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