Neuroscience
Fabulous taxonomy / English-Latin name translator site for the Animal, Plant, Fungal, and 2 more kingdoms from the US Dept of Agriculture. ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, lets you search by common name or scientific name of just about anything living.
Try a search for barnacle goose -- you'll see the taxonomic rank of the goose, its French name (bernache nonnette), its Taxonomic Hierarchy, and a few references. At the bottom of the page, you'll see an option to do a search for "Other Off-Site Resources", which includes BioOne and Google Images. A mini-, free, and workable federated search!
The off-site resource option searches the scientific name (Branta leucopsis), and at Google Images, you'll see just how cute the barnacle goose actually is.
- Share Your Data!
NiemanLab is trying an experiment: in a blog post called Share your data! Tell us how your readers arrive at your site: search, social media, the front door?, they are asking readers to do just that. Joshua Benton states what libraries know, that there...
- Government Web Site Widgets
I just had two great librarians talk to my reference class, and I learned as much as the students did about government documents work and GIS / geography sources. Thanks to UConn's undergraduate and GIS librarian Michael Howser and Connecticut's...
- Searchchat
Just read about a new search engine called ChaCha on Stephen's Lighthouse. It does search (they say it's real-time) and there are ratings / collections from various human guides on the results page. What I really like about it is the live guide...
- Best Of Gary Price's Nelinet Presentation
Cool sites I found at Gary Price’s presentation at Nelinet today: Google Video I know I’m the last to see this, but: way cool! Partly a competitor to iTunes video store, partly just cool stuff; you can download TV shows from here at $1.99 (I Love...
- New Web Sites
Added to Hampshire's "Doing Research in Computer Science" page: - GameTheory.net Covers many aspects of simulated games, including evolution, game design, and probability. Also includes lecture notes on broad topics in game theory. Java may be required...
Neuroscience
Taxonomies of Animals
Fabulous taxonomy / English-Latin name translator site for the Animal, Plant, Fungal, and 2 more kingdoms from the US Dept of Agriculture. ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, lets you search by common name or scientific name of just about anything living.
Try a search for barnacle goose -- you'll see the taxonomic rank of the goose, its French name (bernache nonnette), its Taxonomic Hierarchy, and a few references. At the bottom of the page, you'll see an option to do a search for "Other Off-Site Resources", which includes BioOne and Google Images. A mini-, free, and workable federated search!
The off-site resource option searches the scientific name (Branta leucopsis), and at Google Images, you'll see just how cute the barnacle goose actually is.
- Share Your Data!
NiemanLab is trying an experiment: in a blog post called Share your data! Tell us how your readers arrive at your site: search, social media, the front door?, they are asking readers to do just that. Joshua Benton states what libraries know, that there...
- Government Web Site Widgets
I just had two great librarians talk to my reference class, and I learned as much as the students did about government documents work and GIS / geography sources. Thanks to UConn's undergraduate and GIS librarian Michael Howser and Connecticut's...
- Searchchat
Just read about a new search engine called ChaCha on Stephen's Lighthouse. It does search (they say it's real-time) and there are ratings / collections from various human guides on the results page. What I really like about it is the live guide...
- Best Of Gary Price's Nelinet Presentation
Cool sites I found at Gary Price’s presentation at Nelinet today: Google Video I know I’m the last to see this, but: way cool! Partly a competitor to iTunes video store, partly just cool stuff; you can download TV shows from here at $1.99 (I Love...
- New Web Sites
Added to Hampshire's "Doing Research in Computer Science" page: - GameTheory.net Covers many aspects of simulated games, including evolution, game design, and probability. Also includes lecture notes on broad topics in game theory. Java may be required...