From 2002, Nature Publishing Group will publish Heredity, a journal of the Genetics Society. Focusing on eukaryotes, the journal publishes key papers on ecological, population and evolutionary
genetics, including human population genetics; genomics and post-genomics as applied to evolutionary questions; biometrical and statistical genetics; animal and plant breeding and cytogenetics. For submission and subscription enquiries e-mail us.
Useful Resources
Heredity
An International Journal of Genetics
Contact: hdy@nature.com
HOSPICAL - tool for allocating hospital costs
From Management Sciences for Health
Hospital managers, policymakers and provincial health officers can use HOSPICAL to analyse current costs and revenue. It consists of a user's guide and an electronic spreadsheet file that allows managers to manage resources more effectively. It is available free of charge to institutions in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Contact: bookstore@msh.org
Mini-portal on environmental health
The Info Services page on the Environmental Health Project website has been changed to a mini-portal on environmental health to hopefully provide a more organized and convenient method for obtaining information on environmental health. Please check it out and contact Dan Campbell if you find it useful and if you have suggestions and other categories or resources to add.
Contact: campbelldb@ehproject.org
Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences
Updated August 1, 2001
Fogarty International Center National Institutes of Health - USA
The National Institutes of Health is one of many public and private organizations across the globe that provide international support for biomedical research and training. Since 1988, the Fogarty International Center has published the Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences. This directory is a comprehensive compilation of international opportunities in biomedical research.
Food and Nutrition Library:
Information on CD Roms
300+ publications (more than 30.000 pages) of
food, nutrition, food policy and research is available on CD from international organisations supplied by Human Info NGO in Belgium. The costs participation system is designed to maximize redistribution by partner multipliers who purchase 70 up to 900 and redistribute them free.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28814
Contact: orders@humaninfo.org
Johns Hopkins POPLINE Database Now Available Online
Looking for the latest information on female genital mutilation? Need a journal article on adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS?
Trying to track down an article on population and the environment? The answers to these questions and much more are now just a few mouse clicks away on the new Internet POPLINE database. POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related issues, is now available free of charge on the Internet. All 280,000 citations, representing published and unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28812
Nutrition in Africa:
2 CDs giving 12 training modules on African nutrition
2 CDs on African nutrition are available from Dr Britta Ogle, Dept of Rural Development Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P O Box 7005, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden. The costs are free but there is limited availability so
priority will be given to Africans. The CD Roms can be copied.
Contact: britta.ogle@lbutv.slu.se
PERI: Full Access to Online Journals and Databases in Africa
The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is pleased to announce the completion of the first phase of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI). This is an important programme aimed at the wider access and dissemination of scientific and scholarly information and knowledge with and between developing and transitional countries. Researchers, academics, scholars and librarians in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda are now invited to access current awareness databases, full-text online journals and document delivery for free.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28788
Contact: inasp@gn.apc.org
Who's misunderstanding whom?
ESRC/ Economic and Social Research Council and British Academy, London, UK - 2000
An inquiry into the relationship between science and the media, presents an agenda of current issues for examination by social science researchers, science policy experts, the media and scientists.
ATCnet Database for the African Health and HIV-AIDS Crisis
ATCnet has launched an easily accessible Internet database for the African Health and HIV-AIDS Crisis to consolidate information about organizations and individuals that are working to combat the crisis. There is a growing global appreciation of the enormity of the health and HIV-AIDS crisis in Africa. With this database it will be possible to publicize the enormous amount of work that African organizations and individuals are doing in Africa to address the pandemic.
Further details: /newsletter/id/28733
Contact: info@atcnet.org