Online resources

Title and description	Weblink
Writing, editing and grammar
Grammar Girl - Quick and dirty tips for better writing	http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com
Nancy Halligan: Technical writing: a short course on writing technical reports	http://www.technical-writing-course.com
David McMurrey: Courseware, writing, editing, and training	http://www.io.com/~hcexres/services.html
Purdue University: Online writing lab	http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Neurology useful information about science writing (including use of tenses)	http://www.neurology.org/misc/sugg.htm
Finding things
Scirus is a general science online search engine - a mine of information for all types of science information and references	http://www.scirus.com
PubMed -a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes more than 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Comprehensive listing of animal and plant species	http://www.sp2000.org
Database of biomedical acronyms	http://medstract.med.tufts.edu/acro1.1/index.htm
The British National Formulary - great for checking tricky drug names	http://www.bnf.org
Tools
Tinyurl - to replace long URLs with tiny ones	http://tinyurl.com/
Bullfighter - great program for making sure that you (and your colleagues) are using plain English	http://www.fightthebull.com/bullfighter.asp