Recommended Websites

Academic Links

• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
  www.nrc.ca/cisti/cisti_e.shtml
  • Great for looking up journal articles on anything related to biomedical engineering. If it's not here, it's not in Canada!
  • To search the catalogue, click on "The Catalogue" and then "Search the Catalogue".
• Entrez-Pubmed
  www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
  • Looking for an article related to medicine? This is where you need to be!
  • PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
• Ottawa Life Sciences Council
  www.olsc.ca
  • Offers a great list of biomedical companies in the Capital Region (look under "BioCompanies").
  • Within this directory you will find a current and comprehensive guide to all of the Ottawa region businesses and associations that are connected in some way to the life sciences. The directory is organized such that you can search it by alphabetical index or by classification category.
• Research Index
  citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
  • This site lets you submit a topic of research and then links you to the full paper in various formats (including PDF) so that you can download the paper immediately -- the quality of the file may leave something to be desired though...

• IWITTS Clip Art and Photo Gallery
  www.iwitts.com/html/clipart.htm
  • IWITTS = Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science
  • This website has tons of free clip art and photos of women in non-traditional fields. Great for decorating your website! They're also actively seeking photos and clip art if you want to donate to their collection.
• Ottawa-Carleton Ultimate Association
  www.ocua.ca
  • The world's largest ultimate frisbee association! 300 teams and 3700 members in 2001! Join for summer, fall and winter leagues. Great fun, great exercise.
• Women in Science and Engineering, Ottawa Chapter
  wise-ottawa.ca
  • WISE Ottawa is unique in the Ottawa Region as the only women's organization that addresses the needs of scientists and engineers, both students and professionals.
  • The WISE Ottawa Chapter offers a program of monthly meetings with a variety of interesting speakers. Topics range from technical to general interest and feature the experiences of women in various occupations and fields of science and technology.
  
  
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