http://www.nature.com/scitable
Nature Publishing Group has recently opened Sitable, a free bioscience reference resource and collaborative workspace. Right now the site focuses on Genetics but all biologists and biology students will find useful information there. I highly recommend looking around and getting involved in this exciting new project.
Hey faculty, staff, and graduate students! Would you like to help pick the books the library buys? Our new book approval system allows me to enlist your help when choosing books for the library’s collection. The system is entirely online with no paper slips to fill out and return. I will e-mail you lists of books I think you might be interested in and we can discuss selections by email any time.
If you are interested please let me know. Please include if you are interested in helping with the general collection or only specific subject areas within biology.
We are looking into a subscription to Science Signaling (formerly known as Science’s STKE<) for the Biology Journals collection.
“Science Signaling is a weekly journal, publishing 51 issues a year, as well as an online resource and information management tool that enables experts and novices in cell signaling to find, organize, and utilize information relevant to processes of cellular regulation. The overarching goal of Science Signaling is to identify and develop a mix of tools and approaches (algorithms, schemas, programs, and human organizational structures) that are stable, scalable, interoperable, and cost effective for providing access to information on cell signaling. All aspects of Science Signaling are designed to facilitate the site’s main purpose, which is to maximize the efficiency with which the reader gathers, assimilates, and understands information about cell regulatory processes. We strive to increase the likelihood of the scientist making new connections between facts from discrete sources, and to support educational, collaborative, and community-building efforts. An additional goal of the site is to provide a database of cell signaling information with information supplied by scientific experts, as well as to develop the tools and organizational structures needed to undertake this project and present the results for both human readers and computer-based analysis.”
Read more about Science Signaling at their website.
Do you have any thoughts about this journal? Please post in the comments.
What are you favorite journals in Biology?
I skim quite a lot of publications via their RSS feeds and I’ll be posting here about interesting articles that I read. What publications do you recommend?
Here’s a great little video that shows the a representation of the known archeological record of human skulls from Australopithecus to Homo Sapien in 2 minutes.
More Than a Legend: Micro or Macro - Classroom version (YouTube)
(Please do yourself a favor and do not listen to the audio, which is horrid.)
