•  Nature Communications
•  Nature Genetics
•  Nature Immunology
•  Nature Neuroscience
•  Nature Protocols
•  Nature Reviews Cancer

Recently TU Delft Library gained access to SpringerProtocols through the  SpringerLink platform, which is Springer’s integrated full-text database for journals, books, etc. SpringerProtocols includes world’s most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed life sciences protocols.

 Text: Dirk-Jan Ligtenbelt

Currently more than 26,000 protocols are included in SpringerProtocols, which can be looked up, viewed and downloaded through the SpringerLink platform. More than 2,000 protocols are added annually.

The fields of study covered in SpringerProtocols are: biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, cancer research, cell biology, genetics and genomics, imaging and radiology, immunology, infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular medicine, neurosciences, pharmacology and toxicology, plant sciences, and protein science.

Do you make use of protocols at setting up your experiments?

You can access SpringerProtocols free of charge on the TU Delft campus.

Sign up for our presentation on SciFinder on 12 January 2012 at TU Delft Library! A SciFinder product specialist will demonstrate what the capabilities of SciFinder are and how you can use this information tool to your advantage. This session is aimed for new users as well as current users who wish to find out more details of the web version.

SciFinder NetID mandatory

SciFinder: Essential content. Proven results.

• SciFinder gives you instant, streamlined access to comprehensive content vetted by expert CAS scientists
• Broad chemistry coverage and all related sciences: analytical and physical chemistry, applied chemistry, biochemistry, biology, chemical engineering, environmental chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, nanotechnology, organic and inorganic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, properties and reactions, toxicology etc.
• One single source for scientific information from journals and patent literature around the world
• Search patent records from more than 60 patent authorities (including the major patent offices)
• Search over 34 million articles, back to early 1900
• Capabilities for exploring substructures and reactions
• Easy access via the web
• Lots of exporting options

Interested?

Please apply by sending an e-mail to Ask Your Library, our customer service.

A SciFinder Login ID is required. Please visit http://www.lib.tudelft.nl/scifinderregistration/ to apply for a SciFinder Login ID.

What is Mendeley?

Mendeley is a (free) web service for online reference management & reference sharing. With Mendeley you can easily store references to papers, books or even websites. You can work with the web-based version, which comes with a handy bookmarklet to instantly add references to your Mendeley Library without typing. Alternatively, you can install Mendeley Desktop and add references by simply dragging and dropping PDFs. You could also create a watch folder; any PDF added to the watch folder will be imported into your library.

The references and even the PDFs can be backed up online, with 1GB storage for free. This also allows you to access your library from any computer and even from your iPhone or iPad. If the storage is not enough, you can move to a paid premium account, or you could set up Dropbox  as your storage file.

Mendeley automatically fills in important information, such as authors, titles, journal, abstract, keywords and also the URL or the full text PDF.

Collaboration and academic networking

You can create a public or private group and invite the people you work with to share your references, but also annotations, tags and notes. The service will keep track of the activity within the group. You can join existing public groups and get in contact with people with a similar research interest worldwide.

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