title: A survey of the neuroscience resource landscape: perspectives from the neuroscience information framework.
abstract: The number of available neuroscience resources (databases, tools, materials, and networks) available via the Web continues to expand, particularly in light of newly implemented data sharing policies required by funding agencies and journals. However, the nature of dense, multifaceted neuroscience data and the design of classic search engine systems make efficient, reliable, and relevant discovery of such resources a significant challenge. This challenge is especially pertinent for online databases, whose dynamic content is largely opaque to contemporary search engines. The Neuroscience Information Framework was initiated to address this problem of finding and utilizing neuroscience-relevant resources. Since its first production release in 2008, NIF has been surveying the resource landscape for the neurosciences, identifying relevant resources and working to make them easily discoverable by the neuroscience community. In this chapter, we provide a survey of the resource landscape for neuroscience: what types of resources are available, how many there are, what they contain, and most importantly, ways in which these resources can be utilized by the research community to advance neuroscience research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences and Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cachat
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bandrowski
authors.forename: Jeffery S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Grethe
authors.forename: Amarnath
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Vadim
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Astakhov
authors.forename: Fahim
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Imam
authors.forename: Stephen D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: Maryann E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Martone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D009488:Neurosciences