Citation/Grammar Guides • Databases • Grant Resources • Markets • Publishing Guidelines • Publishing Tools • Writing Tools • Other

Citation/Grammar Guides

• Assembling a list of works cited in your paper (Duke Univ)
• Citing Electronic Sources (from the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• JAS (Journal Abbreviation Sources, All that JAS)
• OhioLINK Citing Guide -- OhioLINK has put together a nice guide to citing both online and print resources.

 Databases

• Community of Science

Grant Writing Titles & Resources

Best of the Web / Grants

U.S. Federal Grants Information

• Grants.gov
• National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research Grants Policy and Guidance
• National Science Foundation Funding Information

 Guides

• Foundations and Grants Resources from the University of Michigan Library.

Other Grant Directories

• Commonwealth Fund Programs and Grants
• CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation: Philanthropy and Grants
• Foundation Finder
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Intellectual Property Guidelines

• Copyright & Fair Use (from Stanford University Libraries)
• Copyright Clearinghouse

 Markets

• BioMed Central
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Directory of Open Access Journals  
• Free Medical Journals
  

 Publishing Guidelines

• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (websites provide instructions to authors for over 3.500 journals in the health & life sciences (from University of Toledo, Medical School, Mulford Library)
• Select Journals and their Guidelines (from the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine Health Services Library

Publishing Tools

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center (OhioLINK)
• Journal Citation Reports--Impact Factors (helps you identify journals in your subject area to which you can submit manuscripts and each journal's "visibility" by IF of readership and citedness) Check with librarian for availability.

Writing Tools

Books

• Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. (from Bartleby.com)
• How to write and illustrate a scientific paper, by Bjorn Gustavii. Cambridge University Press, 2003(OhioLINK)
• How to write and publish a scientific paper, by Robert A. Day. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1998.
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Successful scientific writing: a step-by-step guide for the biological and medical sciences, Janice R. Matthews, et al. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Writing and publishing in medicine, Edward J. Huth. Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
• Writing for the health professions, by Karl Terryberry. Thomson/Delmar Learning, 2005.

 Dictionaries

• Biomedical Acronym/Definition Database
• Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  

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Other Useful Sites (graphics, charts, metadata tools, digital collections)

• Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
• Health on the Net Foundation