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For fungal genetic links, see also the Genome Sequence section

Last updated: December 2005

Science Policy News

1. UK and international science policy news at the Wellcome Trust
   
2. US science policy news
   
3. Issues in Science and Technology
   
4. AAAS Science and Policy
   
5. The Royal Society - Science Policy
   
6. DTI - Science and Science Policy

Research funding

1. UK biomedical research funding database at the Wellcome Trust
   
2. Association of Medical Research Charities
   
3. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
   
4. Community of Sceince - Research Funding
   
5. MRC - Funding

Go here for the research directory on this website

Organisations

1. International Society for Human and Animal Mycology
2. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
   
3. Institute of Medical Mycology Japan
   
4. Medical Research Council
   
5. The Wellcome Trust
   
6. Mira Vista Labs

Bibliographic links

• Scirus, a powerful new search engine developed by Elsevier Science for locating scientific information only. At this stage Scirus covers more than 60 million science related pages from the Web as well as membership sources such as ScienceDirect, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb and Neuroscion.
  
• AMADEO - The medical literature guide
  AMEDEO has been created to serve the needs of healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, other members of the health professions, and patients and their friends. They can easily access timely, relevant information within their respective fields
  AMEDEO’s core components include weekly emails with bibliographic lists about new scientific publications, personal Web pages for one-time download of available abstracts and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months. All these new information resources are free of charge
  
• Free full-text journals
  Within the next two years, the most important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. As well as English language journals, this service covers Español, Portuguese and other languages.
  
• National Electronic Library for Health - NeLH pulls together over 70 electronic resources including Medline, the Cochrane Library, to reviewed internet sites by NMAP.
  
• Biosis
  BIOSIS is a non-profit organization that delivers flexible information services – including databases and customized information products – to the global life sciences community.
  
• ASM press
  ASM Press is the book publishing division of the American Society for Microbiology. The Press publishes reference manuals, scholarly monographs, textbooks in all of the microbiological sciences.

Mycology resources

1. Mycobank - a service to the mycological and scientific society documenting mycological nomenclatural novelties (new names and combinations) and associated data.
2. The Aspergillus and Penicillium Website - International Commission of Penicillium and Aspergillus
3. Mycology Online
   
4. Mycoinfo
   
5. Fungi in Buildings - University of Minnesota
   
6. Environmental fact sheets - Fungal contamination in indoor environments
   
7. WWW Virtual Library - Mycology
   
8. Internet Directory for Botany: Lower plants
   
9. Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia
   
10. Mycokey - a synoptic key for the determination of fungi genera
    
11. Moulds: Isolation, cultivation, identification - David Malloch's site at the University of Toronto
    
12. Fungi Images on the Net - direct access to nearly 1600 mushroom images
    
13. The Fifth Kingdom on-line - a version of the book published by Mycologue Publications
    
14. An Introduction to fungi - hosted at the University of Berkeley
    
15. Nuclear Migration Experiments in Aspergillus nidulans - at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
    
16. Everything you always wanted to know about mycology but were afraid to ask... - from the Pasteur Institute

Medical resources

1. Aspergillus Technology Consortium. The Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics for Invasive Aspergillosis contract was created to support the establishment and maintenance of a tissue repository of prospectively collected clinical samples from patients at high risk for invasive aspergillosis (IA) and from subjects at high risk for IA with potentially interfering medical conditions.
2. Outbreak Worldwide Database is a database showing details of all outbreak reports in Pubmed and others, plus outbreaks reported directly to this database.
3. orphannet is a free resource offering a database dedicated to information on rare diseases and orphan drugs. Orphanet aims to improve management and treatment of genetic, auto-immune or infectious rare diseases, rare cancers or not yet classified rare diseases.
   
4. RDDirect is a research advisory service for all staff in health and social care in Northern England.
   This website contains information relevant to health research, and includes links to other websites which may be helpful.
   
5. Open Access is being pioneered by BioMed Central as a new way to publish scientific papers, providing an alternative to subscription based publications. Submitted papers are peer-reviewed and then immediately made available free of charge online.
   Papers published with BioMed Central are also available elsewhere, such as the NIH open access repository for peer-reviewed articles (PubMed Central).
   
6. MDLinx is a fast, free, and easy-to-use network of medical websites that is designed to keep you informed of the latest medical news and research. MDLinx's mission is to help physicians and healthcare professionals stay current and remain ahead of their patients. We offer 32 medical specialties and over 660 subspecialties that provide daily medical updates from premier, peer-reviewed medical journals.
   
7. Scirus, a powerful new search engine developed by Elsevier Science for locating scientific information only. Scirus delivers more relevant search results because it focuses on scientific information, indexes complete documents, searches the whole web including access-controlled sites, and reads non-text files like PDF. At this stage Scirus covers more than 60 million science related pages from the Web as well as membership sources such as ScienceDirect, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb and Neuroscion.
   
8. AMEDEO - The Medical Literature Guide
   AMEDEO has been created to serve the needs of healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, other members of the health professions, and patients and their friends. They can easily access timely, relevant information within their respective fields
   AMEDEO’s core components include weekly emails with bibliographic lists about new scientific publications, personal Web pages for one-time download of available abstracts (see example), and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months. All these new information resources are free of charge.
   
9. Free full-text journals
   Within the next two years, the most important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. (see comments in Science and the British Medical Journal). As well as english language journals, this service covers Español, Portuguese and other languages.
   
10. Pubmed Central - free online access to the full text of life science research articles - includes BMJ, PNAS & coming soon EMBO Journal
    
11. National Electronic Library for Health - NeLH pulls together over 70 electronic resources including Medline, the Cochrane Library, to reviewed internet sites by NMAP.
    
12. Medical Mycology Research Center
    
13. American Oncology Resources
    
14. Infectious Diseases Links
    
15. The Virtual Hospital
    
16. Medweb - biomedical internet resources
    
17. The Cochrane Library - health care information
    
18. HMS Beagle - the BioMedNet magazine
    
19. uk.Healthcentre - listing UK healthcare resources
    
20. Harrison's Online - on-line medical database
    
21. NetDoctor.co.uk - A UK independent medical website
    
22. Mycological Aspects of Indoor Environmental Quality - in the Environmental Health and Safety Department of the University of Minnesota.
    
23. Allergome, a database of allergenic molecules - a free resource providing monographs on allergy antigen molecules. Under active construction, recently updated to include information on reagents
24. The Aspergillus and Penicillium Website - coordinating taxanomic research on behalf of the International Commission of Penicillium and Aspergillus

Culture collections

1. ATCC - American Type Culture Collection
   
2. Fungal Genetics Stock Center
   
3. World Data Center for Microorganisms
   
4. BCCM online - biomedical fungi and yeasts collection
   
5. CBS databases
   
6. United Kingdom National Culture Collection
   
7. Microbial germplasm database
   
8. ARS - Agricultural Research Service, USA

Mold and flooding

1. Mold readings spark health concerns in New Orleans - news article outlining the extent of the potential health problems.
   
2. Indoor Air - Mold. A good overview of damp and the management of miold indoors. Includes free online books.
   
3. Preparing for and cleaning up after hurricanes - including specific advice on mold.
   
4. Tsunami lung: a necrotising pneumonia in survivors of the Asian tsunami - article on the Medical Journal of Australia.
   
5. Mold: Prevention Strategies and Possible Health Effects in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

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