Nature Magazine: Latest issue

Whats new in Nature Magazine: 17 April, Volume 452, Number 7189, pp781-912

News:

* James Watson's genome sequenced at high speed p788
New-generation technology takes just four months and costs a fraction of old method.
* Novel analysis identifies highly biodiverse hotspots p789
New method plots Madagascar's species in unprecedented detail.

* Merck accused of disguising its role in research p791
Drug company used ghost-writers for papers published on Vioxx trials.

* $50 million cyberchallenge for plant scientists p793
iPlant Collaborative offers prize for user-friendly computational tools.

* Germany eases ban on embryonic stem-cell lines p796

* Further reports announced by climate-change panel p796

* Mars moon in high resolution p797

News Features:

* Climate change: Losing greenland p798
Is the Arctic's biggest ice sheet in irreversible meltdown? And would we know if it were?

* Quantum computation: The dreamweaver's abacus p803
Some experts think that a quantum computation could be plaited like a skein of string. And now they may have found the sorts of string they need, finds Liesbeth Venema.

* Malaria programmes need informed advocacy p810

News and Views:

* Human genetics: Dr Watson's base pairs p819
The application of new technology to sequence the genome of an individual yields few biological insights. Nonetheless, the feat heralds an era of 'personal genomics' based on cheap sequencing.

* Biophysics: The sweetest candy for the virus p822
For some viruses, the first step in infecting cells is to latch onto sugars on the cell membrane. The chemical basis of this virus-host recognition process has been identified using an NMR spectroscopic technique.

* Quantum physics: Debut of the quarter electron p822
A particle-like object with a quarter of an electron's charge is the latest find in a hotbed of quantum-physical experimentation, the fractional quantum Hall fluid. Its significance is more than esoteric.

* Systems biology: Genome rewired p824
Within a genome, genes are connected to each other through a complex network of interactions. One way to assess how robust and evolvable such genomic networks are is to introduce new links between unrelated genes.

* Ecology: Destabilized fish stocks p825
Fishing of natural populations increases the variability of fish abundance. A unique data set from the southern California Current has allowed an evaluation of three hypotheses for why that should be so.

* Astrophysics: Blown away by cosmic rays p826
X-ray data reveal that our Galaxy is shedding part of its gas, a phenomenon previously associated only with much more active star-forming galaxies. So what is driving the process in the Milky Way?

Articles:

* Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance p835
Christian N. K. Anderson, Chih-hao Hsieh, Stuart A. Sandin, Roger Hewitt, Anne Hollowed, John Beddington, Robert M. May & George Sugihara

* Evolvability and hierarchy in rewired bacterial gene networks p840
Mark Isalan, Caroline Lemerle, Konstantinos Michalodimitrakis, Carsten Horn, Pedro Beltrao, Emanuele Raineri, Mireia Garriga-Canut & Luis Serrano

Technology Features:

* Nanotechnology: Could it be a small world after all? p901
Sophisticated technologies can now explore nano-scale forces and interactions. But most biologists are staying on the sidelines, waiting to see if these technologies can really help them. Nathan Blow reports.

* Nanotechnology: When one cantilever is not enough p903

* Nanotechnology: Shrinking down gas chromatography p904

The Latest from Science Online Magazine

The latest from Science Online Magazine: 18 April 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5874, Pages 285-389

* Editorial:

- New Career Paths for Scientists

* News of the week:

- CLIMATE CHANGE: IPCC Tunes Up for Its Next Report Aiming for Better, Timely Results

- GLACIOLOGY: Greenland Ice Slipping Away but Not All That Quickly

- SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Croatian Editors Fight With Medical School Over Journal's Fate

- REGULATORY SCIENCE: Changes to EPA Toxicology--Speed or Delay?

* News Focus:

- ENERGY: The Greening of Synfuels

- OCEANOGRAPHY: Watery Echoes Give Clues to the Past and Future of the Seas

- VIROLOGY: Mapmaker for the World of Influenza

- CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS: The Mad Dash to Make Light Crystals

* Letters:

- Coral Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change
- Freshwater Forcing: Will History Repeat Itself?
* Books:
- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended April 18, 2008.
* Policy Forum:
- ECOLOGY: Agriculture at a Crossroads
* Perspectives:
- MATHEMATICS: Frustration in Complexity
- GEOSCIENCE: Natural Complexity
- APPLIED PHYSICS: Graphene Nanoelectronics
- CELL SIGNALING: Wnt Moves Beyond the Canon
- MUSIC THEORY: Geometrical Music Theory
* Brevia:
- The Movement of Aquatic Mercury Through Terrestrial Food Webs
* Research Article:
- Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO2 World
* Reports:
- Chaotic Dirac Billiard in Graphene Quantum Dots
- The Chemical Genomic Portrait of Yeast: Uncovering a Phenotype for All Genes

ScienceDirect Database News: March/April 2008

Read about the latest on ScienceDirect Database:

* New functionality added to ScienceDirect to meet researchers' needs!

New to ScienceDirect are features that make the platform more user friendly and deliver better, clearer results in fewer clicks.

Preview tabs
Researchers like to quickly evaluate articles before reading them. They will find preview tabs that provide quick access to the important article assessment components: the abstract, figures / tables and references. These tabs are on the results page, the Table of Contents page and the Article page.

Reference information
Before, researchers have to scroll to the foot of articles to view reference information. Now it is possible for researchers to view reference information within the body of a paper when their cursor moves over a reference marker.

Article Toolbox
Once a researcher has evaluated and read an article, they often want to email it. A new article toolbox brings together all of the article-related functionality including "Cited By", "E-mail Article", "Save as Citation Alert", "Citation Feed", "Export Citation", Add to My Quick Links", "Add 2Collab" , etc., into one easy-to-find location. Researchers can now take further action quickly and easily with little extra effort.

New Navigation options
Looking for something specific? A new navigation pane on the left of the screen will make that easier by allowing you to refine results using four filters: “content type”; “source title”, “date” and “topics”. By enabling filtering you will be able to refine your search results without having to return to the search form.

Ratings
Researchers are interested to know how other experts rate articles they read. Due to be launched in phases over the coming months, the integration of article comments and ratings from Elsevier's social collaboration site, 2collab enables researchers to evaluate papers according to colleague-driven comments and ratings of articles right on the article page.

For more information visit the ScienceDirect Info site.

New Major Reference Works available on ScienceDirect
New and available Reference Works visit theScienceDirect Info site.

ScinceDirect database have received a number of new functionality since 2007 and I would like to say that all of them brought an improved look and feel. ScienceDirect has been updated with the latest technological innovation to help researchers find the information quickly and successfully.

Enjoy the latest improved features. Tell us how you feel about them. Make a comment.

Scirus.com Updates

Scirus.com New Interface
For those of you who are still not familiar with Scirus.com - this is the Best Science & Technology Search Engine, an Elsevier product.
The Scirus development team worked closely with Elsevier's User-Centered Design Group to create a new user interface design. The clean, refreshed interface will enable you to find the precise scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data you need more quickly and easily than ever before.

One of the main aims of the re-design was to take powerful, but less frequently used features from the Scirus Advanced Search page and make them more accessible as post-search refinement options. This change will give Scirus users the power of Advanced Search, without the complexity, in a single click.
Features of the re-design include:

* Visibility: More search results are immediately visible ''above the fold'', by improving the use of screen real estate

* Intuitiveness: Highly appreciated features are moved to areas of the screen most suitable for the human eye, following accepted HCI guidelines

* Exposure: The full range of content sources is further exposed and highlighted through the use of new navigator functionality

* Ease of use: Batch selection of items for export, print or saving has been greatly simplified

Scirus Topic Pages continue to grow

Scirus Topic Pages is a freely accessible wiki-like platform where topic experts, upon invitation, create synopses of the state of research around particular topics and also recommend links to relevant reading material. The Scirus search index complements these recommendations by suggesting relevant articles and web pages based on topic-title keyword analysis. Examples of the latest Topic Pages include:
- "Obesity and the Brain" by Dr. Angelo Del Parigi
- "Laboratory determination of Listeria monocytogenes virulence" by Dr. Dongyou Liu.

After implementing the Editorial Policy for the management of the Scirus Topic Pages platform in January, the Scirus team has now finalized a Creative Commons license, which allows users to share and adapt the information on the Topic Pages freely for non-commercial purposes. Both the Editorial Policy and the licence can be viewed from links at the bottom of the Scirus Topic Pages homepage.

UKSG Serials E-News

Some of the topics in the UKSG Searials-eNews in the latest, 18 April 2008 Newsletter are:

UKSG Conference, 7-9 April 2008

(The Conference official webpage: http://www.uksg.org.uk/events/conference08)

Catch up with what has been going on at the UKSG 2008 conference via Serials-eNews, the UKSG website and blog. Main reports of plenaries are on the blog. This issue covers the six plenary sessions, with links to reports and comment on the conference blog. You can read about one of the breakout sessions, and others will be featured in the next couple of issues.
In Plenary Session 3, three speakers covered different aspects of usage data and user behaviour. David Nicholas posed the question that we are still working as if content is king, when we should be looking at the consumer as king - their behaviour is very different depending on who they are. Access is no longer the outcome - we need to go beyond making sure that access is easy and quick, rather we should be profiling behaviours in order to find best practice and see what works and what does not. This point was picked up by Ian Bannerman in his presentation which urged caution about the current state of, and reliance on, usage statistics and his concerns about the proposed usage factor work.......Herbert van der Sompel (LANL) gave an excellent presentation on the work they are doing in the MESUR project - a systematic effort to define, validate and cross-validate a range of usage-based metrics of scholarly impact by creating a semantic model of the scholarly communication process.
The focus of Plenary Session 4 was firmly on the challenges of large-scale digitisation in the third plenary.
The Plenary Session 5 addressed innovation and the challenges that confront us when technology enables new behaviours that require business models adapt to trends. Geoffrey Bilder at CrossRef highlighted the potential for the web to function as a database, linking related items such as an author on Amazon and a concept on Wikipedia. Peter Murray-Rust on the faculty at the University of Cambridge pointed out the issues inherent when publishers attempt to package data sets as if they were print journals. The example is a robot built by a student to pick up information from across the web. The robot goes out at night and finds information on crystallography

Other NEWS:
* CrossRef and Plagiarism detection service
CrossRef and iParadigms, LLC are launching the CrossCheck service to which can be used to help verify the originality of scholarly content. Following the recent pilot of CrossCheck, the service is scheduled to go live in June. For more detail, read Key issue by Amy Brand, Director of Business and Product Development, CrossRef, in the March issue of Serials.
* CAB eBooks goes live
CAB International's (CABI) book collection can now be purchased digitally with the launch of CAB eBooks. By developing its own web-based portal, CABI can now provide customers with digital copies of its publications dating from 2000 to 2008. More than 140 titles in the applied life sciences are now available in the front-file collection (2005 - 2008), growing to 200 titles by the end of 2008. In addition, CAB eBooks is fully integrated with CAB Abstracts, the online bibliographic database. Each chapter is indexed and abstracted individually to ensure that specific slices of information can be easily retrieved. The e-books are available as a complete package or in six separate subject collections: agriculture; animal and veterinary sciences; environmental sciences; human health, food, and nutrition; leisure and tourism; and plant sciences.

Click on the TITLE to view the Newsletter

New Interface @ JSTOR

Welcome to the new JSTOR interface!

From the first sight I looked at the new JSTOR website I love it. It is wonderful that JSTOR finally took under consideration the users needs. To make it easy to use, more tools and capabilities for users have been integrated. Now, with just one click you can have the full-text article.

I have looked at the training presentation from JSTOR and these are some of the TIPS on what is new and how to do a successful searching. One new feature to consider using is MyJSTOR. It will help you personalise your searches and export citations to RefWorks or EndNote (see below for more information).

Home page features:
• Basic search box
• News & Notices
• Links to translated information
• Menu bar, Login, Help, and Contact Us list

SEARCHING

Basic search interface:
• Searches all full-text data for articles
• Search can be limited by discipline
• Select a recent search option
• Search for links to recent content outside of JSTOR by checking the box
Advanced search:
• Enter multiple terms/keywords
• Select to search in full-text, article title, author, caption, or abstract options
• Select AND, OR, NOT, or Near 5, Near 10 and Near 25 words
• Limit to type (article, review, editorial & other), publication date range, language (8 options), limit to specific journal title, or discipline(s) - you can select more than one discipline.
Article search results:
• Click on "Page of first match" to read the article first page, Click on "Article information" to view the article bibliographic information, the References list & articles citing this article, if you need to view the full-article Click on "PDF" option.
• Option "Go to page" of search results to navigate ahead
• Search results can be displayed: 10, 25, 50 and 100 per page
Images in JSTOR tab:
•Search is run again on image captions
•Page thumbnail is a link to that page
Search: Refining Article Results
•Enter term in box and select to “search within these results” or "modify" the search strategy.
•Results can be sort by relevance or publication date (oldest to newest; newest to oldest)

Search: Results: Viewing Article
•The search terms are highlighted
•Available buttons for going back to search results, previous result, and next result
•Link to view list of page with search term(s)

BROWSE
Browse (provide exact year coverage, for each options)
- by Discipline (Disciplines are listed alphabetically)
- by Title (Jump to the required journal title)
- by Publisher. You can find the following information:
• Journals listed under Publisher’s names
• The Publisher name is a link to information about the publisher, contact details and which journals are covered in JSTOR
• The Journal title is a link to the information and to browse the journal content
Browse: Navigation: List of all Volumes
• Journal information
• Box to search within this journal
• Issue thumbnail image
Browse: Navigation: Volumes/Issues List
• Box to search within this journal
• Issue thumbnail image
Browse: Navigation: Issue Table of Contents
• Box to search within this journal
• Issue thumbnail image
• Check boxes to save citations
• Article information and PDF
• Stable URL for linking

Article Navigation: Page view:
• Citation at top of page
• Buttons to save citation, see article information, and retrieve PDF file
• Side bars to flip to next or previous page
• Links to run relevant searches within JSTOR - other articles by that author AND Scholar Google - related articles, articles citing this article, articles by that author
Article Navigation: Print or Download PDF
• JSTOR cover page with citation and links
• Print or save using PDF reader software (Adobe shown)

MyJSTOR
Citation Management: Login to MyJSTOR
• To save citations, login to MyJSTOR first
MyJSTOR Registration
To register:
• Enter required information
• Check the box to accept the JSTOR Terms and Conditions (you won’t be prompted again)
• Citations will be saved for as long as the account is kept
Citation Management: Sort Citations
• Select from date saved or publication date sort options
Citation Management: Export Citations
To export citations:
• Check the box next to the citations to be exported
• Click the “Export article citations” button
Chose export option:
• E-mail
• BibTex file
• Directly export into RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager
• Printer-friendly version

For help access Tutorials and MyJSTOR Help or just ask for assistance.

Any remarks on this new interface are welcomed.

Just Click on "Comments" under this post and type your notes.

Open Science Directory: New Open Access Initiative for Developing Countries

EBSCO has recently joined forces with Hasselt University Library, Belgium, and the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to develop a global Open Science Directory which is available via the Internet at no charge. The Open Science Directory provides developing regions with a comprehensive search tool for all open access and special programme journal titles. The Open Science Directory offers immediate access to approximately 13,000 scientific journal titles, with an objective of 20,000 titles midway through development.

Access to scientific literature is very important for the scientific work in developing countries. As a result of different projects a large collection of e-journals is now available for researchers in developing countries. The number of Open Access Journals is growing steadily as we can see in the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/). Major UNO organizations like WHO, FAO and UNEP have their specific programs for the scientific institutions in low-income countries. Finally a lot of universities, institutes and other organizations are supporting access programs. The most important are INASP, eIFL and eJDS.

The Open Science Directory is creating a unique access point to all the journals contained in the different programs.

Searching Options:

* From the home page, click on Open Science Directory

* The Portal is an A-to-Z journals list ( as in UJ A-to-Z)

* You can either search directly for specific journals

OR

* Select - Journal Collections - to view all Providers of the Journals, with links to the title lists

* Select - Subjects - to view the journals per specific subject area

* Select - Search - to view the Advanced search screen

* Select - Custom Google Search - to search either Scholar Google (academic articles) or Google Custom Search (Search in: DOAJ - OpenDOAR - HINARI - OARE - AGORA - INASP - eJDS - Ingenta Connect)

* Select - Links - to have access to journals portals, useful websites to different organisations

* Select - About the Site - to view more information about this site

Once you access the journal of interest, there is an option to search within this journal for articles.

I hope you will find this Open Science Directory very useful.

I will create a direct link on this BLOG under Open Access Journals

EbscoHost 2.0: New interface comming in July 2008

This post is just an alert about the upcoming next generation EbscoHost user interface in July 2008. According to information from their website the new interface is " based upon results gathered from extensive user testing. EBSCOhost 2.0 offers a clean new look and feel, for a technologically sophisticated, yet familiar search experience, with the built-in flexibility to provide individual user customization options".

Click on the post TITLE for details and screen shots on the functionality of the redesign. Click on any of the icons and see what is coming soon:

- Basic Search Screen 2.0

- Advanced Search Screen 2.0

- Result List 2.0

- Branding 2.0

- My EbscoHost 2.0

- Image Quick View 2.0

- Visual Search 2.0

- Improved Bibliographic Functionality

Click on the link to view the new User Guide and relevant FAQ:

http://0-support.ebsco.com.ujlink.uj.ac.za/ebscohost2/

Free Databases @ EbscoHost

In a post dated 1st of April (UKSG Serials E-News) I have mentioned that EbscoHost offers a number of free databases. After contacting Ebsco representatives, we are please to announce that these databases have been ADDED to the UJ Library EbscoHost list (find them at the end of the list).

* GreenFile

GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.

* Teacher Reference Center

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

I have done quick search on "science and research". The top references are:

- Professional development for computer-enhanced learning: a case study with science teachers.Research in Science & Technological Education; May2008, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p3-12

- Virtual teamwork: students studying about ethics in an online environment. Research in Science & Technological Education; May2008, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p13-29

- Teaching chemical bonding through jigsaw cooperative learning. Research in Science & Technological Education; May2008, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p47-57

The above journal is available in print & online - search through A-to-Z list ( the May 2008 issue is not yet available)

* Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. It is EBSCO Publishing’s intention to provide access to LISTA on a continual basis at http://www.libraryresearch.com/.

TIPS for searching:

As these databases provide bibliographic information it could be an added value if you search with some of the full-text databases, such as Academic Search Premier. Some of your results can be available full-text through that database.

DO YOU KNOW!

EbscoHost have added some new options for searching. If you are either in the Basic or Advanced Search Screens, you can select from the option "Specific Databases" a SUBJECT group databases to search:

- General/News databases

- Computer Science/Engineering Databases

- Earth/Environmental Databases

- Health Sciences Databases

- Life Sciences Databases

- EJS E-Journals

To summarise it, you can either search:

- selected individual databases

- selected 2 or more databases or

- the SUBJECT grouping from the individual databases available on EbscoHost.

Leading Science Journals ToC

If you have not had time to look at the latest content of the leading science journals, these are some quick links to view the latest issues:

Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/index.html)
Some papers of interest in the latest (10 April) issue are:
- Advanced biofuels face an uncertain future
- Cleaning up the final phase of the fossil-fuel industry
- New Spring Books: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7188/full/452689b.html
- Brave new bioethics
- Biology from the bottom up
- Atmospheric chemistry: Are plant emissions green?
- Immunology: Blood lines redrawn
- Quantum physics: Observations turn up the heat
- Cell biology: Porter and sorter
- Cell biology: SUMO
- Atmospheric oxidation capacity sustained by a tropical forest
- SAR11 marine bacteria require exogenous reduced sulphur for growth

- A plant pathogen virulence factor inhibits the eukaryotic proteasome by a novel mechanism

Subscribe to the Nature RSS Table of Content feeds: http://www.nature.com/nature/newsfeeds.html

New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/archive.ns)
Some papers of interest in the latest (12 April) issue are:
- Ocean biodiversity: Depths of ignorance
- The great antimatter mystery
- Melting ice caps may trigger more volcanic eruptions
Subscribe to the New Scientist RSS feeds on TOC, News, Subjects, Special Reports: http://www.newscientist.com/feeds.ns

American Scientist (http://www.americanscientist.org/template/IssueIndex)
Some papers of interest in the latest May-June issue are:
- Twisting Light to Trap Atoms
- Winners and Losers in the Animal-Research War
- A Market for Basic Science?
- All book reviews for this issue
In the March-April issue are featured:
- Tectonic Plates Come Apart at the Seams
- Computing Science: Computational Photography
- All book reviews for this issue
In Jan-Feb issued are featured:
- The Phenotypic Plasticity of Death Valley's Pupfish
- The Past and Future of the Periodic Table
- Computing Science: Accidental Algorithms
- Solar Energy's Red Queen

Proceedings of the National Academy of Aciences: PNAS (http://www.pnas.org/)
In the latest (8 April) issue the following articles could be of interest:
- Atmospheric consequences of nuclear exchange
- New biomarker for type 1 diabetes
- Another HIV escape path
- Hepatitis C peptide blocks HIV
View the 50 Most-Frequently read PNAS articles during March: http://www.pnas.org/reports/mfr1.dtl

Electronic Journal of Science Education ( Open Access Journal): http://ejse.southwestern.edu/
In the latest issue, Vol.11, no.2, 2007 this article could be of interest:
- Creating Constructivist Physics for Introductory University Classes
In Vol.11, no.1, 2006 this article could be of interest:
- The Suitability of External Control-Groups for Empirical Control Purposes:
a Cautionary Story in Science Education Research (gene technology lab)

The Latest from Science Online Magazine

Let's look at the the latest two issues of Science Magazine.

11 April 2008Vol 320, Issue 5873, Pages 151-250

* News of the Week

- ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: New Rules on Saving Wetlands Push the Limits of the Science

- MEDICINE: Drug Bestows Radiation Resistance on Mice and Monkeys

- PLANETARY GEOLOGY: An Early Big Hit to Mars May Have Scarred the Planet for Life

- APPLIED PHYSICS: At Mixed Odds, Racetrack Memory Charges From Gate

* News Focus

- PLANT GENETICS: The Blue Revolution, Drop by Drop, Gene by Gene

- PLANT GENETICS: Getting to the Root of Drought Responses

* Letters

- Vegetation's Role in Coastal Protection

- Soil Erosion: Data Say C Sink

* Books

- ECOLOGY: Return to Natural History

- MATHEMATICS: Connecting the Dots

- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended April 11, 2008

* Perspectives

- GEOCHEMISTRY: Toward New Uses for Hematite

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Anatomy of a Fungal Polyketide Synthase

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Zooming Into Live Cells

- RETROSPECTIVE: Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

* Brevia

- Amplification of Cretaceous Warmth by Biological Cloud Feedbacks

* Reports

- Impact of Artificial Reservoir Water Impoundment on Global Sea Level

- Linked Reactivity at Mineral-Water Interfaces Through Bulk Crystal Conduction

- Convergence of Campylobacter Species: Implications for Bacterial Evolution

4 April 2008Vol 320, Issue 5872, Pages 15-120

* News of the week

- AIDS RESEARCH: Review of Vaccine Failure Prompts a Return to Basics

- MICROBIOLOGY: Germs Take a Bite Out of Antibiotics

* News Focus

- CANCER BIOLOGY: All in the Stroma: Cancer's Cosa Nostra

- AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEETING: Magnetic Measurements Hint at Toastier Superconductivity

- CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: Puzzling Over a Steller Whodunit

* Letters

- Conserving Top Predators in Ecosystems

- The Role of Fisheries-Induced Evolution

* Perspectives

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Toward Understanding Self-Splicing

- CLIMATE: Blooms Like It Hot

* Brevia

- Bats Limit Arthropods and Herbivory in a Tropical Forest

* Reports

- Revealing Magnetic Interactions from Single-Atom Magnetization Curves

- The Electrical Conductivity of Post-Perovskite in Earth's D'' Layer

- Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics

Click on the TITLE for full-text access to these issues

Copyright Blog @ UJ

Good news!

We have in the Library another blogger. Our Copyright officer Thapelo Mashishi has created a Copyright blog: http://copyrightuj.blogspot.com/. As he says in his welcome note "this publication will provide UJ academic staff with copyright information as it relates to the University and educational environment in general". Good luck Thapelo.

The Latest from Science Online Magazine

Have a quick look at the latest two issues of Science Online Magazine. Please note, that I select some of the titles only. Click on the TITLE link to access the UJ full-text issues.

28 March 2008Vol 319, Issue 5871, Pages 1715-1882 : Special Issue: Gene Regulation

* News

- MicroRNAs Make Big Impression in Disease After Disease

* Perspectives

- Multilevel Regulation of Gene Expression by MicroRNAs

- Gene Regulation in the Third Dimension

* News of the Week

- GLOBAL CHANGE: Roads, Ports, Rails Aren't Ready for Changing Climate, Says Report

- CLIMATE CHANGE: Study Fingers Soot as a Major Player in Global Warming

- BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY: Smart Birds Lend a Beak for Food

- ACADEMIC RESEARCH: Saudi Start-Up Hopes Grants Will Buy Time

* News Focus

- ENERGY: Weighing the Climate Risks of an Untapped Fossil Fuel

- LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Cooking Up the Solar System From the Right Ingredients

- LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE CONFERENCE: New Piece of the Solar System Puzzle Fits In

* Policy Forum

- PLANETARY SCIENCE: The Planet Debate Continues

* Perspectives

- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Multitasking in Tissues and Materials

- PHYSICS: A Milestone in Time Keeping

- ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Recording Earth's Vital Signs

- BIOCHEMISTRY: A Postgenomic Visual Icon

* Reports

- Magnetar-Like Emission from the Young Pulsar in Kes 75

- Self-Assembly of Large and Small Molecules into Hierarchically Ordered Sacs and Membranes

- Rule Learning by Rats

21 March 2008,Vol 319, Issue 5870, Pages 1585-1696

* News of the Week

- DNA DATA: Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance

- BIOMEDICAL PATENTS: Wisconsin Stem Cell Patents Upheld

- ECOLOGY: Showdown Looms Over a Biological Treasure Trove

* News Focus

- RINDERPEST: Driven to Extinction

- STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY: Protein Structure Initiative: Phase 3 or Phase Out

- STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY: Researchers Hone Their Homology Tools

* Books et al.

- PALEONTOLOGY: Rise and Demise of Ghostly Animals

* Perspectives

- ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY: Rethinking Ozone Production

- GEOCHEMISTRY: Are Volcanic Gases Serial Killers?

* Reviews

- Nanominerals, Mineral Nanoparticles, and Earth Systems

UKSG Serials E-News

Reading through the latest two issue of UKSG Serials E-news, I have found number of news, which could be of interest to you. Especially I found interesting, that Ebsco offers a free bibliographic database, GreenFILE which can be searched through EbscoHost. Other free database through EbscoHost is Teacher Reference Center. Read also about the Open Science Directory, which utilises EBSCO's A-to-Z locator product to provide access to useful scientific information needed in many of the world's developing nations. It offers immediate access to approximately 13,000 scientific journal titles, with an objective of 20,000 titles midway through development.

Issue: No. 166, 21 March 2008

* Thomson Scientific names 'hottest' researchers and papers of 2006-2007: Thomson Scientific has announced the results of its annual roundup of the "hottest" researchers and research papers. In the March/April issue of Science Watch Thomson Scientific identifies the top ten authors who fielded the highest number of Hot Papers in 2006-2007.

http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?pid=10&articleid=3649&issueno=166&xsection=Business

* Wiley-VCH launches the Journal of Biophotonics: Wiley-VCH has announced the launch of the Journal of Biophotonics, the first international scientific journal for the publication of reviews and original articles devoted to the field of biophotonics. he Journal of Biophotonics is interdisciplinary in scope, covering the broad range of biophotonics research including laser physics, medical applications, spectroscopic methods, and microbiological research. In addition, the journal is the first to publish original articles from the field and will serve as an important platform for reviews. The first issue is now online.

Issue: No. 165, 7 March 2008

* Will social collaboration undermine scholarly publishing? "Social collaboration, otherwise known as Web 2.0, is dominating presentations being given at recent leading publisher conferences and meetings. This might be an indicator that social collaboration may be seen by some to be undermining scholarly publishing." David Brown, of SCR Publishing, looks at the perceived threat of social networking to academic publishing.

http://www.ringgold.com/UKSG/si_pd.cfm?pid=10&articleid=3627&issueno=165&xsection=Business

* EBSCO, IOC and Hasselt University to create Open Science Directory: EBSCO has recently joined forces with Hasselt University Library, Belgium, and the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to develop a global Open Science Directory which is available via the Internet at no charge. The Open Science Directory provides developing regions with a comprehensive search tool for all open access and special programme journal titles.

the Open Science Directory offers immediate access to approximately 13,000 scientific journal titles, with an objective of 20,000 titles midway through development.

* Thomson Scientific publishes 2008 Patent Focus Report: Thomson Scientific has published its 2008 Patent Focus Report. This report explores recent activities at each of the world's major patenting authorities - the USA, Europe, Japan, China and India. The report is available free.

* EBSCO resources: EBSCO has recently announced the release of a new bibliographic database, GreenFILE. The GreenFILE, a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns, is being made freely available. Global warming, energy conservation, natural resources, and pollution are important issues, and there is a growing awareness that the way people treat the environment today will have far-reaching effects in the future. GreenFILE allows anyone on the Web to access information about these important topics and many more. GreenFILE is available on EBSCOhost.

* Thomson Scientific product news: Thomson Scientific makes additions to Thomson Innovation and launches ScienceWatch. ScienceWatch.com, a free, open web resource for science metrics and analysis, was recently launched by Thomson Scientific. ScienceWatch.com combines the newest Science Watch newsletter material and regularly updated data, analysis, interviews, and commentary that had been previously found in In-Cites and ESI Special Topics. The website provides the scientific community with a location for keeping up with the latest developments in science.

* Scholarly Research Exchange: New OA journal employs transparent peer review: Hindawi Publishing Corporation has launched Scholarly Research Exchange, an open access journal that will publish original research articles in all areas of science, technology, and medicine. Scholarly Research Exchange will use a transparent peer review system in which authors and reviewers interact directly throughout the peer review process. Scholarly Research Exchange is hosted on a custom built online platform facilitating the journal's interactive editorial system.