Week 6: the
last
We've looked at a lot of different ways to find
information on topics and we've had occasion to look at ways to explore
literatures, to conceptualize the day-to-day work of science, to develop
personal comprehension. The process will change in its details as new
databases become available and new search tools evolve, but it's always
fundamentally a mental activity.
Today I want to tie up a few loose ends and explore a few areas that
aren't necessarily of use for your topics but might be worth knowing
about for other work that you do at W&L and after.
Some efforts to organize web resources:
Biosciences
(from the WWW Virtual
Library)
Journals, Conferences,
and Current Awareness Services
Pedro's Biomolecular Research Tools
Presenting the tip of the journal iceberg: we've seen that many
scientific journals have electronic editions, and that's clearly the wave
of the future. What problems does this solve? And what problems does it
create?
Electronic Journals
ISI's Science Watch
USENET: still relevant?
BioSci --access to many newsgroups
(this interactive medium seems to be in decline. Interesting to
speculate about why) (need to look at FAQs) (searchable archive)
Virtual courses on
the web
MIT Biology
Hypertextbook
Online Mendelian Inheritance
in Man
Some more specifically medical sites:
Search the
Virtual Hospital
Diseases, Disorders and Related
Topics from the Karolinska Institute (worth the wait)
Emerging Infectious
Diseases from CDC
Alzheimer Web
Ebola Virus
my own
exploration of prions (Winter 1997), and some additions in November 1997