New Online Biology Encyclopedias from ScienceDirect

Among the newly acquired titles are:

Encyclopedia of applied plant sciences
Encyclopedia of biological chemistry
Encyclopedia of biodiversity
Encyclopedia of food microbiology
Encyclopedia of forest sciences
Encyclopedia of genetics

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New Biology Books

The new Book List for May/June 2005 is available. Select Biology & Ecology from the bottom row.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/collections/mayjune.xls

Science Search Engines

Scirus
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Locate web sites, peer-reviewed publications, pre-preprints and patents.
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches peer-reviewed publications, theses and technical reports on the internet.
http://scholar.google.com/

PLoS Biology Impact Factor

San Francisco, CA; June 27, 2005 - The open-access journal PLoS Biology has been assessed by Thomson ISI to have an impact factor of 13.9*, which places PLoS Biology among the most highly cited journals in the life sciences. This is an outstanding statistic for a journal less than two years old, from a new publisher promoting a new business model that supports open access to the scientific and medical literature.
An impact factor of 13.9 places PLoS Biology above such established journals as EMBO Journal, Current Biology, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In fact, in ISI's category of general biology journals, PLoS Biology is ranked number 1 >>Read more

PLoS-New Biology Journals

PLoS, the Public Library of Science, launched their third Open Access journal this week. PLoS Computational Biology joins PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine.
PLoS Computational Biology is the first journal to launch of the three new titles announced for introduction in 2005. PLoS Genetics has a preview available of some of the articles which will appear in the debut issue. PLoS Genetics will go live on July 25. PLoS Pathogens is slated to debut in September 2005.