WRITING AND EDITING

Dictionaries

• Encyclopedia Britannica, with links to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary, consumer information, World Bank and UN data, Federal government documents, and U.S. statistical data.
• Thesaurus, dictionary, word of the day, discussion forum and writing resources.
• Your Dictionary: A user-friendly group of online dictionaries.
• Dictionary of Information Technology
• Mirriam Webster Online Language Center: Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.
• Onelook searches several dictionary sites for you.
• Bartleby.com: Online American Heritage Dictionary and English Usage, Strunk's Elements of Style, Gray's Anatomy, Thesaurus (Roget's II), and much more.
• Adam Medical Encyclopedia
• MEDLINEplus provides a great list of online general and medical dictionaries.
• Medical acronyms:
  • Laboratory for Linguistics and Computation at Brandeis University has a free link to an acronym database known as Medstract. Click on the AcroMed link.
  • MedLexicon allows acronym searches.
  • Borm Bruckmeier Publishing has a link to an acronym search engine.

Grammar and Style

• Bartleby.com: Online American Heritage English Usage, Strunk's Elements of Style, Thesaurus (Roget's II), and much more.

Writing for Medical Journals

• Instructions to Authors, from Raymon H Mulford Library of Medical College of Ohio, has links to web sites providing instructions to authors for many journals in the health sciences.
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, from the International Committee of Medicine Journal Editors. Read this before you submit!
• Statistics at Square One will help with the Methods sections.

Citing Bibliographic and Electronic Sources

• American Psychological Association Format: from the University of Illinois Writer's Workshop.
• Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Updated to 5th Edition): Purdue University
• Electronic Reference Formats recommended by the American Psychological Association.
• Writer's Handbook APA Documentation Style from the University of Wisconsin.
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Writing for the Web

• Uncle Netword's how to write textual content for the Web.
• Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Websites: Includes a link on editorial style for the Web.

Writing for the Government

• Plain Language Program: From the office of the vice president come the National Partnership for Reinventing Government's program to make it easier for everyone to read government documents.

Translation engines

• Babelfish from Alta Vista: Translates text you type in, or entire web pages. Languages supported include English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian.

Measurement Conversions

• IFP Engine converts metric, U.S., and Imperial measurements.

Research Ethics

• The Office of Research Integrity (Office of Public Health and Science, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services) supplies information about handling misconduct, whistleblower protection, and a report entitled Managing Allegations of Scientific Misconduct: A Guidance Document for Editors.

Copyright, patents and trademarks

• Library of Congress publishes the primer on copyright law, including circulars, factsheets, and form letters about copyright regulations. All documents are in text-only and PDF.
• The U.S. Office of Patents and Trademarks offers the free U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
• Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

 

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