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Scitable, a free online science library from Nature Publishing Group

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“…explore Nature Education’s Scitable, a free online sci­ence library pub­lished by edi­tors at Nature Pub­lish­ing Group.  Scitable is used every day by thou­sands of fac­ulty, grad­u­ate stu­dents, researchers, and sci­ence writ­ers. Scitable is a scientist-authored, cutting-edge learn­ing resource you can rec­om­mend with confidence.” 

New addi­tions:

  • Essen­tials of Genet­ics, a free course on the basic con­cepts of genet­ics, fea­tur­ing high qual­ity ani­ma­tions, clear expla­na­tions, and links to biogra­phies and research papers.
  • 30+ new Read­ings on impor­tant top­ics in genet­ics, each writ­ten and reviewed by lead­ing researchers and filled with links to research milestones.
  • Scitable Class­rooms, a free online research space that teach­ing fac­ulty can cre­ate in less than 5 min­utes. Scitable Class­rooms include news feeds, read­ing lists, and threaded dis­cus­sions.  Watch our “how to” video that shows fac­ulty how to set up a classroom

 From today’s email:  Nature Pub­lish­ing Group [Nature.Publishing.Group@information.nature.com]

OpenHelix — resources portal for genomics research

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Open­Helix Resource Newslet­ter today pro­claims the launch of an open access search and learn por­tal: openhelix.com web site to help researchers find the most rel­e­vant of the thou­sands of data­bases and analy­sis tools.

From their “About’ page:

Open­Helix allows “More effi­cient use of the most rel­e­vant resources means quicker and more effec­tive research. Open­Helix empow­ers researchers by
  • pro­vid­ing a search por­tal to find the most rel­e­vant genomics resource and train­ing on those resources.
  • dis­trib­ut­ing exten­sive and effec­tive tuto­ri­als and train­ing mate­ri­als on the most pow­er­ful and pop­u­lar genomics resourcs.
  • con­tract­ing with resource providers to pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive, long-term train­ing and out­reach programs.”

There is a blog.  There is a newslet­ter to which one is free to subscribe.

SCITABLE — online science reference library (Nature)

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“Scitable is a free, high qual­ity online sci­ence ref­er­ence library brought to you by Nature Pub­lish­ing Group (NPG).

Scitable cur­rently cov­ers the field of genet­ics, and will be expand­ing across other sci­ences over the next year.  Scitable’s con­tent is com­mis­sioned and edited by edi­tors at NPG, and peer-reviewed by the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity, so it is reli­able, exhaus­tively researched, and care­fully developed.

As jour­nal­ists around the world of sci­ence have been writ­ing recently, Scitable is the defin­i­tive online source for cred­i­ble and com­pre­hen­sive sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion for non-scientists. ”

Source:  email from Nature Pub­lish­ing Group, July 28, 2009.