Internet Resources

for Brain and Cognitive Sciences

 Library Resources

 Found on the Internet

Customized access for the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester to library and selected Internet resources. Please contact me at jbriden@library.rochester.edu or 275-9299 with any questions or comments. Thanks!

LIBRARY RESOURCES

• River Campus Libraries and Miner Medical Library are gateways to library resources at the University of Rochester.
• Carlson Science & Engineering Library and Physics-Optics-Astronomy Library may also be useful entry points.
• An Orientation Guide describes library resources and services for anyone new to BCS.
• Search the Voyager Catalog to find books, journals, DVDs, videos, CDs, UR dissertations, proceedings and other library materials. Electronic resources are linked from Voyager records.
• New Titles identifies materials recently added to the catalog. You can subscribe to RSS feeds of new titles by discipline.
• E-books are available as large collections and listed individually by title in the Voyager Catalog. Collections include
  • ebrary - Search inside thousands of books in many disciplines. Limited printing is supported, and registration for additional features is optional. First-time users will need to download the ebrary reader.
  • NetLibrary - Search inside thousands of books in many disciplines. Does not support printing.
  • Books24x7 - Hundreds of current books on computing and information technology. Does not support printing. Requires individual registration.
• Articles
  • Find databases is a searchable, A-Z list of all databases from the UR Libraries. Databases identify articles and other materials by topic, and often link to full text.
  • Find Articles offers easy ways to search several databases at once, with links to full text and other options. Advanced Search lets you choose which databases to search.
  • Databases for BCS is a short, descriptive list relevant to BCS research interests, including
    • PsycINFO
    • Medline (PubMed) and Medline (OVID)
    • ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)
    • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts includes LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts), Biological Sciences and Zoological Record Plus
    • INSPEC
  • Databases by subject offers similar lists for other disciplines.
• Journals
  • Search Voyager by journal title to locate any journal (electronic, print or microform) from UR Libraries.
• Find eJournals is an online, searchable A-Z subset of the library's journals, with links to content.
• ScienceDirect, from Elsevier Science, is a subset of online journals.
• Trial Databases provides short-term access to resources the library is considering acquiring. Your feedback on any of these is welcome.
• Guides for Brain and Cognitive Sciences,  Sign Language and Deaf Studies,  Psychology,  Computer Science,  Biology,  Linguistics and Optics identify discipline-specific library and web resources. Subject Resources has guides for other disciplines.
• Use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) to request material not available at UR. We'll get it from another library.
• Use My Account in Voyager to renew library materials online, recall an item directly from the Voyager record, or request delivery of books and photocopies from other UR libraries.
• Place an Item on Reserve provides information for instructors about setting up library course reserves. See Place an Item on Electronic Reserves for information about library e-reserves in the Blackboard system. Further information about using Blackboard is available from University Technical Services - Making the Transition to Blackboard.
• Customized library pages for current courses highlight specific resources for each course. The same page will also appear in Blackboard. Please let me know if you'd like a library page for a course you teach.
• Off-campus access to electronic resources is available to members of UR with any of the following:
  • Net ID--From any library web page, when you click a link to a restricted resource, a popup window will ask for your NetID and password. After entering them once, you're connected for that session to all library resources. Find out more about NetID
  • VPN (Virtual Private Networking)--requires configuring your computer.
  • Miner Library account--access a subset of library resources in medicine, psychology and biomedical research.

FOUND ON THE INTERNET

• The Arts and Humanities Data Service publishes AHDS Guides to Good Practice on such topics as Developing Linguistic Corpora and Creating and Using Virtual Reality. Web versions of the guides are free.
• WebCorp, hosted by the Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES) at the University of Central England, Birmingham, is a "suite of tools which allows access to the World Wide Web as a corpus."
• Biometrics Glossary, [PDF] developed by the National Science & Technology Council Subcommittee on Biometrics, defines and cross-references terms in biometrics. The glossary is part of a Biometrics Catalog that also links to a variety of research reports, evaluations and conference presentations.
• Connotea, from Nature Publishing Group, is a free service that allows saving, organizing, tagging, sharing and storing citations for content found on the web. Their target audiences are scientists and clinicians, but it is available to anyone.
• PrimateLit: A Bibliographic Database for Primatology "provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities." Coverage includes articles, books and other publications from 1940 - present.
• Science Careers is an international publication from Science Magazine that covers "scientific training, career development, and the science job market."
• Browse All Disorders, from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, provides brief descriptions of neurological disorders, with links to information about clinical trials and support organizations.
• SfN Neuroscience Databases Gateway, a project of the Society for Neuroscience, identifies and links to a variety of neuroscience databases. Databases Linked Fields group databases by categories, including clinical conditions and species.
• BrainInfo, from the University of Washington, combines NeuroNames, Template Atlas of the Primate Brain, and NeuroMaps for identifying structures in the brain.

Updated December 18, 2007