Responsible Conduct of Research: online courses

  
This series of free online courses from Columbia University promote RCR education as a central responsibility for any institution involved in research. There are six courses:
COURSE 1: Conflicts of Interest   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 2: Mentoring    [Foundation Text]
COURSE 3: Responsible Authorship and Peer Review  [Foundation Text]
COURSE 4: Research Misconduct   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 5: Collaborative Science   [Foundation Text]
COURSE 6: [...]

ROAR & DOAR: Registry / Directory of Open Access Respositories

  I started to look for open access repositories and was getting absolutely overwhelmed until I discovered ROAR and DOAR.
See also eScholarship Respository (California Digital Library)
Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is [...]

eScholarship Respository (California Digital Library)

   Here is an Open Access resource I just discovered, from the California Digital Library (CDL).
The repository is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library, and is an open-access publishing platform that offers UC [Universiy of California] departments, centers, and research units direct control over the creation and dissemination of the [...]

IN-CAM Outcomes Database

  Here is a terrific new resource from IN-CAM, the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research, an interdisciplinary, collaborative research network, created to foster excellence in CAM research in Canada.
The goal of this database is to include practical and accessible information on outcome measures within a framework of domains that are important to CAM [...]

Cochrane Library: Free access for all?

  In an ideal world, all health information would be available to all people. The databases contained in the Cochrane Library are an invaluable resource for health professionals, particularly the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and there is a global movement to make the Cochrane Library available to all.
A number of countries now offer their [...]

A little Google history from the Internet Archive

 
I first heard about Google in June, 1999. But Google was actually up and running early the previous year.  Check out this Google Friends Newsletter for May 18, 1998 (originally a Yahoo group!) in which “Larry and Sergey” wrote:
Google has now been up for over a month with the current database and we would like to [...]

Drug Information Portal: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Drug Information Portal: Quick access to more than 12,000 selected drugs
This new portal is produced by the United States National Libary of Medicine. It is one-stop shopping for drug information, and your enquiry searches many souces at once. Here is a list of resources searched by Drug Information Portal:

MedlinePlusDrug

MedlinePlusTopics

AIDSinfo

LactMed

Hazardous Substances Data Bank

Dietary Supplements Labels [...]

A Google Scholar Primer

 Almost a year ago I wrote A Google Primer, which some of you have told me you have found useful. This week I took a careful look at Google Scholar, and I’ll pass on some of the things I discovered. Scholar’s advantages and disadvantages have been well documented and I won’t go into them in detail [...]

The Dietary Supplements Labels Database: brands, ingredients, and references

  Here is a new database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.  From the Web site:
The Dietary Supplements Labels Database offers information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements. It enables users to determine what ingredients are in specific brands and to compare ingredients in different brands. Information is [...]

Computer prediction: 1999 A.D.

Take a look at a prediction made in a 1967 film entitled 1999 A.D., by the Philco-Ford Corporation. Features include online banking (done by the husband, of course), online shopping, flat screens, networked computers, sophisticated communications and domestic surveillance.  Check out the facial expressions on the husband and wife, and the catchy music!
Here is a clip [...]