Category: Current Awareness
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URL: http://bioedge.org/ BioEdge is a free weekly newsletter about bioethical issues.
Coverage: Weekly news updates.
Format: searchable archive; RSS feed
Description: Aims: Promote human dignity as the foundation of bioethics; to promote evidence-based ethics in medicine; to show that medical excellence is not possible without ethical principles; provide high-quality, up-to-date information, and to facilitate the participation of health professionals in policy debates.
Coverage: Weekly news updates.
Format: searchable archive; RSS feed
Description: Aims: Promote human dignity as the foundation of bioethics; to promote evidence-based ethics in medicine; to show that medical excellence is not possible without ethical principles; provide high-quality, up-to-date information, and to facilitate the participation of health professionals in policy debates.
URL: http://www.biowizard.com The first online portal to focus on both the dissemination of information and collaboration within the scientific community.
Coverage: Free, web-based community for life scientists and physicians, aimed at making the world’s biomedical research information universally accessible and useful.
Format: Multiple
Description: Biowizard offers a host of features including its community driven Featured Articles section, PubMed search capability, up-to-the-minute field-specific news, table of contents from all major scientific and medical journals, a comprehensive products search, and online blogs that assist researchers in searching, sharing and discussing a myriad of interesting scientific information.
Coverage: Free, web-based community for life scientists and physicians, aimed at making the world’s biomedical research information universally accessible and useful.
Format: Multiple
Description: Biowizard offers a host of features including its community driven Featured Articles section, PubMed search capability, up-to-the-minute field-specific news, table of contents from all major scientific and medical journals, a comprehensive products search, and online blogs that assist researchers in searching, sharing and discussing a myriad of interesting scientific information.
URL: http://www.nyam.org/library/pages/grey_literature_report
Bimonthly alerting service in health services and selected public health topics.
Coverage: Bimonthly
Description: Grey literature publications are non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications. They may include, but are not limited to the following types of materials: reports (pre-prints, preliminary progress and advanced reports, technical reports, statistical reports, memoranda, state-of-the-art reports, market research reports, etc.), thesis, conference proceedings, technical specifications and standards, non-commercial translations, bibliographies, technical and commercial documentation, and official documents not published commercially (primarily government reports and documents)(Alberani, 1990).
Coverage: Bimonthly
Description: Grey literature publications are non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications. They may include, but are not limited to the following types of materials: reports (pre-prints, preliminary progress and advanced reports, technical reports, statistical reports, memoranda, state-of-the-art reports, market research reports, etc.), thesis, conference proceedings, technical specifications and standards, non-commercial translations, bibliographies, technical and commercial documentation, and official documents not published commercially (primarily government reports and documents)(Alberani, 1990).
URL: http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/
Coverage: Updating alert service for PubMed & Genbank.
Format: Results are PubMed citations, no links. Sorted by date.
Description: Alerting service that scans daily updates to PubMed and GenBank. Free weekly e-mailed citations based on your pre-written PubMed queries. Current contents listing of new database entries based on research interests.
Coverage: Updating alert service for PubMed & Genbank.
Format: Results are PubMed citations, no links. Sorted by date.
Description: Alerting service that scans daily updates to PubMed and GenBank. Free weekly e-mailed citations based on your pre-written PubMed queries. Current contents listing of new database entries based on research interests.
URL: http://scientificlawyer.blogspot.com/ Scientific Lawyer is a member of the Jurisdynamics Network: Exploring Law Amid Societal and Technological Change
Coverage: News and Reviews (updates on the latest developments in science and technology); Research (review of major journals including Science, JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine); Nature Groups (review of journals from genetics, medicine, methods, biotechnolgy and neuroscience).
Format: RSS feed
Coverage: News and Reviews (updates on the latest developments in science and technology); Research (review of major journals including Science, JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine); Nature Groups (review of journals from genetics, medicine, methods, biotechnolgy and neuroscience).
Format: RSS feed
URL: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/ WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Coverage: News and analysis on health and the business of health. Features: discussion groups & top health stories.
Format: RSS feed, Facebook
Description: WSJ’s Health blog offers news and analysis on health and the business of health. The blog includes contributions from staffers at the Journal, WSJ.com and DowJones Newswires.
Coverage: News and analysis on health and the business of health. Features: discussion groups & top health stories.
Format: RSS feed, Facebook
Description: WSJ’s Health blog offers news and analysis on health and the business of health. The blog includes contributions from staffers at the Journal, WSJ.com and DowJones Newswires.

