyclopedia of Life links to scanned literature in the Biodiversity Heritage Library which originated from the MBLWHOI Library stacks the students had just explored.

The MBL Center for Library and Informatics of the Marine Biological Laboratory
http://www.mbl.edu/cli/index.html
is one of a number of institutions which are active components of both the Encyclopedia of Life and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Other such collocated BHL- EOL components are at the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University, and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Such juxtapositions and the further global dispersion and interrelationship of EOL and BHL working groups offer the global staff members unique opportunities to interact on many different levels, and ensure the highest levels of creativity and production in these respective projects.

Nathan Wilson is the Director of the MBL Center for Library and Informatics, which includes the MBLWHOI Library, the NSF Data Conservancy project, the Encyclopedia of Life, the MBL/National Library of Medicine Biomedical Informatics course, and the History and Philosophy of Science Program in association with Arizona State University. Holly Miller is Director of the MBLWHOI Library, a component of the Center at MBL - which also includes the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Data Library and Archives.

What made the joint EOL-BHL-CLI-MBLWHOI Library tour possible was the recent consolidation and renovation of the MBLWHOI Library offices which now has all components of the MBL Center of Library and Informatics located in the historic Lillie Building of the Marine Biological Laboratory in woods Hole, Massachusetts.

March 28, 2012

Behind the Falmouth Forum:

notable background literature of interest

This is the first of many postings to come linking public science talks at MBL and WHOI with related in-house and online MBLWHOI Library scientific literature.  Sometimes we may also link to literature sources outside of the Library. We do this as a public service to expand the knowledge and community dialogue going into these events.

                       Dr. Thomas Seeley

This Friday March 30th at 7:30pm, Dr. Thomas Seeley, a world authority on animal behavior, especially the social behavior of honey bees, will present the final lecture of the MBL Falmouth Forum season on Friday, March 30th at 7:30 pm at Falmouth High School, 874 Gifford Street, Falmouth. His talk,  Honeybee Democracy  is free and the public is welcome.  

Related Literature in the MBLWHOI Library

A recent article entitled The Secret Life of Bees, about Dr. Seeley’s work was published in the March 2012 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. You can link to this article here, or view the article in the Grass Reading Room on the 2^nd floor of the MBL Lillie Building.

Other articles related to Dr. Seely’s talk can be viewed online through the MBLWHOI Library website. If you do not work at MBL or WHOI, please know that you are free to come to our MBL Lillie Building Library, (Lillie 2^nd floor, M-F: 8:00am-5:00pm) to view the articles online.

An oligarchy of nest-site scouts triggers a honeybee swarm’s departure from the hive.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.  64:979-987. 2010

Nest-site defense by competing honey bee swarms during house hunting.  Ethology.  116:608-618. 2010

Promiscuous honeybee queens generate colonies with a critical minority of waggle-dancing foragers.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.  64:875-889. 2010

Sleep deprivation impairs precision of waggle dance signaling in honey bees.  Proceedings at the National Academy of Science USA.  107:22705-22709. 2010

Independence and interdependence in collective decision-making: an agent-based model of nest-site choice by honeybee swarms..  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B.  364:755-762. 2009

The MBLWHOI Library also holds one of Dr. Seely's books : The Wisdom of the Hive: the Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies, in our MBL Lillie building book stacks (call number QL 568.A6S43)

This final lecture of the 2011-2012 MBL Falmouth Forum series is being co-sponsored by the MBL Associates and The 300 Committee Land Trust, Falmouth. The 300 Committee is a private, non-profit land trust that, since 1985, has helped preserve more than 2,300 acres throughout Falmouth for conservation, recreation and water protection. The MBL Associates are a group of individuals and businesses that support the scientific mission of the MBL through their gifts to the Annual Fund. The Associates sponsor educational and research programs for the MBL and raise funds for special projects. In addition, they operate the MBL Gift Shop, located on Water Street in Woods Hole, the profits from which support scientific fellowships.

March 27, 2012

establishing an open access policy at a small institution

There was a recent article (An Open Access Mandate in Iceland: Vol 8, No 1 (2012) in SCIECOM INFO  the Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication, which details how a small university in Iceland went about establing a campus-wide open access policy using as a model the open access policy at Harvard University.

In the article, Njörður Sigurjónsson,  Assistant Professor of Cultural Policy and Management at Bifröst University,
Iceland, speaks about the mandate the University adopted, which is impressive due to its simplicity: 

The Mandate
"Bifrost University is committed to the objective of making the research output of its faculty available to as many as possible. For that purpose the academic staff of Bifrost University will seek to make their scientific articles available in open access, either by publishing in open access research journals or by depositing them in a research repository. Every member of the academic staff allows the university to make their published research articles available and to store them in an open repository, such as “Skemman”. This holds for every research article published in a scientific journal
authored by the researcher, alone or with others,during the time of his or her tenure at Bifrost University."

Open access mandates emanating from institution faculties are becoming a more common way for an institution to make strides forward in making the knowledge created by faculty on campus both identifiable with the institution, and as accessible to as much of the public as possible. 

Sigurjónsson says: "The purpose of the mandate is to make the scientific output at Bifröst accessible to everyone, everywhere, on the Internet. The way to do that is to either publish in open access journals or by depositing the articles in the university repository."  Thus we see how theoretically simple the nuts and bolts of an open access policy are. In speaking about the cooperative process of coming to an open access mandate agreement, he goes on to say: "Other important lessons from the discussion process at this time was to keep the message simple and not let the discussion spin into a general debate about intellectual property, the scientific merit of particular journals or the general developments in publishing across the globe." The Icelandic mandate does differ from the Harvard mandate in that it mentions specifically open access publishing. It is similar to the Harvard mandate in that it spells out the instance of opting out of the policy, under those types of circumstances which exist to make opting out necessary: "The Rector or the Rector’s designate, will waive application of the policy for a particular article, or delay its appearance in the open repository, upon written request by a Faculty member explaining the need."

Open access publishing is a model of publishing which differs from traditional commercial publishing as it is less library subscription driven and more driven by access costs being born by the researcher who has written the published content. In some cases these costs are nil, in others these costs generally run to be around $900- $1500. In the last year there has been increasing public awareness and discussion on what the future holds for publishing houses, libraries, academic institutions, and these discussions have all agreed that the publishing landscape is changing, as it did when online access was developed, as it did when commercial printing developed.

These changes are all about progress. How to meet this progress and succeed is the question many academic institutions face. The Bifrost University solution is one way of positively addressing open access for an institution which sought to do so. 

Note: 

Skemman is the online institutional repository for The Agricultural University of Iceland, The Iceland Academy of the Arts, The National and University Library, The University of Akureyri, The University of Bifröst, The University of Iceland and The University of Reykjavik. It houses students' digital theses and dissertations as well as articles and other research material from the universities' academic staff.

The Woods Hole Open Access Server, WHOAS, is an institutional repository that captures, stores, preserves, and redistributes the intellectual output of the Woods Hole scientific community in digital form.  WHOAS is managed by the MBLWHOI Library as a service to the Woods Hole scientific community.

March 19, 2012

in the nick of time

We recently assisted two of our institutions center directors in separate last minute journal needs.

One of the directors was on deadline in the completion and submission of a funding proposal, and the online version of a figure needed to complete the proposal was not adequate for presentation purposes. While we did not have the figure in the MBL Lillie or WHOI Data Library stacks, we did have the original paper copy of the journal in our Falmouth Technology Park stacks facility. The next morning we were able to provide the center director with a the journal volume he needed, and the funding proposal was complete.

detail of  figure

from Quarterly Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society (v.45: 1902)

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In another instance, a center director provided us with a set of obscure references which took awhile to work through: One of the references was found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) . The MBLWHOI Library has contributed close to half a million scanned pages to the BHL, and in this instance one reference referred to another reference, the title being part of the BHL. Another of the references was held by another New England academic library; we placed an Interlibrary Loan request, and within hours the book was on its way to the scientist. The third reference was found in an obscure Argentine journal within our MBL Lillie Stacks.  As this was the most valued of all the references the center director was looking for, he understood the value of the content shelved in MBLWHOI library stacks. 

While we may like to think every bit of scientific information we may need is available online, this is not the case. The vast majority of what is available in the BHL conforms to copyright regulations, meaning that it is mostly pre-1923 content. Our subscriptions for current content generally cover the years 1997 to the present. We have purchased a number of backfiles, mostly Elsevier titles in Biology and the Earth Sciences, and our JSTOR life sciences collection as well. This leaves a large swath of content in our stacks which is not yet digitized or accessible in digital form, though one day this content may be available online as well.  Until that time comes, we continue to maintain and refine our print collections so that it remains accessible and open to any Library patron.

March 16, 2012

FASTER than A SPEEDING Journal...

We opened up our wireless iPod touch early this morning to read on the BBC App about an article just published in the open access rapid publication journal PLoS One: how scientists in Japan have conducted research on how honeybees kill hornets through a cooperative process. This article was published in PLoS One on March 14th, and was reported on the BBC website on March 16th.

This is an illustrative example of how open access content is not only freely accessible, but within a short time of being published its reach is exponential as a news organization makes the information available to millions of people. Taking note of this could be taken into account as scientists respond to academic issues and issues in the publishing industry. For example, an article published in a by-subscription-only publication can instantly be the subject of news accounts, but the public can't necessarily read the content of an article unless the content is freely accessible. 

On a more local level, we write about this issue HERE in our Journals and Serials News. We can also chose to link back to this posting on our MBLWHOI Library facebook page, as well as our Twitter feed. People are free to "like" our facebook posting and re-tweet  or comment on our tweets, so on our small scale we also contribute to the dissemination of this article, but we are part of a much larger forward moving process which serves science when we employ it to discuss cuurrent research.

March 14, 2012

more winter news from the stacks #2

Part 1

We've spent much of the last six months in the stacks preparing the serials and books collections for possible physical changes in stacks configuration, which in the end did not materialize.  Any change to the stacks spaces needs to planned for in a thorough manner, so the bonus of such planning is that you really get a handle on our collections, both book and journals. We have over 300,000 volumes in our collections, much of what is available online has been moved to our offsite storage facility at Falmouth Technology Park, and a small portion of our oldest book and journal volumes have been digitized in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Part of our identity lies in the eclectic and broad history of the Woods Hole Scientific Community: we, as the library of this community have collections representing the history of biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, and other fields as well. Our holdings are vast and varied, and this has a lot to do with a once robust exchange relationship program with scientific intitutions all over the world, which has become largely obsolete in the digital age.

PART 2

Recently, John Furfey our Librarian who serves as MBLWHOI Library Senior Library Automation Services Officer was speaking with us about a project he is working on for the BiBApp Project.  BibApp is a cross institutional web service which matches Woods Hole researchers with their publication data, and is a collaboration promoting tool.  John has been working on a project matching up older articles without clearly identified Woods Hole authors to the actual citation, which has required him to spend research time in the stacks... and John commented to us that the breadth of the content in the stacks enables him to find in print all of the articles he needs to match authors to citations. Sometimes, even in these digital times it helps to have a working library collection to support your science!

February 17, 2012

Could the University of Iowa Libraries save over $2 million from their subscriptions budget with a flip to open access?

The above headline is from Simon Fraser University doctoral candidate Heather Morrison's  blog "The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics". The reason we lead with the above headline is because it is the first time we have seen a public suggestion of a post-commerical subscription only open access  model for accessing published content at an academic institution.

Chances are an open-access subscription only model would not take place on a grand scale for many years, if ever, though it's hard to gauge what the future of scientific publishing will bring.  Open access is not free, unless an outside source has fully funded a journal, which is a rarity, and even in that case the publication is not free. Publishing charges for open access content runs close to $1500 per article average. Some academic instituions have set up funds to cover these costs.  Some publishers discount their publishing charges when a library becomes a "member" of their publishing organization.

The publishing models we see today are hundreds of years old...though it is in the last 30 years that the extreme profit margins which commercial publishers enjoy have strangled academic institutions and their libraries. This fact alone has fueled the push towards open access in the last five years. Therefore, the above headline is not necessarily too far fetched, though time and communication between all of the players in the creation of published knowledge will responsibly see through the next phases of how institutions meet the scientific content needs of their researchers. 

February 2, 2012

Tellus About It!

Informing you of serials subscription changes for 2012

We annually inform the community of our serials changes for the New Year. This year’s changes are listed    below. Because of MBL and WHOI level funding for 2012, the MBLWHOI Library conducted a comprehensive title survey of the needs of the Woods Hole Scientific Community during Spring 2011. The results of this survey combined with costs for journal titles and cost per use of each title enabled the Library senior staff to come to informed decisions which led to the cancelling of 58 journal titles due to extreme low use and high cost. This met our budget constraints obligations.

One of the titles cancelled (but picked up as a free title!) is worth note. The combined titles Tellus A and Tellus B had been published by the journals publisher Wiley. The owner of the journals, the International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm has converted the journals to fully Open Access titles. Therefore we are no longer required to pay for a subscription to these titles, and content back to volume 1 is freely available. The publisher does charge a per page processing charge to authors though, and this charge is $69 per page (tables and figures excluded). This charge would make the cost for a 10 page paper far less than the standard open access publishing charge of $1300 per article. Last year another Nordic publication. Polar Research, went from commercial publisher to fully open access, without any publishing charges, so we can possibly assume that the financial climate in the Nordic region is comfortable enough to support such a reasonable seeming publishing model. We’ll continue to inform you of serials news throughout the year.

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SERIALS subscriptions cancellations for 2012, MBLWHOI Library

Because publishers are often slow in restricting access, you may find that some of these titles will continue to provide current access during 2012 (limited back content for each of these titles will continue to be available; it is just new content/issues which eventually will be unavailable)

1. Acoustical Physics
2. AGE
3. Algological Studies
4. American Economic Association journals
5. American Statistician
6. Annual Review of Biophysics
7. Applied Spectroscopy
8. Aquaculture, Economics, and Management
9. Aquatic Sciences
10. Astronomy and Geophysics
11. Basic and Clinical Pharmacology
12. Bioacoustics
13. Biochemistry and Cell Biology
14. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
15. Cell Structure and Function
16. Commercial Fisheries News
17. Comparative medicine
18. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
19. Critical Reviews in Microbiology
20. Crustaceana
21. Current Aging Science
22. Earth
23. Environmental Law
24. Evolutionary Ecology Research
25. Evolutionary Theory
26. Fishing News International
27. Geological Magazine
28. Harvard Environmental Law Review
29. Harvard Health Letter
30. Immunology and Cell Biology
31. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology Plant/Animal
32. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
33. Journal of Computational Biology
34. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
35. Journal of Ichthyology
36. Journal of Law and Economics
37. Journal of Political Economy
38. Journal of the Optical Society of America B
39. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C
40. Journal of Water resources Planning and Management
41. Land Economics
42. Leading Edge
43. Malacologia
44. Marine Geodesy
45. National Fisherman
46. Natural Resources Planning and Management
47. Naturwissenschaften
48. Nautilus
49. Parasitology
50. Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology
51. Photochemistry and Photobiology
52. Phycologia
53. Progress in Physical Geography
54. Rand Journal of Economics
55. Review of Scientific Instruments
56. Mariner’s Mirror
57. Technology Review
58. World Aquaculture

Any Questions? email: ejournals [at] mbl [dot] edu

January 24, 2012

A WINTER REPORT FROM THE STACKS #1

We've been working in the stacks this winter, weeding the collection, or better descibed as identifying titles which are disused or digitally available online. We go through this process every six years or so...the last time was when we constucted our off-site library stacks facility at Falmouth Technology Park. There's a lot to see in the stacks, as the stacks well represent the histories of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution through the literature of the times preceeding and through the founding of  our institutions and the MBLWHOI Library.

We'll offer updates of what we find in this stacks over the course of the winter. Today we were measuring the linear inches taken up by journals in the stacks which are also available online through the JSTOR online archive. A few of these journals are: Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London.  Makes one appreciate a bit the breadth of subject matter covered by MBL and WHOI scientists over the years. In these present interdisciplinary times, an exploration of the stacks reveals that such interdisciplinary exploration has always been a part of Woods Hole Science.

October 26, 2011

INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK

In June of 2007, the MBLWHOI library held it's first Open Access issue event when we invited BioMed Central Managing Editor Matthew Cockerill to run a seminar on open access for the Woods Hole scientific community. That successful event was attended by maybe a handful of scientists seeking to begin to learn about the open access publishing movement. At that time open access seemed very free and accessible to all. Open access is still in development, and the field of publishing is in great flux.  Few things remain constant in publishing, for example BioMed Central is now a division of the publisher Springer, and a number of large interdisciplinary open access journals, such as PLoS one  have sprung up in the last few years. Many people feel that this change is also part of a larger and powerful movement in science to bring down the walls which keep knowledge from being accessible to all.

On October 26, this week, the MBLWHOI library held an informal gathering in the WHOI Smith conference room, and we invited our Woods Hole WHOI, MBL, WHRC, and NOAA open access authors to attend.

About 50 published open access papers by these scientists were on display in the conference room,  and the scientists attending, (which included WHOI Scientists Mark Hahn, Carl Bowin, and John Stegeman and MBL scientists Susan Huse and A. Murat Eren), had the opportunity to speak with each other and also MBLWHOI Library staff members (including Library Director Holly Miller, Center for Library and Informatics Adjunct faculty member Jane Maienschein, and Library Scholar Cathy Norton) about methods and rational used in making open access publishing decisions. 

WHOI scientist/Director of the Marine Mammal Center there, Michael Moore, in conversation with MBLWHOI publishing services librarian Ann Devenish recently said:

"...the reason I try to publish Open Access is simply that I want the broadest possible impact for the work of my coauthors and myself. Publishing in journals that require a subscription for access to a paper limits one's impact to those individuals or institutions that happen to be paying that subscription. Often a very small number -especially if it is a society journal. In contrast, Open Access gives a level playing field for information access globally. Interactions that I have with colleagues in third world countries are significantly driven by papers that I have published in Open Access locations."

The MBLWHOI Library will continue to shed a Woods Hole scientific community wide light on open access developments, and how they impact the Woods Hole science community. 

October 17, 2011

International Open Access Week is October 24-30th. Now in its fifth year, this week represents a recognition and active support of the worldwide open access publishing movement. The following link will take you to scores of events, (many of which are online and accessible to all) happening worldwide over the next two weeks.

http://www.openaccessweek.org/events

If you are interested in having one of the Open Access door hangers pictured below for your office, stop by the Library office at Lillie 230 or the Data library and Archives, McLean lower level.

September 26, 2011

Polar Research is the international polar environmental science journal published by the Norwegian Polar Institute since 1982. In 2011 this journal left the commercial publishing house Wiley and re-launched itself as an electronic open access publication. The model being used for this journal is that there are no charges associated with publishing in this journal for authors or libraries. This publishing model is rare, and is due to full support of the journal from the Norwegian Polar Institute. The editor of the journal, Helle V. Goldman states:

"Publishing in Polar Research entails no author fees, and there are no charges for colour illustrations or supplemental material. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing authors to distribute and post the final version of their work for any non-commercial purpose, under the condition that the original source is credited. Publishing in Polar Research makes it convenient for contributors and their institutions to comply with mandates requiring open access to the results of publicly funded research."

For more information about open access and the upcoming international Open Acess Week, please go to the following website:

http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/welcome-to-open-access-week

September 20, 2011

This week the 20th year of the National Library of Medicine/MBLWHOI Library Biomedical Informatics course is being held in Woods Hole. The following article was published in 2010 in the publication: Briefings in Bioinformatics, by MBLWHOI Library Scholar Cathy Norton, MBLWHOI Library Director Holly Miller, and Bioinformaticians Grant Yamashita and Anthony Goddard: "A Model for Bioinformatics Training: The Marine Biological Laboratory" (author's version) http://bit.ly/oE0Wfg

September 8, 2011

This week the scholarly journal archive platform JSTOR announced that it has decided to make all pre-1923 content on it's platform free to all users. By fact of US Copyright law, all US publications which are pre-1923 are indeed out of copyright, therefore it only makes sense that this electronic content be made freely accessible. If JSTOR out of copyright content is free to anyone, how does this compare to projects such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library of which the MBLWHOI Library and the Encyclopedia of Life are active partners. There are a number of comparisons which may be drawn between the two projects. First, all content in the BHL has the taxonomic name finding software uBio (developed by the MBLWHOI Library) applied to it - this powerful tool scans content to reveal scientific names and the synonyms of names throughout the history of the use of the term. Click on the name, and a broad bibliography of the term is produced. In JSTOR if you are looking at pre-1923 content and you wish to look at post-1923 content, you will indeed be shifting from freely accessible content to content which your library has paid a fee for. In the Biodiversity Heritage Library all content is freely accessible.  When in-copyright content is displayed in the BHL it is because permission to serve the content has been obtained by BHL from the copyright holder, or the copyright holder has requested that the content be scanned and made freely accessible. Like the theory that 2 restaurants on the same block is good for business, it is significant and positive that JSTOR has released 6% of it's collection. The MBLWHOI Library and other components of the Center for Library and Informatics continue their work in the global BHL project, which just this week passed the milestone of 35,000,000 pages of scientific content freely available!   

September 1, 2011

There's been a lot of buzz in the journals world of academic librarians this week with the publication of an article by the author George Montbiot entitled  "The Lairds of Learning." This article, linked to here on Mr. Montbiot's website, is a stark portrait of the world of scientific publishing. Libraries of academic and research institutions are constantly faced with decisions regarding limited funding available to fill the literature requirements of our patrons. Our July 1 and August 5 postings below briefly discussed open access publications and freely accessible scientific content. The business of scientific publishing is in great flux, at every level of the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

August 5, 2011

Much of the collection of the MBLWHOI Library was grown over almost 125 years through the "scientific literature exchange program", which exchanged MBL's  Biological Bulletin and WHOI's  Oceanus publications with literally thousands of scientific publications from institutions all over the world. This program still exists with about 30 exchange partners nowadays, but the publishing landscape and scientific literature distribution process has changed dramatically in the last few decades. For example, both the Biological Bulletin and Oceanus are freely available publications (Biological Bulletin freely available online after 12 mos.)

In the last decade a few thousand exchange title relationships were cancelled, which saved the MBLWHOI Library thousands of dollars in spiraling subscription costs. There is a central European open access publisher associated with the commercial publishing house Springer which is named Versita. On this website you can read titles like Acta Botanica Croatica, and the Ukrainian title Vestnik Zoologii, titles which we long ago stopped receiving due to or pared down exchange title list. This is a full circle: titles first received via exchange, then we stopped receiving, some we scanned into the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), and now the titles are available as freely accessible open access titles.  We will be re integrating these titles into our electronic library catalog over the next year. 

August 1, 2011

We recently read in the library listserv Scholcomm, which discusses peer review and accessiblity

to data from the UK Parliament perspective:

The UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has produced a Report on “Peer review in scientific publications” which, if the Committee’s recommendations are implemented, will initiate several positive developments for scholarly communication.

The Report –  http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmsctech/856/85602.htm – examines the current peer review system thoroughly from different angles. Picking up on the importance of reproducibility of research results, the Committee recommend that “data associated with publicly funded research should, where possible, be made widely and freely available”. Also significant for scholarly communication in general, are the Committee’s “concerns about the use of journal Impact Factor as a proxy measure for the quality of individual articles”. Although recognising the value of peer review, the Committee expresses concerns about the way the peer review system currently operates and encourages the “prudent use of online tools for post-publication review and commentary as a means of supplementing pre-publication review”. The Committee sees pre-publication review as being effective for technical assessment but needing post-publication review for impact assessment, impact now being of high importance for research funders.

July 1, 2011

There is a great deal of interest in the research and library community about open access

publications. One just announced open access publication by the Genetics Society of America

is: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. The open access model of publication is just one

response from the publishing, library, funding, and research communities to address the decades long issue

of spiraling serials subscription costs.  Open access is also an element of the global movement

within the academic community to make knowledge freely accessible whenever possible.

June 27, 2011

The MBLWHOI Library's partner project, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) has

announced the release of  Charles Darwin's Library, a Special Collection within

the BHL. Charles Darwin's Library is a digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving

books owned by Charles Darwin. The MBLWHOI Library Rare Books Room is just one of many

libraries which have contributed scanned versions of their books to this collection. 

June 22, 2011

The MBLWHOI Library has digitized close to 5 million pages in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

In the 1920's the MBL summer newspaper was called The Collecting Net. Click here to read  issues

of The Collecting Net through the BHL website.

June 20, 2011

The MBLWHOI Library has expanded online access to the title Nature.

Online access to Nature is now provided from the current issue back to 1950.

May 28. 2011

The Directory of Open Access Journals of  Lund University has announced new functionality

 on the DOAJ website, providing article level metadata to more journal titles.

DOAJ titles are accessible from the MBLWHOI Library A-Z list of journal titles 

April 1. 2011

The MBLWHOI Library has just sent another load of  about 250 volumes to the Internet Archive

Scanning facility for inclusion in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). MBLWHOI has to date

contributed more than 4,700,000 pages to the BHL.

Newly subscribed to online titles in 2011

• Biology Letters
• Computational Geosciences
• Developmental Dynamics
• Nature archives 1986-1997
• Nature Methods
• Nature Chemistry
• Nature Nanotechnology
• Nature Reviews Genetics
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics archives

New online only format titles, previously received in paper only or paper and online format.  

• Advances in Geophysics
• Advances in Insect Physiology
• Annual Review of Biochemistry  
• Annual Review of Biophysics  
• Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 
• Annual Review of Environment and Resources
• Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 
• Advances in Marine Biology
• Annual Review of Microbiology
• Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 
• Annual Review of Physiology 
• Annual Review of Plant Biology 
• Aquaculture Economics and Management
• Aquatic Microbial Ecology 
• Brain Behavior and Evolution 
• Bulletin of Marine Science
• Crustaceana 
• Current topics in Developmental Biology
• Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 
• Economic Geology
• Environmental Conservation 
• Genes & Development  
• Genome Research  
• Geophysical Journal International  
• Geophysics
• Journal of Environmental Quality 
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics  
• Journal of Geology  
• Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Journal of Petrology 
• Journal of Physical Oceanography  
• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B  
• Journal Soil Science Society of America 
• Journal of the American Statistical Association 
• Marine Geodesy 
• Marine Mammal Science
• Microbiology  
• Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society of London 
• Philosophical Transactions B of  the Royal Society of London  
• Phycologia 
• Proceedings A of the Royal Society of London 
• Proceedings B of the Royal Society of London 
• Progress in Physical Geography 
• Radiocarbon  
• SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 
• SIAM Review 
• Statistical Science 

Previous Serials and Journals News

Winter 2010

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)
Other news and related resources of interest:

Temporary trial access: 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.

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

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

August 2009

• 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

July 2008

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.

May 2008

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.

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/
MBLWHOI Library Winter/Spring Serials Notes Number III

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

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

Following expressions of interest from the MBL and WHOI communities, the following two Nature titles are now subscribed to and are are available online through the Library's A-Z list of electronic serials, are linked to directly though Library subscribed databases and are accessible through the Library Catalog:

Nature Reviews Microbiology v.2 (2004) +

Nature Geoscience v.1 (2008) +

The following freely accessible journal published by the University of Kansas has been added to the Library's A-Z list of electronic serials, are linked to directly though Library subscribed databases and are accessible through the Library Catalog:

Biodiversity Informatics

The following titles are now subscribed to as a part of the new BioOne 2 Collection:

BioOne is a not for profit platform which many smaller society publishers use to mount their electronic content. We hold older issues for many of these titles in our stacks, and a number of these titles will be represented in the Biodiversity Heritage Library portal, in which the MBLWHOI Library is an active partner:

These titles are available online through the Library's A-Z list of electronic serials, and are linked to directly though Library subscribed databases; titles are in process being added to the Library Catalog.

Acta Chiropterologica
Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Breviora
Bulletin of the Biological society of Washington
Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
Cactus and Succulent Journal
Chelonian Conservation and Biology
Current Herpetology
Ecoscience
Entomological News
Fieldiana: Anthropology
Fieldiana: Botany
Fieldiana: Geology
Fieldiana: Zoology
Haseltonia
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Journal of East African Natural History
Journal of Ethnobiology
Journal of Mammalian Ova Research
Journal of Shellfish Research
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science
Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
Madrono
Mammal Study
Ornithological Science
Pacific Science
Paleontological Research
Politics and the Life Sciences
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
Rhodora
South American Journal of Herpetology
Transactions of the American Entomological Society
Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine
Wildlife Biology
Zoological Science

MBLWHOI Library Winter Serials Notes I

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
Aquatic Biology (freely accessible) v. 1 +
http://www.int-res.com/journals/ab/ab-home/

NIID
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (freely accessible) v.55 +
http://www.nih.go.jp/JJID/jjid.html


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