New acquisition

 Donation from Cambridge University Press

The insects : structure and function, 5th ed., by R. F. Chapman, edited by Stephen J. Simpson, Angela E. Douglas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2013. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q (45ei-iv) (4 copies).

World’s largest natural audio and video archive now fully digital and fully online

Check out this blog post by Cornell University on the Macaulay Library archive at the Cornell Laboratory for Ornithology http://cornelluniversity.tumblr.com/post/40770771576/worlds-largest-natural-sound-archive-now-fully-digital 

Find out how scientists worldwide use the videos and sounds in the archive to support their research. According to this blog post there are nearly 150,000 digital audio recordings dating back to 1929, with about 9,000 species represented. There’s an emphasis on birds, but the collection also includes sounds of whales, elephants, frogs, primates and more. See the Macaulay Library website and listen to and view recordings and videos at http://macaulaylibrary.org/

New acquisitions

Books purchased 

The adaptive landscape in evolutionary biology, edited by Erik I. Svensson and Ryan Calsbeek. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: EO (337i-iii). 

Essential developmental biology, 3rd ed., by Jonathan M. W. Slack. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2013. Balfour Library shelfmark: EEB (73ci-iii). 

Forerunners of mammals: radiation, histology, biology, edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: WL (24i-iii). 

Principles of neural science, 5th ed., edited by Eric R. Kandel ... [et al.]. New York, NY: McGraw Hill; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: qGF (7ei). 

The R book, 2nd ed., by Michael J. Crawley. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; 2013. Balfour Library shelfmark: EBB (93bi-ii). 

Donations 

Fauna Cantabrigiensis: the vertebrate and molluscan fauna of Cambridgeshire by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893). Transcript and commentaries, edited by Richard C. Preece and Tim H. Sparks. London: Ray Society; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: qFY (11). 

The wild flowers of a Berwickshire bard (George Henderson of Chirnside, 1800-1864). Illustrated with plates from Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz (1885), by Michael E. Braithwaite. Berwick-Upon-Tweed; Berwickshire Naturalist's Club; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: FA (59). 

Theses 

In vivo replication dynamics: analyses of PCNA-interacting proteins, by Shiphali A. Shetty. Cambridge; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: Theses (522).

Can't find that journal article anywhere in Cambridge? We can help!

Photo courtesy of libraries@cambridge

Try the Balfour Library’s extensive collection of over 100,000 scientific reprints dating from the 19^th and 20^th centuries. There is an author card index for them in the library – just ask a member of library staff for assistance.

Alternatively, we offer a quick and easy document delivery service for a subsidised fee – ask a member of library staff for more information or see our Inter-Library Loans website at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/interlibraryloans.html 

We always welcome the challenge of searching for obscure papers, just ask us! library@zoo.cam.ac.uk

Know your databases!

You might not be aware that there are several zoology-related databases that are all available for free to members of the university.

They include specific subject reference works, citation databases, image resources and a content alert database that will support you in your teaching and research.

I have created a guide to these and posted it on our Library Guides website here (along with many other guides that may be of interest and use to you): http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/guides.html The guide gives you instructions on how to access these databases, on and off-campus, as well as information on the content available.

To see the full range of subject databases available to you as a member of the university, please visit the University Library's eresources@cambridge website here: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/eresources/index.php

There is also a useful e-reference books here: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/ebooks/ereference.html

ArtStor

Birds of North America (BNA) Online

 

Journal Citation Reports (Web of Knowledge)

Oxford Reference Online

Proquest Dissertations & Theses A&I

ScienceDirect

Scopus

Web of Science (Web of Knowledge)

ZETOC: Electronic Table of Contents

Ebooks drop-in session at the UL 22nd January

An ebooks drop-in session will be held at the UL's North Reading Room from 11am-12pm next Tuesday 22nd January. It is aimed at students, academics and librarians with questions about finding, accessing and downloading ebooks.

Additional lunchtime drop-in sessions are being organised to be held at Psychology (7th February) and Law - details to follow in due course.

More details and a poster can be found on the ebooks@cambridge blog:

http://ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/

If you have any questions about the event please contact the ebooks@cambridge team on ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.