Archive for January, 2008

Cell Signalling Biology Now Available

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Cell Signalling Biology, a major contribution to the field of cell signaling by one of the world’s leading experts, Professor Sir Michael Berridge (Cambridge), provides researchers, teachers and students with an essential online resource describing the biology of cell signaling. Emerging information on cell signalling pathways is integrated and presented within the context of specific […]

Who would have expected a reception at the Dutch consulate to bring together a filmmaker, a research physician and a medical library? Dr. W. Martin Kast thought Maureen Murphy was joking when she approached him at that reception about playing the role of Dr. Tulp, the subject of Rembrandt’s famous painting, The Anatomy Lesson of […]

Attend a Session on the New OvidSP

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Demonstrations of the OvidSP interface and the new Basic search mode will be held in the Norris Library conference room at 12:00 noon on

Tuesday, February 19
Wednesday, February 20

Those of you who have searched in the new Ovid Basic mode may think of it as a Google-ized version of Ovid.  The natural language searching makes it […]

Nature Online From 1869 to Present

Friday, January 25th, 2008

The full run of the journal Nature, beginning with volume 1, number 1 in 1869, is now available online. This archive includes the seminal article on the structure of DNA:

J. D. Watson, F. H. C. Crick. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid Nature 171, 737 - 738 (25 Apr 1953)

Nature’s […]

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that it is introducing a Creative Commons license for original research articles publishing the primary sequence of an organism’s genome for the first time in any Nature journals.
The Creative Commons license will enable researchers to freely share and adapt the work, provided the original is attributed and not used […]

Community of Science (COS) Available at USC

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Use this valuable resource to find funding, identify potential collaborators, publicize research, and conduct research online.
All USC faculty members, researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows can register for a free account to take advantage of the following services:
COS Funding Opportunities - Most comprehensive source of funding information available on the web.
COS Expertise - Database containing […]