Wikigenes

http://www.wikigenes.org/index.html
WikiGenes is the first wiki system to combine the collaborative and largely altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship. In view of the extraordinary success of Wikipedia there remains no doubt about the potential of collaborative publishing, yet its adoption in science has been limited. Here I discuss a dynamic collaborative [...]

PubMed Now Indexes Videos of Experiments and Protocols in Life Sciences

PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s online database, is now indexing videos from The Journal of Visualized Experiments. According to the publication’s official blog, JoVE is “the first video-journal to ever be accepted for publication in PubMed.” The online, open-access journal publishes videos of experiments and protocols in the [...]

Drug Sensor Added to PubMed® Results Page

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ja08/ja08_drug_sensor.html
Editor’s Note: This feature was implemented in PubMed on August 15, 2008.]
The PubMed Summary results page will soon show results from other high-quality resources in a column to the right of the PubMed search results.
The first example of this new feature will be the Drug Sensor developed at the National Center for [...]

Electronic Enlightenment

NOTE: this is a subcription based database
http://www.oup.com/online/ee/
The online gateway to the long 18th century…
Electronic Enlightenment offers unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.
www.e-enlightenment.com

Coast Research Database

http://research.usc.edu.au/vital/access/manager/
The Coast Research Database provides an open access showcase of the University of the Sunshine Coast’s scholarly research output.
The purpose of the Coast Research Database is to showcase and make accessible the research output of the University to local, national and international communities. This will maximise impact for individual USC researchers and [...]

Database of Early English Playbooks

http://deep.sas.upenn.edu/
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks allows scholars and students to investigate the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama in ways not possible using any other print or electronic resource. An easy-to-use and highly customizable search engine of every playbook produced in England from the beginning of printing through [...]

ERIC Unveils New Look, Expanded Coverage

ERIC announces the release of a new Web site structure and design at www.eric.ed.gov. The new ERIC Web site features several enhancements that will make the experience of using the site easier and faster for individual researchers, along with improvements to aid librarians in supporting ERIC users. These enhancements include [...]

Acquastat

http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/main/index.stm
AQUASTAT is FAO’s global information system on water and agriculture developed by the Land and Water Division. It collects, analyses and disseminates data and information by country and by region. Its aim is to provide users interested in global, regional and national analyses with comprehensive information related to water resources and [...]

Algaebase

http://www.algaebase.org/
AlgaeBase is a database of information on algae that includes terrestrial, marine and freshwater organisms. At present, the data for the marine algae, particularly seaweeds, are the most complete. For convenience, we have included the sea-grasses even though they are flowering plants.

Paleobiology Database

n run by paleontological researchers from many institutions.
We are bringing together taxonomic and distributional information about the entire fossil record of plants and animals.
Our goal is to educate the public, summarize the literature for professionals, and foster statistical analyses of mass extinctions and other aspects of biodiversity.

http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl