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Helpful Links
Joanne’s Favorite Sites
-Cute PDF writer (turn any printable document into a PDF)
-Google Scholar—for scientific articles
-Medical Dictionary Online
-PubMed
-The World Clock Meeting Planner
General Reference
-AMA Manual of Style website- contains links to Errata and Frequently Asked Questions
-Babel Fish-- free language translator
-Check multiple stylebooks
-Chicago Manual of Style Q&A section
-Common Errors in English
-Corpus of Contemporary American English
-Freearticles.com
-Guide to Grammar and Style Interesting freelance blog
-The HittList, a free weekly medical writing jobs e-newsletter
-Legal code information on forming a business
-OneLook dictionary search
-Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
-Robert Niles’ Statistics Every Writer Should Know (very basic)
-Roget’s II Online Thesaurus
-Stedman's Medical Dictionary
-Strunk’s Elements of Style, online version
-Recruitment Geek.com's LinkedIn X-ray search tool
-The Radical Copyeditor's Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People
General Productivity
-A massive Getting Things Done (GTD)
-CareerJournal
-Cozi
-Doodle
-Dumb Little Man: Tips for Life
-HourGuard-- free timesheet recorder
-Lifehacker
-PocketMod
-Remember the Milk
-Toodledo:web-based to-do lists
-Hightail
-Zoho
Internet/Computers
-All things Microsoft
-Computer and Internet Security
-DaFont
-Editorium—tips on using Microsoft Word, arranged by topic; helpful macros
-Evaluating web site content
-FreeMyPDF.com-- use to remove passwords and restrictions from PDFs
-Microsoft Office templates
-Savvy Web Searching tutorials from the University of Minnesota
-TinyURL
-Unlock secured PDF files
-Webware's 100 best web sites
-Engauge: convert an image file (graph) into numbers
-Pixabay: royalty-free, attribution-free images
Science/Medical Reference
-Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
-AMA Stat! For Research Papers
-American Board of Medical Specialties
-American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition
-American Society of Clinical Oncology
-ARUP laboratories-- for information about laboratory tests
-BioMedSearch.com
-Board of Editors in the Life Sciences
-Body Mass Index calculator
-CDISC Glossary and CDISC Abbreviation Acronyms
-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
-Cleveland Clinic
-Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
-ClinicalTrials.gov
-Continuing Education from Barnett International
-Council of Science Editors reference links
-Copyeditors' Knowledge Base
-DailyMed
-Directory of 6000 open-access, peer-reviewed journals
-EMedicine
-Evidence Based Medicine Tools from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
-FamilyDoctor (American Academy of Family Physicians)
-FDA Device Advice
-FDA Guidance Documents
-FDA website that has all approved products, their approval letters, and labels
-FedStats
-Free Education Online
-Gene Gateway—Exploring Genes and Genetic Disorders
-Health News Reviews
-HONcode
-HuGE Navigator
-iBioSeminars: Free biology videos online
-ICH guidance documents
-JAMA Conversion Factors for Selected laboratory Components
-Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
-Locating Health and Medical Information
-Managed Care Digest Series
-Martindale's Health Science Guide
-Mayo Clinic
-Mayo Clinic's Clinical Trials site
-MediLexicon
-MedPortal AAMC
-Medscape
-MedWorm Medical RSS Feed Provider
-Merck Medicus
-MolPort.com-- research and buy chemicals online
-Mulford Library: Instructions to Authors
-National Cancer Institute
-National Center for Health Statistics
-National Comprehensive Cancer Network
-National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
-National Institutes of Health
-National Network of Libraries of Medicine Educational Resources
-National Osteoporosis Foundation
-NLM book search Locator Plus—to verify book authors and titles
-OncoLink ( University of Pennsylvania)
-Online Statistics: An interactive multimedia course of study
-Physician Data Query®
-PubMed Single Citation Matcher- useful for checking references
-Reliable medical information
-Science Daily
-Science News Online
-Scientific and Technical Information: Simply Put
-SEER training modules to learn anatomy and physiology
-SI Units for Clinical Data
-Sigma-Aldrich USA—for chemical names
-STATS (Statistical Assessment Service)
-Study guidelines for studies currently underway
-The Accidental Medical Writer Bookshelf
-The Accidental Medical Writer Pencil Points newsletter
-The Cochrane Collaboration Open Learning
-The Hormone Foundation
-The Medical Biochemistry page-- cell biology
-The Medpedia Project
-The Scientist
-The Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
-Tips for scientific poster design
-Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals—to verify citation style
-Vitamin & Herb University
-WebMD
-WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
-World Health Organization
Thank you!
Thanks to the following colleagues for bringing many of sites listed here to my attention: Michael S. Altus, PhD, ELS, Lisa Balbes, PhD, Brian Bass, Karen A. Becker, PhD, Carolyn Berg, MBA, Kathy Bernard, Lisa Catanese, Becky Chesnut, MEd, R. Elliott Churchill, MS, MA, Donna Coffman, MD, Roberta Connelly, MS, ELS, Angela Costello, Ann L. Davis, MPH, Cindy K. Dempsey, RN, MPH, Laura A. Evans, PharmD, Paula Fischthal, MA, Vivian Fransen, MPA, Betsy Frick, Alice Fugate, Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH, David Gattermeir, Julie Gelderloos, PhD, Marc Grobman, MA, Norman Grossblatt, ELS(D), Susan Hoekstra, Catherine M. Jarrell, MA, Cynthia L. Kryder, MS, CCC-Sp, Barbara M. Lom, PhD, Marianne Mallia, ELS, Shanna J. McClennen, PhD, Donna L. Miceli, Larenda M. Mielke, MA, Pamela K. Olsson, MEd, Katharine O’Moore-Klopf, ELS, Jay F. Piccirillo, M.D., F.A.C.S., CPI, Michaela Hoy Purcell, RN, MSN, Colin Purrington, Lynne Roney, Dee Simmons, RN, BA, Bryan Simpson, PharmD, Carol J. Sonderman, MA, ELS, Barbara A. Woldin, BSJ, Michael Worley, ELS, and Jan Zarlenga, MBA
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