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The Mining Company Environment Search Page
This interactive site includes a search engine, topical links, and a bulletin board maintained by a human face. Links to articles on Animal Rights, Civil Liberties, Crime/Punishment, Frugal Living, Gay/Lesbian Issues, Human Rights, Immigration Issues, Pro-choice Views, Pro-Life Views, Race Relations, Women's Issues and Women's Issues - 3rd World.
http://environment.miningco.com/

Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources
Sigles et Acronymes des Ressources d'Informaton sur la Sante'
Acronyms for global information and data resources in health, medical, and veterinary sciences. Linked acronyms point to selected related Web sites. The acronyms and their expansions appear in the languages of origin. Compiled by Marie-Lise Shams, MSLS, AHIP, RN. In French and English.
http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acronym/acr.htm
http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acronym/acrfr.htm

Best www starting points for sustainable development
A multilingual resource page of significant links. In English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustain.html

CANCERLIT(r) Bibliographic Database of the NCI
Standard Search Form
http://cnetdb.nci.nih.gov/cancerlit.shtml

Cartographic Terms, Glossary of
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/glossary.html

Centre for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment (CESSE)
CESSE devotes its activities to the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of economic-environmental interactions. Research carried out concerns mainly the following areas: indicators of sustainable development; damage cost to the environment and health (externalities); study of mobility and its impacts; cost-benefit analysis, the cost-effectiveness analysis, etc. Includes CESSE, an environmental metadatabase.
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/

Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research
GeoData Information Sources Topics: http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_geodata.html

Chemdex
Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, England
Sheffield's ChemdexTM is an international directory of chemistry on the Internet of over 4000 links as of February 2000. Information is provided by Chemistry (including Chemical Safety), Companies, Government Agencies, Societies and Organisations, and Universities/Institutes inAfrica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania & South America. With links to a rich assortment of specialised Chemical Databases, including links to the Genome Database and Genome Sequence Data Base.; News and Discussion Groups; Software packages.
http://www.chemdex.org/

Data Fellows Computer Virus Information Service
The virus description service, begun in 1994, is considered the industry standard source for up-to-date information on new viruses and hoax alerts. The Virus Description Database has entries indexed alphabetically. Choose from the alphabetical list or use the list of the latest virus descriptions (virus' names often mutate along with the virus' themselves). The site also contains a search feature for the Virus & Hoax Description Database.
http://www.Europe.Datafellows.com/virus-info/

Digital Terrain and Topography Hotlist
CIRES - University of Colorado (USA)
http://cires.colorado.edu/people/peckham.scott/RT_links.html

ECOLOGIA
Environmental Technical Information Project (E-Tips) Environmental Database
An Internet resource page in English and Russian. Brief summaries of each are given, along with an evaluation by ECOLOGIA.
http://ecologia.nier.org/

Eco-Portal
Ecological Internet, Inc. (USA)
An information gateway empowering the movement for environmental sustainability. The site features In English.
http://www.environmentalsustainability.info

EDP-Supported Data Catalogue of the Danube Region
in connection with "ARGE Donaulænder"
An Interreg 2 c Project
Bavarian State Ministry for State Development and Environmental Affairs, Munich, Germany
Abstracts and links to Environmental and Regional Planning Data of countries of the Danube region (Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Ukraine, Romania, Bavaria). Including maps, statistics, etc. In German.
http://www.interreg.bayern.de

Eldis - the gateway to development information
A gateway to online information on development in countries of the South. Coverage includes social, economic, political and environmental issues. Eldis makes a qualitative selection of materials and structures it for easy access.
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eldis.htm

EnviroLink Network
Unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in more than 150 countries to provide comprehensive, up-to-date environmental resources. EnviroLink provides environmental non-profits with website hosting, automated mailing lists, interactive bulletin boards and chat rooms, as well as other services. The majority of these services are provided free of charge to environmental organizations.
http://www.envirolink.org/

Environmental Data Registry, The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
An automated source of four types of information about environmental data: Dictionary (Data definitions); Directory (Points of contact); Reference (Data "Pedigree"); and "Road Map" (Location/relationship).
http://www.epa.gov/edr/

Environmental News Network (ENN)
The ENN.com web site is an online destination where users are able to access daily content on environmental issues and interact with others having similar interests. Includes a search engine of past articles.
http://www.enn.com/

GeneralPediatrics.com
University of Iowa
This "General Pediatrician's View of the Internet" is an award-winning digital library that identifies and organizes high quality, authoritative General Pediatrics World Wide Web sites. It is designed for quick and easy use by pediatric health care providers in their daily practices and patients and families in their daily lives. It contains over 2000 links to 440 authoritative World Wide Web sites concerning 400 common pediatric problems. The information is organized into separate sections for pediatric health care providers and patients and families. In addition to the common problems, it also contains links to Textbooks, Policy Statements and Clinical Practice Guidelines, Evidence Based Medicine Resources, Case Studies and Patient Simulations, Journals, Professional Societies, Continuing Medical Education and Internet Directories and Search Engines. New links are constantly added and other improvements made. You can also subscribe to GeneralPediatrics-News (http://www.generalpediatrics.com/Notify.html), a newsletter that will automatically inform you of these changes on a monthly basis. GeneralPediatrics.com is curated by Donna M. D\222Alessandro, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children\222s Hospital of Iowa. She is funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Scholar grant and has 10 years experience in the fields of digital libraries and medical education. The British Medical Journal in December 2000 stated "General sites that concentrate on a specialty are always going to be popular, and Generalpediatrics.com is no exception. This has a wide variety of links that are likely to appeal to anyone who is interested in online paediatric material. This page is a straight but well catalogued list of descriptive hypertext links, but the simple, minimalist approach can be quite effective." In Engish
http://www.generalpediatrics.com

Geographical Knowledge Networks
Geographical Knowledge Networks, or Geo-Know.Net for short, is a not-for-profit organisation that exists to encourage and enable information and knowledge dissemination via the Internet for individuals, communities, collectives, academics, and organisations, that are actively engaged in matters of the environment and development. Geo-Know.Net aims to introduce appropriate and sustainable communications technologies (ICT) to local communities, and those that work with them, in order to disseminate information and experiences based on local knowledge(s) to a global audience. We want to help contribute to a network of local and indigenous knowledge that is used for an inclusive, equitable, and ecologically aware, sustainable international development.
The Internet offers a platform for both communication, and also for knowledge sharing and dissemination. Internet access can help: Geo-Know.Net can help by: We are also involved in the following projects based on appropriate and not intermediate technology: Geographical Knowledge Networks began as an idea in 1998 by Paul Broome, a radical geographer and activist as a contribution to fighting the process of globalisation and contributing towards capacity building for a more sustainable and equitable development. Geo-Know.Net is currently involved in a number of cutting edge environmental and educational projects, although in the main, it remains an umbrella organisation for nurturing and facilitating other's projects. In English.
http://www.geo-know.net

Geo Info Systems Online
Provides users with direct access to more than 88 GIS-related sites indexed into nine GIS categories:
1.GOOD STARTING POINTS
2.HARDWARE & SOFTWARE
3.EDUCATION & RESEARCH CENTERS
4.GIS/GPS LISTSERVERS & NEWSGROUPS
5.ON-LINE DATA
6.CATALOGS & METADATA
7.REMOTE SENSING, GIS US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
8.MISCELLANEOUS.
http://www.geoinfosystems.com/resource.htm

GEOnet Names Server
NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency
GEOnet provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. Approximately 20,000 of the database's 3.5 million features are updated monthly with names information approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html

Geo-specific Search Engine
GeoCommunity.com
http://search.geocomm.com/

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://shiva.pub.getty.edu/tgn_browser/

Health Information for Development (HID)
Information Waystations and Staging Posts (IWSP)
The Health Information for Development (HID) project is a charitable, non-profit, non-denominational research project aimed at documenting and developing the capacity of health information resource centers throughout the world. Funding for this project has been provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program at PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health). The Health Information for Development project is seen as the first phase of the much-larger, Information Waystations and Staging Posts project, which aims to establish a global network of 1,000 health information resource centers that will provide locally appropriate content on health issues. The project is intended to reinforce existing health services and education systems, not replace them. In the second phase it will upgrade selected resource centers into Information Waystations (IW) and create a network. An Information Waystation is a local point of access to health information received electronically linked to the network of other IWs. It has personnel who are trained in/teach technical maintenance and database use. In the third phase, the project will select some IWs for upgrading into Staging Posts (SPs). Staging Posts will act as "relay stations", translating and adapting information materials in order to make them locally appropriate. They will distribute information rapidly and widely, linked to health and education initiatives. They will make use of appropriate external sources of information, sharing local information, both formal and non-formal/indigenous, in a two-way flow. The project has compiled a Global Directory of Health Information Resource Centers (HIRCs). In English, French, Russian, Spanish and Swahili.
http://www.iwsp.org

ICE - ECHO
Environmental Conservation Hotlinks
http://ice.ucdavis.edu/echo/

InfoRain
Bioregional Information System for the North American Rainforest Coast
Covers Interrain Pacific: Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon & California. Interrain Pacific has an extensive searchable database of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data layers ranging from infrastructural data such as road networks or utility lines to landscape change detection such as modification of historic wetlands ArcExplorer.
http://www.inforain.org/gis.htm

Information System for Planning an Environment (ISPU)
Bavarian State Ministry for State Development and Environmental Affairs
Umweltobjektkatalog UOK (Catalogue of environmental and planning documents). Collection with about 60,000 entries such as map-catalogues, pictures of protected areas, geological objects, and regional planning data. In German.
http://www.uok.bayern.de

INFOTERRA multilingual thesaurus.
One of the best environmental multilingual thesauruses on the Internet. Includes 1203 subject entries in English, French, Spanish and Russian.
http://www.cedar.univie.ac.at/unep/infoterra/thesaurus/

International Cancer Research Databank Branch (ICRDB)
ICRDB is responsible for developing, organizing, maintaining, and enhancing NCI information included in the PDQ and CANCERLIT databases and other cancer information resources.
http://wwwicic.nci.nih.gov/icicinfo.html#icrdb

MSDS Translation and MSDSs in languages other than English
3DWord MSDS translation to all major languages; Racco (Brazil) MSDS in Spanish and Portugese.
http://hazard.com/msds/language.html

National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database
U.S. EPA, Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water
A repository and access to data on the occurrence of contaminants in drinking water which would support decision making for future drinking water contaminant regulations. The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the development of the National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database (NCOD).
http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/standard/pp/ncodpp.html

Plasmo DB. The Plasmodium Genome Resource
University of Pennsylvania (USA)
An Internet-based database allowing genomic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the vast majority of malaria deaths worldwide. The Plasmodium genome database breaks new ground in bioinformatics by permitting detailed analysis of a genome even before its sequencing is complete. The site contains: P. falciparum Genome Sequence Status - Information on the progress of sequencing efforts from the Malaria Genome Project. PlasmoDB-GUS - Query a relational database for sequence retrieval, gene predictions, protein feature identification, gene ontologies, Blast similarities, chromosome position and microsatellite markers. Graphical views of the data, Blast analysis and ePCR are provided. P. falciparum GenePlot Platform-independent graphical browser, sequence retrieval. CD-ROM ported version available. Data Mining Tools / Data Download - Text-based queries (finished and unfinished sequences), blast analysis and User defined motif searches; Graphical surveys of blast results, genes that were predicted through automated analysis and protein features. Download sequences and "genome releases" in multiple formats including ORF's and predicted CDS' where appropriate. Download a recent publication on 'PlasmoDB': PlasmoDB: An integrative database of the Plasmodium falciparum genome. Tools for accessing and analyzing finished and unfinished sequence data. Nucleic Acids Res. 2001, 29 (1):66-69. Data of the Plasmodium falciparum (3D7) Genome Project within PlasmoDB are protected by a data release policy. In English.
http://PlasmoDB.org/

PLL Online - Computer-assisted Translation
WHO Technical Terminology Service
Computer-assisted translation at WHO Headquarters. Within the Office of Language Services, the Computer-assisted Translation and Terminology Unit is assessing technical options for using computer-assisted translation systems based on "translation memory". With such systems, translators have immediate access to previous translations of portions of the text before them. Includes WHO Policy documents, glossaries, and links to other online electronic translation services. More than 50 medical dictionaries and glossaries online and the WHOTERM index.
http://www.who.int/pll/cat/

Remote Sensing Glossary
http://lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu/rspage/glossary.html

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK) Online Databases
Contains Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL); Vascular Plant Families and Genera; Authors of Plant Names; and Index of angiosperm DNA amounts. Each database is supported by a search engine.
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/web.dbs/webdbsintro.html

State of the Environment Reports
A growing number of international organizations, countries, states and regional governments, and non-governmental organizations are producing reports providing and overview of the "state of the environment" in their area of responsibility and interest. These report vary in content and quality. Most national reports are in English, some in the country's major language, some in both. Many were facilitated by the United Nations Environment Program through its Global Resources Information Database (GRID) center in Arendal, Norway. The U.S. state reports have been compiled in part from the work of the Florida Center for Public Management.
http://www.cnie.org/stateof.htm

United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
Dictionary of Demographic and Reproductive Health Terminology
In English, French and Spanish.
http://www.popin.org/~unpopterms/

WaterWeb Ring
The WaterWeb consortium has been created to promote the sharing of information concerning water and the earth's environment. The organization seeks to create a global community, bringing together educational, governmental, nonprofit, & commercial entities interested in water research, conservation, and management. http://www.waterweb.org/

WWW Virtual Library - Environment
An award-winning, searchable index of over 1,000 environmental resources arranged alphabetically and by category.
http://www.earthsystems.org/indexx.html

WWW Virtual Library IRRIGATION
Department of Rural Engineering and Natural Resource Protection
Designed to facilitate the information retrieval in the field of irrigation.
http://www.wiz.uni-kassel.de/kww/irrig_i.html

USGS Geographic Names Information System
United States and Territories
http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html