STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced a special issue of Springer's Humana Press journal Neuroinformatics. The issue describes the new Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), an inventory of web-based neurosciences data, resources and tools that scientists and students can access via any computer connected to the Internet. The entire issue of the journal is available free on Springer's online information platform at http://www.springerlink.com/content/120559.
Edited by Dr. Daniel Gardner and Dr. Maryann Martone, this special issue presents the culmination of NIF development to the neuroscience and neuroinformatics community. An introductory White Paper summarises the project and its development in the context of the present and future of neuroinformatics, as well as the challenges of serving the entire neuroscience community.
An initiative of the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, the NIF seeks to advance neuroscience research by enabling discovery and access to public research data and tools worldwide through an open source, networked environment. It enables users to discover global neuroscience web resources that cut across traditional boundaries - from experimental, clinical and translational neuroscience databases to knowledge bases, atlases, and genetic and genomic resources.
The NIF provides deeper access to a more focused set of resources that are relevant to neuroscience, search strategies tailored to neuroscience, and access to content that is traditionally 'hidden' from web search engines. The NIF may be viewed at http://nif.nih.gov and other sites as they appear online. All components of the NIF are available Open Source to encourage multiple community, institution and publisher development of NIF-compatible portals and web resources.
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