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. The CSU librarian contributing to the blog monitors a variety of sites and resources in order to distill items of interest.

Beginning in Fall 2009 the scope and focus of BANR has changed. Although other Websites and blogs will be tracked, the focus of BANR posts will be on CSU Library resources, changes in those resources, research tips/tricks, and information which is "hyper local" and of direct interest to the CSU campus and community.

When BANR was first launched in 2006, the focus and sites monitored were as follows:
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 2006-Summer 2009 (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)

This entry was updated on August 20, 2009