Standards for Online Datasets

“We Need Standards for Online Datasets (PDF)”
White paper about the need to publish standardized datasets online along with proposed guidelines and standards. An interesting idea that would definitely make it easier to use datasets and to preserve them in the online environment.

Medicine/Health Science Resources for Friday

This is post 1 for this Friday because when it rains science resources, it pours! There are many great resources for this week so we will have 2 Friday posts. This first post is a group of resources all loosely related, in some way, to medicine/health science/human biology/etc.

Pathophysiology of the Digestive System
So this resource is a little bit older, but still a great online resource. It is an online textbook all about the digestive system. One very helpful piece of this site is the navigation among the sections and chapters which makes it very easy to keep track of where you are in the text and not feel lost.

Springer Acquires Open Access Publisher BioMed Central
This is a big move for the open access movement. Now that Springer owns BioMed Central, it will be interesting to see how this affects the open access movement in general and what it means specifically to those authors and users of BioMed Central articles. Stay tuned.

Computing Life: National Institute of General Medical Science
Great, multimedia site that demonstrates some of the ways that scientists use computers in their research. There are many links to additional resources, PDF of the Computing Life available for download and even an RSS feed if you get hooked on the site.

Animal Drugs @ FDA
The Center for Veterinary Medicine at the FDA now has a searchable database of approved animal drugs. A great resource. Pass on the information to anyone in the veterinary field if they haven’t already heard about this resource. It replaces the Database of Approved Animal Drug Products or Green Book.