{"id":33,"date":"2020-09-11T17:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences-library-guide\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2023-09-14T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:39:39","slug":"web-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences-library-guide\/web-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Information from the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Useful websites<\/h3>\n<p>As well as the resources that the library subscribes to there is a lot of freely available information available on the web. These might include key organisations and authorities in your area of study, preprint repositaries, resource banks and subject gateways . These may produce research, data and reports that are useful to your study or you may just want to follow for your own employability.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dod.chemnetbase.com\/faces\/chemical\/ChemicalSearch.xhtml?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=EmailStudio&amp;utm_campaign=B009617_er1_4lb_6dp_d644_dodfreeaccess_3847548\">Dictionary of Drugs<\/a>: up to date and concise information on currently marketed drugs, those undergoing clinical trials, and pharmacological tools, this is a one-stop resource for the medicinal chemist.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugwise.org.uk\/\">DrugWise<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 free online tool, promoting evidence-based information on drugs, alcohol and tobacco<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/gquery\/gquery.fcgi\">National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) cross database search<\/a>: search a large number of databases, including protein structures and sequences, genomic data, taxonomy and more, in a single search<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chemweb.com\/\">ChemWeb<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 free registration service for chemists, with a newsletter alerting services that you can sign up for<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioimages.org.uk\/\">BioImages<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 virtual field guide with 30,000 images of 3,000 UK species<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uniprot.org\/\">UniProt Knowledge Base<\/a>-the mission of UniProt is to provide the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/\">Biorxiv <\/a>&#8211; provides access to full text, open access research papers covering bioscience. It contains articles that have not yet been peer-reviewed \/ published<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Professional organisations and societies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/\">American Cancer Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascb.org\/\">American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biochemistry.org\/\">Biochemical Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immunology.org\/\">British Society for Immunology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.uk\/\">Medical Research Council (MRC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microbiologysociety.org\/\">Microbiology Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsb.org.uk\/\">Royal Society of Biology<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Research funding agencies<\/h4>\n<p>They often provide major overviews of topics on their websites.\u00a0The two major research councils funding biology-related research are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbsrc.ac.uk\/\">BBSRC (Biotechnology &amp; Biological Sciences Research Council)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.uk\/\">Medical Research Council<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Major research charities<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/\">British Heart Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/\">Wellcome Trust<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amrc.org.uk\/\">Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC)<\/a> has links to many research charities.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When looking at information of the internet it is important to ask critically questions about the websites you might be using. The table below details those questions to consider.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-70\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences-library-guide\/files\/2021\/01\/Screenshot-2021-01-27-142541.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Useful websites As well as the resources that the library subscribes to there is a lot of freely available information available on the web. 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