NCSU Libraries has recently purchased archives for BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record. BIOSIS Previews can now be searched from 1924 to the present and Zoological Record can be searched from 1864 to the present. BIOSIS Previews has more than 18 million records and covers nearly 6000 journals in the biological and biomedical fields. It also indexes meetings, patents and books. Zoological Record has 3.5 million records covering all aspects of animal science. It indexes about 5000 journals and also covers monographs, books, newsletters, and conference papers and abstracts. BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record, along with the Web of Science, can be cross searched since they are all available on the Web of Knowledge platform.

The NCSU Libraries now has a subscription to The Cochrane Library, a collection of databases that support evidence-based medicine by containing high-quality, independent evidence regarding the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions. The primary database is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR; Cochrane Reviews). If no Cochrane Review is yet available on your specific topic, the other databases (description) will provide information on other good quality reviews and randomized trials.

You can access The Cochrane Library through the Databases List or through Browse Subjects.

Faculty of 1000 Biology is an online, literature awareness tool that allows biological researchers and students to save valuable time. A faculty of more than 2300 scientists identifies important recent articles, writes comments and assigns one of three ratings to the articles: exceptional, must read or recommended. An F1000 Factor is calculated for each article based on the ratings. Articles are also classified into seven paper types: new finding, technical advance, interesting hypothesis, important confirmation, controversial findings, refutation, and novel drug target. Faculty of 1000 Biology also has Top Ten lists and Hidden Jewels which highlights articles from lesser known journals.

Looking for the latest journal citation data? You can now access Journal Citation Reports (JCR) data for 2006. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 5,900 journals in science and technology; JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 1,700 journals in the social sciences. You have several search options with JCR:

* View a group of journals by Subject Category, Publisher, or Country/Territory.
* Search for a specific journal.
* View all journals.

When using JCR, the year you select is the 'JCR year'. All of the data that you see for journals and subject categories come from journal data published in that year. For example, if you select JCR Science Edition 2003 and you search for a particular journal, you will see the 2003 data for that journal, i.e., number of articles published in the journal in 2003, number of citations to that journal from articles published in 2003, impact factor calculated from 2003 data, and so on.

The story of pioneer ecologist and NC State professor B. W. Wells is told by the wealth of excellent photographs that Wells took to document his research. The NCSU Libraries and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have partnered to preserve, identify, digitize, and display these images.

Much of Wells' work focused on the ecologically unique Big Savannah located in Pender County, North Carolina. Although this landscape was forever lost to the plow in the late 1950s, the recent discovery of a similar site, dedicated as the B. W. Wells Savannah in 2002, created a renewed interest in the ecology of this region and the abundance of plants and flowers that are found there. North Carolina photographer Freda Wilkins has documented them for this project, adding over 1,000 images to the B. W. Wells Collection in the Special Collections Research Center.

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce that a database containing the images of Wells and Wilkins is now available online to accompany the exhibition "B. W. Wells: Pioneer Ecologist" in the new Exhibit Gallery. To access the database, please visit http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/wells/ and select "Image Collections" from the menu at the top of the page.