BANR

BANR (biological sciences, agriculture, and natural resources) BLOG

Overview
The BANR Blog focuses on library news and information of interest to faculty, staff and students in the biological sciences, agriculture, and natural resources at Colorado State University. CSU librarians contributing to the blog monitor a variety of sites and resources in order to distill items of interest.

For a complete list of sites we monitor, go to BANR List of Sites Monitored.
In general sites we monitor include the following:
-- Selected science news sites
-- U.S. Federal Government agency sites related to biology, agriculture, and natural resources
-- Selected Open Access (OA) or scholarly communication sites
-- Selected prominent science library blogs
-- Selected science library and research listservs

Sites we do not monitor include:
Individual societies or organizations, the list would be daunting
Science policy or specific scientific legislation sites

BANR List of Sites Monitored (by theme)
Selected Science News Sites
AAAS: EurekAlert (http://www.eurekalert.org/)
BBC News: Science/Nature (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/default.stm)
Nascent: Nature's Blog on Web Technology and Science(http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/)
News @ Nature.com (http://www.nature.com/news/index.html)
New Scientist(http://www.newscientist.com/news.ns)
New York Times: Science (registration required) (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html)
Science Now(from Science Magazine) (http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/)

United States Federal Government agency sites related to biology, agriculture, and natural resources:
Department of Agriculture (http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome)
Fish and Wildlife Service (http://www.fws.gov/)
Forest Service (http://www.fs.usda.gov/)
National Agriculture Library (http://www.nal.usda.gov/index.shtml)
National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov/)
National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/)

Selected Open Access (OA) or scholarly communication sites:
Open Access News (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (http://www.doaj.org)
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) (http://www.arl.org/sparc/)
UBC Google Scholar Blog (http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/googlescholar/)

Selected Prominent Science Library Blogs:
Binghamton Science Blog (http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/science/)
Confessions of a Science Librarian (http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/)
EngLib: For the SciTech Librarian (http://www.englib.info/)
From your Science Librarians Desk (http://scilibrarian.wordpress.com/)
Science Library Pad (http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/)
University of Tennessee Sci-Tech Library News (http://www.lib.utk.edu/mt/weblogs/scitech/)

Selected science library and research listservs:
Science and Technology Section Listserv (STS-L)
United States Agriculture Information Network Listserv (USAIN-L)