Thursday 30 October 2008

New library acquisitions since August

New books:

Animal learning & recognition: an introduction, 3rd ed., by John M. Pearce. Hove: Psychology Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelf mark: GFU (263) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Behavioural ecology, by Etienne Danchin, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Frank Cezilly. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelf mark: GFU (325) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Ecology of insects: concepts and applications, 2nd ed., by Martin R. Speight, Mark D. Hunter, Allan D. Watt. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell; 2008. Balfour Library shelf mark: Q.8 (40b) (Overnight loan shelves)

For love of insects, by Thomas Eisner. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 2005. Balfour Library shelf mark: Q (85) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences, 6th ed., by David C. Howell. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth; 2008. Balfour Library shelf mark: EBB (75f) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Mammals of the British Isles: handbook, 4th ed., edited by S. Harris and D. W. Yalden. Southampton: The Mammal Society; 2008. Balfour Library shelf mark: qYZ.41 (4d)

The origins of life: from the birth of life to the origin of language, by John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2000. Balfour Library shelf mark: EO (295) (Overnight Loan shelves)

Wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology, by Tim Birkhead. London: Bloomsbury; 2008. Balfour Library shelf mark: K (227)

Your inner fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body, by Neil Shubin. London: Allen Press; 2008. Balfour Library shelf mark: EO (317) (Overnight Loan shelves)

New hardback journals not on display but shelved in the journals collection:

Oceanography and Marine Biology, v. 46 (2008)

Tuesday 28 October 2008

Rare book on display in the library

The rare book on display from our special collections is: Tortoises, terrapins, and turtles drawn from life, by James de Carle Sowerby and Edward Lear. London, Paris and Frankfort: Henry Sotheran, Joseph Baer & Co.; 1872. Balfour Library shelf mark: qWN (1)


The book is open at: Plate 27 Emys Spinosa. Bell. (Young). This plate contains two amazingly fine, detailed lithographs of a young spiny turtle from the Emydidae family of turtles. The turtle has been given some real character in its depiction. Emydidae bask on land but enter slow-moving water to feed, and are mainly carnivorous. Usually there is no reduction of the shell, and the limbs are flattened with webbed, clawed toes. There are about 80 species, distributed widely in temperate zones, except southern Africa and Australia.

The plates in this book were lithographed by Edward Lear (1812-1888), a landscape painter and writer now chiefly remembered for his nonsense verse. He was the most accomplished lithographer of his time and contributed illustrations to many natural history volumes.

This book is being displayed in association with the Museum of Zoology’s event 'The Quangle Wangle’s Hat', a free, artist-led drawing activity inspired by the words and pictures of Edward Lear, on Tuesday 28th October. The event has been organised as part of the Campaign for Drawing’s Big Draw 2008, see http://www.thebigdraw.org.uk/.

Wednesday 22 October 2008

Illustrations from our special collections published in a new book on the history of ornithology!

The wisdom of birds: an illustrated history of ornithology, by Tim R. Birkhead. London: Bloomsbury; 2008. ISBN 9780747592563. Hardback. £25. Balfour Library shelfmark: K (227).

This book features many photographs taken of bird illustrations from books in our Special Collections. It was The Guardian's 'Book of the week' on Saturday October 18th 2008. You can read their review at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/18/tim-birkhead-ornithology and see http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/The_Wisdom_of_Birds/9780747592563

See our Special Collections web page for details of other books that have been used in this way at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/specialcolls.html

Tuesday 21 October 2008

ISI Web of Knowledge Upgrade

Following an upgrade on Sunday 19th October, ISI Proceedings is now searchable from within Web of Science as the Conference Proceedings Citation Index:

• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (CPCI-S) 1990-present.
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) 1990-present.

A new Web of Science search field enables a search for proceedings papers using Conference title words, location, date, sponsor, etc. A new option - 'Conference Titles' will be available within both Refine Results and Analyze Results features. Cited references from proceedings literature will be unified with cited references from journal literature - this adds to Times Cited counts for many papers.

For a preview of this change in the way ISI Proceedings will be made available, please see: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/presentations/newproceed102008.ppt

Other enhancements include:

• In Web of Science, links to NCBI resources.
• In WebPlus search, addition of 716 institutional repositories and a 'Repository' tab, and the ability to personalise and share web results.
• ResearcherID includes additional searchable fields.
• EndNote Web: new Links toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox 3 enables the user to capture data directly from other online databases.

For a preview of these and other changes and additions please see: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/presentations/Q308updates.ppt

Web of Knowledge is available from http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/

New ejournal

JSTOR includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials. Access to the JSTOR archive at http://www.jstor.org/ is available on-campus without passwords and off-campus via Raven passwords.

Coleopterists Society Monographs. Patricia Vaurie Series
(ISSN: 1934-0451)

The Coleopterists Society Monographs publishes research on the systematics of beetles. The journal is fully refereed and published once per year in December by The Coleopterists Society. Further information is available at The Coleopterists Society website (http://www.coleopsoc.org). No. 1 (2002) is available at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=colesocimonopatr

Trial resource - HFSP Journal

The University Library has arranged a 3 month trial of HFSP Journal.

The HFSP Journal aims to publish high quality, innovative interdisciplinary basic research at the frontier of biology over a wide range of organizational levels (from the molecular level to population biology) using principles strategies or technologies from the more quantitative disciplines (e.g. physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or informatics).

Access is available on campus only from http://hfspj.aip.org/

Trial ends: 31 December 2008

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

New ejournals archive Springer Online Archives Collection

The University Library is pleased to announce that it has purchased access in perpetuity to the Springer Online Archives Collection, making available to the university every issue and article from volume 1 onwards to 1996 of 900 journals. The collection complements the existing Springer journal subscription taken out by the Journals Co-ordination Scheme, which covers the years from 1997 onwards, thereby providing access to complete backruns online.

Springer is the world's second largest publisher of scientific, medical and technical journals. All eleven subject collection packages have been acquired. These include:

• Behavioral Sciences
• Biomedical and Life Sciences
• Business and Economics
• Chemistry and Materials Science
• Computer Science
• Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Engineering
• Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Physics and Astronomy

Both archive and current ejournals are available through SpringerLink. To locate a title or to browse the collection go to the ejournals@cambridge portal at http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az

The journals are accessible within the university domain without passwords and off-campus with Raven passwords. Users should click on the 'Institutional Login' link and select 'University of Cambridge (Shibboleth)' from the menus.

New ebooks

These ebooks can be accessed in MyiLibrary using a university computer, or remotely, using your RAVEN password:

Rees, Dai; Rose, Steven. The new brain sciences. http://www.myilibrary.com/Search/sd.asp?ID=111279&Searchtext=rees

Shepherd, Gordon M. The synaptic organization of the brain.
http://www.myilibrary.com/Search/sd.asp?ID=84067&Searchtext=shepherd

Friday 17 October 2008

science@cambridge

The new web portal for science students and scientists http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/scienceportal/ has been launched.

science@cambridge aims to draw users into a virtual library space giving them immediate access to electronic information from their desktop, tools to help them navigate through the vast number of sources available, as well as on-line real-time help from library subject-experts.

This development acknowledges that for many of those working in contemporary science the library is now largely a 'virtual resource'.

science@cambridge will increase access to and knowledge of scientific electronic resources. It will help users discover, search across and improve the use of science e-resources, generally and within discipline specific areas.

science@cambridge has been developed with the generous support of the Arcadia Trust.