@article {Somers:2013:1525-4011:43,
title = "BiosciEdNet (BEN)",
journal = "The Charleston Advisor",
parent_itemid = "infobike://annurev/tca",
publishercode ="annurev",
year = "2013",
volume = "14",
number = "4",
publication date ="2013-04-01T00:00:00",
pages = "43-46",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1525-4011",
eissn = "1525-4003",
url = "https://annurev.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/annurev/tca/2013/00000014/00000004/art00010",
doi = "doi:10.5260/chara.14.4.43",
author = "Somers, Michael",
abstract = "Established in 1999 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with 11 partners, the BiosciEdNet Collaborative portal (BEN Collaborative) provides access to digital teaching and learning resources in the biological sciences. Initially focused on providing free
curricular support for undergraduate biological sciences education, the BEN Collaborative expanded its offerings in 2006 into high school education because of the significant educational commonalities between these two different levels. The Collaboratives mission to
provide seamless access to e-resources and to serve as a catalyst for strengthening teaching and learning in the biological sciences is both idealistic and purposeful. With more than 18,000 review resources available for use, the BEN Collaborative is, indeed, a significant
educational tool for teachers seeking thoughtful, tested, and engaging classroom activities and curricular support. As a portal, the BEN Collaborative advances discovery through its extensive subject list, its various search features, and brief summary of the individual resources content;
because the objects are stored on the partners sites, each has a separate interface that at first use disrupts the seamless pass-through from search to object. Each object is embedded in two containers, which means drilling down through multiple metadata layers. Overall,
the portal meets its objectives and honors its contributors.",
}