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Evaluation Guidelines for Intute: Health and Life Sciences (including the former BIOME gateways - OMNI, AGRIFOR & VETGATE)

"INTUTE < http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/ >is a free online service providing you with access to the very best web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

Intute: Health and Life Sciences applies strict evaluation procedures when assessing internet resources for possible inclusion. These procedures cover criteria reflecting the quality of a resource, such as authority and reputation; currency, scope and accuracy of content; and accessibility, design and ease of use. Detailed guidelines explaining these procedures have recently been revised and can be found in full at (click on Evaluation Guidelines):

http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/policy.html

Included in the same document you will find:

- a step by step guide to help you evaluate an internet based resource;
- a discussion of quality issues pertaining specifically to the individual gateways (Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Natural History,
etc.) that make up Intute: Health and Life Sciences.

For further information about these guidelines please contact Laurian Williamson at laurian.williamson@nottingham.ac.uk

Peter Hoare, Service Officer, Intute Health & Life Sciences University of Nottingham. UK"

Information for this post is quoted from the IAALD-L Listserv

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PMN Adds Proceedings Link

"Plant Management Network has now published seven proceedings from various symposia and meetings. To locate them, see "Proceedings" under the Resources tab on the PMN homepage. Proceedings may be published either as a collection of materials (posters, PowerPoint presentations, etc.) from the event, like the 2007 National Plant Diagnostic Network Meeting, or written and published within a peer-reviewed journal, as were papers from the Organic Agriculture Symposium. For more information, contact the PMN editorial office. "

http://plantmanagementnetwork.org/

Information for this posting is quoted from USAIN-L

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Introducing The Imaging Gateway
From The Scientist and Invitrogen

"The Imaging Gateway is a free, comprehensive resource from The Scientist. This first Gateway, focusing on the topic of Imaging, is a collaboration with Invitrogen, the leader in imaging products.

Access the in-depth information and resources you require to make the best imaging decisions by visiting www.the-scientist.com/imaging.

In The Imaging Gateway you'll find:

'How it Works' articles, best practices and tips from The Scientist archives
A compilation of the best features on imaging from 20 years of archives.

Antibody Search Database
Select the antibody to your protein of interest and filter by validated application, reactivity, conjugate, or host."

Posting quoted from an email by The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.com/imaging/

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"Encyclopedia of Earth (http://www.eoearth.org/) seeks to become the world's largest and most authoritative electronic source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society.

The EoE is an Open Source project that uses a modified version of MediaWiki as its authoring platform. The EoE's author wiki is restricted to individuals judged to be expert in their field by an editorial board, and articles are reviewed and approved by a subject-specific editor prior to publication.

The editor is a faculty member at Boston University and the library has had some input into this project."

Information above is quoted from a posting to the STS-L Listserv.

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Home Gardening AgNIC site

Information quoted from a posting to AgNIC-L Listserv:

"From Penn State:

Just in time for the 2007 gardening season, the new Home Gardening AgNIC site is ready to use. With links to the most important gardening sites from extension and business, this site will provide information to the academic audience and general public.

Major sections include: vegetables; flowers; lawn and turfgrass; gardening sites by state; large gardening sites; statistics and Federal sites; associations; Extension County agents "Ask a Question" and "Fun and other". Please feel free to recommend related sites so that we can evaluate them and add them if they are appropriate.

This summer we will add sections for books for "garden reading". Those will focus on books to read to children, in the garden, and books that are set in garden settings. We plan to add a section on garden newsletters. Any recommendations for these sections would also be helpful.

Please visit: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/agnic/homegardening/"

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