All
that JAS—Journal Abbreviation Sources(http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm)
A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of
journal abbreviations.
Canary
Database (http://canarydatabase.org)
A web-based collection of animal sentinel studies that have been collected
and curated in terms of their relevance to human health.
Candidate
Genes to Inherited Disease (G2D) (http://www.ogic.ca/projects/g2d_2/)
Presents precomputed candidate genes for more than 600 genetically inherited
diseases that have been mapped onto chromosomal regions without assignment
of a particular gene. Search by phenotype, known gene, or chromosome/locus
Cells
Alive!(http://www.cellsalive.com/)
A collection of cells, bacteria, viruses, and antibiotic effects.
Chemical Sources:
Chemicals(http://www.chem.com/)
Search the product catalogs of all the chemical companies on the Web.
Rebase—The
Restriction Enzyme Database(http://rebase.neb.com/rebase/rebase.html)
Collection of published and unpublished information about restriction enzymes
and related proteins, including references, recognition and cleavage sites,
commercial availability, methylation sensitivity, and crystal and sequence
data.
Citation Guidelines:
MLA-Style
Citations of Electronic Sources(http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html)
Guidelines for citing Web pages and other Internet files, by Janice Walker.
Citation
Guides for Electronic Documents(http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm)
The International Federation of Library Associations has compiled a list
of links to Web sites with style guides.
Citation
Styles(http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html)
Covers how to cite electronics sources using the following style formats:
APA, CBE, Chicago and MLA.
Citing
Electronic Resources(http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/netciteFARQ.html)
Links to various Web sites offering advice on how to cite electronic resources.
Code
of Federal Regulations(http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/about-cfr.html)
Hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration, the CFR is browsable
and searchable. Note the special feature to retrieve specific citations.
Conversion
of Units(http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/units_en.html)
Conversions between metric and English and vice versa. Includes conversions
for volume, mass, weight, currencies, time, temperature, and force, as well
as constants (such as mol, the speed of light, pi, and au) and other units
specific to chemistry and physics. Over 1,200 measures are included.
Core
List for an Environmental Reference Collection,(http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/core/coretoc.htm) US EPA, Office
of Environmental Information (2843); (EPA 260-R-02-001, January 2002).
A listing of information resources in the areas of environmental protection,
management and science as selected by librarians supporting the United States
Environmental Protection Agency.
CRISP
(Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) Database(http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp_query.generate_screen)
Searchable database of federally-funded biomedical research projects conducted
at universities, hospitals and other research institutions. It is useful for
searching scientific concepts, emerging trends and techniques, or identifying
specific projects and/or investigators.
Council
on Foundations(http://www.cof.org/)
Membership organization of more than 2,000 grant-making foundations and giving
programs.
Directory
of Health Organizations Online (DIRLINE)(http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov)
DIRLINE is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location
and description information on various organizations, research resources, projects,
databases, and electronic bulletin boards concerned with health and biomedicine.
Directory
of Published Proceedings(http://www.interdok.com)
The Directory of Published Proceedings (DoPP) provides access to over 50,000
records of published proceedings from specialized symposia and conferences
in the science, technology, and humanities disciplines.
Encyclopedia of Life(http://www.eol.org/)
The Encyclopedia of Life seeks to synthesize all information about life on earth. Each of the approximately 1.8 million species has its own series of webpages dedicated to compiling knowledge on the species' taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being.
FASEB(http://www.faseb.org/)
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
Federal
R&D Project Summaries(http://www.osti.gov/fedrnd)
Search for information on awards and summaries of federally-funded research
by the Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and National Science
Foundation.
Foundation
Center(http://fdncenter.org/)
Use the Foundation Finder to search by name for basic information about foundations
within the universe of more than 70,000 private and community foundations in
the US. The Foundation Directory requires a fee-based membership. Informative
page for individual grant seekers.(http://fdncenter.org/getstarted/individuals/)
Multilingual
Glossary(http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html)
Technical and popular medical terms in nine European languages, commissioned
by the European commission.
Google
Book Search(http://books.google.com)
Allows you to search full-text across a book. Results will provide you with
a limited preview of the searched words in context as well as some additional
pages in the book
Google
Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
Google has targeted its search engine to retrieve scholarly works from peer-reviewed
papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional
societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations
Use their advanced
search tips(http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/refinesearch.html)
Grant
Opportunity Notification(http://www.grants.gov/applicants/email_subscription.jsp)
Subscribe to receive announcements of both new grants and modifications of
existing grant announcements made to the Federal Grants Opportunities database.
Grants.gov(http://www.grants.gov/)
Encompasses more than 900 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making
agencies. Site allows you to not only locate, but also apply for and manage
your government–awarded grants.
Grants
and Funding(http://www.os.dhhs.gov/grants/index.shtml)
Links to grants and programs from the various Department of Health and Human
Services agencies.
GrantsNet(http://www.grantsnet.org/)
Joint Howard Hughes Medical Institute and AAAS effort to provide a database
of funding opportunities in biomedical research and science education. You
need to register to use their services: funding news, discussion forums,
resource links, etc.
InvisibleWeb.com(http://www.invisibleweb.com)
A directory of searchable Web databases. Identifies and classifies substantial
Web data collections that are missed or obscured by search engines and general
Web directories.
Instructions
to Authors in the Health Sciences(http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/)
Links to the “Instructions for Authors” pages of more than 3,500
biomedical journals. You can either browse the alphabetical journal list or
search the database.
Lactmed(http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT)
Lactmed, a recent addition to the Toxnet system, is a peer-reviewed and fully
referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed.
Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible
effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.
Linscott’s
Directory of Immunological and Biological Reagents(http://www.linscottsdirectory.com/directory/index.php)
A thorough and up-to-date compilation of immunological and biological reagents
and who sells them. Currently it lists more than 70,000 different reagents
from more than 400 different commercial and governmental suppliers worldwide.
Updated every 4 months.
List
of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus:(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html)
Lists the 3,923 journals indexed in Index Medicus (Medline) by title, abbreviated
title, subject/discipline and country of publication. The document is available
as a PDF.
List
of Serials Indexed for Online Users(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lsiou.html)
Contains 10,192 serial titles—including 4,579 titles currently indexed
for MEDLINE—cited alphabetically by abbreviated title, followed by full
title.
National
Institutes of Health(http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/listserv.htm)
Receive weekly table of contents notifications for that week’s issue
of the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts.
NLM Style Guide
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=citmed.TOC&depth=2)
Citing Medicine aids authors in how to cite 26 types of publications, from articles and books to poster sessions and online reports. Numerous examples are provided that illustrate the citation guideline.
National
Science Foundation(http://www.nsf.gov/funding/research_edu_community.jsp)
Find funding opportunities, deadline and target dates, guide to preparing proposals
and program announcements. Search the Funding
Database(http://www.nsf.gov/funding/) to identify NSF projects that are open for proposals, currently
active, or completed.
NIH
Guide for Grants and Contracts(http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html)
Publishes the NIH program announcements, request for applications and requests
for proposals.
Nutrition
Analysis Tool(http://nat.uiuc.edu/)
Allows you to analyze the food you eat for various nutrients; includes calories,
cholesterol, and fat content. Another searchable site is the USDA
Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.(http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl)
Oncomine
Cancer Microarray Database (http://www.oncomine.org)
Bioinformatics tool to query and visualize cancer microarray data for a gene
or cancer type. The database currently includes 90 studies encompassing 6,372
microarray data sets for 18 cancer types. Information includes normal tissue,
clinical, pathological, and molecular subtype cancer analyses.
Other Reference Sources (Outside the Realm of Science)
Library Spot(http://www.libraryspot.com)
Contains a variety of general reference sources available online, including:
dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.
Chemicool
Periodic Table(http://www-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/index.html)
Created by D. Hsu at MIT.
WebElements(http://www.webelements.com/)
Includes extensive data on the elements’ chemical, physical, biological,
geological, crystallographic, nuclear and electronic properties.
Peterson’s Higher Education
Guide(http://www.petersons.com)
A comprehensive online guide to colleges and universities including doctoral,
master’s and professional degree programs and distance learning.
Pharma-Lexicon(http://www.pharma-lexicon.com)
Look up most pharmaceutical acronyms and find out what they stand for.
PharmGKB(http://www.pharmgkb.org/)
This knowledge base is a central repository for genetic and clinical data to
aid researchers in understanding how genetic variation among individuals
contributes to differences in drug reactions. Information is arranged by
gene, drug, clinical outcome, drug response, pharmacokinetics, and molecular
and cellular functional assays. The data is derived from individuals participating
in the Pharmacogenetics Research Network Studies.
PubChem (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
NIH's Small Molecule Repository. PubChem includes substance information, compound
structures, and bioactivity data. The database may be searched on the basis
of descriptive terms, chemical properties, and structural similarity.
PubMed
Journals Database(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals)
Locate a complete journal title using the abbreviation or an abbreviation using
the title.
PubMed’s
Single Citation Matcher(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/citmatch.html)
Quickly verify an article’s reference using just a few pieces of information:
journal title, author name, volume, page number or title keywords.
Purportal.com(http://www.purportal.com)
Is it fact, fiction, exaggeration? Purportal pages may tell you. Includes sections
with tips on interpreting virus warnings.
Registry of
Tumors in Lower Animals(http://www.pathology-registry.org/index_1.asp)
The Registry provides access to a dynamically updated archive of pathological
specimens, historical data, and literature pertaining to cold-blooded vertebrates
and invertebrates. Registration (free) is required to search the database.
FASEB
Member Directory(http://mercury.faseb.org/fasebdir/SearchMemb.asp?TSK=)
To locate members of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology.
Scirus(http://www.scirus.com)
Elsevier has created a "science-only" search engine to filter out
non-relevant content.
SciVee(http://www.scivee.tv/) SciVee, the scientist's version of YouTube, allows scientists to upload their technical papers as well as accompanying video presentations related to the paper. Their intent is to create a full multimedia environment for research.
Table of the Nuclideshttp://atom.kaeri.re.kr/)
An isotopic table depicting elemental decay schemes and energy levels.
TEACH:
ToolKit(http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/legislative/teachkit/)
NC State’s online tutorial for understanding the Technology, Education,
and Copyright Harmonization Act.
Toxicology Tutor(http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxTutor.html)
An Introduction to Toxicology, provided by the National Library of Medicine.
TOXMAP(http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp)
Toxmap uses interactive mapping software to help users explore the geographic
distribution of TRI chemical releases, their amounts, and trends over time.
United States
Government Manual(http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html)
As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government
Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative,
judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official
agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates,
and boards, commissions, and committees.