Introduction (June 2000)
Once described as an Aenormous
used book store with volumes stacked on shelves and tables and overflowing
onto the floor@ (Pool, Robert.
1994. Turning an Info-Glut into a Library. Science 266 (7 October):
20-22, p. 20), Internet resources now receive numerous levels of organization,
from basic directory listings to elaborate Alinks@ (cross-references to other Internet
documents) that flash and glow in the dark. In many ways, the Internet
functions as a direct extension of the traditional library. Following
linked references across various sites is an electronic version of browsing
library stacks, and the serendipitous discoveries made while Asurfing
the Net@ recall the wonders of physically going
Abook-to-book.@ Although many of the Internet=s best aspects augment library strengths
by eliminating physical distance from sources, Net resources pose unique
problems for researchers. It is not always clear who is responsible for
the content of Web documents, when the document was produced, or how often
(if ever) it is updated. Internet resource tools, then, must enable researchers
to identify appropriate resources and to evaluate what they find when
they get there.
Web Research as Taking ASNAPSHOTS@
Given the Internet=s visual
nature and fluid content, the process of conducting research on the Web
has been likened to taking an informal picture of information on a specific
date at a particular time. This metaphor also conveys the Azoom-in@ aspect of searching through Web pages
by going from general to specific categories. In the first section of
this Scope Note, National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
(NRCBL) staff present a snapshot of bioethics resources originally taken
during the spring months of 2000 and updated periodically since then.
Entries are divided into the categories of directories, electronic journals,
full-text documents, news/current awareness, and teaching resources. In
the two subsequent sections, this series of categories is repeated for
entries on a specific topic within bioethicsBgeneticsBand again for general search and evaluation
tools. Where a Web site may contain pages applicable to more than one
category, multiple entries are made for that site with appropriate information
for each category.
Much as telecommunication advances have strengthened the relationship
of patients and providers as partners, the dynamic nature of the Internet
acknowledges that the researcher functions as a librarian whenever accessing
the Web. It is our hope that NRCBL resources not only will enable researchers
to search the Web more efficiently, but also will help them to evaluate
what they find when they get there.
Bioethics in Databases on the Web
From 1973 to 2000, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics produced BIOETHICSLINE®
for the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) as one of their specialty
MEDLARS databases designed to supplement MEDLINE. In 2001, NLM reorganized
its databases: journal records from all specialty databases were merged
with MEDLINE into PubMed, and book records
were combined with NLM's online catalog to create LOCATORplus.
Both of these databases can be searched at no charge either separately
or through NLM's Gateway.
The inclusion of bioethics citations in PubMed and LOCATORplus has several
advantages. First, unique keywords from the former Bioethics Thesaurus
have been included in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), the indexing vocabulary
for PubMed and LOCATORplus, thereby enhancing retrieval of relevant clinical
literature by offering more precise terminology covering ethical issues.
Second, there is extensive coverage of foreign-language materials in NLM
databases. Third, NLM databases are updated daily.
The online catalog for the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
(NRCBL)
EthxWeb, contains citations to journal articles, books and book chapters,
Web documents, audiovisuals, conference proceedings, and unpublished documents.
NRCBL provides reference assistance and searches of these databases at
no charge; requests can be made by submitting an
online search form.
The Web brings all of us closer together, giving us opportunities to
examine approaches to bioethical problems in other countries. The Web
pages of organizations can be consulted for pertinent documents. On a
broader level, some government and academic groups are supporting the
collection and dissemination of bioethics resources worldwide. (Note:
many have adopted the vocabulary of the former Bioethics Thesaurus as
the basis for developing their own indexing languages. The thesaurus has
been translated into Dutch, French, German, Spanish, and Swedish, and
a Turkish translation is underway. Often the vocabulary is enhanced to
reflect varying local social, cultural, legal, and philosophical perspectives.)
Cooperative programs, such as that between the Kennedy Institute and
the Deutsches Referenzzentrum für Ethik in
den Biowissenschaften (DRZE) in Bonn (http://www.drze.de) to share
bibliographic data, will further enhance the retrieval of bioethics literature
internationally. DRZE and other similar centers in Germany and Europe
are working to make databases and online library catalogs available. The
Akademie für Ethik in der
Medizin, George-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany, an organization
with a long-standing interest in bioethics documentation, added 5,570
documents to the ETHMED database from 1994 through March 1999 (http://www.aem-online.de/main.htm).
NRCBL will continue to provide links to these and to other bibliographic
resources at: http://bioethics.georgetown.edu.
The Categories:
Directories, Electronic Journals, Full-Text Documents, News/Current Awareness,
and Teaching Resources
Reference requests received at NRCBL have informed our choice of the
categories used to organize this Scope Note. Online directories
meet the needs of those who ask AWhere
do I start?@ Directories are
lists of resources accompanied by their links and, sometimes, by brief
summaries. In many ways, the home pages of bioethics organizations, with
their extensive collection of links, function as directories for both
the novice and expert searcher.
Electronic journals are at once the boon and the bane of Internet existence.
When we can access the latest issues of major journals on the Web while
the print copies are still in the mail, we cannot imagine how we ever
functioned without the Internet. When access to the electronic version
of a journal is limited to an institutional subscription not taken by
our university, we fear that the Web may actually restrict rather than
expand access to resources. The Internet=s
initial reputation of being Afree@ to all is changing rapidly. To provide
local access to electronic journals, many publishers provide institutions
with site licenses for the electronic versions of their journals. One
example is Johns Hopkins University Press=s
AProject Muse,@ which provides electronic access to
journals, including the
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, through institutional site
licenses (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ken).
To determine which electronic journals you can access, first check with
your local reference librarian. Second, lists of electronic journals are
maintained on the Web (see the electronic journals part of each of the
following sections). For medical journals, PubMed contains links to records
in the National Library of Medicine's online archive, PubMed
Central. In addition, publishers may provide links to the full-text
of their journals for a specified period (see below, Evaluation and Searching
Tools, Electronic Journals, HardinMD Electronic Showcase). If a publisher
does not participate in direct links from PubMed, NLM=s
Loansome Doc document
delivery service enables searchers to place online orders for copies of
articles.
The posting of full-text documents on the Internet is growing as a result
of improvements in Web design software and server storage capacity. National
Digital Library projects are underway at various government agencies
(http://www.osti.gov/inforum2000/)
in the United States, and bioethics commissions, both in the U.S. and
abroad, concentrate on making their reports available full-text.
Building on an original strength of the Internet, rapid communication
among researchers and other groups is enhanced by online discussion groups
and by electronic mailing lists commonly called Alistservs@ for list servers. Searchable listserv
archives are a valuable and frequently overlooked research tool. For meeting
and conference information, bioethics organizations often maintain listings
of local events, and for international coverage many link to the International
Calendar of Bioethics Events (see below, Bioethics
on the Web, News/Current Awareness--Bioethics).
Teaching resources on the Web can either facilitate the preparation of
course materials, or serve as course materials themselves. Syllabi for
some courses go beyond the usual outline and bibliography to include links
to full-text documents and online videos. As with libraries, the Internet
can act both as an extension of the classroom and as a unique learning
environment of its own. The effect of cyberspace on learning and on research
is unclear, but with the development of evaluation criteria for Web sites,
a critical stance toward information sources becomes the common ground
for the further elaboration of all research and study.
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BIOETHICS - GENERAL
Directories
- Site: ASBH
Organization: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
Location: Glenview, IL
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.asbh.org
- As the professional society for bioethics, ASBH's site provides information
about their reports, books and newsletter, including a link to the report
of the ASBH
Task Force on Ethics and Humanities Education in Undergraduate Medical
Education (2009).
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- Site: Association for Practical
and Professional Ethics (APPE) Organization: Indiana University
Location: Bloomington, IN
Country: United States
WWW:http://www.indiana.edu/~appe/
- As a membership organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study
and teaching of practical and professional ethics, APPE’s site focuses
on descriptions of its programs such as Ethics Bowl and the Pre-College
Ethics Interest Group, as well as posting job announcements and grant
opportunities.
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- Site: Bioethics Resources
on the Web
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Inter-Institute Bioethics Interest Group (BIG)
Office of Extramural Research (OER)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Country: United States
WWW: http://bioethics.od.nih.gov/
- NIH's bioethics portal organizes its resources into the following
categories: Bioethics and the NIH, General Resources, Organizations
of Interest, Other Federal Resources, and Specific Topics (Research
Ethics, Genetics, and Medicine and Health Care).
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- Site: Center
for Bioethics Resources & Links
Organization: University of Minnesota
Center for Bioethics
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.ahc.umn.edu/bioethics/resource/home.html
- Along with an Aask an ethics question@ feature, the Center for Bioethics
web site provides summaries and overviews of bioethical issues, links
to full-text bioethics documents (such as the Minnesota Health Care
Directives form), and hosts the EthicShare
database and web site (https://www.ethicshare.org/).
-
- Site: Global Ethics
Observatory (GEObs)
Organization: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), Social & Human Sciences, Ethics of Science and Technology
Location: Paris
Country: France
WWW: http://www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geobs/
- UNESCO’s Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs) consists of six databases
available in UNESCO’s six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English,
French, Russian and Spanish: Who’s Who in Ethics, Ethics Institutions,
Ethics Teaching Programs, Legislation and Guidelines, Codes of Conduct,
and Resources in Ethics. An interactive geographical search feature
is provided to retrieve all information by region or country.
- Site: Interfakultären
Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften / Interdepartmental Center for
Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)
Organization: University of Tübingen, Interdepartmental Center for Ethics
in the Sciences and Humanities
Location: Tübingen
Country: Germany
E-mail: izew@uni-tuebingen.de
WWW: http://www.izew.uni-tuebingen.de
- This site provides access to the catalog for the libraries of the
IZEW and their Chair for Ethics in the Life Sciences.
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- Site: National Reference
Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL)
Organization: Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Georgetown University
Location: Washington, DC
Country: United States
WWW: http://bioethics.georgetown.edu
- The bioethics library site provides access to and instructions
for searching the following databases:
- EthxWeb - bibliographic citations of bioethics
and professional ethics literature;
GenETHX - bibliographic citations of literature
on genetics and ethics;
Syllabus Exchange - bioethics syllabi for courses
from high school through graduate education, with links to the full-text
of each syllabus available online;
International Bioethics Organizations - bioethics
organizations from around the world; and
Bioethics Thesaurus - keywords in the controlled
subject vocabulary used for indexing the bioethics literature.
- NRCBL’s site also provides searchers with the opportunity to automatically
generate bibliographies on specific topics and request customized
reference service.
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Electronic Journals
- Site:
Bioethics Journal Resources on the Web
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Inter-Institute Bioethics Interest Group (BIG)
Office of Extramural Research (OER)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Country: United States
WWW: http://bioethics.od.nih.gov/bioethicsjournals.html
- This listing links to specific journal homepages and databases.
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Full-Text Resources
- Site: Council
of Europe, Bioethics Home Page
Organization: Council of Europe
Directorate of Legal Affairs, Bioethics
Section
Location: Strasbourg
Country: Austria
WWW: http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/healthbioethic/texts_and_documents/default_EN.asp
- This site contains the compendium of texts of the Council of Europe
on bioethical matters along with the full-text of The
Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, (http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/html/164.htm)
and documents related to its preparation.
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- Site: National Consultative Ethics
Committee for Health and Life Sciences
Organization: French National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health
and Life Sciences
Location: Paris
Country: France
E-mail: contact@comite-ethique.fr
WWW: http://www.ccne-ethique.fr
- The full-text of all the opinions of the French national bioethics
commission, beginning with #001 in 1984, are available in both French
and English.
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- Site: Eubios Ethics Institute
Organization: Eubios Ethics Institute
Location: Bangkok
Country: Thailand
E-mail: asianbioethics@yahoo.co.nz
WWW: http://www.eubios.info
- This site links to e-books on Asian bioethics, teaching guides, and
historical documents relating to the Eubios Ethics Institute.
-
- Site:
Library of Bioethics and Medical Humanities Texts and Documents
Organization: University of Buffalo, Center for Clinical Ethics and
Humanities in Health Care
Location: Buffalo, NY
Country: United States
E-mail: jfreer@buffalo.edu
WWW: http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/texts.html
- This electronic library features classic bioethics texts such as
The Belmont Report:
Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects
in Research, encyclicals of the Roman Catholic Church on bioethical
issues, and the Advisory
Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report. The
site also links to bioethics reports from state and federal agencies.
-
- Site: National Bioethics
Advisory Commission
Organization: National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) (defunct)
Location: Rockville, MD
Country: United States
WWW: http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac/
- NBAC was established by a Presidential executive order in 1995; its
charter expired on October 3, 2001. NBAC=s reports and meeting transcripts
are archived and available full text on the site of the National Reference
Center for Bioethics Literature.
-
- Site: Nuffield Council
on Bioethics
Organization: Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Location: London
Country: Great Britain
WWW: http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org
- The full text of the Council=s reports and discussion papers are provided
along with drafts of works-in-progress.
-
- Site: Online
Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering [OEC]
Organization: National Academy of Engineering
Location: Washington, DC
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.onlineethics.org/
- Focusing on science and technology, OEC’s site contains essays, case
studies, articles, guidelines, and teaching materials on ethical issues
with environmentalism, professionalism, research, technological , and
business.
-
- Site: OTA Legacy
Organization: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, NJ
Country: United States
E-mail:
ota@princeton.edu
WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/
- This electronic archive of the publications of the Congressional Office
of Technology Assessment [OTA] (which closed on September 29, 1995)
also contains a history of the OTA and full-text articles on its importance.
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News/Current Awareness
- Site: Bioethics and
Today=s News
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University, Bioethics Institute
Location: Baltimore, MD
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.bioethicsinstitute.org/
- The Bioethics Institute home page features links to recent news stories
and blog postings on bioethical issues.
-
- Site: Bioethics Discussion
Pages
Organization: University of Southern California, Health Sciences Center
(Personal Home Page of Dr. Maurice Bernstein)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Country: United States
E-mail: DoktorMo@aol.com
WWW: http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~mbernste/
- Moderated by Maurice Bernstein, M.D., this site features a general
discussion group entitled APot-Pourri,@ discussion pages for specific
topics, and polls on various ethical issues prompted by topics raised
by participants. Recently modified entries are highlighted with a balloon
icon.
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- Site: Bioethics.Net
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Center for Bioethics
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.bioethics.net
- In addition to featuring its publication American Journal of Bioethics,
this site links to resources on bioethical issues, online news stories
and blog postings as well as its
own blog (http://blog.bioethics.net).
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Teaching Resources
- Site: Ethics
Committee Core Curriculum
Organization: University of Buffalo
Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
Location: Buffalo, NY
Country: United States
WWW: http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/
- This site contains the electronic version of Western New York Institutional
Ethics Committee Network=s Orientation Manual for Ethics
Committee Members.
-
- Site: Ethics Updates
Organization: University of San Diego
Values Institute
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
WWW: http://ethics.sandiego.edu
- Focusing on resources for ethics instruction, this site contains links
by to videos, full-text articles, and other websites for both ethical
theory and applied ethics topics. Discussion questions are included
for each section.
-
- Site: Medical Humanities
Syllabi, Hippocrates Project
Organization: New York University
Department of Medical Humanities
Location: New York, NY
Country: United States
WWW: http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/syllabi.html
- This collection of full-text syllabi is organized by both topic and
institution.
-
- Site: Syllabus
Exchange Database
Organization: National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature,
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Georgetown University
Location: Washington, DC
Country: United States
E-mail: bioethics@georgetown.edu
WWW: http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/databases/syllabus/
- This database contains records for over 600 syllabi in 3 languages
from 12 countries dating from the early 1980s to the present. Each record
is linked to the full-text of the syllabus.
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GENETICS SNAPSHOT
Directories
- Site: Council
for Responsible Genetics (CRG)
Organization: Council for Responsible Genetics
Location: Cambridge, MA
Country: United States
Email: crg@gene-watch.org
WWW: http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org
- In addition to providing access to their newsletter, GeneWatch,
and its archives, CRG links to position papers, reports and full-text
articles on it current projects: Race and Genetics, Forensic DNA, Gene
Myths, the Genetic Bill of Rights. Also available are CRG’s resource
pages for their previous projects, such as genetic determinism and biowarfare.
Site:DOEgenomes.org
Organization: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
Location: Washington,DC
Country: United States
WWW: http://genomics.energy.gov- This gateway facilitates access to Human Genome Project educational
and archival documents, materials produced by Genomics.GTL (systems
biology for energy and the environment), and information concerning
Microbial Genome Project.
-
- Site:GeneTests
Organization: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National
Institutes of Health
Location: Bethesda, MD
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.genetests.org
- This site provides access to a database of genetic testing clinics
and laboratories that is international in scope. Also included are patient
education materials on various genetic diseases, and a glossary of terms.
-
- Site: genome.gov
Organization: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National
Institutes of Health
Location: Bethesda, MD
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.genome.gov
- As the site for the completed Human Genome Project, NHGRI's genome.gov
features links to the continuing international genome sequencing programs,
clinical research centers, and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
Program (ELSI) projects and publications. One ELSI project is the Policy
and Legislation Database containing the full-text of federal and
state regulations on such issues as genetic testing, patenting, informed
consent and confidentiality.
- Site: GeneWatch UK
Organization: GeneWatch UK
Location: Buxton, Derbyshire
Country: Great Britain
WWW: http://www.genewatch.org
- GeneWatch UK provides overviews of such topics as genetically-modified
crops and animals, genetic patents, and forensic DNA, and augments these
essays with links to reports and articles on each topic.
- Site: Public Health Genomics
Organization: Office of Public Health Genomics (OPHG), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Location: Atlanta, GA
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/
- This site focuses on CDC reports and resources on such topics as translational
genomic research, genetic testing, and population research.
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Electronic Journals
- Site: Genome Medicine
Organization: BioMed Central: The Open Access Publisher
WWW: http://genomemedicine.com
- Genome Medicine is a free, open access journal devoted to all aspects
of genetic research. Users can sign up for email alerts of newly published
articles.
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Full-Text Resources
- Site: DOE Information Bridge
Organization: Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
- This site provides links to the free full-text of over 210,000 DOE-sponsored
reports on genetic research published since January 1995
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News/Current Awareness
- Site: Forum
Gentechnik
Organization: University of Tübingen
Interfaculty Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities
Location: Tübingen
Country: Germany
WWW: http://www.zum.de/zum/Foren/biotech/cgi/forum.cgi
- This forum is a discussion group for scientists to exchange information
on genetics research.
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Teaching Resources
- Site: Dolan DNA Learning Center
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Location: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.dnalc.org
- In addition to animated educational materials on molecular biology,
this site contains an image archive of the American eugenics movement
as well as simulated gene sequencing exercises..
-
- Site:
Human Genome Project Education Resources
Organization: Human Genome Project
Department of Energy
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/education/education.shtml
- As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's genome gateway, DOEGenomes.org,
this page contains full-text documents such as Genomics and Its
Impact on Science and Society: The Human Genome Project and Beyond
and Your Genes, Your Choices, as well as the Genome Education
Modules produced as part of the Biological Sciences Curriculum
Study (BSCS). Also included are video and audio files (PBS) that can
be downloaded for educational purposes, and the archives of their Human
Genome News newsletter.
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- Site: National Information
Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics
Organization: National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Georgetown University
Location: Washington, DC
WWW: http://genethx.georgetown.edu
- This site contains annotated bibliographies on genetic topics, full-text
government reports and historic documents on ethics and genetics, and
searchable databases of literature on ethics and genetics, and DNA patents.
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EVALUATION AND SEARCHING TOOLS
Electronic Journal Lists
- Site: Periodici
Biomedici/Biomedical Journals
Organization: Biblioteca Centrale dell'Area Biomedica
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato
Location: Monserrato
Country: Italy
WWW: http://aib.it/aib/commiss/cnur/peb/peb.htm3
- This comprehensive list of international journals identifies whether
the specified links access a periodical=s table of contents pages, the
full-text of sample articles, or the full-text of the entire publication.
The site also contains links to electronic journal directories for other
countries, such as France and Germany.
-
- Site: HardinMD
E-journal Showcase
Organization: Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
University of Iowa
Location: Iowa City, IA
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html
- This directory of electronic journals serves two purposes: to link
to the electronic version of popular peer-reviewed medical journals
such as JAMA and BMJ, and to display the previous
year's citations from each electronic journal that have appeared in
the PubMed database.
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Full-text Resources
- Site: The
Charters of Freedom
Organization: National Archives and Records Administration
Location: Washington, DC
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html
- The National Archives and Records Administration has the full text
of the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution,
the Bill of Rights, and the Constitutional Amendments. Highlighting
has been used to indicate passages that have been superseded or repealed,
thus making the documents current.
-
- Site: Thomas — Legislative Information
on the Internet
Organization: Library of Congress
Location: Washington, DC
Country: United States
WWW: http://thomas.loc.gov
- This site permits the monitoring of current legislation and contains
links to historical documents and the full-text legislative sites for
the Executive and Judicial branches of the federal government.
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Teaching Resources
- Site: HON Code of
Conduct (HONcode) for Medical and Health Web Sites
Organization: Health on the Net (HON) Foundation
Location: Geneva
Country: Switzerland
WWW: http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html
- Originally published in July 1996, the HONcode has been amended and
expanded to eight principles, which are published on the site in 11
languages. The code addresses: Aauthority
of the information, data confidentiality and privacy, proper attribution
of sources, transparency of financial authorship,@ and the clear separation of advertising
from editorial content.
-
- Site: Information
Quality WWW Virtual Library
Organization: Asia Pacific Research Online
Location: Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies (RSPAS)
Australian National University, Canberra,
Country: Australia
E-mail: tmciolek@ciolek.com
WWW: http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
- This site is a directory of links to reports, articles, publishing
guides, and evaluation standards for developing, maintaining, and assessing
information on the Internet. Of special interest is the site=s annotated bibliography Evaluation
of Information Sources.
- Site: Trust It or Trash It?
Organization: Genetic Alliance
Location: Washington, DC
Country: United States
WWW: http://www.trustortrash.org
- This online reference tool was designed by the Genetic Alliance, a
consumer advocacy group, to enable the public to evaluate the quality
of online genetic information.
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