Disciplinary Resources for SSCI

“BioMedia Associates is a group of biologists, teachers, educational designers and film-makers who collaborate to make learning programs for biology.” It provides “microscopy, closeups, dissections, and animations: revealing images, videos and multimedia of the living world.” Features like Creature, Galleries and Teacher contain many quizzes and contests, photo-essays and teaching resources.

http://www.ebiomedia.com/

“Case It! is a National Science Foundation-sponsored project to provide a framework for collaborative case-based learning in molecular biology using interactive computer simulations.” You can download “cases and DNA sequences for breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease, sickle-cell disease, Huntington's disease, PKU, Tay-Sach's disease, cystic fibrosis, DMD, and fragile-X, as well as forensics and phylogenetic cases” to help with teaching.

http://caseit.uwrf.edu/

"The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium actively support educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology and the collaborative development of curricula". Under Current Projects, there are comprehensive resources from different projects including Bedrock, Biocomplexity, BioQUEST Library, BIRDD, EOT-PACI, ICBL for your reference. You will be informed of the latest Biology related conferences at Calendars and development at Publications

http://bioquest.org/

The site is "A bank of digital resources for teaching biology" focusing on Organismal Biology, Human Biology and Histology. There are a large number of images and lecture PowerPoint slides from the University of Ottawa.

http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/

Established in 1998, the Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research (PIER) is a non-profit organization "dedicated to education and research of the marine environment." From their headquarters in Oceanside, California, their team of scientists continues to work on a variety of studies on thresher sharks, roosterfish, and the giant sea bass. One rather nice highlight of the site is the "Field Notes" area. Here visitors can learn about some of their ongoing research projects, which have included work on the swimming muscle physiology of the common thresher shark and the fine-scale movements of roosterfish. Visitors can also click on the "Publications" section to read the results of some of their scientific endeavors over the years. [Source: Scout Report]

http://www.pier.org/index.shtml

“Biochemistry Online was written to present biochemistry in the framework of a higher order organizing principle, based in chemical logic and understanding, from which topics and order of presentation derive.” There are nine chapters covered including Lipid Structure, Protein Structure, Carbohydrates, DNA, Genomics and Proteomics, and Binding. Lots of figures and images are illustrated throughout the content materials.

http://employees.csbsju.edu/hjakubowski/classes/ch331/bcintro/default.html

Biochemist e-volution is published by Portland Press. It "aims to give the whole life science community high value scientific features and regular news updates. It contains news stories a comprehensive diary of events, job adverts, training information, grants and awards, book reviews, equipment and company news and the latest from the magazine." You can freely access and contribute to the pool of resources.

http://www.biochemist.org/

This site is hosted by Oxford University and it "embraces all areas of computational studies of membrane proteins and related systems, ranging from molecular simulations of channels and transporters, to computational bionanoscience and membrane protein folding and stability" You are able to find lots of images under Image Gallery and numerous links to related resources under Links.

http://sbcb.bioch.ox.ac.uk/

• Mememoir aims to provide a wiki that is heavily focused on authorship and can help to dispel the prejudices scientists have against publishing in a wiki-like format.
  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mememoir_a_better_wiki_for_sci_1.php
   
• Wikigenes is the first wiki system to combine the collaborative and largely altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship.
  http://www.wikigenes.org
   
• iHop is a network of concurring genes and proteins extends through the scientific literature touching on phenotypes, pathologies and gene function.
  http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/

"CETL-AURS (Applied Undergraduate Research Skills) at the University of Reading has developed a new interactive online resource - Engage in Research - which is designed to help undergraduate science students with all aspects of the scientific research process. There are good examples of how to conduct literature reviews and improve scientific writing.

http://www.engageinresearch.ac.uk/