Health Sciences Research Resources

Please join us for a free RefWorks workshop at SFU Library. Workshops will be held on Wednesday, February 8th and Thursday, February 9th at 4:30pm, Burnaby campus library. No need to register–just drop in!.

Additionally, RefWorks for Graduate Students will be offered on February 22nd at 10:00am, Burnaby Campus Library, and on Friday, February 24th at 1:00pm, at the Harbour Centre building.

RefWorks is a web-based citation management program that SFU students, faculty, and staff can use to store, manage and export citations from. Use RefWorks to keep track of your references/citations from the library’s catalogue and online article indexes and databases.

You can also use RefWorks to help you format your citations and bibliographies instantly with MS Word in a variety of styles (APA, MLA, Chicago…plus many more).

I am pleased to announce that SFU Library has just purchased the online version of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology, a key reference title for chemical biology researchers, which can now be accessed through the library catalogue: http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b5836568~S1a.

The entries in Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology are designed to

• illuminate the crucial role of chemistry and chemical techniques in the life sciences
• support the information needs of researchers in the field of chemical biology
• provide relevant and readily accessible information to upper-level students and to scientists in adjacent disciplines

The topics covered include the following:

• Applications of Chemical Biology
• Biomolecules within the Cell
• Chemical Biology of Cellular Compartments
• Chemical Views of Biology
• Chemistry of Biological Processes and Systems
• Synthetic Molecules as Tools for Chemical Biology
• Technologies and Techniques in Chemical Biology

Statistics Canada has released an updated version of:

- Health Profile. The October 2011 Health Profile includes new indicators (e.g. mental illness hospitalization rates) and updates to existing indicators (including those from the Canadian Community Health Survey such as sense of community belonging).

- Health Trends. The October 2011 Health Trends has updates to indicators, such as cancer incidence, life expectancy and infant mortality.

Faculty of 1000 offers peer evaluations and rankings of literature in the life sciences, with the aim of achieving “post-publication peer review.” It’s also home to The Scientist magazine and lively blogs. While many features of Faculty of 1000 are brought to you via the SFU Library’s subscription, the database is venturing into open access with a new poster repository. Several SFU authors are involved in writing evaluations and otherwise participating in this unique database.

If you’re searching for a job in biotech, you should take a look at the BC Science Clusters Directory. This Excel spreadsheet is produced annually by the Vancouver Public Library. It features contact information and brief background on dozens of  BC companies focusing on:

• -life sciences: biopharmaceuticals, genomics, proteomics
• -power technologies: fuel cells, hydrogen, hybrids
• -sustainable energy: wind, wave, geothermal, biomass
• -environmental technologies and services
• -nanotechnology: molecular engineering, quantum computing
• -photonics: optical components, imaging

SFU Library offers a new tool called LibX which makes it incredibly easy to find full text online or books at the SFU Library. It’s an add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer. This guide shows you how it works, and has a link to download it. LibX is especially helpful for accessing articles via Google Scholar or ejournals when you’re off campus. You can:

• -right-click on a title, author, keyword, or phrase and directly search the SFU Library catalogue;
• -right-click on a title (etc.) and directly search Google Scholar (which, of course, can have SFU’s “Where can I get this?” and RefWorks links embedded in it);
• -right-click on an article’s abstract at a publisher site and reload it through our proxy servers so that the publisher knows you are an SFU researcher and let’s you view it (if we subscribe).