DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research with over 30 million articles from thousands of authoritative journals.  A DeepDyve user can rent an article and read its full-text for up to 24 hours for as little as $0.99 per article. These articles can only be viewed at DeepDyve and cannot be downloaded, printed or shared.

You also have the option of choosing the Silver ($9.99 per month) or Gold ($19.99 per month) monthly plans. These plans provide even greater flexibility and more peace of mind by allowing you to easily rent more articles per month, for longer periods of time. Free trial.

Society for Neuroscience has published a new report “Neuroscience Research in Education Summit: The Promise of Interdisciplinary Partnerships Between Brain Sciences and Education.” The report explores the intersection of neuroscience research and education policy and practice.

eCAT is an innovative and easy to use  online electronic lab notebook that allows lab scientists record experiments and manage data over the web. Everyone in the team – a lab or groups of labs – can share the diverse collections of data that scientists generate, such as images and spreadsheets, reagents, results and ideas.  eCAT is also used to manage scientific inventory, whether it’s freezer samples, animals, or supplies.

eCAT is priced to be affordable in non-commercial settings. The Install version is available for 10 users at $1,000, and an annual 10 user license for the Team Hosted version is  $1,000. Volume discounts for larger user groups are specified on www.axiope.com.

PubCrawler is a free “alerting” service that searches the NCBI PubMed (Medline) and Entrez (GenBank) databases daily using search parameters (keywords, author names, etc.) specified by the user. PubCrawler was developed by Karsten Hokamp and Ken Wolfe in the Department of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The public web service has been in use since March 1999. There is no limit on the number of searches that can be carried out.  Previous search hits are stored and only the newest PubMed or GenBank records are shown each day.  The results are presented as an HTML Web page, similar to the results of an NCBI PubMed or Entrez query.  This Web page can be located on our computer (the PubCrawler WWW-Service), on your computer (the stand-alone program), or you can receive it via e-mail (set this up using the PubCrawler WWW-Service). The Web page sorts the results into groups of PubMed/GenBank entries that are zero-days-old, 1-day-old, 2-days-old, etc., up to a user-specified age limit.

NeuroPod, the neuroscience podcast from Nature produced in association with the Dana Foundation, casts the latest research on the brain, from its molecular makings to the mysteries of the mind.  It also brings the latest news from neuroscience conferences around the globe, along with special reports on hot areas in neuroscience.

Following in the footsteps of its sister journal the prestigious Genome Biology, Genome Medicine is BioMed Central’s premier medical journal. To celebrate the launch of Genome Medicine, all subscription content has been free to access throughout 2009.

From January 2010 non-research articles including the following will be accessible via subscription only:

Comprehensive review articles
Research-related editorials
Wide-ranging meeting reports
Expert commentaries