The Cambridge Companion to Darwin: Second Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin: Second Edition is a new title in the Cambridge Companions Online collection.

The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809-82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the sciences, philosophy, social thought and religious belief. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin has established itself as an indispensable resource for anyone teaching or researching Darwin's theories and their historical and philosophical interpretations. Its distinguished team of contributors examines Darwin's main scientific ideas and their development; Darwin's science in the context of its times; the influence of Darwinian thought in recent philosophical, social and religious debate; and the importance of Darwinian thought for the future of naturalist philosophy. For this second edition, coverage has been expanded to include two new chapters: on Darwin, Hume and human nature, and on Darwin's theories in the intellectual long run, from the pre-Socratics to the present.

Available at: http://cco.cambridge.org/uid=12021/book?id=ccol9780521884754_CCOL9780521884754

Cambridge Companions Online, the first product to be launched within the Cambridge Collections Online platform, is a fully searchable, full text collection of over 300 titles from the renowned Cambridge Companions series. Covering literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies, the collection complements the Cambridge Companions book series - an established favourite with students and scholars - by providing search, browse and bookmark functionality. Over 3,000 essays are already included in the collection, with more set to be added as new volumes are published.

Access to Cambridge Companions Online at http://cco.cambridge.org/ is available on-campus without passwords and off-campus to current students and staff via Raven passwords.

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America - new JSTOR ejournal

The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America has been added to the JSTOR archive.

The Bulletin publishes letters, longer commentaries, and philosophical and methodological items related to the science of ecology. In addition, the Bulletin publishes announcements of meetings; reviews of meetings, of software useful for ecological research and teaching, and of other tools for ecologists; articles about the teaching of ecology; obituaries for deceased members and resolutions of respect for former ESA officers, winners of major awards, and certain other ecologists; announcements; and reports of official actions by the Society. Previously published items from other sources can be republished in the Bulletin if the contributor obtains permission of the author and the copyright holder and clearly identifies the original publication. Bulletin content is not peer reviewed and, therefore, the Bulletin does not accept articles that are too technical or specialized to be evaluated for publication without scientific review.

Available at: http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=bullecosociamer

More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/collections.jsp

Oxford Reference Online Premium collection: science resources

Click on the banner above to access Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection. Here are the scientific resources available, many of which are now illustrated:

Encyclopedias

• The Encyclopedia of Mammals
• The Encyclopedia of Underwater Life
• The New Encyclopedia of Insects and their Allies
• The New Encyclopedia of Birds
• The New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians

Dictionaries

• A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour
• A Dictionary of Astronomy
• Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• A Dictionary of Biology
• A Dictionary of Chemistry
• A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
• A Dictionary of Ecology
• A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
• A Dictionary of Genetics
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
• Concise Medical Dictionary
• An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs
  
• A Dictionary of Nursing
• A Dictionary of Physics
• A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
• A Dictionary of Psychology
• A Dictionary of Public Health
• The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
• Science, Technology, and Society
• The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors
• A Dictionary of Scientists
• A Dictionary of Space Exploration
• The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine
• A Dictionary of Statistics
• A Dictionary of Weather
• A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
• A Dictionary of Zoology

Oxford Companions

• The Oxford Companion to the Body
• The Oxford Companion to Cosmology
• The Oxford Companion to the Earth
• The Oxford Companion to Global Change
• The Oxford Companion to Medicine
• The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science

The Premium Collection is updated regularly with new titles, new editions, new entries, full-colour maps and illustrations, timelines, weblinks, and bibliographies. Access to Oxford Reference Online at http://www.oxfordreference.com is available on-campus without passwords and off-campus via Raven passwords.

Can't find the journal article or book you need anywhere in Cambridge?

Don't forget that the Balfour Library offers a document supply and inter-library loans service!

Library staff can request journal articles or books for you from the British Library, for a small fee. Requests only take between 3-5 working days to arrive. Find out more by visiting the Inter-Library Loans page of our website at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/ills.html

We also have a collection of over 100,000 reprints from the 19th and 20th centuries in the library.

We have many of the theses written by postgraduate students based in this department.

You may not be aware of it, but the Balfour Library encourages recommendations from you all for the purchase of books and other media for our collections.

We welcome recommendations from postgraduates, researchers and teaching staff for purchases which are relevant to teaching and research that takes place in the department, especially text books provided on reading lists, as well as purchasing material to develop particular subject areas. Items recommended for purchase should ideally be of benefit to a range of people in the department.

Books: Would you like more text books, or those with additional teaching materials included? How about guides on how to write about science or do your PhD? Do you have a particular series in mind that would complement our collections?

DVDs or CDs: Would you like to be able to borrow a DVD or CD from the library? We do keep any that accompany text books in the library office for you to borrow but there might be other ones useful to you?

Donations: Are there any books that you own that you don't want anymore and think would be really useful for the library to have? Recent titles are preferred.

Ebooks: The library contributes funds annually to the ebooks@cambridge team and we can recommend titles for purchase by them (for undergraduate teaching purposes, preferably Part I, only). I can ask them if particular books are available in ebook format.

Ejournals: Purchasing of new ejournals titles is achieved through a central fund that all libraries in the university contribute to. We can recommend new titles for purchase on your behalf or you can do so yourself, via the 'Recommend an ejournal title' form online at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/help/index.php Recommendations are considered for purchase a couple of times per year usually.

Eresources and trials of eresources: Purchasing of new eresources (e.g. not an ejournal or ebook) is generally achieved through University Library funds. We can recommend new eresources for purchase on your behalf or you can do so yourself, via the 'Recommend an eresource' form online at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/help/index.php We can also arrange trials to be set up for eresources you consider to be useful.

How to tell us what you want!

We have an annual donation of a few hundred pounds to spend from Cambridge University Press, and an 18% discount from Heffers. Have a look at our 'Books and ebooks' website at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/books.html to find links to various booksellers. We also have many booksellers' catalogues in the library office that we can lend you.

I can take recommendations by email at cmc32@cam.ac.uk or we have recommendation cards available in the library office. For books and ebooks, please provide details of the author, title, date of publication, publisher, ISBN, price, who the book will be useful for and why. For ejournals please see the online form I have mentioned above and let me have those details.

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection

The Premium Collection includes over 175 titles, updated regularly with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and new heavily illustrated natural history titles such as the Encyclopedia of Mammals. This means a total of over 1.4 million entries, including longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies.

Subscribers to the Premium Collection also benefit from improved search functionality which makes it easy to choose between longer or shorter entries from subject reference titles, definitions from English or bilingual dictionaries, and quotations.

Oxford Reference Online is updated at least three times a year with new titles, new editions, and additional features. In addition, all content in the Premium Collection is reviewed and updated regularly. For this update, over 5,500 entries have been updated, many of which are only available online in Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection! Our systematic and regular updating policy ensures current, trustworthy content from Oxford. In addition, this update includes over 13,700 brand new entries and many new illustrations.

The Premium Collection is updated regularly with new titles, new editions, new entries, full-colour maps and illustrations, timelines, weblinks, and bibliographies. Access to Oxford Reference Online at http://www.oxfordreference.com is available on-campus without passwords and off-campus via Raven passwords.

New for March 2009:

The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors: 2nd Edition
(Print ISBN: 9780199545155)

The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors provides scientists, science writers, and all who work in scientific publishing with a comprehensive and authoritative style guide for the presentation of scientific information. In over 9,700 entries, it reflects widely accepted usage and follows the recommendations of international scientific bodies such as IUPAC and IUPAP. The dictionary gives clear guidance on such matters as spellings (American-English and British-English), punctuation, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes, units and quantities, and symbols.

Revised and fully updated, this new edition of the Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors includes feature entries on key areas, substantially increased coverage of the life sciences, and new entries in physics, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, and mathematics. New and revised appendices also provide useful supplementary tables including SI units, mathematical symbols, the electromagnetic spectrum, and useful online resources.

This comprehensive and authoritative A-Z guide is an invaluable tool for students, professionals, and publishers working with writing in the fields of physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, astronomy, mathematics, and computer science.
Available at: http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t275

New biographical linking:

New with this release are hundreds of new biographical links, including links from entries in Oxford Reference Online to entries in Who's Who and Who Was Who, plus new links to entries in Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online, in addition to many more links between entries in Oxford Reference Online itself.

All electronic resources can be found using the links on the electronic resources pages of the University Library website at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/

Arcadia project reports

Two Arcadia project reports are available on the web: IRIS Report (on the information skills of undergraduate students at Cambridge University) by Lizz Edwards Waller and M-Libraries - Information on the move report by Keren Mills.

You may have contributed to the online surveys associated with these projects a while back so have a look at these reports!

Open Debate - Why pay for content?

An open debate sponsored by the Academic & Professional Division of The Publishers Association, 24th June at The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS.

The debate begins at 2.00pm and will conclude with a wine reception.

This afternoon event will bring together contrasting views from publisher, librarian and academic communities on the way ahead for value-added content in an Internet age. We want to hear your views: how profound is the current revolution in publishing? Will academic, scholarly and professional markets still pay for content?

Click here http://www.publishers.org.uk/en/home/ for more information and to register.

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)