New website for postgraduate students

 

I have created a new library website just for postgraduate students! 

I have named it ‘Postgraduate resources’ and you can link to it from the main library website’s homepage at http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/index.html, or you may wish to bookmark the direct URL which is http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/library/pgrad.html. There is also a ‘Quick link’ to it (as ‘Balfour & Newton Libraries’) from the Department’s ‘Postgraduate Training’ website.

The left-hand menu provides links to relevant library websites or resources that I consider would be most useful to you, including the link to the new ‘Recommend a book’ website that the Clinical School Computing Service kindly created for me. I have also included a link to this form from the library homepage main menu. I would just like to reiterate here that book recommendations are always welcome - please do use the new online form to recommend books that you would like to see in the library!

At the top of the right-hand side of the website is a news feed for the Balfour Library News Blog – if you click on news headlines there you will be taken directly to the blog. I aim to update this on a regular basis (and it would also be great if you could sign up to the blog to receive automatic updates!). The blog is where I post all the important news regarding new digital resources (such as citation management tools, mobile apps, new e-books and journals), events, and new acquisitions, among many other things. I put it all here rather than bombarding you all with ‘allzoo’ emails, so don’t miss out!

Underneath this, there are ‘Quick links’ to other websites of interest, including to the library’s ‘Undergraduate resources’ page, in case you need more information about things as a supervisor.

In the main area of the website I have added the LibrarySearch widget so you can search the library catalogues for printed and electronic resources easily and quickly.

I hope that you will find this website useful; please do let me have your feedback on this and on the new online book recommendation form.

This blog is now mobile-phone friendly!

I have now amended the settings on this blog so that when you view it on a mobile phone it automatically displays a mobile friendly interface.

Your feedback on this is welcome.

Over 220 years of news delivered to you online - The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) - from ProQuest Historical Newspapers

The University Library is pleased to announce access is now available by subscription to The Guardian and its sister paper The Observer from the first issues up to 2003. The Guardian started life as The Manchester Guardian in 1821 but changed title to The Guardian in 1959.

The papers are fully cross-searchable with the other newspapers on the ProQuest Historical Newspapers platform, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Times of India. As well as allowing browsing of discrete issues, there are multiple ways to search and across different content types (articles; cartoons, advertisements etc.).

Guardian & Observer on / off campus is available at: http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/hnpguardianobserver?accountid=9851

Alternatively use the links on the eresources@cambridge A-Z list or the ejournals@cambridge A-Z gateway to access The Guardian and The Observer on and off campus.

New e-book available

Plasticity, robustness, development and evolution, by P. Bateson, and P. Gluckman. Cambridge University Press, 2011.http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511842382

E-books can be accessed via the direct URL given above, or via the online catalogue, LibrarySearch at http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk/.

See the full list of e-books available here: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/libraries/ebooks_coll.html

Trial access to JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments

Trial access has been set up to JoVE by the Journal Coordination Scheme and will run from Friday 24th February until Friday 9th March 2012.

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format. Articles are peer reviewed, and content is indexed by PubMed. JoVE is published in 6 sections. More information about coverage within each section can be found in the attached file

To access the trial, visit the URLs below

Jove General

http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.jove.com/general

Jove Neuroscience

http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.jove.com/neuro

Jove Immunology and Infection

http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.jove.com/i2

Jove Clinical and Translational Medicine http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.jove.com/medicine

Jove Bioengineering

http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.jove.com/bioengineering

Jove basic protocols

http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.jove.com/basic

This trial is available both on and off campus. Off campus access is available via Raven logins, but user must use the links above. Access via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z listing will be available shortly.

Please send all feedback on this trial resource to ejournals@lib.cam.ac.uk by Wednesday 14th March 2012.

New acquisitions

New books purchased 

Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 16: tanagers to New World blackbirds, edited by Josep del Hoyo ... [et al.]. Balfour Library shelfmark: q K (64) (Quatro, large-sized book shelves). 

Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros. The IUCN Red Data Book. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK, by Caroline Harcourt and with assistance from Jane Thornback. Gland: Cambridge: IUCN-the World Conservation Union; 1990. Balfour Library shelfmark: YW (39). 

The neurobiology of an insect brain, by Malcolm Burrows. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1996. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q.5 (94i-ii) (Overnight Loan shelves). 

Neuroscience, 5th ed., edited by Dale Purves ... [et al.]. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2012. Balfour Library shelfmark: q GF (13ei-ii) (Overnight Loan shelves). 

Reaping the benefits: science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture. London: The Royal Society; 2009. Balfour Library shelfmark: q GGZ (2) (Quarto, large-size shelves). 

Seabird islands: ecology, invasion, and restoration, edited by Christa P. H. Mulder ... [et al.].  Balfour Library shelfmark: K.8 (65i-iii) (2 x Overnight Loan shelves, 1 x Open Shelves). 

New theses 

Mechanisms that induce, promote and restrict nuclear reprogramming of somatic cells by nuclear transfer to the Xenopus oocycte, by Vincent Pasque. Cambridge; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (509) (Library Office). 

The primate brain: evolutionary history and genetics, by Stephen H. Montgomery.  Cambridge; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (510) (Library Office). 

Qualitative transcriptional reprogramming of somatic cell nuclei with Xenopus laevis oocyctes, by Richard Paul Halley-Stott. Cambridge; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: Thesis (508) (Library Office). 

Donations 

The evolution of anisogamy: a fundamental phenomonen underlying sexual selection, edited by Tatsuya Togashi, Paul Alan Cox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: ENE (3). 

The insects: structure and function, 4th ed., by R. F. Chapman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1998. Balfour Library shelfmark: Q (45div) (Overnight Loan shelves). 

Metal contamination in aquatic environments: science and lateral management, by Samuel N. Luoma, Philip S. Rainbow. Illustrations by Jeanne Di Leo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2011. Balfour Library shelfmark: GGW (218i-iii).

New zoology text available as an e-book

Development of the nervous system, 3rd ed., by Dan H. Sanes (2012) is now available on the MyiLibrary platform at: http://lib.myilibrary.com/Open.aspx?id=299420&src=2. 

It will soon be visible on the online library catalogue, LibrarySearch, at: http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk/

The Balfour Library also has 2 hard copies on the Overnight Loan shelves, and one on the Open Shelves (2 week loan), at shelfmark GF (216c).