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19 Oct 09

ASCB Image & Video Library: Home Page

ASCB's Image & Video Library is a growing collection of images, videos, and digital texts that illustrate the structure, function and biology of the cell, the fundamental unit of life.

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16 Sep 09

Prepublication data sharing : Article : Nature

Repository could help facilitate this process as long as the specific issues of biological data sets is understood.

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  • Several issues discussed at previous data release meetings were not revisited, as they were considered fundamental to all types of data release (whether pre-publication or publication-associated). These included: specified quality standards for all data; database designs that meet the needs of both data producers and users alike archiving of raw data in a retrievable form; housing of both 'finished' and 'unfinished' data in databases; and provision of long-term support for databases by funding agencies. New issues that were addressed include the importance of simultaneously releasing metadata (such as environmental/experimental conditions and phenotypes) that will enable users to fully exploit the data, as well as the complexities associated with clinical data owing to concerns about privacy and confidentiality
    • Traditional librarian issues and new issues regarding data sets as the information object. Is there more literature on collaboration between librarians and biologists or are the two co-existing with parallel and needlessly repeated procedures? - on 2009-09-16
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Nautilus: Data sharing discussed at Nature and Nature Network

Article about the issues involved in data sharing within biology. Possible issues that librarians could contribute to in the discussion and learn how to help their colleagues in biology.

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  • 'Data's shameful neglect', opining that research cannot flourish if data are not preserved and made accessible.
    • Librarians should see this as an opportunity to contribute. - on 2009-09-16
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02 Apr 09

Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones

Database link to Article from New York Times March 25, 2005 pg A. 1. about soft tissue found in T-rex bones extracted from Montana in 2003. Written by John Noble Wilford.

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LigerCat

Search portal for journals, articles or genes that creates a tag cloud from the MeSH subjects in the PubMed database.

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19 Mar 09

Northwestern College Biology Search

Custom search engine that includes reputable Web sites and Open Access journals on biology topics

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12 Mar 09

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (Titles in this s...

List of the 83 titles in this series. NWC has two of these titles but should probably get more.

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04 Mar 09

ScienceWatch.com - Tracking Trends & Performance In Basic Research - ScienceWatch.com

Site from Thomson Reuters that features current and "hot" topics in science including biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering. Also features top journals in specific fields according to the impact factor.

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20 Feb 09

On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution

Gallup poll posted on February 11, 2009 about belief in evolution and Darwin's association with it.

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Forest Protection Portal - Vast Forest Protection News, Information Retrieval Tools and Original Analysis

Ecological Science Based Forest Preservation & Conservation Advocacy
Forests.org Provides Vast Forest Protection News, Information Retrieval Tools and Original Analysis with a Special Emphasis Upon Avoided Deforestation and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).
Links to Ecological Internet, an umbrella environmental portal.

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13 Feb 09

http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog

Class blog for a High school biology teacher with content mostly created by students.

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Using Blogs in Science Education

High School Biology teacher, Mrs. Baker, who uses blogs, wikis and other web tools to teach in her classroom. Cool tool, animoto.

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17 Dec 08

Biology :: New Model Publications Search Results

In Biology, 9 e-journals and 1 working paper repository were identified as successful in the Ithaka-ARL study.

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12 Dec 08

YouTube - marian diamond

Anatomy and Neuroscience Professor at UC Berkeley vidoetaped lectures.

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31 Oct 08

Darwin Correspondence Project

Archive of Darwin's letters to others throughout his life. Includes teaching resources and compilations of Darwin's views on religion and science. Affiliated with the University of Cambridge.

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15 Oct 08

physiologyINFO.org : The American Physiological Society

This site was developed by leading researchers in conjunction with the American Physiological Society to educate the public and answer your questions about this fundamental area of science. Great resource that connects with practicing physiologists, gener

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HealthCentral

The HealthCentral Network's Web sites combines medically-reviewed original content from doctors, researchers and expert patients, as well as news, information, video and other multimedia content from leading authorities such as A.D.A.M, HealthDay News, Th

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09 Oct 08

Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh is fortunate to own one of the rare, complete sets of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. It is considered to be the single most valuable set of volumes in the collections of the University Library System (ULS). Indeed, onl

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