Updates to SDB CoRe
By Marsha E. Lucas
The
Society for
Developmental Biology Collaborative Resources (SDB
CoRe), our online collection of peer-reviewed images
and movies for learning and teaching developmental
biology, fully launched in January of 2012.
Currently there are about 70 images and movies in
CoRe with many more in the review process. Over the
past year we have gathered information from CoRe users,
contributors, and reviewers to
understand how this resource can be improved. Based
on user feedback, SDB CoRe underwent a few upgrades
this April.
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Updated video player (video courtesy of
Saori Haigo) |
Some two-thirds of
SDB CoRe users who access the site from a mobile
device use an iPad or an iPhone. Since these devices
do not play Adobe Flash videos, we updated our video
player to a new version that plays MP4 formatted
videos. This switch will allow for viewing of all of
our CoRe resources by a much broader audience using
many different platforms.
Additionally, we
updated our object pages to expand access to related
content.
Along the right sidebar we highlight related content
in CoRe as well as links to review articles in
WIREs
Developmental Biology, an encyclopedic resource
published in association with the Society which is
free to all SDB members. With the current updates we
now also highlight articles in SDB's official
journal
Developmental Biology.
Several other
updates were made within the CoRe system to make the
submission process smoother and more functional. Our
goal is to provide a nice collection of
developmental biology visuals useful for both
teaching and learning development. Please help us
make this resource great by
contributing your images
and movies to SDB CoRe. Let us know how we can
further improve the site by sending comments to
[email protected].
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CoRe object page with new 'Related
Developmental Biology Articles' (image
courtesy of Catherine May) |
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