Charles University Second Medical School

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY

Some WWW REFERENCES

Biomedical information:

• Gate to information of UK (enter to databases paid by Charles University, pay attention to WoS – Web of Science  (general search – finds articles according topic and/or athor(s); Cited Reference Search - citation analysis of articles - citation reports in Web of Science
• Journal Citation Index – citation reports of Journals
• Google Scholar – similar to WoS
• PubMed includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources, gene bank – structure of proteins)
• HighWire - the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1020 journals and 4,134,306 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,606,985 articles free. With partner publishers it produces 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.
• full text articles in Medline, direct import of citations into EndNote and other programs
• Proquest - large biomedical databases, accessible from Charles University
• Free Medical Journals - many important medical journals are available online, free and in full-text
• Science direct offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online.
• Index Medicus (official short-cuts of journals, usefull for correct citation of articles and  journals

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Other www-pages:

• English Medical Dictionary on-line MedlinePlus
• SIGMAĐRBI Handbook of Receptor Classification and Signal Transduction
• GraphPad on-line Calculators for Scientists
• Interactive Atlase Anatomy of Digital Anatomist Project
• Merck Manual on-line medical library (disorders reference)
• Currency Conventer

Biomedical Journals

• PubMed Central –list of Journals , free access to full-text content of biomedical journals
• BioMed Central – open access publisher of special journals, always with open access to full-text
• HighWire (internet publisher of odborných periodik, full-text access to articles with 1-month- to 2-year-delay
• Journal of Clinical Investigation – very prestigious journal with free on-line access, The JCI is a top-tier journal publishing biologically significant findings with clinical relevance, (archive back to 1924)
• New England Journal of Medicine (one of the most prestigious medical journals)
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (very prestigious journal, free on-line access at short notice in PubMed Central)
• British Medical Journal (free on-line access)
• Lancet (prestigious mainly clinical journal, quite useful, free on-line access; full-text access for students and faculty staff (ask for pass-word ÚVI - Dept. of  Scientific Information 2.LF UK)
• Nature
• FASEB Journal
• Scientific journals published by Blackwell
• Scientific journals published by Springer

Mainly cardiovascular and respiratory physiology, etc.

• American Journal of Physiology (content and abstract, on-line access to full-text of articles delayed 1 year)
• Journal of Applied Physiology (content and abstract, on-line access to full-text of articles delayed 1 year)
• Physiology (nice neurophysiology reviews; on-line access to full-text of articles delayed 1 year)
• Physiological Reviews (content and abstract, on-line access to full-text of articles delayed 1 year)
• Journal of Physiology (content and abstract, on-line access to full-text of articles delayed 1 year)
• Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. (content and abstract, free access to full-text in 2nd Medical faculty network)
• Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. (content and abstract, free access to full-text with some delay)
• Circulation Research (content and abstract, free access to full-text shortly delayed)
• Circulation content and abstract; free full-text access from 2.LF UK-net)
• Cardiovascular Research (free full-text access from 2.LF UK-net)
• European Respiratory Journal (content and abstract, free access to full-text with some delay)

 

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Useful software

• EndNote (very useful to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs in any language, and create bibliographies and figure lists)
• GraphPad Prism (basic biostatistics, curve fitting and scientific graphing)
• DeltaGraph (scientific graph for Macintosh)

Pharmaceuticals, chemicals, apparatus and instruments,...

• Sigma (searching for and on-line purchasing of chemicals…)
• Calbiochem (searching for Pharmaceuticals, chemicals)
• Molecular Probes (fluorescence-dye for measurement and visualization of specific chemicals and molekules)
• ADI (A-D convectors with software)
• ALZA (implantable osmotic minipumps for in vivo infusion)
• Columbus Instruments (laboratory instruments)
• Harward Apparatus (laboratory apparatus)
• Transonic Systems (flow measurement in vessels, etc..)
• WPI (laboratory instruments)

Professional Societies:

• The Physiological Society (UK)
• FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology;
• American Thoracic Society
• American Physiological Society
•  Czech Physiological Society , Czech Medical association of J. E. Purkyně

Where to get money for your research…

• Czech Science Foundation (GA CR)
• Grant Agency of Charles University
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US), also for Czech sitizens,specially for young researchers
• The Wellcome Trust (UK, also for Czech sitizens)
• Marie Curie – mobility activity in and outside of Europe
• Grants net – foundation database
• Getting an NIH R01 grant – useful information about another foundations

Miscellaneous:

• Information Please: encyclopaedia, english explanatory dictionary,...
• Clinical Trials – database of all current clinic studies in the USA
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet
• Rodent resources (everything about laboratory animals)
• Primer 3 (sequences of DNA)
• Doctoral Study Programmes Conducted at Institutes of the ASCR
• Biomedical conferences – science events
• Database of Distance Learning Courses Links at Charles University, Moodle UK
• Career development center for postdocs
• APS Career Mentoring Website
• European patent office
• Starman Bohemia – professional books on-line
• Mayo Clinics
• Medicine and the media