Lifes sciences and medicine
List of useful resources for researchers in the lifes sciences and medicine related to the RIN?s remit:
- 100 scholarly, open access journals for nurses. Nursing Schools.net (21 April 2009)
- 2020 Science - a personal blog about science and technology in the 21st century, written by scientist Andrew Maynard
- Adventures in ethics and science - blog by Janet D. Stemwedel an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University.
- Bad Science - Dr Ben Goldacre’s column from The Guardian, presented as a weblog. Articles generally focus on how the media misrepresents science.
- BioCatalogue - centralised registry of life science web services
- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine - blog
- Dryad - A repository of data underlying scientific publications, with an initial focus on evolutionary biology and related fields
- EASE journal blog - selected information useful to science editors. This blog is a working tool used to contribute to different sections of the “European Science Editing”, the peer reviewed journal of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
- Equator Network - the resource centre for good reporting of health research studies
- Expert Voices Gateway - blogosphere from the National Science Digital Library dedicated to featuring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics discussions and information of interest for teachers, students and other stakeholders
- Global Studies in Education Digest - GSED is initiated by a graduate students? collective at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Features regular updates on research and teaching in education
- GoPubMed - knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts. It allows users to identify experts in the biomedical field
- Health Blog - Wall Street Journal?s blog on health
- Lab literal - blog dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture ? science, scientists and labs ? in fiction, the media and across popular culture.
- Medical Wikipedia
- MicrobiologyBytes - blog run by Dr Alan Cann, University of Leicester, focuses on molecular biology and e-learning.
- NCRI Informatics Initiative - online portal for cancer researchers
- The Open Source Paleontologist - the role of open source software and open access publishing in paleontology, the latest and sometimes not-so-greatest ways in which we reconstruct the past, and the occasional bits of career advice and paleo news.
- PLoS Biology ? peer reviewed open access journal
- ResearchGATE ? aiming to be the ?world’s largest online scientific platform”, includes a self-archiving repository of journal articles.
- Science Life - a blog looking at the changing world of biomedicine, as seen from the University of Chicago Medical Center
- SciencePond - list of scientists on Twitter, listed by discipline and feed of latest Tweets.
- Scitable by Nature Education ? a collaborative learning space for scientists
- Sermo ? site for doctors to collaborate on challenging cases, share clinical insights and improve patient care in real-time. To date, they?ve generated over 30,000 discussions and sparked over 3,000,000 comments. Add your voice to the conversation
- Small Things Considered - blog from an actively retired microbologist on the width and depth of the microbial activities on this planet.
- Society of Biology ? the new organisation aiming to provide a single unified voice for biology: advising government and influencing policy; advancing education and professional development; supporting members, and engaging and encouraging public interest in the life sciences
- UK PubMed Central - free online digital archive of full-text, peer reviewed research publications for the life sciences based on PubMed Central (PMC)
- WikiGenes - Search thousands of genes, chemicals, pathologies and more
- WorldWideScience - a global science gateway, focusing on scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.