It can be hard keeping up to date with all the research output being published every month. UCD library has information on the library website to help you keep track. I also found this information on another blog that has a list of 10 resources that...

This week Nature is 140 years old. To celebrate Nature has published a two page miscellany with information from that issue and from others issues in 1889, 1909, 1929, 1949, 1969 and 1989. You can also check out the history of nature in words and...

The National Library of Medicine has just lauched a new interface for PubMed which has given the database a new sleeker look. Some of the changes un the new look PubMed include: A more streamline homepageThe tabs giving access Limits, Preview/Index,...

This week is Open Access Week (Oct 19-24). Open Access is a movement within the global research community to make the published results of scholarly research freely available on the Web. Open Access Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of the...

The 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes 'for achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK' were awarded on 1st October in Boston. Favourites this year are the Veterinary Medicine Prize for showing that cows who have names give more milk...