The Library catalog (TriCat) will be migrating to a new server on Wednesday November 9. As a result, there will be scheduled system downtime for up to 24 hours.
Blog Buzz: October 29 – November 5
Some items of interest in blogland lately…
- Forget a better mousetrap, could there be a better lab rat? An interesting piece on animal models by Jessa Gamble of The Last Word on Nothing…
- …which is also home to Steve Jobs and the Limits of Genome Sequencing by Erika Check Hayden, just one of Ed Yong’s Science Writing I’d Pay to Read October 2011 picks
- Silly Season is a great update for those interested in current legislative and judicial news on intellectual property and copyright law from Kevin Smith at Duke University
- An interesting research blogging piece I neglected to include a few weeks ago, Laika’s MedLibLog continues her series on evidence based point of care summaries (with UpToDate and DynaMed)
- @EdwardWinstead directed his twitter followers to two posts on macrophages and cancer by Sally Church & Carmen Phillips
- A new melanoma screening device has been approved by the FDA
Web of Knowledge Offers Recorded Training for New Platform
The Web of Knowledge Website, which incudes the Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index), BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts), Journal Citation Reports (Impact Factors), and Current Contents Connect databases, now offers brief Recorded Training modules on the above databases. Continue reading