LSU newsletter August 2008

August 2008

Biotechnology & pharmacology
   Drugs in Sport themed section brought to you by BJP

Cancer
   Targeting Angiogenesis Focus presented by Nature Reviews Cancer

Endocrinology
   Do you know all the facts about obesity?

Molecular & cell biology
   Sustainability Focus from Nature Reviews Microbiology and
   The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology
   Inflammation Insight brought to you by Nature

Publisher news
   Save 15% off site license pricing for selected NPG journals
   Introducing the NPG Manuscript Deposition Service

Question of the month
   Have you visited the Librarian Gateway in the last 12 months?

Drugs in Sport themed section brought to you by BJP

Coinciding with the Olympic year, BJP (*2007 Impact Factor 3.767) is offering a FREE themed section titled Drugs in Sport. This special section contains 11 review articles covering the mechanisms of action of the major groups of drugs that are used illicitly in sport. Written by experts in the field, each article explains where drugs can or cannot affect sporting performance, what other effects, mainly detrimental, they are likely to cause and how these effects can be detected

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Targeting Angiogenesis Focus presented by Nature Reviews Cancer

There is a continued need for development of new angiogenesis inhibitors to circumvent resistance or reduce toxicity, which are often associated with the clinically approved vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors. Articles in this FREE Web Focus presented by Nature Reviews Cancer (*2007 Impact Factor 29.19) discuss our evolving understanding of anti-angiogenic therapy in cancer and describe some of the most promising new targets.

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Do you know all the facts about obesity?

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Sustainability Focus from Nature Reviews Microbiology and
The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology

In the past decade, global climate change has come to the forefront of the political and social agenda owing to the growing realization that the Earth's resources are being used in an unsustainable fashion. Find out about the central role of microbial processes in sustainable development with a special FREE Web Focus from Nature Reviews Microbiology (*2007 Impact Factor 14.959) and
The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology.

Produced with support from the United States Department of Energy.

Inflammation Insight brought to you by Nature

While initiation and the process of acute inflammation are reasonably well defined, much less is known about the causes and pathways associated with chronic inflammation. This Insight from Nature (*2007 Impact Factor 28.751) highlights recent advances in our knowledge of the exogenous and endogenous inducers of chronic inflammation, the inflammatory mediators and the cells that carry out the response.

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Take advantage of our current offer and save 15% off list price when you purchase site license access to selected NPG journals. This limited offer is a great opportunity to build your library collection. For a complete list of journals,
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Introducing the NPG Manuscript Deposition Service

NPG recently launched the first phase of its Manuscript Deposition Service. The free service will help authors fulfill funder and institutional mandates for public access. NPG will begin depositing authors' accepted manuscripts with PubMed Central (PMC) and UK PubMed Central (UKPMC).

The NPG Manuscript Deposition Service is now available to authors publishing original research articles in Nature and the Nature research journals. NPG expects to be able to announce the availability of the service for many of its society and academic journals, and for the clinical research section of Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine, shortly.

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Have you visited the Librarian Gateway in the last 12 months?

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