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"Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est."
Knowledge itself is power.
- Francis Bacon (from Religious Meditations of
Heresies)
Just
for Students
Great
resources for teachers, recommended by teachers /
Search
Engines /
Science
and Health Science Sites
Library
and Reference Sites / Grant
Resources
Just for
Students!!
Howard
Hughes Medical Institute's Virtual Labs
Fundamental Information Resources
Links to a variety of resources available on
UMMC campus and across the web.
Advanced Information Resources
Links to advanced full text resource materials
for BasePair Teachers and Students only. *log-in required
Reference
Sources
Links to reference sources (dictionaries,
directories, etc).
Lifeworks: Explore
Health and Medical Science Careers
Rowland
Medical Library Subject Guides
Scoping the Sciences and
Topic Tracks:
Prepared reference material on a variety of topical subjects.
Great
Resources for Teachers, Recommended by Teachers
National
Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html
Learn.Genetics
Genetic Science
Learning Center at the University of Utah
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu
Search Engines
Alta Vista
www.altavista.com
Ask Jeeves
www.ask.com
Ask Jeeves for Kids
www.ajkids.com
Awesome Library for Teens
www.neat-schoolhouse.org/student5.html
Google
www.google.com
HotBot
www.hotbot.com
Lycos
www.lycos.com
Yahoo! www.yahoo.com
Science and
Health Science Sites
BasePair
http://basepair.library.umc.edu/
Consumer Health Education
Center
http://chec.library.umc.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
www.hhmi.org
HHMI Virtual
Labs
Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Virtual Lab Series.htm
MedlinePlus
www.medlineplus.com
NASA
www.nasa.gov
NSTA: The High School
Science Classroom
www.nsta.org/highschool
National Science
Foundation
www.nsf.gov
National Science Teachers' Association
www.nsta.org
National
Institutes of Health
www.nih.gov
NIH Office of Science
Education http://science-education.nih.gov
University of Mississippi Medical Center
www.umc.edu
Library and
Reference Sites
BasePair Scoping the Sciences
http://basepair.library.umc.edu/scopingthesciences/index.htm
High School Hub: Science Guide
http://highschoolace.com/ace/science.cfm
www.jhlibrary.com
MAGNOLIA Databases
www.lib.usm.edu/~magnolia/index.ht
Mississippi
Library Commission
http://www.mlc.lib.ms.us/
PowerPoint in the
Classroom Tutorial
www.actden.com/pp/
Rowland Medical Library
Topic Tracks
www.library.umc.edu/TopicTracks
Virtual Reference Desk www.vrd.org/locator/subject.shtml
National Institutes of
Health
www.nih.gov
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IBIDS -
http://ods.od.nih.gov/databases/ibids.html
Available via Office of
Dietary Supplements of the NIH, provides published, international,
scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals,
and botanicals, to assist the public, health care providers, educators, and
researchers in locating credible, scientific information on dietary
supplements. IBIDS was developed and will be maintained through an
interagency partnership with the Food and Nutrition Information Center,
National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
National Library
of Medicine www.nlm.org
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Medline -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
Available via PubMed,
provides access to over 11 million citations from biomedical and life
science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles
and other related resources. Coverage is from 1966 to the present.
HIV/AIDS Search -
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv.html
Available via NLM's
Specialized Information Services (SIS), provides direct links to HIV/AIDS
facts, references, and other information.
CANCERLIT -
http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/cancer_literature
Produced by the National
Cancer Institute's International Cancer Information Center (CancerNet),
CANCERLIT has contains more than 1.5 million citations and contains
references to the vast realm of cancer literature published from the 1960's
to the present.
HSTAT -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat
A free, web-based
resource that provides access to full-text documents useful for providing
health information and for health care decision making.
NLM's Specialized
Information Services -
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/
Provides information
resources and services in toxicology, environmental health, chemistry,
HIV/AIDS, and specialized topics in minority health.
Other NLM Databases &
Electronic Information Sources -
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/index.html
Available in various
formats - searchable databases, bibliographic citations, full-text, archival
collections, & images.
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NLM's NCBI
Nucleotide
Sequence -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Nucleotide
Is a collection of
sequences from several sources, including GenBank, RefSeq, and PDB.
Protein Sequence
-
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Protein
Is a compilation from a
variety of sources, including SwissProt, PIR, PRF, PDB, and translations
from annotated coding regions in GenBank and RefSeq.
Genome -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Genome
Provides whole genomes of
over 800 organisms that can be found in Entrez Genomes, representing both
completely sequenced organisms and those for which sequencing is in
progress. All three main domains of life - bacteria, archaea, and eukaryota
- are represented, as well as many viruses and organelles.
Taxonomy -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Taxonomy
Contains the names of all
organisms that are represented in the genetic databases with at least one
nucleotide or protein sequence.
- NLM's Toxnet
TOXLINE -
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TOXLINE
Provides references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological,
physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.
HSDB
-
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB
Focuses on the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals, with
information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling
procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, and related areas.
HSDB is peer-reviewed by the Scientific Review Panel (SRP) with all data
referenced and derived from a core set of books, government documents,
technical reports and selected primary journal literature.
Toxic Release Inventory -
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TRI
Contains information on the annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to
the environment and is based upon data collected by the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). TRI's data covers air, water, land, and underground
injection releases, as well as transfers to waste sites, and waste treatment
methods and efficiency, as reported by industrial facilities around the
United States.
ChemIDplus -
http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/
Provides structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources
at NLM and on the Internet for chemicals of interest. The database contains
over 350,000 chemical records, of which over 80,000 include chemical
structures, and is searchable by Name, Synonym, CAS Registry Number,
Molecular Formula, Classification Code, Locator Code, and Structure.
OVID Databases (UMC ON CAMPUS
ONLY - via Library Home Page):
- CINAHL
-
http://www.library.umc.edu/
The Cumulative Index to
Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides coverage of the
literature related to nursing and allied health. Most of the
English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the
American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Selected
journals are also indexed in the areas of consumer health, biomedicine, and
health sciences librarianship.
- HAPI
-
http://www.library.umc.edu/
Provides ready access to
information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview
schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating
scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health
fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and
information science.
- PsycLit
-
http://www.library.umc.edu/
Covers the professional
and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including
medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology,
physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and
includes references and abstracts to over 1300 in more than 30 languages,
and to book chapters and books in the English language.
Grant Resources
American Cancer
Society
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/res/res_5_1.asp
American Heart Association
www.americanheart.org/research/
Charles A. Dana Foundation
www.dana.org/grants/
Community of
Science (COS)
http://fundingopps2.cos.com/
ED.gov Grants & Contracts
www.ed.gov/fund/landing.jhtml?src=rt
Foundation Center
www.fdncenter.org/
GrantDoctor
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/1999/08/27/
Grants.gov
www.grants.gov
GrantsNet
www.grantsnet.org/
GrantsWeb
www.srainternational.org/newweb/grantsweb/index.cfm
NIH Grants & Funding
Opportunities
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm
NSF - Find Funding
www.nsf.gov/funding
Natl. Center for
Environmental Research
http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/
NextWave
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/index.jsp
SchoolGrants
www.schoolgrants.org
Science
Diversity Center
http://sciencediversitycenter.org/
UMC Office of Research
http://research.umc.edu
U.S. Dept. of
Health & Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/grants/index.shtml

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