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Scientific Commons http://en.scientificcommons.org/ An impressive search engine based on the OAI protocol. It indexes 902repositoriesfromover50countries. It has indexed more than 16.8 million items. The fulltext plus metadata of the articles is indexed as well up to a limit of 3 MB. But above all, the search engine is really fast. WorldWideScience http://worldwidescience.org/Lalisio Literature http://literature.lalisio.com/ This is search engine has a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery metadata orientation that offers some interesting search capabilities. It can suggest alternative search strategies and progress through allows searchers to narrow and focus their search results in a multilateral partnership manner familiar to enable federated searching of national traditional searchers. At this point, it only searches open access content from ArXiv]]>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:04:39 +0000modCourse materials
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Flat World Knowledge Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Open Textbooks Project More info Christina Laun, 2008. The Ultimate Guide to Using Open Courseware: 70+ Apps, Search Engines and Resources for Free Learning home WG 20080731 20080801 ]]>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:14:33 +0000modCourse materials
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Ugenie texbook finder http://ugenie.com/textbooks The tool has textbooks data for over 300,000 Fall 2007 courses at 1,130 U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities.With Course Textbook Finder, college students can find which books they need online, in addition to traditional information sources. PubMed Bookshelf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books The Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the textbox above and selecting "Go". The books can not be browsed, but only searched. Some additions from iLibrarian Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign Textbook Revolution O’Reilly’sO’Reilly’s Open Books Project Open Source Books from the Internet Archive Wikibooks ]]>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:19:15 +0000modCourse materials
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Ugenie texbook finder http://ugenie.com/textbooks The tool has textbooks data for over 300,000 Fall 2007 courses at 1,130 U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities.With Course Textbook Finder, college students can find which books they need online, in addition to traditional information sources. Some additions from iLibrarian Make Textbooks Affordable Campaign Textbook Revolution O’Reilly’s Open Books Project Open Source Books from the Internet Archive Wikibooks Global Text Project Flat World Knowledge Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Open Textbooks Project home WG 20080128 20080731 ]]>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:12:24 +0000modWiki's
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WikiPathways is an open, collaborative platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways. More info at Rico et al. 2008 MedPedia http://www.medpedia.com/ worldwide. Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, the University of Michigan Medical School and dozens of health organizations around the world are contributing to The Medpedia Project in various ways. (To be lauched later 2008) Lists of medical wiki's http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/ ]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:25:17 +0000modWiki's
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Wikipathways http://www.wikipathways.org/ WikiPathways is an open, collaborative platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways. More info at Rico et al. 2008 MedPedia http://www.medpedia.com/ Medpedia is the collaborative project to collect the best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available worldwide. (To be lauched later 2008) Lists of medical wiki's http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/ genetics wiki's http://scienceroll.com/2007/05/25/genetic-wikis/ home WG 20070423 20080723 ]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:23:24 +0000modWiki's
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Wiki Professional http://www.wikiprofessional.info/ With the first database wiki proteins being functional. AskDrWikiAskDrWiki http://askdrwiki.com/ Is produced by the Cleveland Clinica it is a good free source of x-rays, and other general medical information WiserWiki http://www.wiserwiki.com/ Chempedia http://chempedia.com/ Chempedia is the free and continuously-updated online chemical encyclopedia. Each Compound Monograph gives information about the structure, uses, history, and significance of a chemical compound. Ecolwiki http://ecoliwiki.net/ The EcoliWiki is a subsystem of EcoliHub's for community annotation. The goal for EcoliWiki is to generate community-based pages about everything related to E. coli K-12, its phages, plasmids, and mobile genetic elements. Wikipathways http://www.wikipathways.org/ WikiPathways is an open, collaborative platform dedicated to the curation of biological pathways. More info at Rico et al. 2008 Lists of me]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:20:17 +0000modScientific Directories
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Biology browser http://www.biologybrowser.org BiologyBrowser, produced by Thomson Scientific, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. Bioinformatics Link Directory http://bioinformatics.ca/links_directory/ The Bioinformatics Links Directory features curated links to molecular resources, tools and databases. The links listed in this directory are selected on the basis of recommendations from bioinformatics experts in the field. We also rely on input from our community of bioinformatics users for suggestions. Starting in 2003, they have also started listing all links contained in the NAR Webserver issue. home WG 20080129 20080716 ]]>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:57:34 +0000modSocial Networks
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Rothman, D. (2007) More social networks for clinicians. http://davidrothman.net/2007/05/07/more-social-networks-for-clinicians/ home WG 20070509 20080719 ]]>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:47:14 +0000modSocial Networks
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For scientists there have been a few specialized communities created. The Graduate Junction was established by Daniel Colegate and Esther Dingley, graduate students in respectively Chemistry and Education at the University of Durham, in the United Kingdom. They set up The Graduate Junction because they were - in their own words - frustrated by a feeling of isolation in their own research projects and wanted to know who, if anyone, was doing similar research. I have had a quick look at it and it looks good and has the potential to be a valuable tool for graduate students. Much of its success obviously depends on the number of participants it will attract. If I still were a student I would definitely sign up and become member of groups like this. Researchgate" targetsResearchgatetargets a larger community. It is meant as a networking tool for all academics and researchers. It is set up by three students from Germany (one of them now being at Harvard). Two of them in Medicine, on]]>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:46:45 +0000modSocial Networks
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Social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Linkld, Ning en Hyves are quite popular. For scientists there have been a few specialized communities created. The Graduate Junction was established by Daniel Colegate and Esther Dingley, graduate students in respectively Chemistry and Education at the University of Durham, in the United Kingdom. They set up The Graduate Junction because they were - in their own words - frustrated by a feeling of isolation in their own research projects and wanted to know who, if anyone, was doing similar research. I have had a quick look at it and it looks good and has the potential to be a valuable tool for graduate students. Much of its success obviously depends on the number of participants it will attract. If I still were a student I would definitely sign up and become member of groups like this. Researchgate" targets a larger community. It is meant as a networking tool for all academics and researchers. It is set up by three students from Germany (one of them]]>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:45:16 +0000modBlogs
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To search for information in blogs the best search enigines are currently Technorati, Ask and GoogleBlogsearch. students in Wageningen atWageningen UR blogging is not very popular, so it seems. Nature Blogs http://blogs.nature.com/ A collection of blogs run by Nature. A relly interesting post was their investigation of the scientific blogosphere: http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2006/07/top_five_science_blogs.html Scienceblogs http://scienceblogs.com/ A collection of science blogs (including most of top science blogs reported by Nature ) seems. The Academic blog portal http://www.academicblogs.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page A wiki that lists various academic blogs. Chemical blogspace http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/pg/Discover Blogs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ Freshly starting collection of science blogs at Discover Magazine.It hosts one of the most popular science blogs Bad astronomy. Nature Blogs http://blogs.nat]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:18:22 +0000modScientific Search engines
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Probably the best known scientific search engine. Google Scholar indexes a vast part of the scholarly literature, including peer reviewed articles, preprints, theses, dissertation, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and technical reports. Google Scholar has become popular amongst scientist since the results are ranked on the basis of the number of citations to a given item. However citation counts are far from accurate. Some other drawbacks should be mentioned as well. Google has not divulged its indexing policy, so it is not know what the database entails exactly, and in comprehensiveness tests it has failed quite often. On the plus side are the functionalities that Google Scholar offers for locating copies of articles making use of your universities URL resolver. Scientific Commons http://en.scientificcommons.org/ indexes 902repositoriesfromover50countries. 902repositoriesfromover50countries. It has indexed more than 16.8 million items. The fulltext plus metadata of ]]>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:57:03 +0000modWiki's
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This is a wikibook about Rosaceae, a skin disease. Being-there http://www.being-here.net/ the PhD thesis of Caroline Nevejan. PhDthesisofCarolineNevejan. Useful chemistry http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/ A wiki project in chemistry led by the Bradley Laboratory at Drexel University. Chempedia http://chempedia.com/ Chempedia is the free and continuously-updated online chemical encyclopedia. Each Compound Monograph gives information about the structure, uses, history, and significance of a chemical compound. Lists of medical wiki's http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/ ]]>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:12:28 +0000modScientific Search engines
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Probably the best known scientific search engine. Google Scholar indexes a vast part of the scholarly literature, including peer reviewed articles, preprints, theses, dissertation, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and technical reports. Google Scholar has become popular amongst scientist since the results are ranked on the basis of the number of citations to a given item. However citation counts are far from accurate. Some other drawbacks should be mentioned as well. Google has not divulged its indexing policy, so it is not know what the database entails exactly, and in comprehensiveness tests it has failed quite often. On the plus side are the functionalities that Google Scholar offers for locating copies of articles making use of your universities URL resolver. Scientific Commons http://en.scientificcommons.org/ indexes 898repositoriesfromover50countries. 902repositoriesfromover50countries. It has indexed more than 16.8 million items. The fulltext plus metadata o]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:25:46 +0000modScientific Search engines
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Scirus http://www.scirus.com/ A freely available scientific search engine developed and maintained by Elsevier. Apart from searching all bibliographic information of Science Direct (The journal hosting system of Elsevier Scientific) it also searches so called preferred web resources, mostly scientific repositories or freely available bibliographies (Our repository WageningenYield is one of those preferred resrouces). Scirus provides an extensive, annotatedlistofthesepreferredwebresources. Moreover, Scirus indexes the scientific part of the Web, e.g. University Websites or those of research institutes et cetera. One of the beautiful Scirus features is the search refinement options that are offered on the basis of your initial searches. web resources. resources. See Péter'sDigitalReferenceShelfforareview. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ Probably the best known scientific search engine. Google Scholar indexes a vast part of the scholarly literature, including peer re]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:25:07 +0000modScientific Search engines
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Notess, G. (2005), Scholarly web searching: Google Scholar and Scirus. Online, 29(4):39 http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul05/OnTheNet.shtml home WG 20080128 20080417 ]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:19:02 +0000modScientific Search engines
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Additional information Jacso, P. (2008) Google Scholar revisted. Online Information Review 22(1):102-114 http://www.jacso.info/PDFs/jacso-GS-revisited-OIR-2008-32-1.pdf 297-309. http://projects.ics.hawaii.edu/~jacso/PDFs/jacso-deflated-inflated.pdf http://www.jacso.info/PDFs/jacso-deflated-inflated.pdf Notess, G. (2005), Scholarly web searching: Google Scholar and Scirus. Online, 29(4):39 http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul05/OnTheNet.shtml home ]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:18:46 +0000modScientific Search engines
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An impressive search engine based on the OAI protocol. It indexes 898repositoriesfromover50countries. It has indexed more than 16.8 million items. The fulltext plus metadata of the articles is indexed as well up to a limit of 3 MB. But above all, the search engine is really fast. Additional information Jacso, P. (2008) Google Scholar revisted. Online Information Review 22(1):102-114 http://www.jacso.info/PDFs/jacso-GS-revisited-OIR-2008-32-1.pdf Jacso, P. (2006) Deflated, inflated and phantom citation counts. Online Information Review, 30(3): 297-309. http://projects.ics.hawaii.edu/~jacso/PDFs/jacso-deflated-inflated.pdf Notess, G. (2005), Scholarly web searching: Google Scholar and Scirus. Online, 29(4):39 http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul05/OnTheNet.shtml ]]>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:17:23 +0000modScientific Search engines
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