Careers away from the bench

Science recently released a booklet about pursuing alternative careers outside of scientific academia:

Increasingly, Ph.D.-level scientists are searching for career opportunities beyond bench research. Not only are scientists interested in pursuing nonresearch-based careers, but the contrast between the number of graduate students and postdocs, and the limited availability of tenure-track faculty positions means that these are no longer “alternative” career options. From technology specialists to patent attorneys to policy advisers, you can learn more about the sorts of careers that scientists can pursue and the skills you will need to develop in order to succeed in nonresearch careers.

Sign up for the booklet here.

CurrentProtocols.com returns

From Wiley-Blackwell:

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced the relaunch of Current Protocols.com, a website for scientists engaged in experimental research in the life sciences. The new site will offer users the capability to: upload personal protocols to share with the research community, access scientific tools and calculators, participate in troubleshooting forums, get expert advice on specific scientific questions related to protocols, read and comment on postings on the Editors blog “Beyond the Bench,” access peer-reviewed video protocols, and search or browse through all Current Protocol abstracts.

The Current Protocols website can be found here.

We also have paid subscriptions to the Current Protocols series, which can be found on our Database A-Z list.

New sci-tech search engine: Q-Sensei

Science 2.0 Gains Another Search Engine: Q Sensei (From Lalisio)
by Barbara Quint

Another sci-tech search engine has joined others to serve the needs and tastes of scientists. This one comes from a small company whose main service is the Lalisio social network for scientists. While the 2 million-plus article content nowhere near reaches the size and scope of behemoths such as Elsevier’s Scirus or Google Scholar, the Q-Sensei search engine (http://literature.lalisio.com/oai.html) has a metadata orientation that offers some interesting search capabilities. It can suggest alternative search strategies and allows searchers to narrow and focus their search results in a manner familiar to traditional searchers. At this point, it only searches open access content from ArXiv and PubMed Central, but parallel services also reach IngentaConnect and a series of book citation sources.
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