Biology

Daniel Taylor Librarian Millikan 9th Floor danielt AT library.caltech.edu (626) 395-6424

Associations & Societies Biology Scholarly Communication Choices and Values Consumer Health Databases-Research/Biological Data Resources for Biologists

This collection is comprised of materials in biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neurobiology, neurophysiology, psychobiology and virology.

Associations & Societies

• AIBS Member Biology Societies
• FASEB Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Biology Scholarly Communication Choices and Values

• Ways authors can create conditions for increasing access to research content:
1. by using the SPARC author addendum http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html with all publishing contracts or changing the publishers’ contract in their own way.
2. by posting their corrected manuscripts in institutional digital repositories like ours, CODA http://library.caltech.edu/digital/ …, that comply with open access initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ protocols
3. by using Creative Commons licenses http://creativecommons.org embedded in their works that they put up on the net.
4. by selecting only those journals that are responsible in pricing; see http://journalprices.com/. 
• Kimberly Douglas' Scholarly Communication site
• Kimberly Douglas' articles in the GSC Newsletter
• What?? Journals Cost Tens of Thousands of Dollars per Year? (February 2005)
• Scholarly Publishing: Pricing is an art form; costs are in the eye of the beholder (March 2005)
• Publishing Experiments among the Experimentalists (April 2005, p.2)
• BioMed Central
• Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Funding the Way to Open Access
• HighWire Free Online Full-text Articles
• NIH Public Access Policy effective May 2, 2005
  • NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) process : NIHMS FAQ | NIHMS email list
• NLM Board of Regents Recommends Strengthening the NIH Policy, February 16, 2006
• Open Access Authoring @ Caltech
• PubMed Central
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Six Things That Researchers Need to Know About Open Access

Consumer Health

Databases-Research / Biological Data

• AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
• BIOETHICSLINE; other bioethics resources
• BioMed Central
• Complex Carbohydrate Research Center Spectral Databases
• Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses): Citations 1861-, abstracts 1980-, Caltech dissertations full text 1997-.
• Entrez
• Incyte Genomics Proteome® BioKnowledge® Library
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• NLM Databases: US National Library of Medicine's databases and electronic resources
• PubChem
• PubMed (Medline)
• PubMed Central
• Textpresso: An information retrieval and extraction system for C. elegans literature
• Tox Town: interactive guide to commonly encountered toxic substances
• Toxicology & Environmental Health Information
• TOXNET: a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, & related areas

Resources for Biologists

• American Society for Cell Biology’s images/videos & microscopy library
• Andre Brown's Biocurious Biophysics Blog
• Atlas of the Body (Anatomy & Medical Illustrations, from the Amer. Med. Assoc)
• Biodiversity Hotspots
• Bioinformatics Tutorials Series (BITS) A collaboration of the MIT Engineering and Science Libraries and Harvard's Countway Library
  • BIT 1.1: UCSC Genome Browser: Getting DNA Sequence (3:57)
  • BIT 1.2: UCSC Genome Browser: Using Annotation Tracks (5:47)
  • BIT 1.3: UCSC Genome Browser: Locating Intron-Exon Boundaries (4:56)
  • BIT 1.4: UCSC Genome Browser: Searching with BLAT (6:14)
  • BIT 2.1: Do I need to BLAST? The Use of BLAST Link (7:24)
  • BIT 2.2: Do I need to BLAST? The Use of Related Sequences (6:53)
  • BIT 2.3: Nucleotide BLAST (5:46)
  • BIT 2.4: Nucleotide BLAST: Algorithm Comparisons
    
• Biological Warfare Site
• BioMed Central
• BioNumbers
• Current Awareness Options
  • My NCBI
  • BioMail (current awareness service)
  • Medline via WOK
  • PubCrawler (current awareness service)
• Harvard Biology Links
• HHMI's BioInteractive
• Life Science Dictionary
• Linus Pauling Institute for Micronutrient Research
• Molecular Biology Sites
• Molecular Information Agent
• Moselio Schaechter’s Microbe Blog
• National Human Genome Research Institute
• NIH’s web on history of discoveries
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Researching Medical Literature on the Internet
• Smallpox - US Dept. of HHS
• Yahoo's Biology Index

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