Helpful site from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) helps researchers apply for NIH grants and stay informed in funding opportunities. Sample and advice on writing grant proposals for various types of studies and for audiences at various stages of career development.

"Guide to Effective Grant Writing is a straightforward, common-sense guide to one of the most important skills required of all academic researchers: getting funding from the NIH for your research. A successful scientist, Otto O. Yang, shares his perspective from both ends: as a pioneering researcher applying for funding as well as an NIH scientific consultant reviewing grants. Guide to Effective Grant Writing gives the reader a step-by-step account on how to write a grant application while highlighting the important areas that are often neglected or erroneous. It is the definitive guide to the NIH review process, explaining how the NIH assesses grants and how one approaches the process of grant applications from start to finish."--BOOK JACKET.

"This book is ideal for graduate students, medical and post-doctoral fellows, and junior and even senior research faculty applying for grants awarded annually from any of the various divisions of the National Institutes of Health. Like a helpful mentor sitting beside the reader, this guide is also an excellent supplemental text for graduate courses and seminars on grant and proposal writing within the social and behavioral sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

Google Scholar has convinced many publishers to allow their robots to index their sites. As a result, many articles can be found and are ranked by the prominence of the author's and journal's previous papers, how many citations it already has, when it was written, and so on. Look for the new link on the upper right for "Recent articles" -- or switch to "All articles" for the full list. Click on "Group of n" to find alternate ways to get full text.

More project info and search tips are available .

NAR (Nucleic Acids Research, Jan database issue) Updates of Molecular biology database collection.  This list compiled from previous NAR issues and other journals exceeds 1,000 for the first time in its 12 year history in 2008.

An interdisciplinary database which has much full-text. Always a good place to start. Covers 1971-present.

Provides full-text access to life sciences journal literature. Sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Coverage dates vary by journal.

EBSCO HealthSource: Nursing/Academic (Requires PA public library card)

Fulltext search of millions of books digitized by Google Books. You can read the context in a snippet and then find out if you have this book from your library.

Publicly available version of Worldcat, a catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries nationwide. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Find out where a copy of a book is located near you and save book titles in your own workspace with free registration.

Save your references in a web-accessible server and write your paper on different computers and output the bibliography in various styles. Microsoft Word Plugin called Cite While U Write is a useful tool to automate in-text citations and keep track of works cited in perfect order.

For a quick summary, see the Triico guide for Endnote web: Biological/Medical Databases.

You can also print out the Official Endnote Web Quick Reference PDF.

Great tool for capturing website link and snapshot as you found it. Keep your fulltext articles linked to your references with room for notes. Especially useful if you use the same computer to do your work. A word-processor plug in is now in beta-testing for Word and Google Docs.

"Adopted by hundreds of instructors and used by tens of thousands of students nationwide, A Short Guide to Writing about Biology has established itself as the definitive text in its field." "Brief yet comprehensive, this practical text helps students at all levels learn how to communicate effectively with both professional and general audiences, and encourages them to think like biologists and to express that thinking clearly and concisely, in both writing and speaking. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

"This textbook aims to demystify statistical formulae for the average biologist. Basic methods are presented using jargon-free language. Students are taught to use simple formulae to interpret what is being measured with each test and statistic, while learning to recognize overall patterns and guiding principles."--BOOK JACKET.

Good place to look for great resources that are available for a limited time only! For example, on trial now is Science Signaling, a useful portal and original research articles and a compendium of signaling articles from other peer-reviewed journals. This is available until Dec 15.

Other useful science resources to be used now are two encyclopedias for public health. Give us feedback to help us select useful resources wisely. No feedback often means no consideration to purchase.