Internet Resources
for Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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!
Judi Briden
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Librarian
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
- 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.
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FOUND ON THE INTERNET
Freely available on the Web
- 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.
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This page is maintained by
Judi Briden
Librarian for Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester
jbriden@library.rochester.edu
Updated December 18, 2007