Laboratory manuals publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), US, has released the Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive, a complete online collection of its scholarly monographs. The 59-volume archive includes all monographs published by CSHL Press from 1970 to 2009. It spans a range of topics in molecular and cellular biology, addressing questions of evolution, aging, cancer biology, neuroscience, and fundamental biological processes in a variety of organisms - from viruses and microbes to plants and animals.
Each volume provides an in-depth survey of a particular field and is written and edited by authoritative scientists in that field. Popular volumes include The Bacteriophage Lambda and The Molecular Biology of Tumor Viruses as well as the more recent Molecular Biology of Aging, Stem Cell Biology, Prion Biology and Diseases and DNA Replication and Human Disease. The new online archive, available at www.cshmonographs.org, is projected to be useful to researchers actively working in these disciplines as well as historians and educators of biology interested in the development of these fields.
Permanent access to the entire collection can be purchased by institutions for a one-time fee, with institutional access controlled by IP address. Each chapter is also available for individual purchase. Information about every book, including tables of contents and chapter extracts, is freely available. The archive is searchable by subject, author and title.
CSHL Press partnered with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) to host the archive. The PKP is a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments.
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