New Springer resource

Exemplar at http://www.springerexemplar.com/index.aspx searches over 1,900 journals from Springer’s collection to find authentic examples of how a word or phrase is used in published literature. Comprehensive coverage includes both current and archival content in all major subject areas including the life sciences, medicine, engineering, mathematics, computer science, business, and law, contributed by some of the world’s leading academics in these fields. Exemplar is continuously updated with new content as it is published.

Exemplar is for:

• Authors who want suggestions on how to express themselves or want to confirm how a particular word or phrase is used in published literature.
• Teachers who are looking for authentic phrases and sentences for teaching and testing.
• Editors and reviewers who want to confirm whether or not a particular turn of phrase is justified by usage.

Exemplar was created via a collaboration between Springer Science & Business Media and the Center for Biomedical and Health Linguistics.

New library book acquisitions

New books purchased by the Balfour Library:

Dirt: the erosion of civilizations, by David R. Montgomery. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; 2007. Balfour Library shelfmark: GHY (11) (Overnight Loan shelves)

The fossil record 2. Jointly sponsored by the Palaeontological Association, the Royal Society and the Linnean Society. Edited by M. J. Benton. London: Chapman & Hall; 1993. Balfour Library shelfmark: GJ (19b)

Principles of animal locomotion, by R. McNeill Alexander. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; 2003. Balfour Library shelfmark: GES (26iii)

New books donated by Cambridge University Press:

Behaviour and evolution, edited by P. J. B. Slater and T. R. Halliday. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1994. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (330) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Global warming: the complete briefing, 4th ed., by John Houghton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (124d) (Overnight Loan shelves)

New library books and theses acquisitions

Books purchased / acquired by the Balfour Library:

Essential cell biology, 3rd ed., by Bruce Alberts ... [et al.]. New York, NY: Madison Avenue; 2010. Balfour Library shelfmark: qEC (21ci-ii) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Molecular biology of the cell, 5th ed., by Bruce Alberts ... [et al.]. New York, NY: Garland Science; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: qEC (16eii) (Overnight Loan shelves)

No way home: the decline of the world's greatest animal migrations, by David S. Wilcove with illustrations by Louise Zemaitis. Washington, D.C.; Island Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: GHE (11)

Smithsonian at the poles: contributions to International Polar Year Science, [edited by] Igor Krupnik, Michael A. Lang and Scott E. Miller. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: GHV (3)

Books donated by Cambridge University Press:

Biological physics of the developing embryo, by Gabor Forgacs and Stuart A. Newman. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2005. Balfour Library shelfmark: EE (69)

Bird song: biological themes and variations, 2nd ed., by C. K. Catchpole, P. J. B. Slater. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: K.7 (40b)

Chemical ecology of vertebrates, by Dietland Mueller-Schwarze. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2006. Balfour Library shelfmark: GG (267)

Natural enemies: a introduction to biological control, by Ann E. Hajek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2004. Balfour Library shelfmark: QZ (26)

Setting conservation targets for managed landscapes, edited by Marc-Andre Villard, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (211)

Books donated by Dr Nancy Lane:

Animal micrology: practical exercises in zoological micro-technique, 5th ed., by Michael F. Guyer. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press; 1953. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBV (90e)

Basic DNA and RNA protocols, edited by Adrian J. Harwood. Totowa: Humana Press; 1996. Balfour Library shelfmark: EM (81)

Basic histochemistry, by Barbara E. H. Sumner. Chichester: Wiley; 1988. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBY (45)

Chemical communication, by John Ebling and Kenneth C. Highman. London: Edward Arnold; 1969. Balfour Library shelfmark: GEK (54)

Classic experiments in modern biology, by Melvin H. Green. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Co.; 1991. Balfour Library shelfmark: EB (97)

A colour atlas of microbiology, by R. J. Olds. London: Wolfe Medical Publications; 1975. Balfour Library shelfmark: FV (70)

A colour atlas of the rat; dissection guide, by Ronald J. Olds and Jon R. Olds. London: Wolfe Medical Publications; 1979. Balfour Library shelfmark: YSE.4 (1)

Cell and molecular biology: essential data, by D. Rickwood and D. Patel. Chichester: Wiley; 1995. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (299)

Cell biology, 2nd ed., by C. A. Smith and E. J. Wood. London: Chapman and Hall; 1996. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (301b)

Cell biology: essential techniques, edited by D. Rickwood, J. R. Harris. Chichester: Wiley; 1996. Balfour Library shelfmark: EB (98)

The development and pattern and form in animals, 2nd ed., by L. Wolpert. Burlington, NC: Carolina Biological Supply Co.; 1977. Balfour Library shelfmark: GAB (9b)

Electron microscopy 1978: papers presented at the ninth International Congress on Electron Microscopy held in Toronto, Canada, August 1-9, 1978. Volume 1: Physics, and Volume 2: Biology. Toronto: Microscopical Society of Canada; 1978. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBV (89i-ii)

The extracellular matrix FactsBook, 2nd ed., by Shirley Ayad ... [et al.]. San Diego, CA: Academic Press; 1998. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (303b)

Foundations of biology, 7th ed., by Lorande Loss Woodruff and George Alfred Baitsell. New York, NY: Macmillan; 1951. Balfour Library shelfmark: E (47g)

International symposium. The nucleolus: its structure and function, edited by W. S. Vincent and O. L. Miller. Bethseda MD: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Cancer Institute; 1966. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (302)

An introduction to centrifugation, by T. C. Ford and Jim Graham. Oxford: BIOS Scientific Publishers; 1991. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBH (31)

Mammalian cell culture: essential techniques, edited by A. Doyle and J. Bryan Griffiths. Chichester: Wiley; 1997. Balfour Library shelfmark: EB (99)

Mitochondria, by J. B. Chappell and S. C. Rees. London: Oxford University Press; 1972. Balfour Library shelfmark: ECI (5)

Molecular biology of the gene, 2nd ed., by J. D. Watson. New York, NY: W. A. Benjamin; 1970. Balfour Library shelfmark: EM (15bi)

The pattern recognition theory of humour, by Alastair Clarke. Cumbria: Pyrrich House; 2008. Balfour Library shelfmark: GFU (329)

Physics in the life sciences, 2nd ed., by Duncan George. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications; 1990. Balfour Library shelfmark: EA (46b)

Physiology of the insect epidermis, by Keith Binnington and Arthur Retnakaran. East Melbourne: CSIRO Australia; 1991. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.5 (83)

Somatic cell division, by B. John and K. R. Lewis. London: Oxford University Press; 1972. Balfour Library shelfmark: EC (300)

Find out about the latest publications written by your colleagues

Did you know...?

science@cambridge has created a feed from SCOPUS of all the latest publications written by members of the Department of Zoology.

You can sign up to the feed so you can view it in your favourite reader, or you can simply view the feed contents, by going to http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/scienceportal/subject.php?subjectId=51

You will be able to view the abstract of the article and download the full text if the University of Cambridge has an online subscription to the article. You can do this by clicking on either the "View at publisher" or "ejournals@cambridge" buttons.

When viewing a particular article you can request SCOPUS to alert you via email or RSS feed when it is cited by another author in SCOPUS.

The science@cambridge subject guide for Zoology at the URL given above is intended to help you navigate library services, find a book, locate a journal or article, navigate a database, and find quality sites on the Internet.

JoVE: New Video Articles on Biomedical Research Techniques

News from JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments):

Dear Scientist,

We wanted to tell you about JoVE's (www.jove.com) latest video articles. We promise we'll keep it brief!

In our last few issues, you can watch (not just read about!) experimental methods for studying epilepsy mutants of Drosophila, homing of hematopietic stem cells, Vaccinia virus infection, microinjection of zebrafish embryos, recording from C. elegans neuromuscular junctions, laparoscopic liver sectoriectomy in humans, and much more.

JoVE is the first and only video journal indexed in PubMed, with over 300 protocols in neuroscience, immunology, developmental biology, cell biology, bioengineering, medicine and behavioral sciences. We're proud of the work we've produced with our authors, and we think you'll agree that video articles are engaging, useful, and just plain awesome.

So check us out! We hope you'll consider subscribing, recommending us to your librarians for an institutional subscription, or publishing with us! You don’t even have to produce your own video--we can provide production services at your laboratory.

Warm regards,

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Editor-in-Chief, co-founder
JoVE, www.jove.com
moshe.pritsker@jove.com
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New ebooks purchased

Several new e-books have been purchased by ebooks@cambridge, of note for the biological sciences are the following:

Duranti - Companion to linguistic anthropology

Hastie, Tikshirani & Friedman - Elements of statistical learning

Housecroft - Inorganic chemistry

Jobling - Human evolutionary genetics

Kemp - Origin and evolution of mammals

Mithen - Creativity in human evolution and prehistory

Palsson - Systems biology : properties of reconstructed networks

Pinhasi & Mays - Advances in human palaeopathology.

Sharma - Bioinformatics

Waldron - Palaeopathology : Cambridge manuals

Xiong - Essential bioinformatics

The books are available via Newton, the online catalogue for the libraries of the University of Cambridge, at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/

For more information on ebooks@cambridge see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/ebooks.php

Essential Easter Term information

As the Easter term begins I thought it would be useful to mention a few things that will be helpful for you to bear in mind, to ease the stressful exam period when you will (hopefully!) be hard at work revising in the Balfour Library. Be aware that much of it applies to cardholders only however.

Help us to help you keep the Balfour Library a pleasant place to study.

If you have any further queries on this then please do not hesitate to contact us and we will do our best to help. Good luck with your exams!

Lone working

• Remember that if you are working in the library outside of opening hours then you will effectively be "lone working". Inform someone at home/college where you are and when you are expected to return. Keep to your agreed time of return, or ring to say you have left early, or will be late leaving.
• Such calls using your mobile phone should preferably be made outside of the library, so that you do not disturb other readers. However there is a network phone available on the wall opposite the Library Office should you need it.

New Museums Site archway gate

• This closes at 10:00pm each night.
  
• The gate to the site is opened very early in the morning.
  

Access cards

• Please remember that your access card is for your use only. You should not lend it to anyone else to gain entry to the department or library. This also means that you cannot bring any friends who are not access card holders into the department or library with you outside of opening hours.

Valuables

• Please do not leave these unattended in the library as we cannot guarantee their security.
• Try to secure them to the desk in some way, or take them with you when you leave the library for any amount of time.

May Bank Holidays on the 4th and 25th May

• The library will be open as usual. Reception will be open from 9:00am to 4:30pm but will be closed for lunch between 1:00pm and 2:00pm.

Priority for study places

• Please remember that Part II Zoology/Neuroscience/BBS students will take priority for use of the limited amount of study places available in the library. Other students may be asked to leave.

New ebooks available

Several new e-books have been purchased by ebooks@cambridge, of note for the biological sciences are the following in the field of anthropology:

Duranti - Companion to linguistic anthropology

Waldron - Palaeopathology : Cambridge manuals

Mithen - Creativity in human evolution and prehistory

Jobling - Human evolutionary genetics

Pinhasi & Mays - Advances in human palaeopathology.

The books are available via Newton, the online catalogue for the libraries of the University of Cambridge, at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/

For more information on ebooks@cambridge see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/ebooks.php

Resources on trial - BNA Online and Springer e-books

Trial access has been arranged to the resources below for evaluation purposes. If you feel that they would be of value to you or your department please let us know by e-mailing it_services@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Birds of North America Online

On behalf of the Department of Zoology (Balfour & Newton Libraries), the University Library has arranged for trial access, on campus only, to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's "Birds of North American Online" resource which can be accessed until May 26 2009 via the URL: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/

BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.

Trial expires: 26th May 2009

Springer e-books 2005-2009

A 6-month trial licence of the Springer ebooks collection is now available. For the duration of the trial users will have access to more than 13,000 key eBooks, eBook Series and eReference Works published by Springer between 2005-2009 on the SpringerLink interface through which Springer ejournals are already accessible. Springer is the world's second-largest publisher of journals in science, technology, and medicine, and the largest publisher of books in this field.

Access is available on-campus without passwords and off-campus with a Raven password at http://www.springerlink.com. The books accessible through the trial are indicated by green boxes on the search results lists in SpringerLink. A browsable view of the books can be found at http://www.springerlink.com/books/; limit to subect area, date of publication and language using the option on the bottom right-hand of the screen.

This is the largest trial of ebooks to date in the university. Comments would be welcomed on any aspect of the trial, the collection as a whole or individual titles, and should be sent to it_services@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Trial expires: 31st August 2009

Oxford Scholarship Online: a leap forward in electronic resources for learning

Thanks to a generous benefaction the University Library has been able to take a significant leap forward in improving its support for undergraduate learning by acquiring access in perpetuity to all titles in the Oxford Scholarship Online collection of e-books published to the end of 2008.

BIOLOGY books cover topics such as animal biology, aquatic biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, biodiversity, conservation biology, biotechnology, disease ecology, epidemiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, microbiology, natural history, field guides, ornithology, plant sciences, and forestry. See http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/biology/subject_home.html

This collection provides quick and easy access to the full text of over 2,500 books published by Oxford University Press in a wide-ranging group of subjects from biology to religion, ranging through business and management, economics, classical studies, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, and political science. It is widely viewed as one of the most impressive ebook collections available and one of the few to be aimed principally at undergraduate students. Its acquisition helps to meet the fast growing demand for access to textbooks anywhere and at any time, relieves pressure on the most sought-after titles , and complements ebook collections already in heavy use in the university including the Cambridge Companions Online and MyiLibrary.

Oxford Scholarship Online is easy and intuitive to use and designed to make incorporation of its content into online reading lists and course packs as simple as possible at book and chapter level.

Individual ebooks will be accessible from Newton. The collection can be found at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/. The books are accessible on campus without passwords and off-campus with a Raven Id and password.

Biology Collection