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 |
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