Videos and Podcasts on Ecology and Evolution

Videos and Podcasts from the British Ecological Society's journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution http://www.methodsinecologyandevolution.org/view/0/podcasts.html, including interviews with authors and tutorials on methods in ecological modelling. Also have a look at the Methods blog http://methodsblog.wordpress.com/ to keep up to date

New resource on Scientific Poster Presentations

http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/bio/posters.html
This new web site from University of Buffalo Libraries brings together case studies, links to other web sites and a list of books on scientific poster presentations. The resources give guidance on creating a good poster and also using them in teaching and learning.

Resources for Pharmacy students

The Library now has a number of online reference works useful for Pharmacy students - a select list is below:

A-Z of Medicinal Drugs
Black's Medical Dictionary
Dictionary of Medical Terms
Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary
Oxford Companion to Medicine
Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary
Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary
Royal Society of Medicine Health Encyclopaedia

see more.....

Library workshops on the Citation Indexes

There will be workshops in the Library on how to get the best out of the Citation Indexes (Web of Science) on Saturday 13th November. There will be an introductory session at 11.30am and an advanced session at 2pm. If you would like to attend, please go to http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/news/infoskills.

Online Reference works from Knovel

Looking for scientific data? The Library has access to several online reference works from Knovel which may help. These include:

*International critical tables of numerical data - physics, chemistry and technology
*Knovel critical tables
*Metallic materials properties
*Smithsonian Physical tables

See the full list and access these reference works here

The Microbiology Blog

Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists.
Microbiology news and views to help you keep up-to-date on current research, forthcoming conferences, hot research topics, high impact publications, new books and much more.

World Environment Day 2010

June 5th is World Environment Day - for information on what's happening and how to get involved see the World Environment Day web site

If you are looking for information on the environment, try these databases that the Library subcribes to:
Agricola - books and journals on agriculture
GreenFile - journal articles on human impact on the environment
JSTOR - covers several major ecology journals in full text

Want to find good web resources on the environment? Try the Intute database environment section

Give us your views and win £100 in John Lewis vouchers!

The Library is conducting a survey of students and wants to hear what you think of the Library and its services. This will help us to improve what we provide to you. Those who complete the questionnaire will be entered into a prize draw.
First prize - £100 in John Lewis vouchers
2nd prize - £50 in John Lewis vouchers
Five prizes of £10 in John Lewis vouchers.
The survey is available until 25th. June 2010 at: http://tinyurl.com/2vofnhw.

ScienceDirect's Top 25

Keep up with the latest research in your subject area with ScienceDirect's Top 25. Every quarter they list the 25 papers with the most downloads in a variety of subject areas. Check the latest list for your subject area at http://top25.sciencedirect.com. You can also sign up to receive the list as a quarterly email alert.

Learn to use EndNote Web

Want to learn more about EndNote Web? These YouTube videos from EndNote Training will help you to get started. EndNote Web will help you store your references and also works with Word to help you with writing up a piece of work by inserting citations correctly for you and automatically compiling your bibliography. See how to sign up for an account here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecNCZJ7udUQ and see the list of videos to the left of this one for more tutorials.

More information on EndNote and EndNote Web is here http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/elib/endnote

I am available for group and one-to-one help with using EndNote and EndNote Web- my contact details are on the Library web site here http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lib/contact/sue/. Please feel free to call or email me.

Feast your eyes ...

... on these two fabulous image sites:
Wellcome Images: Historical images from the Wellcome Library collections - Tibetan Buddhist paintings, ancient Sanskrit manuscripts written on palm leaves, beautifully illuminated Persian books and much more.
The Biomedical Collection holds over 40 000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. Selected from the UK's leading teaching hospitals and research institutions, it covers disease, surgery, general healthcare and sciences from genetics to neuroscience including the full range of imaging techniques. See also the Wellcome Image awards 2009 for the latest award winning images.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is on at the Natural History Museum until 11th April 2010 and is well worth a visit. Read about the controversy surrounding the winning picture that has been disqualified http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/wolf-wildlife-photographer-award-stripped

Keeping up to date with alerting services

There are a plethora of ways to keep up to date with the journal literature in your subject area - a few alerting sites you might want to investigate are listed below.

• TicTocs - a journal alerting service that covers hundreds of journals from different publishers http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
• Zetoc - a journal alerting service from the British Library. Go to http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ and click on Alerts
• PubCrawler - an alerting service for PubMed and Genbank http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/
• ScienceDirect also gives you the opportunity to set up alerts to the journals it contains . Go to http://www.sciencedirect.com/ and click on the Alerts link
• Use the Web of Science to create journal and search alerts. Go to http://isiknowledge.com/wos Sign in to create a profile and you can then create your journal alerts and search alerts