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An 'Internet press centre' for news about European science, technology and medicine, AlphaGailileo carries press releases from a range of European research institutes. The site is intended primarily for journalists - who can access embargoed information before it is released publicly, as well as a directory of science experts.
Applied Clinical Trials is a journal aimed at the global community of pharmaceutical and medical professionals who design, initiate, manage, conduct, and monitor clinical trials in the tightly regulated, highly competitive pharmaceutical industry. Some of the articles are relevant to developing countries, and the site also contains links to other useful resources.
arXiv is an open-access repository of physics papers. It was launched as an experiment in 1991 by physicist Paul Ginsparg. Physicists have always exchanged pre-prints of their research. Ginsparg designed a piece of software that would allow the community to pool and search these papers. arXiv is now one of the primary sources of literature for physicists.
This site features data for Asian countries on vehicle emission reduction. It includes emission profiles, relevant emission standards, and information on transport management, and a list of agencies and frameworks for regulating emissions.
This website provides news and information on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and research, including global HIV/AIDS news stories as reported in the UK media and from African sources (although there is no searchable archive). The site has a section for personal stories from people living with, and affected by, HIV/AIDS, and information about many topics, including treatment of HIV/AIDS and its related opportunistic infections, HIV/TB, and prevention of mother to child transmission. It also carries country and regional-level statistics and has an image library.
Initiated by the California Medical Association Foundation, this is a partnership of healthcare providers, public health agencies, consumer and community-based health organisations, government and the pharmaceutical industry. Much of the data on prevalence will probably be relevant only to those in the United States, but much of the information in the factsheets — such as how resistance is spread and how to deal with minor infections — is relevant worldwide.
Extensive up-to-the-minute coverage of news about scientific and technological developments, as well as their social and environmental implications. BBC science news is also available in several other languages, including
Spanish and
Portuguese.
Launched as part of the BBC's AIDS Season in November 2003, this website contains news updates, features and analysis on HIV/AIDS around the world, as well sections on the
biology and
spread of HIV.
This is a virtual library of Latin American social science papers maintained by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). It provides open and free access to more than 4,000 full-text books, periodical articles and other documents, in Spanish.
This award-winning website promotes the hotspots concept through the protection of 25 areas of the world that contain the largest number of species under the greatest threat. A colourful site that allows browsers to discover species that are threatened in different hotspots arond the world; compare the state of different hotspots and find out what is being done to conserve them by Conservation International, a US-based group that publishes the site and is doing most to publicise - and lobby - for more hotspots to be protected.
BioethicsWeb, an initiative of the Wellcome Trust, was launched in July 2003 and contains annotated links to hundreds of sites related to biomedical ethics. In addition to research ethics, topics covered include cloning, animal research, genetically modified foods, biotechnology, scientific misconduct and genetic testing. Categories of particular relevance to research ethics include "ethics: theory and concepts" and "research conduct". Much of the material on this extensive and useful site comes from Europe and North America, but material from developing countries is also linked to where available.
Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service that provides access to research journals published in developing countries. The website features a growing number of
peer-reviewed journals, and provides a range of other material of interest to bioscientists (reports, books, technical documents, conference proceedings and newsletters). Bioline International is a joint initiative of the
University of Toronto Libraries, Canada, the
Reference Center on Environmental Information, Brazil and Bioline/UK.
This web portal is the starting point for Africa-related biomass information. It contains the latest news on biofuels research on the continent, as well as an events calendar and discussion forum.
BMC is an open-access publishing house, and is part of Current Science Group. It publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed
open-access journals, such as the Journal of Biology. Instead of being based on subscriptions it operates an article-processing charge. To view BMC's Open access charter,
click here.
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer reviewed biomedical research. This site provides links to BMC's articles on medical ethics, some of which relate to developing countries (prospective authors can submit their articles for peer review and publication). Other relevant journals on the site include BMC International Health and Human Rights and the International Journal for Equity in Health. One
linked site, provided by the West African Doctor's network, allows researchers in developing countries to conduct searches of PUBMED via email.
The Biosafety Information Centre, managed by
Third World Network, disseminates information, raises awareness and promotes research in biosafety, sustainable agriculture, indigenous knowledge and rights. It circulates regular electronic newsletters aimed at policymakers, regulators, scientists and civil society organisations in developing countries. It also publishes contributions by active researchers and reproduces articles from external media.
A service of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), BINAS monitors global developments in regulatory issues in biotechnology. The website contains up-to-date news information and a searchable database giving details of regulations, field trials and commercialisation of GM crops in different countries.
FAO-BioDeC is a database of agricultural biotechnologies being researched, developed or applied in developing countries. It does not provide quantitative information on research being carried out in international centres located in developing countries, or on the level of funding any individual technology receives. But it does give an overview of the stages of adoption of agricultural technologies in different regions that can be used to identify gaps in research or areas for potential collaboration.
Over 50 correspondents from 54 countries contribute to the database, with articles about individual countries' policy frameworks, research institutes and biosafety regulations.
The BIC website hopes to provide rational information about the applications of biotechnology, especially crop biotechnology, in a local context. The website is the result of a collaboration between ISAAA, Monash University Malaysia and the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre. The website aims to serve as a resource for policy-makers, industry players, the media and members of the public who want scientific information to guide their decision-making. The site is kept very up-to-date and brings together many useful web-based information sources.
Biotechterms.org, sponsored by Monsanto, is a searchable list of biotechnology definitions. The site covers technical, business and legal terms from biotechnology and related definitions from biology, biochemistry and chemistry. The glossary has been gathered from experts in the field, books, journals and industry periodicals. Terms are explained in simple language, using a lot of analogies throughout the text.
