Scholarly Recommender Service Trial – We Need Your Feedback
bX is a new scholarly article recommender service from Ex Libris (the software behind the “NIH Library Full-Text Plus!” button), providing researchers with recommendations about scholarly articles based on the researcher’s area of interest. This service will facilitate researchers’ finding all of the articles relevant to their research.
The NIH Library has free trial access to bX through August 22, 2009. To access the trial, simply use the NIH Library Full-Text Plus! Button as usual and scroll down to the “Users interested in this article also expressed an interest in the following:” section of the menu.
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NIH Library Begins Bioinformatics Program
The NIH Library has hired a leading expert in bioinformatics training and consultation, Dr. Medha Bhagwat, to support bioinformatics research at NIH.
Medha joins the Library with the diverse expertise in biochemistry (PhD from the University of Maryland), molecular and structural biology (postdoctoral training at NIDDK), and almost 11 years of bioinformatics experience at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Medha will continue teaching select bioinformatics courses, based on the previous mini-courses she developed at NCBI, plus additional new classes based on NIH’s current bioinformatics needs at the NIH Library Training Center. Medha is also available for tutorials and for consultations on issues related to bioinformatics.
The first of the new bioinformatics classes, Sequence Analysis: Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences, will be offered on September 16, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
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Brain Navigator Trial Through August
Brain Navigator is a powerful 3D brain interactive software tool for research in the neurosciences. It combines a number of atlases with 3D "virtual brain" software capabilities to provide imaging for research, education, and structure analysis. Trial access to the Brain Navigator Rodent Edition package has been granted to National Institutes of Health unitl the end of August. The trial requires online registration at http://www.brainnav.com for each user. Every user is required to login to BrainNavigator to have access to Brain Navigator’s custom features like personalized workspace annotation, calibration, notes sharing, 3D slice configuration and saving of 3D model configurations.
The NIH Library is especially interested in hearing your feedback about this product in terms of its relevance to your research. Please forward comments to Mary Ryan, NIH Library, at ryanm@mail.nih.gov