Online Tools for Understanding Health Research

Nowomics: stay up-to-date with the latest life science research

Nowomics is a new current awareness service that enables biological scientists to follow genes, species, diseases and keywords to create a personalised news feed of new life science papers and research. It helps take the slog out of keeping up with research literature and provides new and popular papers in a personalised, searchable news feed instead of sifting though  email alerts and tables of content. Data sources include:

• PubMed - NCBI
• MESH - US National Library of Medicine
• Altmetric, tweets and Mendeley bookmarks - altmetric.com
• SNIP journal impact indicator - CWTS
• Entrez Gene, gene names and symbols - NCBI
• HGNC, human gene names and symbols - HUGO
• Homologene orthologs - NCBI

GAMSAT text now available for bioscience students

The GAMSAT Gold Standard book is now available for bioscience and biomed students. (3rd edition, 2013, edited by Ferdinand Bratt.)
The title is currently in the Short Loan collection at the Library information desk and can be used in the library or in the group study rooms. 

Finding information for science assignments

Need some reliable and relevant information for a first year assignment or a final year lit review?  Use the Kevin St Library Science Subject Guides to get started:

• Biological & Biomedical Science

• Chemistry

• Computer Science

• Mathematics 

• Nutrition

• Optometry

• Physics

In a hurry? Try some of these quick-start library guides: 

•  How to Find Dissertations & Final Year Project Lists

•  Off Campus Access to eResources

• ‌ Finding information for a final year project

•  Finding fulltext journal articles

•  Databases and effective search strategies

•  Evaluating Web Resources

•  How to use Google Scholar

•  Referencing and citing

   ‌ If you have a specific query just ask us : kst.library@dit.ie or @KevinStLibrary

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Calling all DT 204 Transfusion students

After a publication delay the long awaited Transfusion and Transplantation Science textbook by Robin Knight is now available in Kevin St Library for DT204 students. As of today there are 6 copies at 615.39 in Book Stack 6.

If more copies are needed or one would work in the Short Loan Collection please let us know. This is the latest text in the Fundamentals of Biomedical Science series held in the library. See also the IBMS (Institute of Biomedical Science) link.

Webicinia

Webicina is a free service that provides curated medical social media resources in over 80 medical topics in over 17 languages for medical professsionals and students. An webicina app is available for smartphone use. A selection of social media resources in medical and biomedical specialties are provided such as:

• Nutrition
• Microbiology
• Endocrinology
• Pathology
• Ophthalmology
• Bioinformatics
• Pharma
• Vaccines

Short Loan additions

New titles in the  Library Short Loan Collection for DT204 haematology students include

AABB Technical Manual 17th edition: 2011

Dacie & Lewis 11th edition: 2012

Molecular Structures Resource

The RSCB PDB or protein data bank is an information portal to biological macromolecular structures and is a free single worldwide repository of information about the 3D structures of large biological molecules, including proteins and nucleic acids. You can search by macromolecule, ligand or sequence and the PDB now contains over 77,000 structures.

DT204 : new etexts now available

• Biochemistry Schaum's Outlines (Kuchel: 2009)
• Blood Cells: A Practical Guide (Bain: 2006)
• Routine Blood Results Explained (Blann: 2007)
• DVT & Pulmonary Embolism (Blann: 2009)

To access click on the ebook link on the Library website and then on the MyLibrary Link. Or do a Title Search on the DIT Library Catalogue and use the ebook link to access the full text.

UK PubMed Central

UKPMC is a  free information resource for biomedical and health researchers and was developed with the founders of PubMed and PubMed Central and the National Center for Biotechnology Information. UKPMC provides a single point of access full-text articles and the abstracts available through PubMed as well as the following resources:

• 1.8 million full text, peer reviewed journal articles in all fields of biomedical research (the UK PubMed  Central repository)
• 24 million+ PubMed and PubMed Central abstracts
• National Health Service (NHS) clinical guidelines
• UK biomedical and health PhD theses
• European Patent Office Patents, Agricola, Chinese Biological Abstracts and Citeseer databases

Open access resources for chemistry, physics and maths

Two open access resources to research and ejournals crossed our radar today - have a look at

Chemistry Central and PhysMathCentral - both are operated by BiomedCentral which is an independent publishing platform committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed science research. Also available are the Biology Image Library and the Current Controlled Trials listing. Services such as articles alerts updates are all offered.

Irish Stem Cell Foundation

The new Irish Stem Cell Foundation is set to launch this Friday. It's an independent, non-profit organisation composed of doctors, scientists, patient advocates, teachers and students established in October 2009. The website has a special section with information for biology students and links to StemCellResources.

Infomine

Another useful resource to complement Intute is Infomine - a collection of scholarly web resources. Fo Science see the PhySci, Bio & Med Sciences links on the Infomine wheel.

Biology Image Library

The Biology Image Library is an online collection of images, movies, illustrations and animations across biology and biomedicine, for use in education and research. Developed by Biomed Central, an independent publishing company, the main subjects covered are:

Histology & Pathology
Immunology
Microbiology & Parasitology
Molecular & Cellular Biology
Neuroscience
Plant Biology

The Biology Project resource

The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona. The Biology Project is fun, richly illustrated, and has been tested on 1000s of students. It has been designed for biology students at the college level, but is also useful for biomedical students. Tutorials include biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, immunology, genetics and human biology. Click it and see!

ebook of life keeps on growing

An online encyclopedia aiming to describe every type of animal and plant on the planet has reached 170,000 entries and is helping research into ageing, climate change and even the spread of insect pests. The Encyclopedia of Life a project launched in 2007 says it wants to describe all the 1.8 million known species – from apples to zebras – within a decade. “We’re picking up speed,” James Edwards, the EOL executive director based at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, said yesterday of the 170,000 entries with content in a common format vetted by experts. A year ago, it had 30,000 entries. He said everyone from scientists to schoolchildren could use the EOL as a “field guide” or contribute a photograph or an observation of an animal. More details here

World first for strange molecule

A molecule that until now existed only in theory has finally been made. Known as a Rydberg molecule, it is formed through an elusive and extremely weak chemical bond between two atoms. The new type of bonding, reported in Nature, occurs because one of the two atoms in the molecule has an electron very far from its nucleus or centre.

It reinforces fundamental quantum theories, developed by Nobel prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, about how electrons behave and interact. The Rydberg molecules in question were formed from two atoms of rubidium - one a Rydberg atom, and one a "normal" atom.

Full details @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8013343.stm

Nano-life & Viruses: the basics

Part of the Harvard-MIT Department of Biology courseware for undergraduate and graduate courses, Nano-life: An Introduction to Virus Structure and Assembly covers the basic principles of virus structure and symmetry, capsid assembly, strategies for enclosing nucleic acid, proteins involved in entry and exit, and the life cycles of well understood pathogens such as HIV, influenza, polio, and Herpes. Aimed at undergraduate students, this resource provides access to a course syllabus, readings and assignments. Made available on the Web by the MIT at http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biology/7-340Fall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm&handle=20080915-14263911

University of Oxford Science blog

Click on the link below to access a science blog created by the University of Oxford:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/

Censoring Science

For those who thought censorship of science went out with Galilleo, Professor Reville's column in this weeks Irish Times provides some food for thought!

http://0-www.ireland.com.ditlib.dit.ie/newspaper/sciencetoday/2008/0214/1202509830767.html