DrugBank Online is a free database that provides information on FDA-approved drugs and drug targets. The database started in 2006 in Dr. David Wishart’s lab at the University of Alberta, Canada. The database is now managed by OMx Personal Health Analytics and the University of Alberta (Wishart et al., 2018). DrugBank is described as a “… bioinformatics–cheminformatics database with a strong focus on quantitative, analytic … Continue reading DrugBank Online
Given that students at different educational levels are discovering ChatGPT and its functionalities, it is beneficial to demonstrate how to utilize this tool to enhance their learning. For instance, ChatGPT can be a useful tool when teaching information literacy to support students’ learning and development of research skills. Here are some ways in which ChatGPT can be used in the classroom: 1. Reverse research: One … Continue reading Incorporating ChatGPT in Information Literacy Activities and Assignments
I work for an institution that is commonly referred to in a dozen different ways, among them University of California Berkeley (also with a hyphen, comma, or “at” after “California”), UC Berkeley (also with periods after the initials), UCB, California, Cal, Cal Berkeley, and just plain Berkeley. Even institutions that are referred to in less variable ways can change names, merge with another organization, split … Continue reading Research Organization Registry
In March 2023, a student group at the University at Buffalo invited a speaker to campus who regularly espouses inflammatory rhetoric. Outraged and saddened by the speaker’s views, the campus community asked the administration to revoke the invitation. The administration responded with the following statement: “First, let me state unequivocally what I hope is patently clear to all members of our university community: Hateful and … Continue reading Free Speech on Campus
eBird (https://ebird.org) is a citizen science initiative created by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. Through the website and mobile app, users can create a free account and contribute their bird sightings, including data such as the species, time, date and place. With an eBird account, birdwatchers have a secure place to store their sightings and checklists. Photos and audio can be uploaded … Continue reading Birdwatching Resources: eBird and Merlin
Geologic field trip guidebooks provide unique kinds of data not readily available from other sources. They often feature detailed coverage on the geology of a specific locale or region. In addition to including geologic maps and stratigraphic columns that convey the scientific details, other geographic information such as road maps and a distance log is generally included to facilitate locating key outcrops or other geologic … Continue reading Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database
ZbMATH Open is an open access database that indexes journals, monographs, proceedings, dissertations, conference proceedings, and collected volumes in pure and applied mathematics with database coverage from 1826 to the present. zbMATH Open includes the content from Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete (1932 – present), Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (1868-1944), and additional retrospective journal information back to 1826. The database has been … Continue reading ZbMATH Open: An Open Access Mathematical Literature Database
What does it mean to teach open science research practices? An important component of open science (OS) is training and teaching OS practices in the curriculum (undergraduate or graduate) in order to instill OS practices in the current and future generation of professionals and researchers (Azevedo, et al., 2021; Strand & Brown, 2019). When it comes to teaching open science practices, there are various examples … Continue reading Teaching Open Science/Scholarship Practices
FAIRsharing.org is a curated, searchable registry of metadata standards; databases and repositories; and funder and journal policies that are relevant to specific domains or types of data. Figure 1. FAIRsharing.org home page. Accessed 28 November 2022 at https://fairsharing.org/ Background: The benefits of data sharing have been powerfully demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic: shared data made possible the rapid development of public health policies, treatment guidelines, … Continue reading FAIRsharing.org
Systematic reviews, more broadly, evidence syntheses, collect and synthesize primary evidence in healthcare. Not only do these comprehensive documents save medical professionals’ time, they can also provide a higher level of evidence than individual studies do on their own. However, the sheer number of evidence syntheses (meta-analyses, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid reviews, and more) published each year is beginning to render these time saving resources unmanageable. A simple search for epilepsy and cannabinoids on PubMed, limited to Systematic Reviews or Meta-Analysis, yields 37 results, 34 of which have been published in the last 5 years (since 2017). Continue reading “Epistimonikos: Dig in to Systematic Reviews”
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