Scientific information is crucial for a variety of stakeholders, but communicating science poses a challenge for all.
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The IAP is an umbrella organisation for 90 science academies that helps members develop tools to contribute to discussions about science policy. Amongst others, the IAP supports a programme on
science and the media. IAP works closely with other international organisations, including the InterAcademy Council, the Interational Council for Science and the InterAcademy Medical Panel.
The IFEJ was initially set up in 1993 by French and German environmental journalists, and today has members, correspondents and/or member associations in more than 110 countries. IFEJ's mission is to improve public understanding of environment and sustainable development issues worldwide by supporting environmental journalists internationally through networking, training and promoting free access to information.
The International Federation of Journalists is the world's largest organisation of journalists, and currently represents around 500,000 members in more than 100 countries. The IFJ acts to defend press freedom and social justice, and promotes human rights, democracy and pluralism. It is the organisation that speaks for journalists within the United Nations system and within the international trade union movement.
IIED promotes sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. In partnership with other organisations, IIED seeks to help shape a future that ends global poverty and delivers and sustains efficient and equitable management of the world's natural resources.
IIED promotes sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. In partnership with other organisations, IIED seeks to help shape a future that ends global poverty and delivers and sustains efficient and equitable management of the world's natural resources.
INASP, which was established in 1992 by the International Council for Science, seeks to promote the electronic dissemination of science publications. It offers advice on publication and dissemination, assists development and funding agencies with information-related programmes, and hosts its own programmes which include
INASP Health Links and the
library support programmes. INASP also runs regular country-based
workshops.
The International Science Writers Association is a US-based organisation that was formed in response to the increasingly international scope of science popularisation and technical communications. ISWA's primary objective is to provide contacts and to enable members to assist each other when working in a foreign country. ISWA is of particular value to individuals who do not have a national association of science writers in their home countries.
ISESCO aims to promote the separate and distinct educational, scientific and cultural heritage that combines the 57 OIC member countries. The primary purpose of the organisation is to coordinate the activities of specialist agencies responsible for similar functions within each of the OIC member countries.
ISESCO has helped develop a number of action plans and strategies on an OIC-wide basis in areas such as water resources, university education and Islamic culture. ISESCO has also started awarding prizes in education and literacy, sciences and university research, and culture and communication to individuals within the OIC member countries.
The IAS was established in 1986 on the recommendation of the OIC Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH). IAS's stated mission is to "provide an institutional set up for the utilisation of Science and Technology for the development of Islamic countries and humanity at large".
Headquartered in Amman, Jordan, the IAS attempts to serve as a consultative organisation of OIC member countries on matters relating to science and technology; initiate cooperative scientific and technological programmes and activities in science and technology; encourage and promote research on major problems facing OIC member countries; formulate standards of scientific performance and attainment, and to award prizes and honours for outstanding scientific achievements to centres of excellence in all science and technology disciplines.
The SRC is Jamaica's primary agency for fostering Jamaican research and promoting its applications. It runs seven research units, from microbiology to wastewater management, and offers services ranging from training to tissue culture and laboratory analyses. The SRC website hosts
four databases: the skills bank, plant gene bank, plant information, and library collection.
This website is hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States, and provides information about the care and treatment of patients infected with HIV. The site has resources useful to a wide audience, including an extensive
calendar of international AIDS-related events and conferences.
JCOM is an online journal on scientific communication, which is trying to become an interdisciplinary melting-pot capable of providing some theoretical guidelines for science communication. Each article undergoes multidisciplinary peer-reviewing by experts belonging to different areas of competence such as science, communication and theory of communication.
JAMA aims to promote the science and art of medicine and the improvement of public health by publishing original peer-reviewed clinical and laboratory articles on a diverse range of medical topics. One-time payment or subscription is required to access full text of articles, but abstracts can be viewed for free.
JAAIDS is a media-based non-governmental organisation in Nigeria working in the field of HIV/AIDS and development. Its mission is to contribute to the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria by improving the quality of HIV/AIDS communication messages and by strengthening the quality of policy response and interventions. It does so by providing training courses and information resources, and encouraging informed discourse on issues relating to HIV/AIDS in the media.
Focusing on US-based health policy, the Kaiser Network provides daily HIV/AIDS news stories from around the world through email alerts and an easy-to-navigate web-based archive. The website contains webcasts, a searchable calendar of forthcoming events, coverage of scientific research presented at international conferences, and links to an excellent new resource for the media, Global Health Reporting.
The Directory of Open Access Journals is an initiative of the Lund University Libraries. The objective of the initiative is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals.
A leading international weekly journal of science first published in London in 1869 that now appears both online and in print format. Full access is normally by paid subscription only, but SciDev.Net provides free access to selected articles from Nature each week.
Nature Science Update is a free-access science news service providing breaking science news on a daily basis. Despite being run by Nature Publishing Group, the stories it reports on are not restricted to research published by the group, and cover a wide variety of topics.
Nature's Genome Gateway is the journal's contribution to making genomic information freely accessible to the whole research community. It includes a library of original
research papers from
Nature and
Nature Genetics, and a
news service. Additionally, a special section on the
human genome was added to mark publication of its initial sequencing and analysis.
A weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice, with an emphasis on internal medicine. The full text of articles is available only to paying subscribers, but abstracts can be accessed free of charge.
