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Type: Biología

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Other Works By Author(s)
Identify other works by the article's author(s) by using OAI engines.
  1. OAIster (Open Archives Inititive research databases) - OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services, and provides searching a wide variety of collections from a wide variety of institutions. These institutions have made the records of their digital resources available to access, and the project team has gathered and aggregated them into the OAIster service.
  2. Public Knowledge Project Open Archives Harvester - The PKP Open Archives Harvester is a free metadata indexing system developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research. The PKP OAI Harvester allows you to create a searchable index of the metadata from Open Archives Initiative-compliant archives, such as sites using Open Journal Systems or Open Conference Systems.
  3. Animal Info: Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals - Animal Info offers information on the biology and ecology of various species as well as current status of rare and endangered mammals. Also provides links to animal interest organizations and publications. Users can search an individual species index by common and scientific name, a species group index and a country index.
  4. ClinicalTrials.gov - ClinicalTrials.gov provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public, easy and free access to information on clinical studies for a wide range of diseases and conditions.
  5. BioMed Central - BioMed Central publishes original, peer-reviewed research in all areas of biomedical research, with immediate, barrier-free access for all. BioMed Central is structured into journals, each of which covers a broad area of biology or medicine.
  6. DOE Information Bridge - The Information Bridge provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
  7. PubMed - This is an experimental interface to several databases published by the NLM. Included are Medline and Pre-Medline, Popline, Toxline, GenBank DNA sequences, GenBank Protein Sequences, BioMolecule 3D structures, and Complete Genomes. This resource contains links to the full text of the articles when available.
  8. PubMed Central: an archive of life science journals - PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center.

Define Terms
Double click on any word in the text and it will appear in the "Define Terms" box. You can also type or paste a word into the box. Then use the search function to find a definition for the word. These resources have been selected because of their relevance and their open (free) access to all or part of their contents.
  1. The Dictionary of Cell Biology - Dictionary of cell biology provides quick access to easily-understood and cross-referenced definitions of terms frequently encountered in reading the modern biology literature.
  2. Life Sciences Dictionary from BioTech - Life Sciences Dictionary from BioTech comprises 8,300+ terms relating to biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics, as well as selective entries on ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine.
  3. Merriam-Webster Online - A dictionary based on the Webster 10th Collegiate edition, 1993, with updates added annually. More than 160,000 entries. Each word is accompanied by definition, pronunciation, usage, grammatical function, and a brief etymology. Includes a thesaurus. Misspellings return suggested spellings. The dictionary's search system supports internal wildcards and right hand truncation searching. Includes an extensive pronunciation guide and sound files for the pronunciation of many terms.
  4. OneLook Dictionaries - OneLook is a meta-dictionary. Enter an English language word or acronym, and OneLook will search its index of 5,292,362 words in 934 dictionaries indexed in general and special interest dictionaries for the definition.

Related Studies
Access to related studies by establishing a working link with an open-access (free) database, with abstracts and/or full texts related to your topic.
  1. Animal Info: Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals - Animal Info offers information on the biology and ecology of various species as well as current status of rare and endangered mammals. Also provides links to animal interest organizations and publications. Users can search an individual species index by common and scientific name, a species group index and a country index.
  2. ClinicalTrials.gov - ClinicalTrials.gov provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public, easy and free access to information on clinical studies for a wide range of diseases and conditions.
  3. FishBase - The FishBase Database contains information on over 27,000 species, over 76,000 synonyms, 137,930 common names, over 35,000 pictures, and over 30,000 references. Entries include family, order, class, English name, distribution, biology, environment, climate zone, and additional information. Entries also offer a number of links for more specific data such as synonyms, countries, key facts, pictures, FAO areas, spawning, reproduction, predators, diet composition, and more.
  4. BioMed Central - BioMed Central publishes original, peer-reviewed research in all areas of biomedical research, with immediate, barrier-free access for all. BioMed Central is structured into journals, each of which covers a broad area of biology or medicine.
  5. DOE Information Bridge - The Information Bridge provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
  6. MEDLINEplus: health information - MEDLINEplus presents up-to-date, quality health care information from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on MEDLINEplus for accurate, current medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, news, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials.
  7. PubMed - This is an experimental interface to several databases published by the NLM. Included are Medline and Pre-Medline, Popline, Toxline, GenBank DNA sequences, GenBank Protein Sequences, BioMolecule 3D structures, and Complete Genomes. This resource contains links to the full text of the articles when available.
  8. PubMed Central: an archive of life science journals - PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center.

Pay-Per-View
A pay-per-view service is for those who do not have direct access to electronic journal articles via subscriptions. The service allows customers to gain direct access to an article by paying by credit card using the RSC's secure payment mechanism. Immediately the payment details have been validated, the customer can gain access to the required article file for a period of 30 days.
  1. Ingenta - Ingenta restricts access to full text articles. Although access to the full text costs money, the site can be used as a free index.
  2. Infotrieve Online - Infotrieve Online restricts access to full text articles. Although access to the full text costs money, the site can be used as a free index.
  3. TheScientificWorld - TheScientificWorld offers sciBASE to give free access to a collection of databases of scientific, technical and medical research literature. sciBASE now also features immediate digital delivery of full text articles from over 700 journals produced by participating publishers, and sciBASE is particularly effective for users who do not have library support (non-mediated environments).

Portals
Offer an entry point to other websites.
  1. Nature Biotechnology Directory - Nature Biotechnology Directory Website, a global information resource listing over 8,000 organizations, product and service providers in the biotechnology industry.
  2. National Library of Medicine Gateway - NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Meeting Abstracts, and HSRProj. Useful to physicians, researchers, students and the general public for an overall search of NLM's information resources.

Online Forums
Choose online, open-access online forums that would enrich the context of the research studies on your site.
  1. MInd: the Meetings Index - Use this service to identify and locate the organizers and sponsors for future conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia, as well as conference proceedings (for future and past conferences).

Instructional Materials
Immediately initiates a search based on the subject of the article or paper that connects users to free current and archival articles in the field from leading newspapers around the world.
  1. Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education (SMETE) - Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education (SMETE) contains a searchable working prototype of a National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library.

Government Policy
Access to Information and services gateway run by the Government of the United States and Canada.
  1. FirstGov - FirstGov (U.S. federal and state) is a public-private partnership, led by a cross-agency board.
  2. Canada Sites - Canada Sites provides an information and services gateway run by the Government of Canada and each of the provinces.

Media Reports
Immediately initiates a search based on the subject of the article or paper that connects users to free current and archival articles in the field from leading newspapers around the world.
  1. BioMedNet News (requires registration) - BioMedNet News is daily, original, and life science news written specifically for life scientists. Full archive of news stories available. Free access for registered BioMedNet users. (Registration required to search)
  2. LentilHealth.com - LentilHealth.com provides search to find health news from over 2,000 online publications, updating as often as every 15 minutes.
  3. The Scientist - The Scientist is the online resource for the printed magazine, The Scientist. Provides access to information useful to those working in or studying the life sciences.
  4. Scientific American Archive - Scientific American Archive is the online science and technology resource offering access to every page and every issue of Scientific American magazine from 1993 to the present.
  5. Newsdirectory - Newsdirectory is a comprehensive and searchable guide to the world's English-language online media. Currently over 8,000 newspapers and magazines are listed, as well as more than 1,000 U.S. television broadcasters.

Google Search
Enter a search term for Internet resources through Google search engine.
  1. Google - Search using the popular Google search engine.

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