Friday, 4 September 2009

Plagiarism tutorial

This tutorial, developed by the University of Leicester, gives some good examples of what does and does not constitute plagiarism and some very good advice for anyone producing a piece of academic writing, from undergraduate essays to dissertations and theses.
http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/sd/ld/resources/study/plagiarism-tutorial
There are subject specific tutorials for Biological Sciences, Geology and more

Friday, 14 August 2009

ChemSpider

ChemSpider http://www.chemspider.com/ is a free chemical structure search engine covering millions of chemical structures with physical and chemical properties, spectra, links to Internet resources and more. You can search by name, structure or substructure, properties, etc

Friday, 3 July 2009

ARKive

ARKive http://www.arkive.org/ is a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species. Watch David Attenborough's short introduction to ARKive to get a feel for what this web site provides http://www.arkive.org/about/promo.html. The site has been recently updated with lots of Darwin related material.

Monday, 22 June 2009

Internet Resources for Genetics and Evolution

Intute's latest booklet is "Internet Resources for Genetics and Evolution" which brings together web sites, databases and learing materials in this area. Details are at http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/booklets/evolution.html where there are links to all the web sites and a pdf booklet to download

Friday, 22 May 2009

International Day for Biological Diversity

http://www.cbd.int/idb/ The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. This year, the theme is invasive alien species - one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, and to the economic and ecological well-being of society and the planet. UK events to mark the day are listed here http://www.cbd.int/idb/2009/about/celebration/uk/

New Internet Resources

New Internet resources catalogued by Intute for Earth Sciences and Chemistry

Earthquakes and Seismology
Coulomb 3 : deformation and stress-change software
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090403-10435081

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Organic Chemistry
Organic chemistry insights
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080924-17025278