Welcome to the U of R Pathology Internet Resource Page

Table of Contents:

• University of Rochester Local Sites
• Pathology Departments and Institutions
• Forensics
• Toxicology
• Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Other Laboratory Related Fields
• Other Pathology Resources
• Medical Imaging
• Medical Education
• Jobs
• Sources of General Medical Information
• General Indices to the Internet
• Assorted Reference Works
• Internet Tutorials
• Mechanisms to Search for Information
  • Email directories
  • archie, et al.-Ways to search for archived FTP (file transfer protocol) Files
  • Veronica- A way to search for files on Gopher servers
  • Ways to search the World-Wide-Web
  • WAIS- Wide Area Information Server- indexed databases
  • Usenet- ways to find articles.
• Software Sources
• Interesting and Fun Places to Browse
• Return to Resource Page Table of Contents
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University of Rochester Local Sites

• Environmental Health and Safety Contact info, safety info, newsletters, very extensive links to safety info on the internet. Some documents only available locally. Industrial hygeine page includes lab safety info including blood borne pathogens and formaldehyde standards. Free chemical list from Hazardous Waste Unit.

• New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) has press releases, state health codes, physician disciplinary reports, consumer info, links to NYSDOH gopher.

• Home pages of companies participating in U. of Rochester 401(k) plans.
  • Fidelity Investments has info about funds. Specific reference to 401(k) plans.

  • TIAA-CREF has interactive account transactions possible.

  • T. Rowe Price has Fund info, retirement planning info. You can register and create a customized list of funds to watch.

  • Vanguard Group has Fund info, educational info about retirement planning, interactive accounts.

• Monroe County Library System WWW Page includes telnet to nationwide CARL database.

• Xerox Home Page has info on products, press releases, phone directories.

• Kodak home page great images, nifty interface, product info.

• The Rochester WorldWide Home Page has info on neighborhoods, things to do, visitor info, Rochester FreeNet.

• University of Rochester Home page which includes Rochester information, a search form for all of the University servers, and a link to ORPA.

• University of Rochester Medical Center has history, links to other UR servers.

• University Computing Center has useful info about computing on campus.

• Environmental Medicine, U or Rochester Behavioral analysis journals, common medical sources, many UR homepages, Miner library links, awesome compendium of phonebook servers, or even more awesome with frames.

• UR Microbiology and Immunology Home Page has department program info, faculty research interests, Virtual lectures on-line, and microbiology related links.

• Edward G. Miner Library Home Page, U or R connects to Miner Gopher, info on data bases, telnet for on-line card catalog, telnet for Miner Network access to Medical Literature Databases (Includes MEDLINE, it is a paid service, passwords & user name necessary. Use VersaTerm to telnet to miner.cc.rochester.edu to get full functionality). For information about Edward G. Miner Library, including network accounts, classes, reference questions, or other library programs, contact the Reference Department at Edward G. Miner Library.

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Pathology Departments and Institutions

• Stanford Department of Pathology Departmental info, manuals, searchable immunoperoxidase database

• San Francisco General Hospital Pathology Departmental info. HIV related cases with text and images usefull for med students

• UND Pathology Departmental info and a image archive

• Pulmonary Pathology Society Lists officers, upcoming meetings, contacts for fellowship programs. Membership list and case studies under construction.

• Society for Cardiovascular Pathology Info about the society, Educational materials including lecture notes and images, chat room, meeting announcements, job announcements

• Blood bank of the U. of Michigan Hospitals Blood transfusion policies and practices online.

• Oxford U. Dept. of Cellular Science Homepage Departmental info and links to Oxford U. homepage. (Other Services link has extensive Macintosh links)

• IAP- International Academy of Pathology news bulletins, which include some contact information

• Dept. of Pathology, Taiwan Appears to be under development. I could not get past the first page.

• Anapath Web French-English Anatomic pathology site French version from Necker Univeristy. Subpages mostly in French, wide range of pathology pointers. Some local data, page for the AIP (French Division of the IAP).

• Department of Anatomy & Histology, U of Verona, Italy Departmental info. Check out the HyperCell Project.

• Ankara Pathology Society In both Turkish and English, internet links with emphasis on images and educational pages, some general information articles, quiz cases with good images.

• Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Department of Medical Laboratory Science in the Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences at RMIT. Links to other Pathology and Medical sites

• College of American Pathologists General path information and links

• CCF Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Departmental info about Cleveland Clinic Pathology Residency. Links to other Cleveland Clinic sites.

• Canterbury Health Laboratories, NZ Departmental info with med/path links

• Immunoassay Animations--University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow Department of Pathological Biochemistry has recently made available five immunoassay animations that draw on the interactivity of the FutureSplash plug-in

• Pathology Department, U of Hawaii catalog listing of faculty and courses offered.

• Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, U of Kansas Medical Center Residency brochure, computer aided student modules outlines and images based on Rubin & Farber's text., searchable listing of cases

• Dept. of Microbiology, Monash U, Australia Departmental info and links

• Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, U of PA Departmental information and history, Pathology 200 Lectures. For some systems (e.g. Respiratory, cardiovascular, etc) a limitied number of lectures but for each lecture there are lecture notes, key words, and images. tough cases page

• Dept. of Pathology, Ohio State Departmental info. Links to other path sites.

• WWPATH World Wide Pathology Arizona lab offering second opinions and image digitization for patients, consults for physicians. Some online images shown.

• Karolinska Institute Medical info and links

• Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology (ADASP) Departmental info

• University of Melbourne Pathology Departmental info

• Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Pathology Home Page Departmental research and educational programs, faculty email directory. Link to searchable listing of courses and lectures. including pathology but local material seems to be restricted. Links to parallel materials at other institutions "Conferences" link leads to CPCs and SP conferences with images. Links to local organisations

• U OF WISCONSIN DEPT OF PATHOLOGY Departmental info. Some links to other path sites

• Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland Departmental info and path links

• SANTEL Pathology Home Page, Luxumburg Large collection of pathology links

• Central Microscopy Research Facility, U of IA Departmental info. Microscope images

• Surgical Pathology, U of OK Departmental info, path links

• Dept. of Pathology, U of Saskatchewan Departmental info, path links

• Laboratory Medicine, Washington U St. Louis has residency info, including whereabouts of past residents, newsletter indices on-line with instructions for requesting past articles, faculty listings.

• Hunter Area Pathology Service, New South Walesfaculty listings, newsletters, case studies, Scleroderma/Lupus support centre.

• U of Florida Department of Pathology page has department faculty and resident listing. Many other UF and Florida links as well as some pathology links.

• Pathology Services, Inc. is an independent surgical pathology lab allied to Harvard. Has newletters, papers. Some links, especially images and courses. Searchable.

• CytoLink- Virtual Cytology Resource has case of the month, jobs listing, ASC bulletin online, discussion forum where submitted questions are answered.

• U of Texas Southwestern Pathology Department page has faculty and research info, online cases, large online image collection with diagnoses but without discussion, medical student teaching cases underconstruction, online lab test catalog, blood bank event reporting system.

• Virtual Spanish American Congress of Anatomic Pathology is open for papers until May 1997. Official language is Spanish.

• American Association of Blood Banks has introductory material, message board for members, consumer info about blood and donation, scientific articles, info on conferences and teleconferences, training programs, online bookstore , email contact listing, listing of vendors for products and services.

• University of British Columbia (UBC) Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has description of department and programs- most emphasis on graduate research program. Info on undergraduate laboratory medicine programs as well.

• Duke University Pathology page has info about graduate program- faculty, research areas and application info. Pathologist's Assistent program info & application. Clinical lab pages for cytogenetics, coagulation with test info, extensive list of coagulation links, immunology test info, extensive immunology links, electronic lab manual under development.

• Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong has local info including newsletters, meetings, publications, extensive list of pathology related links, organized by topic.

• Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Dundee. Departmental information including research interests, p53 homepage with info about 1996 p53 conference. A resource page has molecular biology links, an excellent list of on-line journals, and links to manufacturers .

• UCLA Pathology Dept. page includes general information, departmental divisions, list of pathology resources, and campus and UC information resources.

• UC Davis Department of Medical Pathology Departmental, faculty and research info, shareware, informatics, seminars. Emphasis on transgenic mice, gene therapy, and EM. On-line autopsy database locally accessible. Excellent, extensive on-line syllabus and lab help. Algorithm for gross examination. Linked to informatics group.

• American Society of Clinical Pathology Home Page has membership info, press releases & political action info.

• Emory Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has information about each division including clinical service, research, residency training program, and faculty info. Clinical lab information includes online lab manual and reference ranges. Information about medical school and graduate courses. Also some humor and miscellaneous writings (emphasis on golf).

• Department of Pathology, University of Utah page has departmental organization and contacts, info on programs, meeting schedules, links to affiliated institutions.

• Usenet newsgroup sci.med.laboratory is a forum for discussion of laboratory medicine, medical technology issues. Also available by Gopher Version if you don't have Usenet access. There is a Gopher Version of most Newsgroups available, either sorted by topic (threaded) or in order received.

• U of Rochester Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Home Page features schedules, course listings, personnel directory, lab services including clinical laboratory newsletters, info on training programs, links to this comprehensive collection of internet pathology resources.

• University of Kuopio, Department of Clinical Chemistry has local information in Finnish, links to other Chemistry info, and an ftp site with info on European Clinical Chemistry societies and meetings .

• Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Home Page has a listing of AFIP courses and seminars with online registration, programs for upcoming courses, the latest issue of the quarterly "AFIP Letter," in a PDF file can be viewed using Acrobat Reader. Info on other publications including a tutorial on the Electronic Fascicles. Links are provided to the Department of Veterinary Pathology's Web server, to the GI Pathology online course, to the visible embryo project, and to AFIP telepathology, including how to submit cases.

• The UK Association of Clinical Biochemists has descriptions of programs and meetings. To subscribe to their email discussion group send the message: join acb-clin-chem-gen to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk.

• Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists Has links to some molecular biology online services.

• National Cancer Institute Pathology Lab page has an unknown cell quiz with good images, resident research posters with images.

• Internat'l Soc Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society page has information about the societies and their meetings, renal related links.

• To subscribe to GIpath, an email GI pathology discussion, send a message with a blank subject line, and the only thing in the message should be: subscribe gipath (all lowercase) to majordomo@list.mc.duke.edu The address to post something on the list is gipath@list.mc.duke.edu.

• Department of Histochemistry, Royal Postgraduate Medical School Dept info, examples of 3D reconstruction, phaeochromocytoma, stereology, school home page.

• Clinical Histopathology, Cambridge U Images planned, lecture schedule with graphic interface- one lecture with illustrations. Maintains a mirror site for U. of Alberta. Clinical school home page has a good general internet collection.

• Dept. of Medical and Morphological Research, University of Udine, Italy contains histologic images and some complete clinical/pathological cases, and Pathpuzzle breast unknowns

• Usenet newsgroup sci.med.pathology is a forum for discussion of pathology and related issues. Also available by Gopher Version if you don't have Usenet access. There is a Gopher Version of most Newsgroups available, either sorted by topic (threaded) or in order received.

• Association for Molecular Pathology has links to a newsletter, special interest groups, Internet Pathology Resources Page.

• University of Nottingham Medical School Histopathology has a broad group of links to useful sites & databases, is a mirror site of UR Pathology. Especially useful links to a large number of pathology journal contents.

• U of Wisconsin Pathology Faculty Interests has listings for individual faculty members, the root directory is searchable.

• American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Membership and meeting information. American Journal of Pathology information including on-line tables of contents and abstracts.

• Cornell Medical College Education Center Pathology faculty listing, images, M&M confs illustrated, much of this is also available on the Cornell Medical College Gopher which has faculty listing, searchable catalog, 8-bit images with labels but no discussion.

• Ne wcastle University Pathological Sciences Department Faculty & research listings

• Nippon Medical School Gopher Autopsy data base in Japanese, other gopher connections

• Gopher Menu Department of Pathology, University of Lund Documents mostly related to cancer

• Pathologisches Institut Mannheim Research projects (in German)

• Pathology Institute Heidelberg Research projects (in German)

• M. D. Anderson Research Reports Searchable listing

• Yahoo guide to Health:Medicine: Pathology A subdirectory of a popular internet index, links to many pathology departments

• EINet Pathology A subdirectory of a popular internet index, links to many pathology departments

• PathIT Home Page (Toxicopathology) has an email newsletter, information on pathology informatics and telepathology, on-line symposia and discussion forum, useful links.

• Dept of Pathology & Lab Medicine, U Texas MS @ Houston CPT codes online, hematology, informatics, a large list of resources by specialty- mostly from EINet but not the pathology list, CME, CPCs, lab handbook under development, student resources- course materials mostly not available yet.

• Johns Hopkins-InfoNet: Pathfinder Home Page Clinical pathology test manual on-line, searchable test list

• Peter O'Connell's Laboratory Home Page (U TX San Antonio Pathology) Breast Cancer Project genetics projects, cancer related projects

• Society for Pediatric Pathology Home Page has descriptive info, lists officers, future meetings, list of members, contents of Perspectives in Pediatric Pathology, lists of reviewers for POG & CCG tumor protocols, and has useful links. There is a collection of cases with histories, some radiographs, good gross and microscopic images.

• U of Pittsburgh Pathology Home Page offers a department brochure, well worked up AP & CP cases with images including a searchable database, consultation information, some links.

• University of Minnesota Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Department Departmental programs, brochure, jobs listing, events calendar

• "Pathy"- Nagoya University Pathology Good gallery of hematology images (good quality), a few misc images, GVHD & hepatoma galleries under devel. Textbook of leukemia, database of chemo, case reports all in Japanese

• Pathology, Fujita Health UniversityThis is an mirror of Nagoya

• U of Alberta Dept. of Lab Medicine & Pathology with a mirror site at U. of Cambridge. Department Info, a good collection of other servers- AP & CP. A good renal pathology section and an Internal medicine problem based learning course.

• Bowman Gray School of Medicine Pathology Surgical pathology cases with brief hx & several images, also reachable atSurgical Pathology, Bowman Gray

• NYU Pathology Home Page Dept description, faculty list, research interests

• University of Washington Pathology Department Page Departmental and training programs info, cytogenetics info, other UW sites including laboratory medicine which has online lab test info; cytogenetics- human, horse & mouse chromosomes - gopher, graphical locus query for Genome DataBase @ Hopkins, some other pathology links.

• Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Online lab test handout, tissue procurement protocols, GI and Liver pathology Cases of the Month, telnet to paper chase and to their clinical lab computer, a very good and well organized list of Pathology resources on the internet, link to "tech homepage" has software sources.

• University of Pittsburgh Home Page Department brochure, faculty list, consultation service contacts

• Pathology sources from "Tripleg" Triple G company (computing systems for pathology), lots of Australian, US & european sources

• USUHS Dept. of Pathology On- line CME section , pointers to other military sites, USUHS WWW server,NIH, NLM, Yahoo Health:Pathology

• WWW of Pathology on Karol Marcinkowski University in Poznan, Poland. All in Polish.

• To subscribe to MEDLAB-L, an email discussion group for laboratory professionals, send the message SUBSCRIBE MEDLAB-L YOUR-NAME LISTSERV@VM.UCS.UAL BERTA.CA.The list owner Pat Letendre's Home Page has some pathology links, links to writing resources, and a list of relevant listserv lists.

• To subscribe to PATHO-L, the email Pathology discussion group, send the message SUBSCRIBE PATHO-L YOUR-NAME to LISTSERV@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU.

• To subscribe to PEDPATH, the email Pediatric Pathology discussion group, send the message SUBSCRIBE PEDPATH YOUR-NAME to listproc@lists.u.washington.edu.

• To subscribe to MXDIAG-L, the email Molecular Pathology and Diagnostics discussion, send the message SUBSCRIBE MXDIAG-L YOUR-NAME to LISTSERV@ALBNYDH2.BITNET. The list is mirrored on newsgroup bit.listserv.mxdiag-l.

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Forensics

• National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) page has info on the organization, and on forensic pathology as a career. Products and services are listed. Pediatric toxicology registry. On-line tutorial on writing Cause of Death Statements.

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Information Home Site has SIDS info and some pregnancy loss info.

• American College of Forensic Examiners has info about ACFE, courses, calendar, collection of forensics and law enforcement links.

• Hank's Forensic Page.A forensic pathologist in Taiwan, Hank C. Chien, MD, PhD, lists meetings, has a good list of forensic links, extensive list of general pathology links.

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Network has info for parents, info on research directions and funding, meeting announcements, legislative info, memorials, extensive links to other SIDS resources.

• To subcribe to CRIMINOLOGY, the criminology email list, send the message "subscribe criminology " to listserv@vm.gmd.de.

• Forensi c Entomology has an introduction on use of arthropods in forensics, other forensic links.

• Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center has newsletters and many sites related to natural disasters and emergency preparedness

• Pathology and Forensic Medicine Gophers Surg path, forensic odontology, path depts U Wash & Newcastle, ASIP, Pathy

• Forensic Odontology, Lund, Sweden Odontology guide in Swedish, forensic odontology contacts in many courtries

• US Fish & Wildlife Service Forensic Lab Wildlife laws, endangered species list, link to Forensic science home page

• Forensic Web Home Page (Washington State Patrol Crime Lab) Forensic & legal websites, ftp sites, Bulletin Boards

• Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology, Melbourne, Australia National SIDS autopsy protocol and database, link to large list of medical resources, some key word search capability

• Forens-L Forensic Medicine List to subscribe: mailto:MAILSERV@ACC.FAU.EDU subscription message: SUBSCRIBE FORENS-L Your Name

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Toxicology

• EPA Page EPA home page and extensive links

• MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY RESOURCE A resource for practitioners, educators and researchers in medical, clinical and occupational toxicology.

• Society of Toxicology Pathologists page has membership info, news headlines, journal contents and abstracts.

• Envenomations in Australia, Sydney U. is a quick reference to the management of stings and envenomations from snakes and insects found in Australia.

• UC Toxic Substances Research & Teaching Program Page has info on the program (which includes all nine UC Campuses and three national laboratories), conference announcements, newsletter articles of interest, and profiles of researchers.

• POISON NET, Poison Control Mail List has discussion of of poisoning, poison control, hazardous materials management and related areas. Primarily for health care professionals and poison control centers. To subscribe send email to listproc@ucdavis.edu with the message: Subscribe poison-net your name.

• MSDS Veronica Search found lots of different MSDS sources.

• MSDS Directories with Email Retrieval page has a long list of chemicals with code numbers. To get the MSDS by email send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the message GETPP ACCxxxxx MSDS where ACCxxxxx is the code number. Can order more than one at a time. This is run by International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, a UN program. which also has data bases, software, and biotechnology links.

• EPA Chemical Substance Fact Sheets have toxicity data, exposure limits, etc. This is part of the EcoGopher project with much environmentally oriented info, searchable by keyword.

• TOXLIST, Email List for toxicology discussions such as drug, pesticide or hazardous waste toxicology, risk assessment and management, analytical toxicology, immunotoxicology. To subscribe send email to listserv@cornell.edu with the message: SUB ToxList firstname lastname.

• MSDS Database Demo Page- BC Hydro Information about a multiplatform database of MSDS information

• Phytotherapy and Medicinal Plants, a listing of medicinal plants and some diseases they are supposedly good for, links to other plant-therapy areas.

• Poisons Information Database (Singapore) has a listing of poison plants, animals, and snakes of Singapore region, directory of worldwide sources of antitoxins, and poison control centers.

• National Toxicology Program Reports of carcinogens and chemical toxicity as .zip files

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry HazDat toxic substances database searchable, public health statements searchable, Science Corner has huge number of links to related servers

• FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food additives, pesticides, how to request info via freedom of info act, handbook on Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins

• Join Together Online (substance abuse info) Web Server Currently just a gateway to the Join Together Online Gopher Drug and tobacco news clippings and some articles

• Material Safety Data Sheets On-line MSDS for many compounds, indexed and arranged alphabetically.

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Genetics and Molecular Biology

• Cystic Fibrosis Info and links dealing with cystic fibrosis

• Rare Genetic Diseases in Children Resource directory largely aimed at parentes with genetics links, search tools, moderated message board, National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases pages

• Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS) ANGIS is a service available to subscribers that offers a comprehensive system of software, databases, documentation, training and support for biologists. (Offers 30 day trial subscription)

• G-6-PD Deficiency Home Page The purpose of this page is to utilize the world-wide accessibility and convenience of the internet to introduce the genetic, physiological, molecular, and clinical aspects of G6PD deficiency.

• Metabolic diseases

• Association for Glycogen Storage Disease (UK) This home page provides basic information about the glycogen storage diseases. The information is intended to be of use to people affected by one of the glycogen storage diseases, their families and other interested parties.

• Genetics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Concise listing of genetics links including educational, link to skeletal dysplasia registry with tissue protocols and Skel Dysp Soc meeting info. Defunt link too: Did have image archive, http://www.csmc.edu/genetics/omimpix/index.html, Indexed by the OMIM code numbers, links to local images and images elsewhere on the WWW.

• International Skeletal Dysplasia Registry Information and protocols for submitting cases- including tissue protocols, program and abstract form for upcoming International Skeletal Dysplasia Society Meetings

• EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) announces a World Wide Web (WWW) submission tool which provides a fast and convenient way to submit nucleotide sequence data and associated biological information to the database. Direct URL for sequence submission

• KUMC Genetics Education Center Links to Human genome project and other sites, educational links including resources, lesson plans, glossary.

• Inborn-errors Mail list Home page Mail list oriented for discussion of metabolic diseases by professionals. Archives online, searchable. links to other genetics sites. To subscribe: mailto:mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk message: Join inborn-errors firstname(s) lastname

• March of Dimes Home page of this nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of babies by reducing birth defects and infant mortality.

• Association for Glycogen Storage Disease Home Page Info mostly for parents

• BH4 Page Tetrahydrobiopterin deficiencies

• Gaucher's Page Gaucher's disease: info and links

• Rare Genetic Diseases in Children page has a resource directory largely aimed at parents, with genetics links, search tools, moderated message board.

• U of Minnesota Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism Laboratory page lists clincal tests available with contact and shipping info, searchable site. Extensive Ornithine transcarbamylase page.

• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation mostly has info for the general public. Some info on available research grants and ongoing clinical trials.

• Gaucher Disease Web page has a summary of Gaucher, emphasis on Adult onset type, with links to many related sites, especially genetic.

• Jewish Genetic Diseases mailing list home page has links to info on specific diseases which are increased in Jewish populations with FAQ. To subscribe send the message: SUBSCRIBE GENDISEASE-J YOUR NAME to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu.

• METAB-L, Inborn Errors of Metabolism Professionals Mailing List is for discussion of topics related to Inborn Errors of Metabolism, intended for physicians, biochemists and scientists, laymen not welcome. To subscribe send the message: subscribe metab-l email- address to majordomo@rachael.franken.de The listowner's home page has further info.

• Biochemical Genetics, UCSD provides a list of biochemical tests they perform, and a comprehensive list of tests performed at centers worldwide.

• Inborn-errors email list page for discussion of Inherited Metabolic Diseases, including: a) Biochemistry and Diagnosis b) Genetics c) Clinical, nutritional and treatment aspects d) General discussion. To join inborn-errors send the command: Join inborn-errors firstname(s) lastname to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk. There are also searchable archives.

• MBx European Interspecific Mouse Backcross Database Probes, chromosome maps, etc. also has chromosome abnormality database.

• INRA WWW-ACEDB Gateway has links to some useful searchable databases including a metalbolic pathway database and an integrated genome database.

• HUM-MOLGEN WWW site (with a U.S. mirror site) is associated with the hum-molgen molecular genetics discussion mailing list, has news, biotech products, computation, ethics, listing of biomedical meetings, listing of jobs.
  To subscribe to the Hum-molgen discussion list send the message "subscribe hum- molgen" to LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL.

• Roswell Park FTP server Mac & DOS software, mouse genetics data

• National Cancer Center of Japan Gopher Some data bases including searchable cell line & gene catalog, some info in japanese only, mirrors NCI CancerNet

• Belgian EMBnet Node Genetics databases, some general links

• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory On-line has info on research and education programs, Catalogue of Books available from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press has a searchable listing of books in molecular biology & genetics, with summaries, contents, and reviews

• Baylor College of Medicine Genome Center Database searches at BCM and worldwide

• Genome Data Base Home Page has links to the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (no longer being updated, see GenBank entry), WAIS server, genome data base, Johns Hopkins links

• On-line training for Genome Database and Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man Partially under development- will include other genetic resources

• WAIS search of On-Line Mendelian Inheritance in Man from the Gopher of the University of Lund, quick & easy.

• Saccharomyces Genome Database, Stanford University Yeast data base & info, acedb info, other genetics links

• Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Emory Currently restricted to authorized users

• Biochemistry & Biotechnology- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm ACEDB database, includes links for downloading software, links to many molecular biology resources in Sweden

• U Texas San Antonio Genome Center Chromosome 3 info, links to other genetic research, servers, archive of software

• Mouse Genomic Resources, UTenn Memphis Mouse genetics information (stuffit compressed version available to download), ftp links, links to other genetics sources, end-note format reference files

• Oxford Molecular Biology Data Centre Under construction, gopher & links to several databases

• Resource for Molecular Cytogenetics, UCSF Dept of Laboratory Medicine Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: images, probes, publications

• Center for Genome Research/ MIT Links to databases, ftp archives, software, articles & abstracts

• Gene-Finder, U of Houston Has database, links to other searchable databases, links to Baylor, biology software archives

• Human Genome Program Home Page Info about program, newsletter, links to involved laboratories

• MBx European Interspecific Mouse Backcross Database Probes, chromosome maps etc

• Human Genome Center, University of Michigan Local databases, genetic links

• Jackson Laboratory Mouse genome resources and data

• The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Leeds) OWL protein sequence database, info about the department

• Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole Describes classes, research programs

• GenBank at NCBI Searchable database of all known DNA sequences. Net-Entrez allows search of a molecular biology subset of MEDLINE. Is the site for the current Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man with a search form.Integrated Human Gene Map has a wonderful graphic interface of chromosomes- gene map linked to sequence databases.

• Sanger Center, UK has ftp site, worm data base, some software, their listing of Genome centres and Biocomputing facilities is a very complete list of European & US genetics sources

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Other Laboratory Related Fields

• International Committee for Commonality in Blood Bank Automation provides up-to-date information about ISBT 128, the new international standard for the bar code labeling of blood products

• Blood substitutes checkout root index

• CANCER CARE Patient centered info about cancer

• U of MN Microbiology Tools and databases designed for molecular biologists

• British Society of Immunology Information related mostly to members of the BSI

• Yale Center for Cell Imaging CCI provides accessibility to modern biomedical confocal and electron microscopy as well as expertise in immunocytochemistry, stereology and related imaging methods. Pictures of cells from electron microscopes.

• MGH Neurology Webpage Contains an online discussion about Neurology topics; links to Alzheimers' and neurodegenerative resources; and extensive links to other medical resources.

• MGH Neurosurgery: Guide for Residents, Interns, and Students This document is intended primarily for the internal use of students, interns, and residents rotating on the MGH neurosurgical service. Others are welcome to browse with knowledge of that fact.

• Histology Society of Ohio Mostly member information.

• Biomedical Science Page Huge collection of links to Microbiology, Haematology, Biochemistry and Histopathology sites

• Sun City Diagnostic Center Some information on basic lab tests.

• Ebola newspage Outbreak is an on-line information service that addresses emerging diseases. It provides in-depth information for interested laypersons as well as medical and health professionals. It also provides a world-wide collaborative database for the collection of information about possible disease outbreaks.

• American Society for Microbiology Microbiology links, medical laboratory job links http://asmusa.edoc.com/ electronic journals

• Pathology, BRITISH SOCIETY OF PLANT PATHOLOGY Info related to plant pathology

• Centr al States Microscopy Society Several image pages (most under construction) and links to other microscopy sites.

• Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology on the Internet Some images and extensive links to anatomy, pathology, histology, neuroanatomy/pathology sites.

• Fungi WWW Page Among other things, you'll find access to culture collection databases, image archives, the MSA Bulletin Board, various directories of mycologists, archives of Inoculum (the MSA newsletter), and the awesome databases of the U.S. National Fungus Collections.

• Macrophage Home Page Images and text with links to other macrophage sites

• Medical Microbiology U of Capetown see also http://www.uct.ac.za/microbiology Departmental information and links to microbiology related sites

• Zymed Laboratories Info about this biotech company

• Medical Technology, U of Hawaii Info on educational program, some http://www2.hawaii.edu/dlit/medshock/medtutor.html online tutorials (require Shockwave and Netscape 2.0), lab related links

• To subscribe to the image cytometry mailing list, mail a subscription request to the list owner. There is discussion of methods, equipment, methods.

• To subscribe to the flow cytometry mailing list, mail a subscription request to the list owner. There is discussion of methods and reagents.

• International Society of Analytical Cytometry Home Page has information about the organisation and a good listing of internet cytometry sites.

• Cytometry, Journal of International Society of Analytical Cytology has contact info, policy, instructions for authors.

• Rochester Analytical Cytology Unit has a personnel listing, cytometry and research related links, and a growing list of protocol s for research techniques.

• International Federation of Placental Associations page has searchable indices of membership, abstracts, meeting announcements.

• National Academy of Mortuary Science Info about a correspondence course to become a funeral service technician. Includes listings of useful books on embalming and body preparation.

• MICROWEB: A Microbiology Reference Web, Jefferson University An online Multimedia Course/Textbook (Text & Images). Large Database underconstruction. Currently includes: Parasitology (Arthropods, Protozoa, Sporozoa and Worms). Underconstruction: Bacteriology (Bacteria, Chalmydia, Mycoplasma, Rickettsia and Spieochetes).

• To subscribe to the bionet.diagnostics.prenatal email discussion list, send the message "SUB bionet-news.bionet.diagnostics.prenatal" to MXT@dl.ac.uk. This list discusses prenatal diagnostic testing. It is also available as a Usenet newsgroup bionet.diagnostics.prenatal.

• To subscribe to ProMED: the Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases, send the message "Subscribe Promed" to majordomo@usa.healthnet.org This mailing list has discussion of infectious disease outbreaks around the globe as they are happening. Was very exciting during the Ebola epidemic in Zaire.

• Colorado State Veterinary diagnostic laboratory has a test and price list, description of services, interesting cases with images and discussion.

• The Microbial Underground Has an incomplete hypertext course on medical bacteriology, and contains links to microbiological resources on the net, as well as molecular biological WWW tools and sites.
• AFIP Veterinary Pathology Web site Extensive and well organized listings include Wednesday Slide Conference results, the syllabus from the 1994 Pathology of Laboratory Animals Course, sections for upcoming meetings at the AFIP (and elsewhere), general pathology lecture notes (Freidlander and Uthman) and announcements from the Charles Louis Davis Foundation for the Advancement of Veterinary Pathology.

• To subscribe to TX-L, the Transplantation Immunology email discussion list, send the email message "sub tx-l your name" to LISTSERV@ANIMA.NUMS.NWU.EDU< /A>.

• Irish National Virus Reference Laboratory has "Virus Alert" newsletter issues, some virology related sites.

• Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima has info on studies of Atomic bomb victims, some publications on-line, info on visiting Hiroshima, links to Hiroshima University

• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology links to the FASEB gopher, to member socitey home pages, membership directory, info about upcoming meetings, link to The Scientist Newsletter.

• Larry Winger, home page, Clinical Biochemistry, Newcastle Biochem seminar with some links, info on setting up a page

• The Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology at Rice University Info about the dept, faculty

• Mississippi State College of Veterinary Medicine Includes problem based learning section

• Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin Animations and images of viruses, virology links, articles, virology tutorial & course syllabi

• Statistical and data analysis software (Kovach Computing Svcs) Shareware software, consultation, links to other software sites

• CWRU Biochemistry Department Gopher/HTTP has facility & dept info, courses, research activities, faculty working on RNA, list of RNA links.

• NetBiochem (Hahnemann) Biochemistry course, graphics, WAIS searchable, also has a mirror site in Utah

• Neurosciences on the Internet Lists neuro sites, numerous links, some biological and medical resource sites and World Wide Web sites. Mirror sites in Australia, UK, and Germany.

• Animal Health Laboratory, DPIF, Tasmania main page lists services offered and contact names and phone numbers. The home page of James Watson- Veterinary Clinical Pathologist has a list of veterinary and pathology links, as well as Australian veterinary and medical links, and some fun stuff.

• Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine has Department listings. Of greatest interest: Bovine Gross pathology quiz and listing of courseware, including anatomy and histology.

• DOE Molecular Biology Institute @ UCLA Center for study of evolution and the origin of life, local info and some common links

• Ra diation Biology Web Page Journal contents

• Department of Veterinary Pathology, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh Summary of department activities

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Other Pathology Resources

• CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOURS WHO Classification Multimedia (Text): Includes: Neuroepithelial tumors, Non-neuroepithelial tumors, Astrocytic lineage tumor grading systems and Mutations leading to astroctic tumors. Links to other CNS tumor sites

• Interlace Media slide imaging via the Internet. Utilizing FTP and FEDEX, we can produce 35mm slides from your computer files and have them back to you as if we were next door.

• EM Lab, NM state The Electron Microscopy Laboratory (EML) is a campus-wide, core facility providing all levels of technical support and consultation for investigators needing analytical and routine transmission, scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy services.

• Microscopy & Microanalysis WWW Site, Argonne National Lab http://www.amc.anl.gov/Docs/nonanl/Meetings.html: Info on meetings and conferences, including a form to submit listings ftp://www.amc.anl.gov: software library Mac & PC Extensive links to other microscopy sites

• Beckman Instruments Info about this lab instrument provider's products, history, financial status and career opportunities

• Immunohistochemistry Home Page A Comprehensive List of Immunohistochemistry Resources on the InternetÊ

• SPI Supplies Links to microscopy related resources

• American Histology Reagent Co. Info and resources for histologists

• Computer Trust Corporation Information about the SURGEª surgical pathology computer system.

• Center for Microscopsy and Imaging, Urbana Seems to have nice images, but I was unable to read the blue text on the blue background.

• EBS Sciences Energy Beam Sciences is a manufacturer and distributor of unique instruments and accessories for electron microscopy, light microscopy, and histology.

• Abbot Page Biotech company with links to other biotech sites

• Genentech Our mission is to be the leading biotechnology company, using human genetic information to develop, manufacture and market pharmaceuticals that address significant unmet medical needs.

• Microscopy Vendors Database

• Laboratory Pages More than fifty new companies, more than 260 categories of Lab products and services available from over 100 suppliers via the lookup table and search facility.

• Lab Vision Corp. Reagent distributers

• HEPAXPERT, hepatitis expert system Hepatitis A and B serology is covered.

• Online Medical Sales Network The Premier Source for New and Used Medical Equipment, Surgical Instruments, and Hospital Products

• Medtechnet Online education for the clinical laboratory

• Microscopy & Analysis Microscopy and Analysis is a two-monthly publication for all who work with or are interested in the instrumentation, techniques and applications of microscopy and analysis to further our understanding of the biomedical and materials sciences.

• Microscopy- UK online magazine 'Micscape'

• Midwest MicroTech, Inc. Histology supply company

• Millipore Corp Medical products manufacturer

• MSA- The Microscopy Society of America information about the society and it's meetings, other microscopy meetings. Software library by FTP. Archives of Microscopy email list: Large readership, all aspects of light and electron microscopy discussed. To Subscribe use form on the page or Email to: mailto:ListServer@MSA.Microscopy.Com Message: Subscribe Microscopy your name

• Nanoprobes, Inc. http://www.nanoprobes.com/Tech.html technical help Nanoprobes, Incorporated is the source for high-quality immunogold reagents.

• Journal of Cellular Pathology- Oxford University Press Has abstracts of articles from 1996 to 1997

• U of Hawaii Biological EM Facility A research instrumentation and service facility, open to state, university, and outside institutions. Instrument use and technician services are available on a recharge fee basis.

• Photodyne Technologies Company selling automated macro photography system

• Handbook of Fluorescent Probes and Research Chemicals Biotechnology company specializing in the area of fluorescence technology

• ProSciTech Microscopy related vendor, online catalogue & MSDS

• Center for Electron Microscopy, Southern IL Departmental info

• SNOMED- Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (CAP) Information on SNOMED international, including pricing, update information, vendors.

• 90 Informatica Clinical laboratory software company. In Portugese.

• Pathology of Glomerulonephritis images & text

• Carl Zeiss In German

• Dilo Company Reagent recycling system. As an ISO 9001 certified company, DILO offers high pressure tube unions and quality SF6 maintenance equipment.

• Cell Cycle Mailing List Lively discussion of cell cycle control and research methods (flow cytometry, synchronization), etc. , meeting announcements. To subscribe: mailto:mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk message: join cell-cycle

• Bulletin Board of Oral Pathology subcribe: mailto:listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu mesage: subscribe BBOPLIST FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME

• LABCAT Software Home Page has on- line sales and support for a line of PC based programs for doing laboratory followup of drug testing.

• CoMed- Collaborative Medical Systems has information about the company and about the CoPath anatomic pathology computer system. CoMed was acquired by Dynamic Healthcare Technologies.

• Cytopathnet has cytology articles and editorials with ability of users to add comments to the articles and review others' comments. Some tutorials and links for cytology and medical-legal issues. On-line images with questions. On-line chat. To subscribe to the cytopathnet-l email list. Send email to majordomo@lists.win.net with message: SUBSCRIBE CYTOPATHNET-L END.

• BioSupplyNet Biotechnology Service has an on-line searchable directory of research products and services. Run by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

• MEDMarket Virtual Industrial Park has listings of medical device manufacturers and service providers. Searchable. Includes some laboratory equipment and microscopes.

• Internet Autopsy Database contains 49,000 plus autopsy cases (anonymity protected) collected from multiple institutions. Searchable by key word.

• Electron Microscopy Yellow Pages has a searchable collection of links to EM laboratories, on-line courses, professional societies, software.

• Dynacare page has promotional material, info on which laboratories Dynacare runs, some managerial job listings, "Educational Forum" is a discussion of a laboratory test.

• U of Florida Electron Microscopy Core Laboratory has information about services performed in the lab. Of general interest: Tips and Tricks of Microscopy includes EM but also light, phography, and computers, has info on microscopy related email lists.

• MedSafe is a company with educational programs for healthcare worker safety (and regulatory compliance). Has safety articles, FAQs. Links to OSHA and other safety related sites and listings of suppliers of safety equipment .

• Science Online allows you to browse or search issues of the journal "Science" from mid-1995 to present. Has full texts and abstracts of articles, with related WWW links, and with downloadable graphics of illustrations.

• Westgard Quality Corporation page has info on laboratory QC, including CLIA requirements, lab-related links, info and downloadable demos on QA software.

• MedCalc Medical Statistics Program is a program written for IBM compatibles which includes Quality Control charts and Recever Operator Curves. Has downloadable demo version.

• Barcode Labels for Medical Laboratories is part of Electronic Imaging Materials, Inc. page, with uses for barcodes. Has email links, phone #.

• Medseq- Sequential study statistics has information on doing medical experiments using a sequential model with repeated significance tests. Downloadable freeware program for MS-DOS machings.

• Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases (BCMD) is the on-line continuation of the journal Blood Cells, available by subscription, and over the internet at no charge. Papers are published an average of 7 days after receipt in the editor's office. To subscribe send the message: subscribe bloodcell, to majordomo@scripps.edu.

• National Research Council Home Page. Membership info, some jobs listed, medical news and publications, not much primarily pathology, NRC library has on-line catalogs, some on-line reference works.

• UK National External Quality Assessment Schemes (NEQAS) is an organisation aimed at improving laboratory quality in the UK. There are many centers involved, and this page has links to the various centers which have web sites.

• National Society for Histotechnology has info about the society. Links to MicroWorld Resources and News with listings of links relevant to microscopists and listings of microscopists. Also professional society and meeting info.

• ICD-9 Codes online has a searchable listing.

• Merck Home Page (This is the English version.) Lists products and services and local suppliers world-wide.

• VWR Scientific Products page has newsletters, on-line catalog.

• PharmInfoNet a commercial site with database of articles from their newsletters, organized by trade name, also FAQs. Drug database has reportedly been improved. Includes abstracts from Transgenica, a peer- reviewed on-line journal on biopharmaceutical and immunodiagnostic research. To subscribe by mail (fee involved) send email to listserv@hslc.org with the message: SUBSCRIBE TRANSGEN-L yourname.

• Astute Statistics Add-in for Microsoft Excel. Runs with Excel 4 or 5 for PC. Demo version available for download by ftp.

• Login Brothers (Bookshop) has a large, searchable database. A search for "Pathology" brought 530 hits!

• Biotechnology Resource Keyword Search (Indiana) is a searchable database which includes a guided tour.

• The programLabcoat is a clinical lab test- costing, statistics, qc chart generating, lipoprotein calculator, etc. There are two files, one called Labcoat.txt is the file description and the file, Labcoat.zip, is the archived DOS program. Also available at Irvine ftp site.

• IDT Online Information System- Chemistry Biology BBS from Integrated DNA Technologies- online ordering of oligonucleotides, discussion forums, datafiles.

• To subscribe to the image cytometry mailing list, mail a subscription request to the list owner. There is discussion of methods, equipment, methods.

• To subscribe to the flow cytometry mailing list, mail a subscription request to the list owner. There is discussion of methods and reagents.

• National Science Foundation Home Page has NSF bulletin, grant proposal guide, directories.

• SF VA Laboratory Information Server has a searchable index of lab tests with some info about specimen collection and result interpretation, critical reviews of a limited number of tests in all areas of clin path- not searchable.

• Morphometrics at SUNY Stony Brook has info on meetings, mailing lists, downloadable software & data, books.

• American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) includes AIBS meeting info, research opportunities

• Pathology Residents Internet On-line Network (PRION) is a discussion group restricted to Pathology Residents. The web page has introductory information and a subscription form. To subscribe by email, send a message to prion-admin@path.upmc.edu and include only the statement: "subscribe prion".

• Public Education Program in Biotechnology, Iowa State University has resources from Iowa State University (lab procedures, tips for teachers, issues newsletters, information on biotechnology products and their applications (animal products, plant products, food products, human health products and applications, regulatory information), and resources from other biotechnology programs.

• The Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research page describes cancer and anti-viral antibodies, programs & facilities, catalog of reagents for sale.

• Singapore Biotechnology Database/Directory listings of companies dealing in biotech in Singapore. Organized by type of service, searchable by keywords.

• Biomed Companies Database, Purdue. The IEEE-Engineering BioMed Club put together this database with contact information & WWW links, sorted by company name and by product type. Also has a listing of other biomedical technology sites.

• The Medical Meeting Place offers registration for medical meetings, currently mostly radiologic, some general medical links as well.

• Diagnostic Criteria in Surgical Pathology, Monash U Specific criteria for lesions in several organ systems

• Search Pathology Glossary, Cornell Terms defined

• CME Catalog- Metronome On-Line Press CME course listings, some software for sale

• Cell Culture Collections (Medical Research Council, UK) A list of multiple cell culture and other culture collections all in one place

• American Type Culture Collection Internet tutorial, searchable gopher of collection, online order forms

• Biotechnology Commercial Email Addresses and Web Sites A list of email and web sites, predominantly from biotech firms.

• Diagnostic Test Information Server, UCSF Searchable information on common diagnostic tests and procedures and patient evaluation. Enter a test name, it does a search, not browsable.

• Bio-Science Research (Virg.Com.U) Biotechnology, incl links to former Soviet Union sites

• To subscribe to BIZ-BIOTECH, an on-line discussion group for commercial biotechnology products, send the message SUBSCRIBE BIZ-BIOTECH to LISTSERV@NETCOM.COM.

• To subscribe RESIDENTS, an on-line support group for residents in all specialties, send the message SUBSCRIBE RESIDENTS TO LISTSERV@utmb.edu.

• OSHA Home Page searchable osha codes, other health info.

• FedWorld Government Information data from many federal agencies, much health related, telnet connection is also a gateway to federal dial-up services.

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Medical Imaging

• SLIDE index (microbiology and veterary slide archive) Searchable by title and keyword, no easy browse or TOC, I couldnt get it to work

• Dermatology, U of Iowa Home page of U of Iowa Derm Dept. Lots of images of skin diseases without much text. Links to other Derm related sites.

• Med Asylum - The Internet Atlas of Patholgy Alphabetic list of images from multiple sources- mostly Cornell and Rennes.

• Otoweb ENT Animation Archive at Wisconsin ENT related images. Some text. Also ENT links.

• Pat Connelly's Page Homepage of a Pathologist / computer buff. Good images and lots of links.

• Visible Human CD Samples Sample images from the visual man project.

• experiments with the Visible Man's fresh CT data 3D anatomical reconstructions from CT images

• Bandwidth Conservation Society Techniques for reducing the size of image files without losing quality

• MediClip - The Complete Medical Image Source Medical/anatomy art downloadable fee based

• Journal of Electronic Imaging The Journal of Electronic Imaging covers research and applications in all areas of electronic imaging science and technology.

• Pediatric Radiology- Pathology Web Page- Children's Hospital of Birmingham Teaching cases with radiographs and pathology correlation, and follow-up images Listing of pediatric, radiology and pathology meetings, collection of Birmingham & General links

• Medical Imaging Newsgroup, alt.image.medical has discussion of medical, largely slanted towards radiology, with occasional posted binary images.

• Alzheimer/Related Dementias Tutorial, W.U.St.L. Neuropathology has a collection of excellent annotated gross and microscopic images, mostly of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Pick's diseases

• Tumor Board, a web based bulletin board, has a searchable archive of tumor images, instructions for submitting images, list of members available by email to comment on images, signup form for new members, commercially sponsored. ASCP workshop on digital imaging in pathology

• Ophthalmic and Gyne Pathology Images. Searchable databases of Ophthalmic and Gyne/Breast images- a good variety though somewhat low resolution. Available in English and French.

• University of Stuttgart - Telepathology Project HISTKOM page has descriptive info about a telemedicine project for remote frozen section diagnosis.

• Body Modification Ezine has discussion & images of ways people modify their bodies including tatoos, scars, piercing, and surgery. Perhaps this should be listed as psychopathology.

• Embryo Development, U Penn has development of different organ systems presented in drawings and mpg animations.

• 3D Image Reconstruction, NASA, from Ames Biocomputation center. Listings of 3D reconstruction programs and where they are available. Links to some 3D reconstruction data sets and MPEG movies, literature references and other links.

• Hemat opatholgy Cases, NYU has interactive lymphoma case studies, listed by dx or by number. "Control" button to see normal comparison images. Part of NYU Hippocrates project.

• AFIP GI Endoscopic Biopsy Pathology Course. Good images, CME credit for answering questions and returning response forms.

• Medical Imaging Networked Consortium, Informatics at Pathology Dept. of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has consortium info, cases, quiz, some protocols.

• Precision Digital Images, Imaging Resource Page provides tutorials, demos, discussion and references for telemedicine, medical imaging, computer vision and image analysis including image processing tutorials

• RenalNet- Nephrology Resources and Renal Biopsy Case Reviews provides access to resources related to Nephrology. Includes biopsy cases with clinical history, photomicrographs, pathologic diagnosis, and discussion.

• Microscopes and Microscopy Web Page has huge selection of pointers to other relevant Web pages, mailing lists, newsgroups, notices of meetings with contact info, ftp sites with software and information to download, very well organized.

• Medical Art has compressed macpaint format files (mirror of UMich mac archives) same site has general software including hypercard stacks & demos, lots of AIDS stuff, notecard (Pathology exam program) and includes a mirror of Brazil ftp site with IBM PC software.

• Atlanta Reproductive Health Centre Photo Gallery has.medical images of reproductive tract, early embryos.

• Levit Radiologic-Pathologic Institute, U of TX info about CD-ROM, case presentations, some path images, and cross- sectional anatomical studies of brain & joints, links to large number of cancer centers.

• Electronic Guide to Histology (Singapore) has photomicrographs and electron micrographs of numerous tissues with descriptive text.

• Medical Image FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) List of software packages, other info from Usenet newsgroups (such as alt.image.medical), sites with images. Mirror site at MIT Archive

• Pathology Images, Cornell Images for education use only: normals, necrosis, thrombosis, infarct

• Medical Images UMDNJ Patholology, Molecular, & Radiology images, Pathology best developed: cases each with hx, images, and dx for each case, by topic: GI, GU, Breast, integument, lymphatic, misc also available at a mirror site at UMN

• The Royal Postgraduate Medical School Endocrine Images are available via the Gopher at Lund, Sweden. My attempts to connect to the RPMS gopher directly have all failed.

• Arizona Health Sciences Center Web Resources has a Lycos listing of places with path images.

• Centre of Medical Imaging Research, (University of Leeds, UK) Mostly radiology related: 3D data extraction, a very long list of imaging related sites, mostly radiology, and a set of search engine links

• Orthapaedic Surgery Image Database, (Queen's University of Belfast, UK) Radiographs and patient photos, no text descriptions

• Brigham and Women's Radiology Teaching Files Cases accessible by diagnosis or as unknowns, includes CPCs with radiology and pathology findings- images and discussion

• Medical Image Processing Group, U Penn Some image processing software, publications

• Visible Embryo Project Detailed presentation of the first 4 weeks of development with labelled diagrams.

• Real- time Surgery Simulation, (Georgia Institute of Technology) Mpeg movies of surgery simulation

• Bristol Multimedia Resources Unit Bristol Medical and Veterinary Image Databases, (University of Bristol, UK) free but must register as a user

• London Ontario Medical Images (Medical i-way) Cases by organ system

• Cornell Medical College WWW server JPEGView home page

• Osteosarcoma Demonstration (U FL Medical Informatics) Based on "Musculoskeletal Pathology" by Enneking. Text with xrays, gross, micros. They have a laserdisc of the whole book

• Urbana Atlas of Pathology Good collection , images of grosses and micros

• Medical Photography Forum Newcastle upon Tyne Audio Visual Centre, place to talk about photography

• Visib le Human Project Downloadable images in bitmap and GIF formats available. The same images can be found at Visible Human Project FTP site. For info on the complete database contact Michael Ackerman. For details about a photo CD, send email to visible@rsinc.com

• OnLine Images from the History of Medicine (NLM) 60,000 images searchable by keywords, date, location Images are 8-bit JPEGDownloadable images in bitmap and GIF formats

• Osaka Medical College Image Library of Pathology Lung images, uterine cytology .gif & .jpeg format

• Hepatocellular Carcinoma course, U OF PISA, DEPT. OF RAD A multimedia course on the diagnosis and staging of hepatocellular carcinoma with text, images, and MPEGs

• Erlangen Dermatology WWW- Server, which includes a Dermatology Image Database An attempt to build an on-line atlas of dermatology jpeg clinical images, some mixing of German & English. Contact: N.C. Krejci-Papa, MD, mfdk01@epix.rrze.uni-erlangen.de

• Glaxo Anatomy Project, CSU- 3D Human Body Geometric database of the Human Body- few sample images available & contact names

• MedPicts is the name of an International group of Physicians and Computer Scientists interested in the issues involved in posting medical images on the World Wide Web, including standardizing formats and nomenclature. To subscribe to MEDPICTS Medical Images Mailing List send the message SUBSCRIBE MEDPICTS YOUR-NAME to listproc@ucdavis.edu. The list owner has a home page, with links to some derm resources and medical history drawings.

• Global Dermatology Grand Rounds Unknown cases with hx, clinical photos, pathology photos, email in the dx. Previous cases available with references. Run by the Internet Dermatology Society.

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Medical Education

• Interactive Medical Student Lounge good set of general resources, some oriented more for students, cute link to Star trek Associated email list: mailto:MAISER@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu subscription message: sub medical

• RAND Health Survey This 36-item, multiple-choice questionnaire is based on the "Short Form" SF-36. The survey is quick, easy, and confidential -- and you can compare your scores with the those of the 2,500 participants of the Medical Outcomes Study.

• Wayne State CAI office Computer assisted instruction site at Wayne State U. with links to other CAI sites

• Prentice Hall (SDSS, SYSTAT) Claims to be the leading publisher of college course materials in the world.

• Histology, Hebrew U. Lectures short on text with illustrations of cell types.

• Mnemonics Page medical mnemonics - geared toward medical students

• The Interactive Patient (Marshall U.) The Interactive Patient is a WWW interactive medical education tool that simulates an actual patient encounter. Users ask a patient history questions, perform a physical exam, order laboratory and x-ray tests and submit a diagnosis and a treatment plan. Detailed feedback is provided. If site is busy, try this Mirror site. Contact: medicus@musom02.mu.wvnet.edu

• Med Guide Plus The MEd Guide is a WebSite intended to help physicians, researchers, students of medicine and of the health sciences and everyone interested locate medical resources on the Internet.

• AMSA- American Medical Student Association Info for medical students. Many links including links to residency information sites.

• WWW courseware Online physics homework from MU.

• Mouse and Rat Research Home Page Info for researchers who use rodents.

• Lage Bengtsson Problem Based Learning project Use modern multimedia technique in simulations of typical patient cases within different disciplines, constructed to suit PBL, where special demands on the computer support have been fulfilled. The design is intended to stimulate student activity and discussions between students. Among other features, the simulations are totally controlled by the students and the communication with the program is in a "natural language".

• Information Quest Electronic Online Systems (EOS) International is a global library information management software and service company. We offer a comprehensive range of products and services to meet the needs of libraries of all types and sizes. ? Journal search service

• Exam Master Corporation USMLE review courses on CD for sale

• Medtech Education Home Page Medical Technology site with extensive links

• Medical Informatics WWW Site list Links to medical informatics sites around the world.

• Memphis Educational Computer Connectivity Alliance (MECCA) MECCA (Memphis Educational Computer Connectivity Alliance) is a consortium of academic institutions within the Memphis, Tennessee area.

• Multimedia Reference Library

• Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN) curriculum text base, computer aided learning lab, some online lab images- histo, neuro, not yet path. DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN HEART

• MedInfoPoli - Medical Informatics WWW server two primary aims: to provide a fast and structured access to information on the Internet related to medical informatics to allow for easy and fast input of information related to this specific field. Everyone accessing the Internet can upload data to the server.

• Database of Online Canadian courses Online educational resource

• Proceedings from 2nd WWW conference '94 Electronic abstracts including sessions on medical education and health care delivery

• DOCTOR'S INTERNET GUIDE Medical Conferences & Meetings

• Question Mark WWW tests for courses

• Real Education Real Education's mission is to design, build, and manage complete online university campuses and continuing education centers

• Cardiac Development CEU Module Animated graphics, video clips, and hot links that cover the steps from the primitive tube to 4-chambered heart and highlights septal development. Directed at nurses for continuing education. there is also: Ventricular Septal Defect CEU Module

• THE WORLD-WIDE WEB UNLEASHED Advertisement for the book

• Electronic Texts Info about texts available on the net

• cognition, behaviour, health and education a web site to serve those interested in cognition, behaviour, health and education.

• AAMC Special Interest Group on Computers in Medical Education

• Instant Chat Please Note: International Pediatric Chat (IPC) is exclusively for Pediatric professionals. Parents and family members are prohibited from participating in live discussions. They are, however, welcome to observe. Requires registration

• Conference on Fair Use Guidelines for the fair use of electronic materials in a variety of nonprofit educational contexts.

• NYS DOH Lab Info about this public health lab. Links to other public health sites.

• WorldOrtho Orthopaedic Teaching Files Features clinico-pathological case studies, a bank of orthopaedic questions with answers, lecture notes, abstracts from landmark orthopaedic literature, and an orthopaedic discussion forum. Nepean Hospital, Australia.

• MEDICAL- Medical Student Mail Discussion List subscription: mailto:MAISER@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu Subscription Message: SUB MEDICAL Associated with the on-line medical student lounge. Intended for discussion of exams, residencies, and other topics of interest to medical students. Many premeds participate.

• Lightning Hypertext of Disease, Pathology Informatics, Inc has searchable packets of info on multiple diseases. Some packets give literature references. Company sells memberships or a CD product with additional features.

• Ed Uthman's Home Page has a number of excellent short monographs aimed at students, residents and the general public including a tutorial on gross specimen photography good for residents, and one on lab test interpretation that would be good for students.

• Microscopy Primer, from FSU, shows how to set up and use a microscope, how to take photomicrographs.

• Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for WWW Resources (Widener University) has a presentation and a set of checklists to help users analyze the quality of the information at various websites. Pages are classified as advocacy, business/marketing, informational, news, or personal. Quality criteria explained include authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage. Extensive bibliography, with links. Also has links to pages to use as examples, including several medical ones.

• AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) Webserver has information on the AMIA organization, its strategic plan, publications, activities, and meetings, includes schedules, paper submission, and registration information for upcoming meetings. There is a description of AMIA's Working Groups including the Internet Working Group.

• The Primary Care Internet Guide has a colletion of links for primary care practitioners including relevant listings for occupational and environmental medicine, medical education, and software and informatics.

• Stanford Medical Informatics Course Info is an on-line brochure for one week courses given at Stanford. Combination of lecture and hands-on lab.

• The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education, Utah has images with text descriptions, tutorials, exam questions with explanations, case studies, histology manuals, searchable site.

• CLSEDUC-L, Clinical Laboratory Science / Medical Technology Discussion Group is an email list focussed primarily on Medical Technology education. Open to all Laboratory Educators at all levels of training. To subscribe, send the message: Subscribe CLSEDUC-L your email address, to listserv@LYNX.APSU.EDU.

• Slice of Life Info about the Slice of Life videodisk and educational programs that use it, some downloadable demos and some images.

• USC 2nd Year Learning programs has tutorials on renal diseases including case studies. An on-line collection of gifs includes renal diseases, also an assortment of general histology and electron microscopy images.

• Center for Evidence- Based Medicine, Oxfordhas information about teaching and using evidence based medicine. Neat interface, click on the icon with the question mark at the top of the page for an explanation of all the other icons.

• Medical Education Modules, NYU has a list of modules, many only available locally, but some accessible from outside: embryology, hemep ath, infectious disease which includes microbe identification, and general pathology lab modules with images and questions to answer with feedback.

• Medical Informatics UC Davis has an online conference, ICD-9 and DRG codes, telecytology study, informatics links, virtual autopsy, lots of links.

• GRIPE Home page Membership info, office info, committee info, mail list info mailto:price@vms.ocom.okstate.edu, links to educational materials. Internet Resources. Officers and Members of GIRPE. List of Images on CD

• American Association of Medical Colleges page covers: News & events, publications and resources, student and application info, medical education, research, health care. Searchable. Email newsletter with online subscription info. To subscribe to "Med-ed", educational software developers email list, send email to majordomo@aamcinfo.aamc.org with the message: subscribe med-ed

• MEDI-CAL Medical Education Software catalogue at this site includes a Cardiac Auscultation Quiz,a Clinical medicine picture quiz, and a chemical pathology tutorial. All for IBM and compatible PCs.

• Gold Standard Multimedia Commercial site with demos of Medical education software- pharmacology, interactive anatomy, radiologic anatomy.

• AMSA WWW Homepage has task force info, and a software archive which has software and clip art, to download, including Notecard software for making review questions (includes 700 review questions), and has a good collection of medical education related links.

• Bionet Teaching and Learning Technology Programme has examples of use of computers teaching biology & preclinical medicine, software compendium (some histology, no pathology)

• Dr. Edward R. Friedlander's Page, Pathology Chair, Osteopathic Med School in KC lists hobby and interests, programs to download, list of lecture outlines available by email (WordPerfect 4.2). Dr. Friedlander also maintains a mailing list PATHDOC for discussion of pathology education and for medical student pathology questions. To subscribe send email to maiser@alum.uhs.edu with SUBSCRIBE PATHDOC in the body of the message.

• Web Site for General Pathology Students, Wisconsin class schedules, some text, lab materials including gross and microscopic images with annotation, CPC cases. All microscopic images were digitally obtained, all gross images were scanned. Annotation was performed using Aldus persuasion.- pretty but slow to download. It is linked to the Med school server.

• Jefferson Medical College Pathology Education has on-line course syllabus, outline of pathology, searchable glossary, case-studies in many organ systems (brief history plus images and questions), other relevant images (not apparently searchable, has some questions but answers not given), on- line question bank (slow- telnet guest connection), past exams on-line, some faculty information.

• Med-Ed FTP site, U. of CA, Irvine has Health-info- com newsletters, mac software (no pathology), msdos software (some cp cases and test ordering excercise), clinical chemistry tutorial, info on multiple sclerosis & chronic fatigue synd, general internet tutorials (Zen, Hancock, etc).

• Interactive Medical Student Lounge Good set of general resources, some oriented more for students

• Pathology FTP, Queen's U Canada Course schedules and lecture outlines (wordperfect & ascii)

• GRIPE Archive, OK College of Osteopathic Medicine Group for Research in Pathology Education mailing list archives and general info. To subscribe to the GRIPE mailing list send email to mailserv@vms.ocom.okstate.edu with the message "subscribe gripe". To send a message to the mailing list, email to gripe@vms.ocom.okstate.edu.

• Problem based learning- mailing list archive Archives of PBLIST, the Problem Based Learning Discussion List, which features discussion of applications of PBL to learning in the health sciences. To subscribe, send the message: SUBSCRIBE PBLIST FIRSTNAME LASTNAME, to LISTPROC@SPARKY.UTHSCSA.ED U.

• UMDNJ Piscataway Gopher Prototype Neuroscience & RWJMS curricula, some questions (ID)

• U Tx Houston Pathology Course Lecture Notes and Handouts Searchable text files

• Software for Medical Education, Tulane Tulane on-line course-ware, much is not available to outside access, some is, lots of medical education links

• Mediateque, Faculty of Medicine of Rennes (image database and multimedia syllabi in French) Medical informatics, college of Radiologists (images), Diagnostic aid, WWW links

• Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University Evidence-based medicine projects online, help system, and some overviews, links to the international Cochrane Collaboration, the Ontario Health Care Evaluation Network, the Evidence Based Medicine Working Group and the Clinical Informatics Network.

• Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media Software, image gallery of anatomy of heart, projects described including a pathology teaching module project

• Study Aids for Second-Year Students, U Tenn Microbiology mostly, pathology all from elsewhere: webpath, pathy, urbana

• "LUMEN"- Loyola University Medical Education Network Curriculum text base, computer aided learning lab, some online lab images, Cardiac development module.

• Virgil HTTP server, Vanderbilt Computer aided lessons mostly under construction, renal histology complete.

• VIRTUAL MEDICAL CENTER has pointers to thousands of Multimedia Medical Teaching Files/Manuals/Modules, Multimedia Medical Cases, and continuing Medical Education Courses, including a Pathology section.

• UK Virtual Study Centre Under construction

• Health Science Libraries Consortium Software Database Contains listings of PC compatible and Macintosh programs used in health sciences education. Can be contacted directly by telnet. Login as CBL, for more info contact: Jerilyn Garofalo, Garofalo@shrsys.hslc.org.

• Tulane Medical Center includes teaching software including path lessons, a very complete list of biomedical servers and a very complete list of informatics servers.

• Medical Education Pathology Study Images & Other Servers (U Va) Medical education sites listed, images not accessible outside UVA

• Proceedings from 2nd WWW conference '94 Electronic abstracts including sessions on medical education and health care delivery

• Medical Education Page Home page for newsgroup misc.education.medical has charter & FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), ftp sites, a large number of web sites of med schools.

• Educational Technology Branch, NLM Databases of educational software, videodiscs, authoring software

• World Lecture Hall On- line course materials from many universities includes some anatomy, biochemistry, virtual hospital , virology, as well as internet resources (under "Library science") and lots of other things

• PRODS, the information interchange for Directors of Pathology Residency Programs subscribe: mailto:listproc@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu message: subscribe prods

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Jobs

• America's Job Bank Searchable index of jobs from the Public Employment service

• CareerPath Lets you search the classified (Help Wanted) section of several major newspapers including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, and The Washington Post. Forcasts future job availability and salary.

• Western Journal of Medicine Classifieds and Opportunities Items from this monthly magazine sponsored by medical associations from the Western United States. SERVER BUSY

• Health Careers On-Line

• MedHunters Job listings for medical professionals

• Medsearch Medical job listings

• National Search, Inc. Lists medically related jobs

• Medical/Health Care Job List A long alphabetic list that links to profiles of companies offering healthcare positions nationwide.

• Online Career Center comprehensive and popular on-line job search tool. The OCC offers a large searchable database of jobs, and alsoallows you to submit your resume for employers to browse or search as well.

• Optcom Jobsite Optometry realted info and job listings

• TravCorps Employment Opportunities Online Health care job listings

• World Wide Medical Services Locum Tenens and Staff positions nationwide.

• Yahoo- Employment- Health has links to multiple job listings in health care and a listing of agencies with physician jobs.

• JOBS-MED, Medical Employment Mail list is a moderated mailing list of employment opportunities for professional and administrative health and medical positions. To subscribe send email to JOBS- MED@EXECON.METRONET.COM with the message: SUBSCRIBE JOBS-MED.

• Riley's Job Guide is a general guide to using the Internet for finding jobs. Includes strategies for job search. Tons of links to places with job listings including academe and sciences.

• HUM- MOLGEN Job listings lists genetics jobs: postdocs, academic, clinical & nonacademic postitions, link to bionet searchable job list.

• FSG Online Career Services has searchable lists of job candidates and employment opportunities in the medical and biotechnology industries. Emphasis is more on biotechnology research than in clinical laboratories. Resumes can be submitted and can be searched by prospective employers.

• The Scientist Newsletter has job listings, is searchable.

• Pathology postitions advertised in Academic Physician and Scientist.

• MEDSEARCH AMERICA- Employment for Health Care Workers Online resumes, job openings, some services for members only.

• Pathology Gopher Job Listings (from U. of Minnesota) has positions sorted by state.

• Chronicle of Higher Education- Academe this Week has job listings as well as article summaries.

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Sources of Medical Information

• AMA American Medical Association home page.

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Network Web site information about SIDS research, awareness programs, how to reduce the risk of SIDS and legislative alerts.

• THE HEPATITIS INFORMATION NETWORK Comprehensive information on all types of hepatitis (Hepatitis A,B,C,etc.) for professionals and laypeople. Articles are reproduced from medical publications and all are written by the most prominent researchers in the field. Find out about the latest testing and treatment options. Hepatitis is a growing health concern worldwide and this site has up-to-date facts and statistics.

• Digital Med Telemedicine info

• BIOSCI Home Page archive of biosci newsgroup postings, searchable index of biosci journal articles, and index of subscribers' names and addresses (email & snail) also ftp://net.bio.net/pub/BIOSCI, gopher://net.bio.net

• Mining Company Cancer Site Patient info primarily with links to other cancer related sites.

• Combined Health Information Database from U.S. Goverment Agencies Lists abstracts, contact information, and health promotion materials from the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control, etc. Useful for ordering government pamphlets. Also has links to NIH and CDC.

• GASTROENTEROLOGY WEB Columbia University Gastrointestinal and liver disease resources including a manual for physicians, current papers in liver disease, and a well maintained list of links to gastoenterology net resources.

• Galen II Library of Biomedical Resources with large selection of links.

• National Health Information Center a clearinghouse funded by federal dollars. (Links to Dept of Health and Human Services Homepage)

• L ook It Up at Pathfinder's Thrive@Health Users enter query terms and retrieve fact sheets and article summaries on disease conditions, drugs, and surgical procedures. Sources include MDX Health Digest, Harvard Heart Letter, and Consumer Reports. Time Warner

• Telemedicine Information Exchange a comprehensive database of information on telemedicine also available at telnet://tie.telemed.org

• American Hospital Publishing Health related articles and links from AHP

• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources A list of directories of internet resources, sorted by specialty, and by size within specialty has pathology and laboratory medicine listings

• AVICENNA Biomedical Industry Trade Show Links to searchable medical information databases. Requires (free) registration.

• British Medical Journal This site contains the full text of all articles published in the weekly BMJ from July 1997. In addition it contains material which is unique to the website. Access is free free at least until the end of 1998.

• MD SCIENTIFIC Scientific equipment vendor

• Bouvier Neuheiten Februar 1995: Medizin German medical site with links (IN GERMAN)

• Prostatitis Foundation World Wide Web page Patient centered site with links to other prostatitis sites

• Saunders Infection Journals /jhi/ journal of hospital infection /jin/ Journal of infection /pla/ Placenta peer reviewed, searchable abstracts

• Worldwide Healthcare Forums large number of specialty and topic related bulletin boards including one in Pathology (not very active) also has freeware for on-line realtime communication

• HealthGate Medical information, some fee based, including medical references, software reviews, patient info on diseases and tests.

• PedLynx- Pediatric disease database Outline entries on a large number of pediatric diseases. Downloadable as shareware.

• Infectious Disease Society of America Society info and links

• General Health Info Hundreds of links to medical and health-related sites

• PedInfo Links to pediatric related sites

• CLINICAL CASES Department of Defense Includes Telemedicine, Radiology, Pathology, Obstetrics, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Internal Medicine.

• Source of medical resources, UVA Cardiovascular research center

• MedSurf : Support Groups Links to various support groups

• Merck Pharmaceutical Company info and has a Merck manual online.

• Service Medical Consulting Collection of links to medically related sites. I could not get it to work.

• SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) Home Page, NCI Data on cancer incidence and mortality. Online Queries (require Java-capable browser), data summaries downloadable as .pdf files, data from surveillance databases downloadable as self-executing DOS files.

• Cyberounds, on-line grand rounds. Free registration required. On-line moderated conferences, questions can be submitted. Chat area for discussions outside of conference topics. Not much pathology.

• Frontiers in Bioscience is a peer- reviewed electronic journal: Information from many disciplines in biology and medicine. Email subscription: tabibzadeh@moffitt.usf.edu, in message put your name, the name of your organization, your telephone and fax numbers. "Virtual library" contains useful links & internet information.

• CancerNet Page Cancer information, all statments available on the gopher server, some statements available in html format, searchable. (search of the gopher documents finds more info). HTML vs GOPHER

• Medscape(sm) - the online resource for better patient care Aimed at professionals and consumers. Peer reviewed articles on AIDS, infectious diseases, urology, and surgery, stored literature searches and annotated links to relevant Internet resources.

• American Cancer Society. Info on ACS programs, publications, some info about different types of cancer and cancer risks, mostly oriented to laymen, links to other cancer resources.

• GCRC Rare Disorder Network Database, Vanderbilt U. A list of rare medical disorders with researchers listed for each one.

• Medical and disability Gophers (USC Gopher Jewels) searchable AIDS, disability, medical info. EINet has mirrors in searchable form and traditional structure.

• Cyberspace Hospital, a virtual hospital with links to many web pages, good collection of peds, OB, pharmacy.

• International Union Against Cancer has info on cancer fellowships, other UICC programs, some other cancer-related links.

• National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases has a collection of AIDS related resources, stuff about NIAID programs, some general references.

• HospitalWeb, an extensive collection of links to hospital Web servers.

• Med ical Gophers, Lund has many medical resources in one place, many searchable indices.

• Miner Library Gopher, U of R Searchable, Full text documents incl mmwr, some journals, links to other gophers

• Medical and disability Gophers (USC Gopher Jewels) Searchable AIDS, disability, medical

• Medical Matrix- Database of Medical Resources on the Internet Very complete listing, text mirrored in U Mich Gopher and it contains a separate pathology listing. You can join an email discussion of the American Medical Informatics Association Internet Working group by sending email to LISTPROC@kumchttp.mc.ukans .edu with the message SUBSCRIBE MMATRIX-L YOUR-NAME

• Internet/Bitnet Health Science Resources, Lee Hancock's very complete list of medical resources and much tutorial information on how to gain access to them (in html). Text available at ftp sites including: at UC Irvine and at Sura.net.

• Argus Clearinghouse of Health and Medicine Resource Guides Searchable, has Matrix & Hancock's guides (see above), Neuroscience guide, Usenet guide, many other subjects. Much still available by gopher.

• CDC & ATSDR Home Page Links to CDC FTP site, MMWR source which is searchable, emerging infectious diseases, HAZDAT hazardous substance database. The MMWR files to download are in Adobe Acrobat format (with a .pdf extension). You can also download a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader (Mac, DOS, and Windows versions are available), including a limited version of Adobe Type Manager (ATM) for this to work. You can get an announcement of each new issue by email (including detailed instructions on how to download) by sending the message SUBSCRIBE MMWR-TOC to listserv@list.cdc.gov. You can get contents to the Emerging Infectious Diseases quarterly by sending the message SUBSCRIBE EID-TOC to the same address.

• Federal goverment Bulletin Board Systems page Connections to DHHS, NCI, other health related resources

• List of medical FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) List of medical topics, with contact people and which Usenet newsgroups they are discussed on.

• World Health Organization page has programs, press releases

• University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library General medical info, link to main MN gopher

• Syracuse Health Sciences Gopher Good collection of general medical sources, good search tools

• BIOSCI Archives Archive of bioscience newsgroup postings, searchable index of biosci journal articles, and index of subscribers' names and addresses (email & snail) also available by FTP.

• Thomas Jefferson Gopher List of medical Bulletin Boards, medical conferences, medical education at mult sites, well organized

• Medical and Health Related News Groups Most (but not all) relevant Usenet news groups listed in one place

• Wo men's Health Resources Organized by general health, emotional, physical, sexual health, incl sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy.

• OncoLink, U Penn Multimedia Oncology Resource Lots of articles, artwork, images, case reports, protocols, etc. WAIS searchable documents also accessible through the Oncolink Gopher.

• Health Info-Com Network Medical Newsletter WAIS searchable, "pathology" mostly got conference and course listings

• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biosciences (Harvard) A popular listing, organized by institution, by subject within institution, separate sublists available for Medicine, and Genetics.

• Neuroscience Internet Resource Guide, (University of Michigan) Neuroanatomy, physiology & radiology, little pathology

• Virtual Hospital Mostly radiology, includes on line text books, pediatrics stuff, pediatric imaging encyclopedia has some pathology images.

• Biology, USGS Network Resources Long list of biology, including genetics and some medical servers

• Information for Health Care Providers, Hopkins Some common general medical data links

• Baylor Neonatology Gopher under construction, some links

• Medical resources and information, Australia National University Bioinformatics Facility A variety of general medical sources, many from Australia & Japan, by subject

• Telemedicine Web Page This page catalogues telemedicine projects, telemedicine research, unpublished studies, abstracts, etc.

• Breast Cancer Information Clearing House, (State of New York) Mainly oriented to patients and familys, searchable NCI and ACS documents

• PEDINFO- Pediatric Informatics Web Page resources topic, searchable, home page for the Pedinfo mailing list on computers in pediatrics: To subscribe: mailto:listproc@u.washington.edu subscription message: subscribe pedinfo .

• Pediatric Oncology Group Cancer Treatment Protocols Brief summaries of protocols: listed by number, some cancer related links

• Marshall U. School of Medicine RuralNet includes a useful List of Medical Newsgroups.

• U Tenn Knoxville Research news, govt nfo, Global Meeting Lines database- searchable (may become available to Knoxville only)

• Vanderbilt Listing of Medical Resources Well organized listing by subject

• Alzheimer's Disease Web, U of Melbourne Database of AD papers, links to labs, other sources

• Biomedical Resources on the Internet (Stanford Informatics) Alphabetic order by name, annotatied & validated

• NCI Physician Data Query- searchable index from Dana Farber Cancer Institute Cancer facts, physician info

• University of Michigan Medical Center UM Anesthesiology page has links to other department pages including pathology, ob/gyn has perinatal & women's health links

• Emory Medical Library General internet info, internet resources list by subject including a good listing for pathology, also includes a very good listing of electronic journals, organized alphabetically and by whether full text or contents only

• Hopkins Bio-Informatics Home Page Collection of protein databases, Journal of Medical Imaging, other publications and databases, link to Millipore catalog, DOE human subjects database, and Genome Database

• Physicians' Online A www-based bulletin board for physicians only (US license required). Free medline searches. Discussion groups by specialty including pathology. Online databases, mostly dealing with drugs. Email for members. Can also dial in and use them as an ISP for a fee.

• U. of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana- Champaign Links to Urbana pathology atlas, other path atlases, many medical resources including catalog of government health electronic publications

• National Institutes of Health NIH home page, info on grants & ressearch opportunities, searchable data bases, cancernet, AIDS info, links to other servers, most data also available from NIH Gopher.

• Medical Research Council UK Info on different centers, phone #'s, some news bulltetins

• HyperDOC: The National Library of Medicine NLM & NIH info, access to MEDLARS (requires acct#, access to AIDS data is free of charge), history of medicine exhibits, link to the visibl e human project.

• Biomedical Information, Oregon Health Sciences U. WWW and WAIS info, gopher, microbiology, medical links

• Utah Medical Library Good selected List of WWW Resources, has pointers to WebPath and Slice of Life

• Health and Medical Informatics Digest This is an online digest providing hypertext links to interesting and exciting WWW locations for health and medical information. There is a mailing list to announce the contents of new issues: mailto:hmid- request@maddog.fammed.wisc.edu Subscription Message: subscribe hmid

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General Indices to the Internet

• HealthWeb Listing of evaluated medical resources, includes a listing of Pathology

• Exploit Wizard Program to submit web pages to multiple indexes

• TILE.NET Index Searchable index of online resources. http://tile.net/lists/ All "Listserv" lists by category and by name, http://tile.net/lists/medicine.html gets the list of medical lists, http://tile.net/news/ list of all newsgroups including traffic info and links to FAQ files, http://tile.net/ftp-list/ lists ftp sites, http://tile.net/vendors/ lists computer products vendors including email and web page info.

• Liszt Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups has a huge collection of mailing lists that includes listserv, listproc, majordomo, and other modalities. Searchable by keyword. Some pre-defined categories including health and science.

• Infoseek Web Search is a searchable web directory, some categories of "cool sites". Also has a pay-for-service health directory.

• The Virtual Tourist Graphic interface to list of www servers by country.

• Internet Resources Meta-Index an index of indices.

• UR Gopher World- wide Connections Miner library listing of gophers.

• Other Gopher and Information Servers U Minn Gopher collection of world wide gopher servers org by country & with title WAIS search.

• Gopher to x500 Gateway Searchable email address directory

• Knowbot a single site with access to several email address directories.

• Yahoo- A Guide to WWW A hierarchical index to the internet with many different topics, search form on the home page, or try the new search engine. A free customized service, "My Yahoo" allows you to build a page that brings up topics and addresses that interest you.

• EINet Galaxy Home Page Hierarchical list of web resources by topic- huge! Has listings for medical specialties.

• Internet Directory Pointers to several directories including EINet, Yahoo, and directories by service type

• World- Wide Web Servers All registered web servers by continent, country, and state- a short document with links. A longer document has the same links and pointers to a full list by country and city with info about each one, to a list by protocol, and a list by subject.

• Whole Internet Catalog Hierarchical by topics, a fair amount of medical and health related stuff

• Planet Earth Home Page General information, snazzy interface, medical info.

• List of All Listservs Mailing list discussion groups by category and by name, Info on buying "InfoMagnet" a Listserv tool, a list of medical lists.

• Searchable List of Listserv Lists Another listing of mailing list discussion groups, several relevant to Path, somewhat easier to search, with limited instructions. It helps to know that to subscribe to ANY Listserv list, all you need to do is send the message SUBSCRIBE LISTNAME YOUR-NAME to listserv@listserv.net and your message will be routed to the proper listserver.

• Mother-of-all- BBS Huge list of Bulletin Boards- many subjects by topic, searchable.

• "Finger" Gateway Put user address in, get info about them out.

• Web of Wonder Hierarchical Index to Web, has medical info.

• Internet Resources List Internet resources organized by subject. Includes pointers for hypertext interfaces to non-hypertext media

• Virtual Yellow Pages Interactive marketing services "health" not much medical, educational, financial, travel services, has links to search engines

• A ton of web sites Link to World Wide Web Wanderer Index. Web servers listed by country and alphabetically, >10000 listings

• Mosaic Tunnels At NIH, web gateways, access to other servers and modalities, several large site lists

• Internet Index (SilverPlatter) Wide variety of subjects indexed alphabetically or by subject. Health section is mostly NLM documents

• World Internet Technologies Software ftp, Yellow pages, Finger gateway, search facilities

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Assorted Reference Works

• Merck Manual full text and searchable

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography HTML: Acrobat: Word: This bibliography presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.

• TB MANUAL- TREATMENT PROTOCOLS This manual assists medical providers in offerring tuberculosis services in an effective, efficient, and caring manner. It discusses the evaluation and treatment of active TB including multidrug-resistant TB. It presents prevention measures, screening and evaluation. Contact: Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, Director, Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, New York City Department of Health.

• PMIC (Practice Management Information Corp) Medical Book Store specialize in coding and practice management, say you can order any medical book

• RadEFX(sm) Radiation Health Effects Research Resource (Baylor) related to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation in general and the Chernobyl nuclear accident in particular.

• Acta Cytologica Journal of Clinical Cytology and Cytopathology. The address that lets you connect to 60,000 cytopathologists, clinical cytologists and cytotechnologists in 71 countries.

• Acronyms for Health Information Resources Alphabetized list of acronyms, with links to web pages for organizations, publications, etc.

• CMEA- Continuing Medical Education Associates Health sciences multimedia- CD roms including several in pathology

• Computer Currents On-Line Dictionary Searchable dictionary of acronyms and jargon.

• Journal of Pathology The official journal of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland

• Clinical Lab Handbook, U of VA A to Z list of tests used in the clinical laboratory and pathology. Includes laboratory value interpretation and collection instructions. University of Virginia Clinical Laboratories.

• Mailing list gateway This service is intended to present information about a set of mailing lists, allow people to easily use mailing list commands, and provide a hypertext interface to list archives which exist on the NetSpace server.

• OneLook Dictionaries Search for a word in over 75 dictionaries at once; includes computer, science, medical, technology, business, sports, religious, acronyms and other types of dictionaries

• Acronym and Abbreviation List Searchable index of acronyms

• US Postal Service Postal information, rates, package tracking http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ zip+4 code lookup

• Virus Database, Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC), DOE has a long list of viruses for all platforms, links to other virus databases, and link to virus hoax page.

• BioMedNet is a commercial site with online references- charges for full texts, discounts if you have hard copy subscriptions to the journals or if your library has an institutional membership (U. of Rochester does.) Has job listings too. Joining is free but requires setting up an account including credit card info.

• Physicians & Surgeons Web Directory is a listing of Physicians' home pages, registration fee to get listed. Organized by country and state, and by speciality within state. Additional short list of medical links.

• GFULMED email list is for dicussion of use of Grateful Med to search the Index Medicus. To subscribe send email to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU with the message: Subscribe GFULMED your name.

• Telemedicine Glossary, Health Science Center, Syracuse, a hypertext glossary, contains telemedicine terms with links to resources that give examples of the terms discussed.

• Williams & Wilkins Publishers has information about ordering books.

• Book Stacks Unlimited has book reviews & previews, lists of books available, telnet book ordering, extensive collection of publisher's WWW pages.

• Internet Public Library has on-line access to reference librarians as well as on-line texts and reference works, including some medical.

• Dictionary of Cell Biology (Academic Press) has >5000 entries and cross-references.

• American Association of University Presses Searchable by jughead (title & author) or WAIS (full text). For pathology books try the search strategy: pathology not plant not speech not psych*

• EndNote styles for Various Biology Journals Useful if you use the EndNote bibliography management program.

• Virtual Reference Shelf Searchable placenames, area codes, thesaurus, acronyms

• Electronic Reference Works, U Chicago Gopher has a nice collection of reference works, gov't docs, searchable dictionaries, thesaurus, periodic table.

• Government Publications Network US Gov't Publications info (incl AFIP Atlas of Tumor Pathology), links to British & EC Government publications

• Springer-Verlag Publishers has book information and on-line samples.

• WebElements- Periodic Table Database Click on an element for info

• Search the Web- EINet Galaxy links to some common reference books, dictionaries, links to a large number of searchable indexes, ability to seach EINet databases

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Internet Tutorials

• INTERNIC'S 15-MINUTE SERIES Internet training materials provided as a service by the InterNIC and the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA).

• Internet Resources and Education a course by Bob McLean at the Ontario Institute for studies in Education. It includes references which could be useful. Student work, resources for educators (various fields) http://www.oise.on.ca/courses/1514/

• INTRODUCTION TO JAVASCRIPT online tutorial by Stefan Koch. Downloadable versions are also available in Word Perfect 6.0 and Word 7.0 formats.

• Interactive HTML Tutorial Tutorial allows users to practice writing code and displays how it would look.

• HTML Tutorial, CWRU Designed for people who have never written HTML before.

• Butte College's Online Medical Research course Butte College's Online Medical Research course is now available to anyone through distance education. Learn how to find medical journal articles, case studies, newsgroups, and other Internet medical research tools to find the latest health-related information. Advanced medical research features and techniques such as Boolean searching, finding medical software, creating medical Web sites, etc.

• Web Based Instruction I only found a pitch for the author's book.

• WWW Tutorial HTML tutorial

• NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML HTML primer, links to additional resources

• TONIC: The Online Netskills Interactive Course Online web tutorial. Requires registration

• PageResource Has HTML tutorial

• EDPSY 497/597 Net howto course need to register for the course?

• Internet Course Basic tutorial (Internet and HTML)

• Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet html version- covers lots about mechanics of getting info out of the Internet, a basic reference another site http://dspserv.eng.umd.edu/bdgtti/bdg_toc.html

• Roadmap Workshop Homepage. "Roadmap" was an excellent internet email tutorial. Page links to various archives of the lessons, including the "official" version on gopher and a html version.

• Tourbus WWW Site. Tour bus is an email mailing list that gives brief introductions to interesting and useful sites on the Web. To subscribe, send the message: SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM. You can also check out the archives of past issues.

• Virtual Planet has alternative news sources, bulletin boards and chat areas, and Spectrum Virtual University which offers free classes on the Internet and other subjects.

• A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources covers newsgroups, mail lists, newsletters, archives, retrieval methods. There is a html mirror site and a F TP mirror. The guide is available as text, postscript, or divided into sections to read online by gopher.

• Introduction to UMLS Unified medical language system An attempt to unify nomenclature for access over the internet.

• KUMC Internet class includes introduction, finding things, newsgroups, listserv, multimedia.

• Internet Resource Pointers, Brandon U CA well organized, many pointers to tutorials & guides.

• Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet Hypertext version- covers lots about mechanics of getting info out of the Internet, a basic reference.

• How-to's about internet General reference site includes basic info on email, ftp, telnet, etc., Hancock's list of "Medical resources".

• NewbieNewz Home Page has instructions for subscribing to the very useful mailing list NewbieNewz. There is also the extensive CyberCourse which is similar in format to the Roadmap workshops but more interactive.

• Arizona Health Sciences Resources for Web Developers Lists HTML tutorials and web style guides.

• Inter-Links Internet Access Nova Southern U., many resources organized, tutorials, news, etc., Finding Topics on the Internet (by type).

• Locating Resources on the Web (Stanford Informatics) Various web search resources and advice on how to use them.

• Special Internet Connections (Yanoff's List) Internet services by subject area, general instructions etc, mirror sites include: news:alt.internet.services, ftp://csd4.csd.uwm.edu/pub/inet.services.txt, ftp://io.com/pub/usr/zboray/4- newbies/yanof???.zip, http://slacvx.slac.stanford.edu/misc/internet-services.html, gopher://alpha1.csd.uwm.edu:70/00/Remote%20Information%20Services/Special% 20Internet%20Connections%20%28Yanoff%20List%29, avail by email mailto: inetlist@aug3.augsburg.edu (autoreply)

• WWW FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Info on hypertext markup language, browsers, image maps

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Mechanisms to Search for Information

Email directories

• Internet Grateful Med On-line free searches of MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS, DIRLINE, HISTLINE, HSRPROJ, OLDMEDLINE, and SDILINE.

• Dogpile A unified sequential search engine- sends the search string to progressively more generalized search engines depending on the number of responses recieved. Searches Usenet and FTP as well. Will accept Boolean operators AND NOT NEAR and parentheses and quotes.

• Health on the Net Foundation Listing of newsgroups and maillists, medical search engine, listing of images

• LookSmart Directory WWW directory that shows subcategories, has capsulized reviews. Done by Reader's Digest.

• Mother of all Search Engines Not really the Mother of all but it's fast and seems to do well finding sites outside the US.

• Magellan Search Engine Index of topic or search the database. Searches can include rated sites or all sites - see what others are searching

• Metafind Sends queries to several other search engines, recieves and collates the results, sorts alphabetically, by keyword, or by domain.

• PubMed Free Medline search from NLM

• Reference.com Search archives usenet newsgroups, email lists, and web forums which can be searched for keywords free registration registered users can store searches for periodic repetition, can perform searches by email, can post replies to messages

• SEMIOMAP discovery search tool that uncovers relationships among Internet and Intranet documents. analyzes and categorizes document content and displays logical connections between words and ideas in graphical, navigable maps. During your search, you can also request a list of Web pages relating to your current location.

• WEBPLACES CLIP ART SEARCHER uses the resources of major search engines such as HotBot, Alta Vista, Lycos and Filez. A great resource.

• Bigfoot has a searchable email directory. Email service sets up a free alias "you@bigfoot.com" so that a user who changes mail service need only change a single entry.

• Four11 email search engine allows searches by location and keywords, as well as by name. Users can input keywords about themselves.

• Miner library compendium of phone book servers has extensive phonebook and email info. There is also a fancy version with frames.

• Netfind searches a variety of "white pages" information sources. Login as "netfind" and then follow the instructions to perform a search.

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Ways to search for archived FTP (file transfer protocol) Files

• archie search by telnet usually is busy. Login as "archie", "set search sub" to search for substrings, "find SEARCH-TERM" (insert your own search term) to find what you want, "mail YOUR-ADDRESS" will email search results to you, "end" to quit.

• List of WWW archie Services A listing of ArchiePlex servers around the world with and without forms capability, info about ArchiePlex

• Simple ArchiePlex Search from World Internet Technologies

• WAIS archie Search a WAIS database of archie info.

• If all of the archie servers are busy (and if you're willing to wait), you can do a search by email. Send email to archie@archie.ans.net, in the message write: find SEARCH-TERM (newline) set mailto YOUR-ADDRESS (newline) quit.

• Filez- File search engine indexes over 4000 servers and allows very fast searches for files (e.g. graphics, texts, programs). You can specify what format or platform. Putting Archie out of business.

• If you find a FTP file you want, but you can't download it because its server is busy, you can save the page returned by your search (save as "source") and reopen the page later to try again, or if you are willing to wait a few days, send email to: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com. In the message, put REPLY YOUR-ADDRESS (newline) CONNECT ADDRESS-YOU-WANT (everything after the "//" except the filename) (newline) ASCII or BINARY (depending on whether the file you want is ascii text or is compressed) (newline) GET FILENAME (newline)(you can have up to 10 GET commands in one message) QUIT.

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Veronica- A way to search for files on Gopher servers

• Search Gopherspace using Veronica Veronica searches for Gopher documents.

• Experimental Veronica Query Interface Good search but often busy

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Ways to search the World-Wide-Web

• Starting Point is a Metasearch engine for doing WWW searches. Also includes indices for a number of topics, none of them specifically medical.

• Configurable Unified Search Engine uses forms to use the same key words to search multiple WWW indices, other internet directors, "people finding" indices, software directories, reference documents, and dictionaries.

• The Informant offers a free service which does searches for up to 3 sets of keywords, checks up to 5 URLs, and periodically informs you of changes by email. An excellent way to follow a topic on the WWW.

• Medical World Search has a very effective search engine, specifically designed to search their own database of medical sites, which automatically includes medical synonyms. Can repeat search on other search engines (Altavista, Infoseek, Webcrawler) or Medline searches. If you register as a user it recalls previous queries.

• Internet Research Pointer has a large collection of search engines with forms for many included, software pointers, style pointers, other research pointers.

• Internet Tools is a site with multiple search possibilities. Research-it has dictionaries, phone books, stock quotes, and package tracking. Find-it has various search engines. Promote-it has sites to announce new WWW pages.

• The search.com site has a number of subject listings, or a search can be submitted over any of 10 search engines.

• The All-in-One Search Page has a collection of forms for many search engines including WWW overall, general or specialized interests, people, software, news/weather, publications, desk references, and a huge miscellaneous list.

• URL- minder allows you to register your email address and one or more URLs- the robot sends you email when the URLs are modified. There is a form which can be inserted into your own pages to prompt users to register the page. The FAQ file includes instructions on how to get updates whenever a Yahoo or other websearch result changes.

• Alta Vista Web Search A large and easy to use index for finding both WWW and Usenet documents.

• Lycos Catolog of the Internet has over two million URLs cataloged with some abstract information about each. A sample search for the key word "pathology", got over 3200 hits, though some were departments of plant pathology, and many departments had multiple hits for multiple sub-pages.

• W3 search engines Page with many search engines

• WAIS searchable URL database Large number of documents fully indexed

• WebCraw ler Searching Good search engine

• WWWW - the WORLD WIDE WEB WORM Another good search engine for Web

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WAIS- Wide Area Information Server- indexed databases

• WAISGATE (WEB to WAIS gateway) run by WAIS, Inc.

• Use the WAIS server by telnet. Search WAIS databases directly. Login as "wais". Choose from the wide variety of WAIS databases.

• WAIS- WWW gateway Info on WAIS and what software is necessary, and how to configure.

• Gopher Menu for WAIS searching, Lund University, Sweden Using Gopher to access WAIS databases, includes a list of medical databases.

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Usenet- ways to find articles

• Alta Vista Web Search A large and easy to use index for finding both WWW and Usenet documents.

• DejaNews Research Service Usenet Newsgroup archive, searchable using forms.

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Software Sources

• Sunquest users BBS Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., specializes in the management of complex clinical and administrative healthcare information and has been a leader in healthcare automation since 1979. Sunquest designs, develops ,sells and supports a suite of comprehensive clinical information systems.

• NORD The Stepstone Corporation sells an Objective-C compiler that runs on a variety of platforms. The Objective-C compiler is a pre-processor that generates C code. The default is ANSI C with support for the latest extensions. C code is compatible and simply passes through the preprocessor enabling you to build on your investment in existing C code. The native C compiler is automatically invoked.

• CLINICAL - ADMINISTRATIVE DATA SERVICE The Clinical - Administrative Data Service (CADS) is a service of the Association of American Medical Colleges. CADS offers data analysis and reporting services to participating academic medical centers and teaching hospitals. CADS specializes in comparative reports generated on-line from its patient-level administrative data base. (Requires registration)

• Web Conferencing Software Pointers Links to web conferencing software and other conferencing sites.

• TESTING YOUR WEB BROWSER AND HELPER PROGRAMS Tests for proper instillation of web browser.

• American Medical Informatics Assn Information and links related to medical informatics

• Farallon Makes Timbuktu Pro, a program that allows remote runnning of one Mac or PC from another, including cross platform. Downloadable time-limited version.

• Web Tools A large collection of links to FREE Web tools and services.

• HyperStudio

• How to create killer web sites Web site design info

• Noesis Vision Image analysis software

• Digital Chisel courseware program; educational software

• Realaudio Real-time audio downloading

• Soft Imaging Software

• TidBITS Homepage (Computer Info mailing list) to subscribe to TidBITS (for free) through e-mail by sending an e-mail letter to LISTSERV@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU msg: SUBSCRIBE TIDBITS YOUR NAME

• TopClass www courseware

• Monte Carlo Programs

• TidBITS is a weekly e-zine on Macintosh and Internet issues, much devoted to software news, new releases, upgrades, etc. For more info, send email to info@tidbits.com, to subscribe, send email to tidbits-on@tidbits.com, back issues available by FTP or from a http://wais.sensei.com.au/macarc/tidbits/searchtidbits.html">WAIS searchable archive.

• Sensei Consulting Archives has a huge list of Mac FTP sites which includes search engines and Archie servers. There is also a browsable or WAIS searchable collection of Mac-related E-zines and mailing lists.

• ZD Net Software Library is produced by the Ziff-Davis publishers. A large variety of shareware available, including Macintosh software.