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Nova (PBS) currently produces a podcast, a vodcast (video podcast), and an RSS feed. The podcast, currently produced about once a month, is science-story and interview focused. The video podcasts (currently twice a month) are excerpts from the TV program, and require Apple Quicktime 7 to run. The RSS feed links to Nova webpages that feature TV program clips, transcripts, answers from subject experts, discussion forums, etc.
This weekly podcast includes research news and highlights, including interviews. Nature podcasts were started very recently (the first podcast in the online archive is dated 10/5/05).
Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS) provides a tutorial web page describing how to print and save search results in SciFinder Scholar 2006.
Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS) provides tutorial web pages covering the use of SciFinder Scholar 2006 for exact structure searching and substructure seaching.
Chemical Abstracts Service provides interactive tutorials demonstrating the use of SciFinder Scholar 2006. These three tutorials cover general chemistry, biology, and chemical engineering respectively. They can be either dowloaded or run in a browser (requiring the Macromedia Authorware Web Player).
This tutorial (2 minutes 30 seconds) describes how to find conserved domain information. Conserved domains contain conserved amino acid sequence patterns, and correlate to protein stucture and function. Organism information is included in the domain records.
This tutorial (2 minutes 59 seconds) describes how to use NCBI's gene Map Viewer resource to access the promoter region of a gene.
This tutorial (50 seconds) describes how to locate intron and exon sequence information for a specific gene, using the gene table feature of NCBI's Entrez Gene resource.
This tutorial (1 minute 45 seconds) describes how to locate the genomic DNA, mRNA, and protein (amino acid) sequences for a specific gene, using NCBI's Entrez Gene resource.
This video tutorial (47 seconds) provides basic instructions for using NCBI's Entrez Gene resource to find information about a specific gene.
This tutorial (29 seconds) shows how to quickly identify all the full-text databases in a particular subject area when you're using the "databases by subject area" tool accessible from the library home page.
This can be an effective technique when exploring an unfamiliar subject area, carrying out an extensive literature review, or searching a cross-disciplinary / interdisciplinary topic (1 minute 35 seconds).
Cabell Library is located on the Academic Campus at VCU. Details regarding finding e-journals, online full-text articles, and locating print copies (current or archive), are explained (2 minutes 3 seconds).
This video tutorial (3 minutes 19 seconds) describes how to use RSS technology, to automatically stay current with a variety of information sources. This technology can be easily used with the free Firefox browser (as described in the tutorial), or with a number of free RSS aggregator tools (available for use either online or on your desktop).
New RSS feeds for tutorials (covering library tools and services, life sciences, and physical sciences) have just been added to the site. These feeds are active, and link to tutorials created here at VCU Libraries, and elsewhere. They will be periodically updated. A feed for engineering tutorials will also be activated soon.
Librarycasting SE is a compilation of selected educational and information resources for the sciences and engineering, with a strong emphasis on new media and communication formats such as screencasts (pc screen video), video, and podcasts (audio). Resources covered include those produced at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, the VCU campus community, and the extended sciences and engineering world community beyond.
A major goal of Librarycasting SE is to make available a range of brief screencast and podcast tutorials answering specific questions, and demonstrating specific techniques, relevant to the sciences and engineering. Conveniently access these resources at any time from your Firefox browser bookmarks or RSS aggregator, through the subject-specific automatically updated RSS feeds provided at this site. These tutorials are in constant production at VCU Libraries, and your suggestions for new tutorials in this format are always welcomed!
Pete Kirlew, Ph.D., MLIS
Reference Librarian for the Sciences and Engineering
VCU Libraries