Seminar on scientific publishing

Dr Peter Jolly has kindly agreed to offer a repeat of his seminar on scientific publishing originally delivered on 8 April as part of the IVABS Seminar Series. It will be held in the Library Training Room next Friday 6 May at 3.30 pm and this session will be aimed primarily at librarians, but anyone who missed out on attending first time round is very welcome to attend. It would be of particular interest to those involved with the editing or publishing of journals or conference proceedings.

Microbiology Abstracts Online

At the beginning of 2004 the Library converted its print subscriptions to Microbiology Abstracts to online access only. The three parts are -

• Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)
• Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
• Algology, Mycology and Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C)

It is possible to search these parts separately or as a single block - the latter strategy is preferable in most circumstances. Due to the nature of the subscription electronic coverage beginds from the start of 2004 and does not overlap with the printed abstracts.

There is a substantial overlap between the coverage of Microbiology Abstracts and that of Biological Abstracts and Web of Science, but for absolutely comprehensive coverage of a topic a search of all three databases is still recommended. Microbiology Abstracts' point of difference is its substantial coverage of conference proceedings. The Cambridge Scientific Abstracts interface is used - the Boolean logic is quite standard and the * symbol is used for truncation. Records can be exported to EndNote.