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ABBREVIATIONS
Acronyms and initialisms for health information resources
Provides hot links to various health information resources through their acronym or abbreviation.
All that JAS
Lists all subject areas, providing the full title of journal abbreviations, conference proceedings and selected catalogues.
BioABACUS
A searchable database of abbreviations and acronyms in biotechnology that contains terms in such categories as: biochemistry, cell biology, diseases, medicine, professional societies, and US government.
Biomedical acronym/definition database
Site providing access to a catalog of biomedical acronyms and abbreviations. This was achieved using a methodology to identify acronyms, abbreviations and their definitions within MEDLINE records.
Medi-Lexicon
A website providing a dictionary of medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations which is updated daily. Includes other searches for the medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professional.
ASSOCIATIONS & SOCIETIES ATLASES
Atlas of Human Parasitology
Part of an ongoing project to develop a complete atlas of human parasitology. The atlas can be downloaded.
Atlas of population and environment
Work which brings together population-environment linkages in ways that make them easily accessible to policy and decision makers, students and the general public.
Dermatology Atlas
Loyola University Chicago Medical Educational website.
Digital Anatomist Information System
Comprises online interactive atlases developed by the Structural Informatics Group, Dept Biological Structure, University of Washington
Functional Anatomy of the Visual Human
US, National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Visual Human Project and University of Colorado Center for Human Simulation
Gray’s Anatomy
This online atlas of the human body is the Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body 20th edition, first published in 1918.
Musculoskeletal Atlas
A musculosketetal atlas of the human body developed and maintained by the University of Washington.
PathWeb: the virtual pathology museum
Maintained by the Pathology Department of the University of Connecticut Health Center.
The Whole Brain Atlas
A resource illustrating central nervous system imaging, which integrates clinical information with magnetic resonance (MR), x-ray computed tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine images. The Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Harvard Medical School, the Countway Library of Medicine, and the American Academy of Neurology sponsor the project.
CALCULATORS & CONVERTORS
Calculators Online Center
Martindale’s Reference Desk provides links to calculators in all fields of endeavour.
Dictionary of units
Provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the S I.
Measurement converter
A sophisticated meaurement conversion calculator that recognizes any combination of over 800 conversion factors, prefixes, constants, abbreviations, and synonyms.
Universal currency converter
XE obtain exchange rates from a variety of sources and calculate a proprietary time-weighted average for use in their service.
CONFERENCES
AllConferences.net
AllConferences.net is a directory focusing on conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events and business meetings.
Conference alerts: academic conferences worldwide
Web page of a regularly updated database of conferences and subscribers all over the world. Site offers free e-mailed updates of conferences matching specific interests, available dates and preferred destinations.
Drs Reference Site
An Australian medical site developed and maintained by an Australian rural practitioner. This is the Medical Conferences page.
Medical Conferences.com
Search for a conference by title, date, location and keywords. Search the fully registered conferences for details of main topics, keynote speakers, specialist workshops, social programs and deadlines for Call for Papers
DICTIONARIES & GLOSSARIES & THESAURIS
Cambridge dictionaries online
This web site offers searchable access to a number of Cambridge University Press dictionaries.
Medilexicon
A website providing a dictionary of medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations which is updated daily. Includes other searches for the medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professional.
Merriam-Webster online
Merriam-Webster provides a free, on-line dictionary (with audio pronunciations) and thesaurus.
OneLook
Web site providing easy, quick word searches in a wide range of on-line dictionaries. Options are to search for English definitions only or to choose French, Spanish, Italian or German. The search results also contain links to the home page of the indexed dictionaries themselves.
Glossaries
AIDSinfo HIV Glossary
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this online glossary is searchable either alphabetically or by keyword. The Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms 4th Edition is also available in PDF format.
Genomics glossary
Initial registration required
The genomics glossary includes terms in areas such as clinical genomics, drug discovery and development, functional genomics, proteomics, pharmacogenomics, sequencing, and structural genomics.
NIH Office of Rare Diseases: Terms and Definitions
Tese terms and their definitions have been developed from glossaries prepared by the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the National Institutes of Health's Understanding Gene Therapy On-line Glossary, and the Genetics Education Center, University of Kansas Medical Center.
Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight European Languages
A product of the European Commission, "this system contains the electronic form of eight glossaries, in which you can find 1830 technical and popular medical terms in eight of the nine official European languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish."
Thesauri
Roget's II :the new thesaurus Via Bartleby (1995)
This 3rd edition of Roget's II contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references. The thesaurus features word definitions and a hyperlinked category index.
Roget's international thesaurus of English words and phrases Via Bartleby (1922)
Mawson's modernization of Roget's classic structure with over 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references and 2,900 quotations.
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
Britannica concise
Covers the full range of human knowledge, with more than 25,000 alphabetical entries covering the arts, business, computers, geography, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, politics and popular culture.
Columbia encyclopedia Via Bartleby
The 6th edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia contains nearly 51,000 entries on a vast range of subjects with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.
MedlinePlus Encyclopedia Online
The Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
GOVERNMENT GRANTS
Association of Commonwealth Universities
A listing of Scholarships and Fellowships for study and research throughout the Commonwealth.
JASON
JASON (Joint Academic Scholarship Online Network) is a search engine that provides information about scholarships for postgraduate study in Australia and overseas for both Australian and overseas students
Grants for Individuals: Travel and Study Abroad
Large collections of websites identifying grants for international travel and study abroad. Scan the navigation bar down the LHS for specific disciplines
UNESCO Study Abroad
The UNESCO international guide to higher education study opportunities and scholarships to higher education institutions and organizations in some 129 countries.
World Bank Scholarships
The World Bank Scholarship and Fellowships Programs provide opportunities for graduate studies leading to master's degree in development-related fields for mid-career professionals from the World Bank member countries, eligible to borrow.
IMAGES
ImageBank
Web site of the LTSN Bioscience ImageBank is a shared image resource of freely available bioscience images contributed by academics and industry, with rights cleared for educational purposes. It offers reviews of and links to other bioscience image collections.
Historical Images in Medicine
Images from Duke University’s Medical Center Library's Historical Collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences.
Images from the History of Medicine
This database contains nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Pathology image collection
This site has lists of images in pediatrics, the female genital tract, hematopathology, joints, the respiratory system, dermatopathology, the gastrointestinal system, immunopathology, neoplasia, and the liver, gall bladder, and pancreas, as well as an extensive list of miscellaneous images.
NEWS
Asia news network
The Asia News Network (ANN) is a network of national daily newspapers published in Asian cities, organized to provide avenues for cooperation and to optimize coverage of major news events in the region.
BBC news
BBC News Online is the internet arm of the BBC and includes the BBC News, BBC World Service and a large number of internationally-recognised news agencies. They include the Press Association, Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.
CNET news.com
CNET news.com is a computing and technology news service publishing original stories and investigative reports.
EurekaAlert
The American Association for the Advancement of Science provides this online science source, which has a searchable database of scientific, technological, and medical news.
Fiji Government Online Portal
Official website of the Ministry of Information, Communication and media relations.
Scienceupdate
Science news and research from Nature, an online round-up of science news and research papers, updated daily.
PATENTS
Canadian patents database
This database includes over seventy-five years of patent descriptions and images. Users can search, retrieve, and study more than 1,400,000 patent documents.
Esp@cenet
This site enables searches of all patent applications published in the past two years (or more in some cases) by any national office (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hellenic Republic, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom) in the European Patent Organisation.
IP Australia
IP Australia is the federal government agency that grants rights in patents, trade marks and designs. The web site provides information about intellectual property in Australia and the functions of the agency.
Patents (U.K. Patent Office)
This site provides information about patent practice and classification in the United Kingdom. Access to UK Patent Office databases (Designs, Trademarks and Trade names) is available.
United States Patent and Trademark Office home page
Official web site of the USPTO provides information on how to search for and register patents, trademarks, etc.
PHONE, EMAILS, POSTCODES PROTOCOLS
Protocol online
Web site of an online bioscience resource which provides a directory of protocols on molecular biology, cell biology and immunology.
QUOTATIONS
Medicine in Quotations Online
Medicine in Quotations contains over 3000 entries making it the most comprehensive collection of its type. Quotations are organized by topic, and each is fully referenced,
Oxymorons.info
Oxymoron web site which illustrates the use of this literary figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory words, terms, phrases or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means. Includes links to full list, quotes list and subject search option.
Quotations
Combines both contemporary and classic quotations collections into a searchable databases. Quotations are gathered from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Columbia World of Quotations, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, and Respectfully Quoted.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES STANDARDS
World Standards Services Network
Features a directory of Web sites of standards organizations around the world, compiled by the World Standards Services Network. Provides information on international, regional and national standardization, as well as related activities and services.
STATISTICS
Global statistics
Global Statistics is a collection of tables and graphs providing a statistical look at countries, their population, area, capital, main cities, etc.
Statistical resources on the Web
Provides access to a wide range of sources and tools for collecting, compiling, and understanding social, political, and economic statistics from U.S. and around the world.
UK. The official yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
The official yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland covers the UK and its people, the system of government, international relations, defense; education, and a wide variety of statistics.
WHO Statistical Information System
The WHO Statistical Information System is a guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization, and elsewhere.
STUDY & WRITING SKILLS
King's English Via Bartleby (1918)
Second edition of the book by H. M Fowler on developing a good writing style that outlines the rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation for the English language.
Register of refereed journals
Site provides access to a list containing the names of journals that have been assessed by DEST as satisfying the refereeing requirements for the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC). Includes a link to form for nominating a journal for inclusion on the register.
Study guides & strategies
Web page providing guidance to students for improving study habits and getting the most out of the time spent preparing for examinations. Covers varying topics and aspects of writing, making presentations, reading and test taking. Includes links to other Web resources as sources of further advice.
THESES & DISSERTATIONS TRANSLATION TOOLS
Babelfish translation
This web site provides translation of text and web sites.
FreeTranslation
A machine-translation site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages. Each translation can be a single word or up to four pages of text.
Word2Word language resources
Web page dedicated to assisting users communicate between languages. Includes links to online dictionaries and translators, free online language courses, free online translation services, language chat sites and a chart of 173 individual languages arranged alphabetically.
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
ACU
Web site of the Association, which promotes, through several programs, the movement of academic and administrative staff and of students from one country of the Commonwealth to another. It provides information about universities and about issues of relevance to them, and hosts a higher education management consultancy service.
Australia’s Universities
Australia’s Universities page from the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee website.
Braintrack
Braintrack is a world wide directory of higher education institutions, providing links to the home pages of institutions arranged alphabetically and by geographic area. It also features a search facility.
HERO
Website aiming to be primary internet portal for academic research and higher education in the UK. Site organized into six zones, Studying, Research, Business, Inside HE, Culture & Sport, and Universities & Colleges, which cover the key areas of higher education in the UK, and are designed to meet the needs of different users.
Prospects.ac.uk
Prospects.ac.uk is the essential guide to graduate careers and postgraduate study in the UK published by CSU, the Higher Education Careers Services Unit.
UnivSource
A directory of higher education institutions in the United States and Canada. It features links and resources for both domestic and international students interested in attending college in the USA or Canada.
University of the South pacific
USP is the major provider of University education in the Pacific region.
WEATHER
Fiji Meteorological Service
FMS provides a weather forecasting and tropical cyclone warning service to the South-West Pacific.
World Meteorological organization
A website maintained by the Hong Kong Observatory providing “official observations and forecasts.”
Rain or Shine
Rain or Shine offers hourly forecasts for over 43,000 cities and zip codes worldwide.
