Resource of the Week #197: A Resource for Pharmacologists, and One for Researchers with Work of Public Interest

Hello again. In Resource of the Week, I usually focus on 1 resource likely to interest much of the AuthorAID community. This week, however, I’m featuring 2 resources that might interest different parts of this community.

The first resource, which AuthorAID Director Julie Walker mentioned, is the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology. (The abbreviations stand for International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and British Pharmacological Society.)

This resource, which is being developed further with funding from the Wellcome Trust, describes itself as intending “to become a ‘one-stop shop’ portal to pharmacological information.”

Some parts of this website are “Targets”, “Ligands”, and “Resources”. Under “Resources”, the section on nomenclature guidelines might especially aid authors.

The second resource is article titled “Know Your PIO”. As you may be aware, a PIO is a public information officer—in other words, someone (for example, at a university) whose job is largely to help researchers inform the public about their work.

This article appears in this month’s issue of the magazine The Scientist. It provides good advice on working with a PIO, for instance to help publicize research reported in a newly published journal article that you wrote.

Perhaps at least 1 of these resources will interest you or someone you know.

Until the next post—

Barbara