Online resources : electronic journals

"Pacific World is an annual journal in English devoted to the dissemination of historical, textual, critical and interpretive articles on Buddhism generally and Shinshu Buddhism particularly to both academic and lay readerships."

"Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde."

"An international journal for the geosciences."

The interdisciplinary and international journal of the Center for the Study of the First Americans focuses on the Pleistocene human colonization of the New World, covering archaeology, genetics, paleoanthropology, linguistics, and paleoenvironmental sciences.

In the last decade, major progress has been made in identifying the critical oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes that can cause pancreatic cancer. In Pancreatic Cancer: Methods and Protocols, leading clinicians and scientists from prestigious research institutes and cancer centers present in readily reproducible format the classical techniques that have contributed to these advances in pancreatic research and introduce new strategies that should produce future breakthroughs across the field of cancer biology. The authors provide a broad range of methods for the molecular, biochemical, pathological, and statistical analyses of both sporadic and familial pancreatic cancers, methods that can be applied not only to basic, but also to translational pancreatic research. Topics covered include in vitro cell cultures, in vivo mouse models, protein studies, mutation analysis, and treatment development. The protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular MedicinéѕØ series format, each one offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive and highly practical, Pancreatic Cancer: Methods and Protocols offers those interested in either basic or translational research an ambitious collection of essential yet novel methods for pancreatic cancer research, methods that can also readily be applied broadly throughout cancer research.

Includes annual reports.

"Journal devoted to the experimental and theoretical study of the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions."

Publishes scholarly and interpretive articles related to the creation of a peaceful, just, and humane society. The journal seeks to transcend national, disciplinary, and other arbitrary boundaries while building bridges between peace research, education, and activism. We welcome articles on a wide variety of topics related to peace activists and movements, conflict resolution, nonviolence, internationalism, race and gender issues affecting peacemaking, cross-cultural studies, economic development, the imprint of imperialism on societies, and post-Cold War upheaval.

Publishes scholarly and interpretive articles related to the creation of a peaceful, just, and humane society. The journal seeks to transcend national, disciplinary, and other arbitrary boundaries while building bridges between peace research, education, and activism. We welcome articles on a wide variety of topics related to peace activists and movements, conflict resolution, nonviolence, internationalism, race and gender issues affecting peacemaking, cross-cultural studies, economic development, the imprint of imperialism on societies, and post-Cold War upheaval.

"An international record of educational literature, institutions and progress."

Publishes original laboratory or clinical research and new or important clinical observations pertaining to any aspect of the wide spectrum of acute and chronic diseases that affect renal function in children as well as on hypertension and fluid and electrolyte metabolism. Studies may involve medical, surgical, nutritional, physiologic, biochemical, pathologic or immunologic aspects of disease, imaging techniques or consequences of renal failure.

The journal (electronic only) covers all aspects of child health. Topics include the care of children at various ages - from before birth through adolescence - and common childhood illnesses.

Peptide synthesis provides novel materials that can serve as both valuable research tools and candidate therapeutics. In Peptide Synthesis and Applications, a panel of expert researchers and established group leaders describe in step-by-step detail the key methodologies of contemporary peptide synthesis and illustrate numerous applications that employ peptides as unique and essential materials. The techniques presented include protocols for chemical ligation, the synthesis of cyclic and phosphotyrosine-containing peptides, lipoamino acid- and sugar-conjugated peptides, and peptide purification and analyses. Additional chapters detail methodologies and instrumentation for high-throughput peptide synthesis, many different applications of peptides as novel research tools and biological probes, and the design and application of fluorescent substrate-based peptides that can be used to determine the selectivity and activity of peptidases. A practical guide to the identification of proteins using mass spectrometric analyses of peptide mixtures is also included. The protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular BiologýѕØ series format, each offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. State-of-the-art and highly practical, Peptide Synthesis and Applications offers novice and experienced investigators alike powerful techniques for the design and manufacture of their own peptide-based materials that can be used as productive research tools or developed as promising new therapeutics.

Performance Enhancement & Health is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being. The journal is multi-disciplinary, examining the implications of performance enhancement on the human condition. Performance enhancement may be linked to productivity, identity, social capital or pleasure, while health is envisaged broadly as absence of disease, optimal functioning, and (personal or community) well-being.

"An international journal of research into the structure and development of personality, and the causation of individual differences."

Papers presented at various meetings of the forum.

'Perpectives on Public Management and Governance' is the second flagship journal of the Public Management Research Association. It publishes theory and methodological issues covering public administration and public management.

"The Petroleum Geology Conference series is a sequence of edited and peer-reviewed volumes arising from the prestigious London-hosted conferences. The series feature papers, posters, animations and core photographs with commentary. The principle focus is on North-West Europe, but papers also detail many generic advances made in petroleum geology." from website.

Pharmacogenomics holds the promise of drugs tailor-made to an individual's genetic makeup for greater efficacy and safety. In Pharmacogenomics: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers and physician/clinicians describe in detail the newest and most common technologies now used in this rapidly advancing field. The authors provide readily reproducible methods for assessing the functional consequences of a certain polymorphism, evaluate the variety of genotyping platforms currently available, and discuss the management of pharmacogenomic information. Highlights include techniques for making a snapshot of the allele-specific variation in human gene expression, genome wide analysis of allele-specific expression using oligo microarrays, in vivo assays with HaploChIP, SNP genotyping in DNA pools, and PharmGKB, the pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics knowledge base. The methodologies for genotyping include denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography, pyrosequencing, kinetic-fluorescence detection, mass spectrometry, and TaqMan assay for insertion/deletions. The protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular BiologýѕØ series format, each offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principles behind the technique, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive and highly practical, Pharmacogenomics: Methods and Protocols offers pharmacologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, and clinical chemists working in academia, biotechnology, and the pharmaceutical industry a cutting-edge collection of the key techniques used for today's preclinical and clinical studies.

"An international review journal."

"The journal's mission is to disseminate scientific and technical information on drug product design, development, evaluation and processing to the global pharmaceutical research community, taking full advantage of web-based publishing by presenting innovative text with 3D graphics, interactive figures and databases, video and audio files"--Home page (publisher's website, viewed Feb. 17, 2004).

Issues include European news, poetry selections, political news and current events, as well as essays on philosophical topics; includes essays on the theater and on actors and dramatists.

The multigenic family of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) is now known to offer many new therapeutic possibilities through their influence over intracellular signaling, though their precise cell mechanisms to modulating that process remain uncertain. In Phosphodiesterase Methods and Protocols, a panel of research leaders in the PDE field describes new concepts and techniques for investigating the role of PDEs in orchestrating normal and pathophysiological responses. Presented in step-by-step detail, these readily reproducible methods allow the measurement of cyclic nucleotide variations in living cells, as well as their visualization in a spatiotemporal manner, the localization and characterization of their activities in tissues and living cells, and the assessment of targeted PDEs in creating specific tools and drugs. Additional chapters discuss the generation of PDE4 knockout mice to demonstrate not only the potential role of targeted PDEs, but also their use in further studies of the central role of PDE regulation in intracellular signaling control. These techniques offer clinicians a way to find new therapies for numerous pathologies whose molecular origins are unknown and whose treatment is symptomatic. Alterations of intracellular signaling related to PDE deregulation in such pathologies as inflammation, neurodegeneration, and cancer may explain the difficulties observed in their prevention and treatment. The protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular BiologýѕØ series format, each offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Path-breaking and highly practical, Phosphodiesterase Methods and Protocols offers cell biologists, molecular biologists, pharmacologists, and medicinal chemists a broad ranging survey of the advanced tools and concepts needed to understand the role of PDEs in physiological functions, their implications in several critical pathologies, and the opportunities they offer for new drug design.

" Theoretical, experimental and computational physicists working in the following fields: dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, classical and quantum chaos, solid state physics. Mathematicians: mathematical biology, applied mathematics, dynamical systems, integrable systems."

Vol. 9 called also: Physical anthropology 1953-1961.

Vols. for 1903- include Proceedings of the American Physical Society.

Focuses on theory and experimental investigations of the atomistic and electronic structure of solids in general, phase transitions, electronic and optical properties of low-dimensional, nano-scale, strongly correlated, or disordered systems, superconductivity, magnetism, ferroelectricity etc.

"An international journal devoted to the principles and applications of colloid and interface science."

"PMC Physics A is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles on high-energy & nuclear physics, cosmology, gravity & astroparticle physics and also the instrumentation & data analysis of results in these areas"--Aims & scope (publisher's Web site, viewed Oct. 3, 2007).

"PMC Physics B is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles on condensed matter, atomic, molecular and optical physics and the interfaces between these areas."--Aims & scope (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb.27, 2008).

"General physics, nonlinear science, statistical physics, atomic, molecular and cluster physics, plasma and fluid physics, condensed matter, cross-disciplinary physics, biological physics, nanoscience."

Physics of the Dark Universe is a new and innovative online-only, fully open access journal. The journal offers rapid publication of peer-reviewed, original research articles considered of high scientific impact. The journal is focused on the understanding of the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy and covers all theoretical, experimental and phenomenological aspects of both Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

"Physiological genomics publishes results of a wide variety of studies from human and from informative model systems with techniques linking genes and pathways to physiology, from prokaryotes to eukaryotes."

"PMC Physics A is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles on high-energy & nuclear physics, cosmology, gravity & astroparticle physics and also the instrumentation & data analysis of results in these areas"--Aims & scope (publisher's Web site, viewed Oct. 3, 2007).

"PMC Physics B is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles on condensed matter, atomic, molecular and optical physics and the interfaces between these areas."--Aims & scope (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb.27, 2008).

"An international journal of police strategies & management."

"Butterworths Planning Law Bulletin is a monthly bulletin providing a round-up of consultation documents, new guidance documents and new and forthcoming legislation to complement Butterworths Planning Law Service."--Publisher information.

Covers all aspects of plant biology including cellular, tissue-level, organismal, functional and developmental aspects.

"An international journal of experimental plant biology."

"PMC Physics A is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles on high-energy & nuclear physics, cosmology, gravity & astroparticle physics and also the instrumentation & data analysis of results in these areas"--Aims & scope (publisher's Web site, viewed Oct. 3, 2007).

"PMC Physics B is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes articles on condensed matter, atomic, molecular and optical physics and the interfaces between these areas."--Aims & scope (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb.27, 2008).

"The journal covers all clinical aspects of respiratory diseases and therapy. Topics include adult and paediatric medicine, epidemiology, immunology and cell biology, physiology, occupational disorders, and the role of allergens and pollutants" -- Publisher information page (Elsevier, viewed July 6, 2004).

Pneumonia is an international, peer reviewed open access journal that publishes original research articles, case studies, reviews, commentaries, correspondence and highlights, news and activities on all aspects related to pneumonia. The focus of the journal is to establish an international forum for pneumonia, bringing together knowledge from the various specialties involved in the treatment and prevention of this disease.

Whimsical essays on philosophy and ideas; includes poetry and songs, at least one with lyrics by Kenrick and music by Joseph Jackson; with a comparison of the performances of Garrick and Barry in the role of Romeo.

Includes section "Recent polar literature" (called 1931-38 "Recent polar books").

"An international journal of police strategies & management."

Some vols. include special issues.

Vols. 4-38, 40-41 include Record of political events, Oct. 1, 1888-Dec. 31, 1925 (issued as a separately paged supplement to no. 3 of v. 31-38 and to no. 1 of v. 40).

Political satire and invective, radical politics, poetry, letters; primarily attacking Edmund Burke's conservatism. Eaton was jailed at least once for the political views expressed in this publication.

"The international journal for the science and technology of polymers."

Includes the proceedings of the meetings of the Acoustical Society of America (beginning with the 153rd meeting held in 2007) and the International Conference on Nonlinear Elasticity in Materials (beginning with the 13th conference held in 2008).

"Bulletin mensuel d'informations démographiques, économiques, sociales."

Full-text and full-image articles; fully searchable. Includes virtual keyboard for Cyrillic input of search terms.

"An international journal on research and development in veterinary epidemiology, animal disease prevention and control, and animal health economics."

The North China Herald Online is a full-text searchable database that features the history of foreign presence in China from around 1850 to the 1940s. Apart from news and information reflecting the social, cultural and political life of the foreign settlements, this database also provides translations of Chinese official notifications and news, trade statistics, stock prices, essays on Chinese culture and language, law reports from foreign courts in the settlements, company reports, maps, cartoons, photographs, and other related topics.

This journal provides a forum for scholarly work dealing primarily with probabilistic and statistical approaches to contemporary solid/structural and fluid mechanics problems encountered in diverse technical disciplines such as aerospace, civil, marine, mechanical, and nuclear engineering. The journal aims to maintain a healthy balance between general solution techniques and problem-specific results, encouraging a fruitful exchange of ideas among disparate engineering specialities.

Procedia CIRP is an open access product focusing entirely on publishing high quality proceedings from CIRP conferences, enabling fast dissemination so that conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Procedia CIRP will publish papers from CIRP and CIRP-sponsored conferences. Conferences should be relevant to an international audience and cover timely topics.

Procedia - E+F is an e-only product focusing entirely on publishing high quality conference proceedings. Procedia - E+F enables fast dissemination so conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on ScienceDirect, which is then made freely available worldwide.

Procedia Materials Science is an open access product focusing entirely on publishing conference proceedings, enabling fast dissemination so that conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Procedia Materials Science will publish papers from conferences on all topics in the field of materials. Conferences should be relevant to an international audience and cover timely topics.

Procedia Technology is an open access product focusing entirely on publishing conference proceedings, enabling fast dissemination so that conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Procedia Technology will publish papers from conferences with an emphasis in technology or applied engineering disciplines, for example electronics and information technology. Conferences should be relevant to an international audience, with a focused theme and cover timely topics.

Includes lists of officers, committees and roster.

List of members in v. 1-

Includes the proceedings of the meetings of the Acoustical Society of America (beginning with the 153rd meeting held in 2007) and the International Conference on Nonlinear Elasticity in Materials (beginning with the 13th conference held in 2008).

Includes list of members.

Includes Report of the executive committee for 1887/88-1914/15.

Proceedings of the Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability held at the Statistical Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. during the period 1945-1972.

Contents of each vol. selected from papers of the annual meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association.

Covers fundamentals of engineering science and its application to the solution of problems in mechanical engineering systems, machines and components. Principal topics include: materials; metrology; mechanisms; solid mechanics; dynamic systems; thermofluid mechanics; tribology; reliability engineering; mechatronics; nano-and micro-mechanical engineering devices and systems and design.

Covers marketing research and research methodology, consumer behavior, marketing strategy, product & brand management, social responsibility, ethics, consumer protection, etc.

"Papers presented to J.E. Littlewood on his 80th birthday" issued as 3d ser., v. 14 A, 1965.

"A series of peer-reviewed papers that describe the results of shore-based studies related to a leg. Publication of the volume contents begins after the first paper is accepted and is completed four years postcruise"--ODP Publication Services website.

List of fellows for 1908- in v. 25.

Includes lists of officers, committees and roster.

Includes officers and committees.

Contains selected papers given at the 4th- Seminars, held 1970-

Proceedings of various branches of the society are included.

Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics is a cover-to-cover translation of the Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Each issue ordinarily contains either one book-length article or a collection of articles pertaining to the same topic.

List of members in v. 4-5, 7-10.

Full-text and full-image articles; fully searchable. Includes virtual keyboard for Cyrillic input of search terms.

Molecular recognition and binding of ligands (atoms, ions, and molecules) by proteins with high sensitivity and selectivity is of central importance to essentially all biomolecular processes and of key importance for the basic and applied sciences. In Protein-Ligand Interactions: Methods and Applications, leading experts with hands-on experience describe in detail a broad selection of established and emerging techniques for studying the interaction between proteins and ligands, including bulk biochemical techniques, structure analysis, spectroscopy, single-molecule studies, and theoretical/computational tools. Among the highlights are surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and reflectometric biosensor approaches, high-throughput screening with confocal optics microscopy, single molecule fluorescence and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), atomic force microscopy (AFM), crystallography of reaction intermediates, and time-resolved X-ray crystallography. The protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular BiologýѕØ series format, each offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Cutting-edge and highly practical, Protein-Ligand Interactions: Methods and Applications offers novice and expert researchers alike a broad selection of powerful and widely applicable techniques that can be used to efficiently and successfully solve the task of characterizing protein-ligand interactions.

Rapidly emerging at the intersection of nanotechnology, materials science, and molecular biology, the field of nanobiotechnology promises to elucidate many life processes at the molecular-level previously invisible to human inquiry, and thereby dramatically to transform diagnostics, therapy, and drug discovery in this postgenomic world. In Protein Nanotechnology: Protocols, Instrumentation, and Applications, leading experts in nanobiotechnology comprehensively review the most recent advances in instrumentation and methodology, as well as their applications in genomics and proteomics. The authors provide a wide variety of techniques and methods for dealing with protein functions and structures at the nanoscale level, including nanostructured systems, nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes and nanowires, optical nanosensors, and nanoelectrodes. Among the highlights are techniques for the in vivo tracking of biochemical processes using fluorescent molecular probes and nanosensors, and the exploration of biochemical processes and submicroscopic structures of living cells at unprecedented resolutions using near-field optics. Also discussed is the development of nanocarrier methodology for the targeted delivery of drugs whose shells are conjugated with antibodies for targeting specific antigens. The protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular BiologýѕØ series format, each offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive and authoritative, Protein Nanotechnology: Protocols, Instrumentation, and Applications provides investigators a wide variety of readily reproducible techniques and methods for exploring both protein functions and structures at the nanoscale level and their powerful new biological and medical applications.

Proteomics methodology has revolutionized the way that proteins are studied and opened new channels to understanding both cell functions and the cellular changes involved in disease states. In The Proteomics Protocols Handbook, hands-on researchers describe in step-by-step detail a wide range of proven laboratory methods and bioinformatics tools essential for analysis of the proteome. These cutting-edge techniques (73 in all) address such important tasks as sample preparation, 2D-PAGE, gel staining, mass spectrometry, and posttranslational modification. There are also readily reproducible methods for protein expression profiling, identifying protein-protein interactions, and protein chip technology, as well as a range of newly developed methodologies for determining the structure and function of a protein, including novel mass spectrometry and LC-MS techniques, protein array technology, and a variety of structural and functional proteomics techniques needed to determine of the function of newly discovered protein sequences. The use of X-ray crystallography and NMR to determine protein structure is also described. The bioinformatics tools include those for analyzing 2D-GEL patterns, protein modeling, and protein identification. All laboratory-based protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular BiologýѕØ series format, each offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of the necessary equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Timely and highly practical, The Proteomics Protocols Handbook offers molecular biologists, protein chemists, clinical and medicinal chemists, biochemists, and microbiologists a comprehensive collection of today's best tools for understanding not only the function of individual proteins in the cell, but also for identifying new therapeutic targets.

Nature Protocols is an interactive online resource for experimental and laboratory protocols for bench researchers primarily in biology and chemistry. Protocols are presented in a 'recipe' style providing step-by-step descriptions of procedures that users can take to the lab bench and immediately apply in their own research. Protocols on the site are fully searchable and organized into logical categories to be easily accessible. Together, 'Nature Protocols' and the interactive 'Protocols Network' create a dynamic forum for scientists to upload and comment on protocols.

Vols. 4-38, 40-41 include Record of political events, Oct. 1, 1888-Dec. 31, 1925 (issued as a separately paged supplement to no. 3 of v. 31-38 and to no. 1 of v. 40).

Some vols. include special issues.

Focuses on theory and experimental investigations of the atomistic and electronic structure of solids in general, phase transitions, electronic and optical properties of low-dimensional, nano-scale, strongly correlated, or disordered systems, superconductivity, magnetism, ferroelectricity etc.

The Neuroimaging section of Psychiatry Research publishes manuscripts on positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, computerized electroencephalographic topography, regional cerebral blood flow, computed tomography, magnetoencephalography, autoradiography, post-mortem regional analyses, and other imaging techniques.

Issues for 1904-38 contain the literature section of the Psychological reviews publications.

"Philosophical studies of public policy issues."

Vol. 1, no. 1 contains the Proceedings of the Radioactivation Analysis Symposium (1959 : Vienna, Austria).

Full-text and full-image articles; fully searchable. Includes virtual keyboard for Cyrillic input of search terms.

Papers presented at various meetings of the forum.