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Biological Abstracts

Biological Abstracts is now available to UHD students, faculty, and staff as part of the ISI Web of Knowledge suite of databases. With its specialized indexing of 4,200 journals in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary science, Biological Abstracts is a good place to begin any search for scholarship in the life sciences. Researchers can find relevant publications using keywords, taxonomic data, taxa, medical subject headings, or CAS registry numbers.

The ISI Web of Knowledge suite also offers a tab for "Additional Resources" that may help biology students and faculty. The BiologyBrowser is a useful guide to scholarly websites in Biology. Researchers can search a database of biology links, and browse the collection by organism, subject, or geography. The Index to Organic Names is an incomplete, but growing index of taxonomic names.

Look for Biological Abstracts and its additional resources in Biology Databases.

New Scholarly Books in English Available in the Library!

I wanted to highlight some recent scholarly monographs added to the Library's collection in the area of English. These are just a few of the new items. If UHD faculty and students look at this list and think "You shouldn't be buying that! You should be buying this!" -- Pat Ensor, your English librarian, wants to know about it! All these are in the New Books section, 5th floor, South Tower.

A history of feminist literary criticism / edited by Gill Plain and Susan Sellers. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
PN98.W64 H57 2007 (more information)

Gleaning modernity : earlier eighteenth-century literature and the modernizing process / Eric Rothstein. Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2007.
PR448.S64 R68 2007 (more information)

Transatlantic voices : interpretations of Native North American literatures / edited by Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
PS153.I52 T73 2007 (more information)

Writing home : indigenous narratives of resistance / Michael D. Wilson. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2008.
PS153.I52 W53 2008 (more information)

American hungers : the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 / Gavin Jones. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
PS217.P67 J66 2007 (more information)

Slave songs and the birth of African American poetry / Lauri Ramey. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
PS310.N4 R36 2008 (more information)

Visions and divisions : American immigration literature, 1870-1930 / edited and with an introduction by Tim Prchal and Tony Trigilio. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
PS508.I45 V57 2008 (more information)

Galactic suburbia : recovering women's science fiction / Lisa Yaszek. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
PS374.S35 Y36 2008 (more information)

In addition, I am also trying to fill in gaps in the Library's collection of works by important authors. Recent authors who we now have much better coverage of include Paul Auster, John Barth, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs. (Yes, I've basically been going through the alphabet!) If you know of authors whose important works you think we should have, contact me, Pat Ensor! I'll let you know what we have and see if there are things we've missed.