12 Apps of Christmas: open as a free resource

The 12 Apps of Christmas site is now open as a free resource and is covered by the Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.  Some great ideas and suggestions for managing learning, research, information and teaching resources via a selection of apps.

Scan,search and save your science articles with WoS

The RefScanSM iOS app, lets you scan and capture your  Web of Science/Web of Knowledge references using a doi number,  access bibliographic information and times cited counts directly from the database, and then save them to your free EndNote Web account to retrieve as needed.  For more info and the download link click here.

Science apps n more

Couple of useful apps from Science Direct that crossed the desk this morning:

 AcroMine automatically recognises biomedical acronyms and provides their expanded forms (definitions) - and vice versa. AcroMine is based on an acronym dictionary automatically built from MEDLINE. It can also be used to search for variant expansions of an acronym.







  The Protein Interaction Browser visualizes the protein interactions that are reported in the Structured Summaries of the online articles of the Elsevier FEBS Letters journal. The proteins whose interactions are described in the article are drawn as blue nodes connected by yellow edges and displayed in relation to the global interactome.

Biblimed : Medline interface app

- Autocompletion & Suggestions: biomedical keywords (MeSH terms, synonyms and substances).

- Query refinement: search by subheading (therapeutic use, adverse effects)

- Many filters: publication types, subjects, clinical & genetics

- Easy export & History: PubMed, Zotero etc.

- Contextual links: related articles & books, clinical trials,  Entrez cross-database, MedlinePlus

Click here for the Biblimed app. For more related apps see the Science Direct database

Science Direct free visual apps

The Lancet  carries multimedia items such as podcasts and video’s that are not available on ScienceDirect. This application appears alongside The Lancet articles in ScienceDirect and will list these featured multimedia items enabling users to click through and view them on the Lancet. View a ScienceDirect sample article.

 

 

Protein Viewer is a Jmol-based application for ScienceDirect which is displayed below the abstract if the article contains author-tagged protein identifiers, allowing you to browse through all protein models tagged in the article and interactively explore each of them.

 

The Elsevier’s 3D molecular viewer visualizes molecular structures provided by the authors next to the Science Direct article, in the right hand side panel. View the Science Direct example article

 

Web of Knowledge goes mobile

You can access Web of Knowledge  at any time : link to the mobile device at http://m.webofknowledge.com/

To use Anywhere/Anytime Access, you must have a Web of Knowledge username and password. To set one up follow the steps below:

1. Go to http://www.webofknowledge.com/ from an IP authenticated computer.
2. Click Sign In along the top navigation
3. Click Register to create a new account You will be asked to enter your email address to verify that an account does not already exist for you.
4. If an account does not already exist, you will be prompted to fill in the User Registration page.
5. After the username and password you have entered is verified, it will become active.

RSC app for Chemists

The new free RSC Mobile app for iOS (iPad, iPhone and iPod) is available on iTunes. To access RSC Publishing resources app click here. RSC app for android is due in early 2012

DIT Library app

A new DIT Library app 'Library Anywhere' is now available. Click here to use the app. Access your library account, use the catalogue, Arrow research repository and ejournals all from your smartphone.

NLM apps

Hot on the heels of other information providers the National Library of Medicine is now providing a selection of apps and mobile website links for those who like to research on the move or use an iPad. Have a look at their range of mobile technology services if it's the kind of thing that works for you. Resources covered include DailyMed, PubMed and Medline Mobile amongst others.

Science Direct mobile

Need full-text but not at your desk? The SciVerse ScienceDirect database iPhone app doesn't restrict your brainwaves to the workplace; now you can find and read your subscribed Elsevier article on the move.
 Click here for the itunes app link.

ChemSpider App

ChemSpider Mobile

A free iOS app (iPhone, iPod, iPad) for searching ChemSpider the free online chemical database is now available at  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chemspider/id458878661

So why use it?

*  Provides the ability to search by drawing a chemical structure or entering a compound name.

* Straightforward and easy to use.

* Search results shown in a list showing structures and names.

* Any search result can be examined in more detail by launching the mobile browser and viewing the structure on the ChemSpider web page.

Free access to Cambridge eJournals

All Cambridge eJournals for 2009 and 2010 are free to access until 30th August.

To access simply visit journals.cambridge.org or click here and browse by subject or title.

Mobile access is also available via CJOm.

Research on the move....

To make life a little bit easier Academic Search Premier and other Ebsco hosted databases are now available as iPhone and iPod touch applications for use on the go outside DIT library. To get the app click into the Academic Search Premier database on the DIT Library website as usual and then find the link at the end of the Ebsco frontpage. Other databases available to search, find fulltext  and save articles are Business Search Premier and UK/Ireland Reference Centre. Tried and tested by this blogger - this works! The android app is in development....