Friday, August 24, 2007

SciVee

SciVee provides a place for scientists to upload a short video about a recent article -- the equivalent of a conference presentation. In its current beta version, only articles published in PLOS can be SciVee'd, but the next version will accept any article in PubMed Central. The majority of journal publishers put articles in PubMed Central 6-18 months after publication.

SciVee is a joint effort of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC.)

Monday, August 20, 2007

Bio5/MRB InfoSources Series, Fall 2007

Wednesdays - August 29 - September 26, 2007
Noon in Keating, Room 103
Free lunch provided

Aug 29 What impact are you making (and where can you get funding for it?)
Two brief presentations on:
- Journal Impact Factors via the JCR database, and open access journals.
- Search grant sources such as Community of Science and CRISP.

Sept 5 UA InfoSources - the key to research success
A speedy tour of ebooks, ejournals, databases, interlibrary loan and other services available to Bio5 researchers.

Sept 12 The Business of Science
BioScan and other Business Databases - How to locate information about U.S. and foreign companies actively involved in biotech research and development.

Sept 19 SciFinder Scholar 2007
An overview of the latest interface to Chemical Abstracts Online, providing highly customizable searching.

Sept 26 RefWorks & Web of Science
A Find it > Save it > Cite it workshop. Two brief presentations on:
- Using Web of Science to track the impact of your research and follow a topic both forwards and backwards in time
- Learn how to gather and organize your article and book citations for a variety of projects online using RefWorks.

Thursday, August 2, 2007

NC3Rs - Mouse databases

NC3Rs - Mouse databases is an extremely throrough and up-to-date guide to mouse information -- genomic, proteomic and strains. This NC3Rs guide describes online resources under these headings:
  • Conditional mouse models databases - 2 resources
  • Transgenic and knockout databases - 3 resources
  • Mouse strain repositories - 4 resources
  • Mouse pathology - 2 resources
  • Mouse genetics and genomics - 8 resources
  • Comprehensive mouse links - 4 resources
The sidebar links to more interactive resources, such as working group white papers and listservs.