Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
This is an alphabetical list of ‘instructions to prospective authors’ for hundreds of different journals in the health sciences. The site is maintained by the Raymon H. Mulford Library of the Medical College of Ohio, U.S. http://www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html

Medical Journals: Subject Index
This is an alphabetical list of links to journal home pages. It includes general medical journals (eg JAMA, BMJ, NEJM), nursing journals and books on medical writing. http://www.sciencekomm.at/journals/medicine/med-bio.html

Tim Albert Training
Tim Albert Training is a UK-based company that specializes in effective writing for health professionals. The site includes access to the newsletter ‘Short Words’, with numerous tips on how to put your message across. http://www.timalbert.co.uk

Usability.gov
This site is an extensive resource for designing usable, useful and accessible websites and user interfaces. The methods and tools are applicable to any site, but the content is particularly appropriate for health related web pages. The site is maintained by the National Cancer Institute, U.S. http://usability.gov/

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
WAME is a professional association that aims to stimulate education and promotion of high standards among editors of peer-reviewed medical journals, with the eventual aim of improving the quality of medical science and practice. The target audience includes editors of peer-reviewed biomedical journals and scholars who study medical editing, peer review and informatics. http://www.wame.org

Writing for Change
This site is the online version of ‘Writing for Change’, a training program that emphasizes practical examples and exercises for creating papers in the international development field. It contains core skills for effective writing, tools for writing for science and advocacy, plus a resource centre of useful print articles and websites. The CD Rom version is available in English, French and Spanish. It has been developed by the human rights organization FAHAMU, in collaboration with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). http://www.fahamu.org.uk/WFCEng/sitemap.html

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