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Tips for writing scientific manuscripts

• Written by two former editors at Science and Nature. This document is intended to be freely distributed! View as an html file but be sure to down load either the  word6.0 or .pdf versions to print and share.

• SciDev.Net has a "How do I write a scientific paper?" as part of its How do I? series

Journal Access - Tools for staying current with the literature

• Three PubMed/MEDLINE alert services BioMail, Pubcrawler, AMEDEO

• Access the PubMed database via email and recieve weekly udates on your area of interest- pm2mail

• Infotrieve - access eTOC alert sign-ups to thousands of journals at a single site. Free registration required.

• Generally access the web and databases via email - www4mail

• Scirus - a science-specific search engine. Find grant info, university info, .pdfs (the advanced search helps here), and more.

• Health Internetwork - provides here a vast library of the latest and best information on public health: more than 2,000 scientific publications, one of the world's largest collections of biomedical literature.  Researchers in developing countries are given discounted or free access.

• SPARC is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations built as a constructive response to market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system
• The Global Development Network journal access portal
  

• Free Medical Journals  and Free Books for Doctors is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals and books over the Internet.

• Open Access Now provides a forum to stimulate debate about Open Access within the scientific community and to provide a forum for an exchange of views.

• Biomedcentral is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research

• Public Libary of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

• Directory of Open Access Journals The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

• Free electronic journals as compiled by the University of Nevada

Students - Grants for graduate school

• Free grant databases Community of Science and GrantsNet

• Visit the consulate of the country where you are interested in doing your graduate work. They can be very helpful in finding institutions and scholarships.

• Fulbright grants

• OAS graduate fellowships for students in the Organization of American States (Central and South America)

• CollegeBoard scholarship search

• LASPAU  is a nonprofit organization affiliated with Harvard University that designs, develops, and implements academic and professional exchange programs on behalf of individuals and institutions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Learn more - international mailing lists and newsletters

• SciDev.Net – sign up for the weekly update of the site sponsored by Science, Nature, and the Third World Academy of Sciences

• Sigma Xi's International Program - monthly newsletter

• ELDIS -Gateway of information on development issues - sign up

• The Harvard Center for International Development listserve - sign up for information on publications at the CID and elsewhere

• Physicians for Human Rights - sign up for the biweekly newsletter

• UNESCO World Conference on Science - Follow Up Newsletter

• Online video of lectures at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics

• Online video of human rights lectures and others including Jeff Sachs - sponsored by WGBH

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Learn more - Local mailing lists and newsletters, Harvard resources

• International Science and Health Network – Longwood Medical Area seminars and workshops - email admin@scihealthnet.org with subscribe in the body of the mail

• HRIPC – Human Rights Proffesional Interest Coalition - email majordomo@ksglist.harvard.edu with “subscribe hrpic YOUR EMAIL” in the body of the mail.

• HMS – Physicians for Human Rights Student Group – events list.
  Contact pooja_kumarATstudent.hms.harvard.edu

• Global Chat – the weekly HSPH lunch seminar – a great way to learn about a wide range of ideas in an informal setting.  Contact azota@hsph.harvard.edu

• The Harvard School of Public Health is a great resource for seminars and courses.

• The Harvard Center for International Development - listserve - information on events and publications at the CID and elsewhere.

• Harvard AIDS coalition  - subscribe harvardAIDS-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

• Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies - email suzyq@hsph.harvard.edu

• The Kennedy School of Government has many great talks and conferences.  The Center for International Development, the Institute of Politics Forum, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• HMS Office of Enrichment helps medical students find local and international health opportunities.  Look at their database to get an idea for the organizations they have helped students find.

The following offices are organized around particular geographic regions.  They often have databases of contacts.  The David Rockefeller Center is especially interested in health issues.

• David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

• Harvard African studies and linkss

• Harvard Middle Eastern Studies

• Harvard University Asia Center

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Visit a lab or give a seminar

Most scientists working internationally are very interested in sharing what they do and want to hear what you and your lab study.  If you are visiting another country for any reason at all, look at these directories to see if there are scientists who might mesh with your scientific interests -ask to visit or give a seminar.

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Scholars Program - search the database

• Pubmed country specific search using the institute affiliation tag [ad] e.g. Malaysia  [ad] and cancer

• American Society for Cell Biology - Directory

• American Genetics Society - Directory

• Society for Neuroscience - Directory

• Other science organizations from around the world can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/int/map.htm

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Do science or teach science abroad

• Fulbright grants can be as short as three months and are relatively easy to get if you are interested in going to more far-flung places.  They are one of the best ways to do science abroad, and they are easier to come by than you think.

• http://www.iie.org/fulbright/

• The Luce Scholars Program funds students younger than29   to work in Asia for 1yr.  They are particularly interested people with limited Asian studies experience.

• http://www.hluce.org/3scholfm.html

• The NSF sponsors graduate students to work in Korea, Taiwan, or Japan for 6-8 weeks in the summer.

• http://www.nsf.gov/home/int/

• Kathmandu University Medical School is bringing problem-based learning to a new medical school outside of Kathmandu, Nepal.   If you are a graduating soon or graduated, you can help teach their basic science curricula.

          Email tabin@rascal.med.harvard.edu for info - read of a BBS student's time there

• AMSA International Health Action Group has a an amazing  list of resources

• International Health Medical Eduction Consortium (IHMEC) has resources, conferences, and a guide book for international health experiences

• Visit our database and if you're a Harvard or MIT student contact the contributor

• International Medical Volunteers Association has a few personal experiences but is otherwise a bit anemic

• Global Medicine Network a part of the Mass. Medical Society was a great way to find people in specific countries with contacts or opportunities.  It's down at the time of this writing, but will hopefully be back

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