Sciences & Engineering — Biological & Agricultural Sciences
Neurobiology & Physiology

Librarian Subject Specialist

Ruth Gustafson
ragustafson@lib.ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑1883 — Biological/Agricultural Sciences Reference Department (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/bioag/)

August 2011+: Temporary Librarian Subject Specialist for: Molecular and Cellular Biology; and Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior. Includes biochemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, biostatistics, computational biology, exercise biology, and genetics

Need assistance? Email bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu April 8-25, 2013. Ruth Gustafson will have office hours Mon/Fri 11am-noon starting Friday, April 26 through Monday, June 3, 2013 (exceptions Friday, May 10th; Monday, May 27).

SUNDAY Reference -- Available at 1st floor Shields, May 5th, 1-5pm

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Subject Specific Databases

SPORTDiscus [via EBSCO] (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=sph) [Restricted] VPN

SPORTDiscus is the world's leading database in sport, health, fitness and sports medicine. SportDiscus has over 1.7 million qualified references from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites that focus on different areas involving sport, including: sport sciences, engineering, psychology, administration, sociology, history, coaching, training, physical education, physical fitness, health and recreation.

As of July 2012+: Unlimited users access.

Coverage: 1800-Present

General Databases

BIOSIS Previews [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/BIOSIS) [Restricted] VPN

NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.

More than 22 million records in all life science areas, including agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, environmental sciences, genetics, microbiology, plant biology, veterinary medicine & pharmacology, and zoology. Indexes over 6000 journals, serials, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and patents.

Coverage: 1926-present
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PubMed (http://uclibs.org/PID/17708) [Restricted] VPN
Citations and abstracts for articles published in approximately 8,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, health administration, veterinary medicine, nursing, molecular biology and genetics. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Coverage: 1946-present
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Embase (http://www.embase.com) [Restricted] VPN

Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological database containing bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research and conference abstracts.

Embase contains over 22 million records spanning 1974-present, with over 1 million records added annually. Each record contains the full bibliographic citation, indexing terms, and codes; and 80% of all citations in Embase include author-written abstracts. The Embase journal collection is international with over 7,500 active peer-reviewed journals more than 90 countries.

All MEDLINE records produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) are included, as well as over 5 million records not covered in MEDLINE. To *exclude* these duplicate MEDLINE/PubMed records, go to Advanced Search and uncheck MEDLINE under the "Records from" category.

Scope which is more extensive or has more European coverage than MEDLINE/PubMed includes the following areas:

  • Drug therapy and research, including pharmaceutics, pharmacology and toxicology
  • Biotechnology and biomedical engineering, including medical devices
  • Health policy and management, including pharmacoeconomics
  • Public, occupational and environmental health, including pollution control
  • Alternative and complementary medicine
Coverage: 1974-current (for EMBASE records); 1966-current (for MEDLINE records)
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Science Citation Index Expanded [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) [Restricted] VPN

NEW interface loaded July 17, 2011 -- result retrievals will be larger due to search design changes.

Multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Search for articles that cite a known author or work.

Coverage: 1900-present
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Dissertation Abstracts International / Dissertations & Theses [via ProQuest] (http://uclibs.org/PID/11984) [Restricted] VPN
Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the UMI Dissertation Abstracts database; since 1997, provides full-text access to dissertations. Access is free to UC Campus dissertations.
Coverage: 1861-present
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Health and Psychosocial Instruments [via Ovid] (HAPI) (http://uclibs.org/PID/33065) [Restricted] VPN
HAPI is an index to journal articles and other sources about measurement tools used in in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI includes citations to questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests. It is an excellent source for locating or reviewing health and psychosocial measurement instruments. NOTE: There are a limited number of simultaneous users so please logoff when finished.
Coverage: 1985 to date, with many earlier measures
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  • Guide (http://gateway.ut.ovid.com/rel_live/server2/fldguide/hapidb.htm)
WorldCat [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=WorldCat) [Restricted] VPN
OCLC catalog of millions of records for books, journal titles and materials in other formats from approximately 12,000 libraries worldwide.
Coverage: 1000 A.D.-present
Optics InfoBase (http://www.opticsinfobase.org/) [Restricted] Proxy Server
Optical Society of America digital publications on optics research, including journals and proceedings papers.
F1000Prime (http://f1000.com/prime) [Restricted] VPN
Author: Faculty of 1000

Faculty of 1000 (F1000) Biology & Medicine are merged into one and now called F1000Prime. Includes over 40 Faculties (Broad subject areas such as biochemistry, ecology or plant biology), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections. On average, 1,500 new evaluations are published each month. Faculty members are more than 5,000 experts worldwide, assisted by 5,000 associates.

F1000Prime is a "literature awareness tool that is updated continuously and comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological and medical sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of leading researchers. Through immediate rating of individual papers by the authors' peers, F1000 [Prime] highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than that of the journal in which they appear."

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Electronic Book and Document Collections

NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE [via CRCnetBASE] (http://www.crcnetbase.com/search/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
NEW!: Access is now via combined ENTIRE CRC e-book collection. From Advanced search, more than 120 full-text Neuroscience titles are included covering a wide range of topics such as Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, neuropharmacology, stress and immunity, neurobiology, neuroanatomy, computational neuroscience, neuropathology, genomic neuroscience, pain research. Includes sources ranging from textbooks, handbooks, atlas to methods publications.
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  • Access Issues (http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/pse/2009/05/08/accessing-online-crc-books-through-the-vpn/)
American Physiological Society: APS Journal Legacy Content (http://www.the-aps.org/publications/legacy/index.htm) [Restricted] VPN
Electronic older volumes of twelve journals and one newsletter of the American Physiological Society (APS): all titles of the American Journal of Physiology (Cell Physiology; Endocrinology and Metabolism; Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology; Heart and Circulatory Physiology; Lung, Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology; and Renal Physiology), Advances in Physiology Education, Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Physiological Genomics, Physiological Reviews, News in Physiological Sciences. Project will continue until end of 2004 with oldest volumes of the American Journal of Physiology eventually going back to 1898.
Coverage: varies by title, 1966-present
Electronic books in the Biological and Health Sciences (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/etext/)
Subject listing of electronic books (handbooks, textbooks, guides) in basic biological and related health sciences disciplines/specialties and subdisciplines/subspecialties. Includes online books in general biology, biochemistry, endrocrinology & metabolism, genetics, microbiology & virology, molecular biology, neurology, nutrition, physiology, toxicology and veterinary medicine. All books are searchable at chapter-level. [Compiled by the UCD Carlson Health Sciences Library]
Springer eBooks Package (http://springerlink.com/books/) [Restricted] VPN
This UC-wide pilot is now (2013) a three-year package for Springer eBooks and includes more than 55,000 titles in English (and selectively in German) from every scientific discipline and many social sciences. This online interface enables all books to be searchable at the full-text level. Scope (textbook areas are starred) ranges from Architecture and Design, *Behavioral Science, *Biomedical and Life Sciences, *Business and Economics, *Chemistry and Materials Science, *Computer Science, *Earth and Environmental Science, *Engineering, *Humanities & Social Sciences and Law, *Mathematics and Statistics, *Medicine, *Physics and Astronomy, to Professional and Applied Computing. NEW books are added monthly. NEW INTERFACE as of November 26, 2012.
Coverage: 2005-2013
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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (http://uclibs.org/PID/36787) [Restricted] VPN

Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by Thomson Reuters with each yearly data analysis being completed in the following year. The most recent edition is always published in the summer following the year analyzed. Journal Citation Reports can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, and the largest journals in a field. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 7,300 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,200 journals in the social sciences. NOTE: For disciplines that have longer timespans for citation, consider sorting for ranking by using the newer 5-year Impact Factor.

Coverage: 2007-2011
Date: 2011
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Safari Tech Books Online (http://uclibs.org/PID/33109) [Restricted] VPN
A collection of computing books that includes the full text of over 1700 O'Reilly Press books, dating from 1999 to the present. Safari will grow to include all new O'Reilly titles. The full-text is searchable across titles and searches can be limited to code fragments. Books can also be browsed by topic. Access is limited to 41 simultaneous UC connections.
Coverage: 1999-present
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Protocols and Methods Resources

Current Protocols Series (http://www.currentprotocols.com/) [Restricted] VPN
Ten major laboratory methods and protocols series covering the areas of molecular biology, nucleic acid chemistry, cell biology, protein science, immunology, neuroscience, human genetics, pharmacology, toxicology, and cytometry. Includes basic, alternate, and support protocols with literature cited and information on suppliers for standard materials and preparation information for reagents and solutions. IMPORTANT NOTE: UC Davis does *NOT* license the following seven protocol titles: "Bioinformatics", "Chemical Biology", "Essential Laboratory Techniques", "Food Analytical Chemistry" (inactive series), "Magnetic Resonance Imaging", "Microbiology", and "Stem Cell Biology".
Coverage: Updated quarterly or more frequently
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Springer Protocols (http://www.springerprotocols.com/) [Restricted] VPN
Springer Protocols contains more than 31,000 (as of March 2013) molecular biology and biomedical peer-reviewed protocols, mostly from the classic series Methods in Molecular Biology, formerly published by Humana Press. Other series included are: Methods in Molecular Medicine; Methods in Biotechnology; Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology; and Neuromethods. Also included are protocols from laboratory handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals.
Coverage: 1980-present
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  • Ten-page User Guide (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/SpringerProtocolsUserGuide.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-517798-0)
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/search.dtl) [Restricted] VPN

A definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques. The database covers specific sections on: Antibodies, Bioinformatics/Genomics, Cell Biology, Chromatography, Computational Biology, DNA Delivery/Gene Transfer, Electrophoresis, Genetics, High-Throughput Analysis, Imaging/Microscopy, Immunology, Laboratory Organisms, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Plant Biology, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Proteins and Proteomics, RNA Interference (RNAi)/siRNA, Stem Cells, and Transgenic Technology. Unique to this resource is the ability to submit a protocol. Other unique features include protocol recipes and protocol cautions.

Coverage: 2006-present
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  • Search Help (http://www.cshprotocols.org/help/search_help.dtl)
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) (http://www.jove.com/) [Restricted] VPN
Author: MYJoVE Corporation
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format.
Coverage: Access currently to JoVE General section ONLY; no access to subsections Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection, Clinical and Translational Medicine, Bioengineering or Basic Protocols
Date: 2006-
Methods in Enzymology (http://uclibs.org/PID/61958) [Restricted] VPN
Methods in Enzymology is the classic laboratory methods/protocols book series. The complete backfile of the full-text is available back to volume 1 from 1955. Direct article/chapter links are provided from core subject databases such as PubMed and BIOSIS Previews. Contains detailed protocols and descriptions of biochemical and biophysical techniques for research in biological and molecular sciences. More than 300 volumes are browse-able by individual volumes online from 1955 to the present or by searching across the collection by title, author, abstract, and keyword. Full-text access to articles is available in HTML and PDF formats.
Coverage: 1955-

Handbooks & Tables

Comprehensive Physiology (Wiley platform) (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/mrw/advanced/search?doi=10.1002/cphy) [Restricted] VPN
Author: American Physiological Society
The most wide-ranging and authoritative collection of review content ever assembled in the physiological sciences. Comprehensive Physiology includes the landmark series Handbook of Physiology, available for the first time in an online format. This seminal series will be continually updated and expanded to capture the current science of physiology for a twenty-first-century readership.
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Handbook of Physiology
Author: American Physiological Society

[Print ONLY] Classic and comprehensive multivolume treatise on all aspects of physiology. Contains significant research results with extensive bibliographic references and detailed indexes, authored by physiological scientists worldwide. Divided into 14 sections each with multiple volumes: Section 1: The Nervous System; Section 2: The Cardiovascular System; Section 3: The Respiratory System; Section 4: Environmental Physiology; Section 5: Adipose Tissue; Section 6: The Gastrointestinal System; Section 7: The Endocrine System; Section 8: Renal Physiology; Section 9: Reactions to Environmental Agents; Section 10: Skeletal Muscle; Section 11: Aging; Section 12: Exercise: Regulation and Integration of Multiple Systems; Section 13: Comparative Physiology; Section 14: Cell Physiology. Most sections are updated every 8-12 years.

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Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources

CogNet [ MIT ] (http://cognet.mit.edu/)
Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Portal to information in the Cognitive Sciences. Includes a digital library of online books and journals, call for papers, semiars, discussion networks and news.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Dictionary of Scientific Biography (complete) [via Gale Virtual Reference Library] (http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9780684315591&version=1.0) [Restricted] VPN
This classic encyclopedia covering scientists from all time periods and all fields of science has been completely revised. This "complete" online version includes all the entries from both the new (2008) edition and the original edition.

Professional Societies

Center for the Mind and Brain [UCD] (http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/)
The Center for the Mind and Brain is a research and training unit at the UC Davis dedicated to understanding the nature of the human mind from an interdisciplinary perspective. Scientists address these questions using approaches from social sciences and the biological sciences. Visitors can learn about research, events, and colloquia. There are also links to the Center for Neuroscience.

Images

Images database [NCBI] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/images)

SEE ALSO Open-i listed below. The NCBI Images database is no longer directly searchable but can be accessed via searching in PubMed Central. Included are millions of scientific images from NCBI full text resources.

See "related" note below about the change.

Copyright Notice: These images are drawn from journal articles and other documents that are protected by copyright. The same copyright applies to the images. Some documents - a relatively small subset - are available with a Creative Commons or similar license that generally allows more liberal redistribution and reuse of the material. In the absence of a copyright or license statement to the contrary, users should assume that standard copyright protection applies. See the PMC copyright notice for more information.

Date: July 2012
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  • Change to NCBI Images access (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so10/so10_pm_display_ncbi_images.html#note)
    May 26, 2011: From NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region NCBI Images Database One of our Network members wondered if the NCBI Images database had disappeared because the link no longer worked. I checked the drop down menu in PubMed—the last location I had seen the Images database. It wasn’t there! Here’s the answer I received from CustServ: “The Images database was incorporated into PubMed Central (PMC). For example if you go to PMC and search for Protease-coupled PPIase assay, you will see on the right the “PMC Image Search” box. Then you can click on the images. Here’s the original announcement about the Images database for more details: Canese K. PubMed® Display Enhanced with Images from the New NCBI Images Database. NLM Tech Bull. 2010 Sep-Oct;(376):e14.