Websites for researchers and educators

If you'd like a weekly email of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators, see the Scout Report. It is a publication of the Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin. The project is supported by the computer science department along with the libraries.

I've been receiving this publication via my email for about a year now and I've found many relevant resources for the Health Sciences. I've used these listings to add relevant websites to the Health Sciences Library web pages. Last week the Scout Report listed several websites on the Health Sciences.

Here they are:

Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/index.htm
The Supercourse website contains thousands of lectures on global health and prevention "designed to improve the teaching of prevention." Their network includes174 countries, and is available in no less than 30 languages.

Images from the History of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/
The National Library of Medicine has a number of very nice online exhibits, and they recently created this all-encompassing image collection to give users access to almost 70,000 images taken from their History of Medicine Division. The collection includes portraits, photographs, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art works that detail and illuminate the social and historical aspects of medicine from the 15th to the early 21st century.

Jewish American Heritage Month
http://www.jewishheritage.gov/index.html
In an effort to recognize the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to American culture, May was proclaimed Jewish American Heritage Month. To help celebrate, this website was created by a collaboration of various government entities, including the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

AgeSource/AgeStats Worldwide
http://www.aarpinternational.org/database/
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) covers aging and aging-related topics quite well, and this website is one of their many compelling initiatives. The databases, AgeSource and AgeStats, on AARP's international website are designed to "facilitate the international exchange of policy and program-relevant information in aging."

Virtual Microbiology
http://inst.bact.wisc.edu/inst/index.php?module=Book&func=toc&book_id=3
Created at the University of Wisconsin, the Virtual Microbiology site contains a wide range of high-quality scientific educational materials that are meant to supplement and enhance more traditional materials. This particular item is an online textbook, divided into eighteen chapters. Of course, there are the traditional text passages and charts to enhance all of the material, but there are also number of nifty videos that provide additional exploration of topics like pond microbes and hands-on demonstrations. Visitors can also sign up to receive updates about new materials that make their way to the site and they can also provide user feedback.