The ETHICSWEB project funding by the EC under the 7th FP Programme Sience in Society ceased by end of August 2011. Additional to the achieved, the comprehensive information and documentation portal ETHICSWEB, the members of the former consortium expect ETHICSWEB to become a sustainable part in the European Research Area. ETHICSWEB understands itself as a loose Network of Ethics Documentation Centres (NEDC) and the members of the ETHICSWEB consortium form the core of this informal network.
Documentation of scientific conduct and progress is of utmost importance in regard to opinion formation in democratic and plural societies. ETHICSWEB therefore strives for enhancing documentation practices around Europe in the specific but hetergenous field of ethics in science. This goal is to be realized on the one hand by providing resources and tools to interested institutions, and the interconnection of professionals on the other hand.
Futhermore, such a network can ensure the sustainability of the achieved infrastructure and at the same time serve as the foundation for active improvement and development of ETHICSWEB in the future.
We strive for sustaining the portal and its features and we invite all interested parties engaged in or interested in documentation with regard to ethics and sciences to join us.
The ETHICSWEB network makes the ETHICSWEB documentation standards available to the interested public and provides interested academic institutions with its virtual database tools. These tools can be employed by documentation centres in order to cost-efficiently start with electronic documentation. They comprise the database software together with the corresponding application profile for the ETHICSWEB documentation standards and user manuals which describe in detail how to properly employ these tools and how to begin with a successful documentation enterprise. The manuals comprise the Compendium for Setting-up and Maintain New Ethics Documentation Centres, the ETHICSWEB Primer – A Short Guide to Ethics Documentation, and the Legal Guidelines for ETHICSWEB, which all provide helpful and important advice for the un-experienced as well as the documentation experts.
In addition ETHICSWEB provides a list of selected European ethics documentation centres that gives a first overview of the scene of ethics documentation in the European Research Area.
For more information just contact us: info@ethicsweb.eu
In the course of the ETHICSWEB project some helpful information about the state of art in the field of ethics and science were gathered. Some of the information merged into several documents wich might be helpful to a broader public. Therefore they can be accessed and downloaded here.
The documents provided by ETHICSWEB comprise a List of Ethics Documentation Centres in Europe, which lists selected EDCs from different European countries in order to provide a first glance on the the scene. EDC's listed are notnecessarily members of ETHICSWEB. The document only lists centres that were identified in the course of the project and does not claim to be complete.
Furthermore, a list of European organisations that engage in project funding has been compiled. Most of these funding institutions also provide helpful information about the funded projects. Sometimes this comprises information about centres as well as about people that were involved in the project. Most institutions listed, e.g. national academies of sciences, are not specifically concerned with ethics in science, but have a more general interest in promoting scientific progress. Their funding policy regularily includes both natural sciences as well as the humanities. And although ethical issues are not solely in the focus of project, the ethical aspects of scientific projects become more and more important.
Again, the organisations and institutes identified in these documents are not necessarily affiliated to ETHICSWEB in any way.
ETHICSWEB gathered information in these documents with reasonable care. However, ETHICSWEB takes no responsibility for the correctness or accurracy of this information and disclaims liability for any consequences resulting from the use of this information.
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In this section ETHICSWEB provides helping links in regard to both, networking and documentation, in the field of ethics and science.
Alternative title
EAHIL
Provider
EAHIL
Description
The European Association for Health Information and Libraries is an active professional association uniting and motivating librarians and information officers working in medical and health science libraries in Europe. EAHIL encourages professional development, improves cooperation and enables exchanges of experience amongst its members. The association counts about 1000 members from about 30 European countries.
The website provides helpful information about the work of EAHIL and lists medical libraries associations from all over the world and provides easy access to European websites in the medical and healthcare field. Furthermore, it provides a up-to-date list of current Journals for Health Sciences Librarians: http://www.chu-rouen.fr/documed/eahil67.html
Languages
English
Keywords
Professional organisations; Libraries; Information services; Medicine; Europe
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EACME
Provider
EACME
Description
The European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME, founded 1985) is an international network of academic and non-academic centres which has the aim to promote research, education and consultation in the field of (bio)-medical ethics by way of exchange of information, support of students, teachers and researchers, and organisation of annual conferences.
Languages
English
Keywords
Organisations; Medical ethics; Europe;
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EEN
URL
http://www.kuleuven.be/een/index.htm
Provider
EEN
Description
The portal provides access to information about the network. It provides links to similar or related initiatives.
Languages
English
Keywords
Ethics; Europe; Organisations
Alternative title
IAB - INTERNATIONALnetworks
URL
http://bioethics-international.org/index.php?show=networks
Provider
International Association of Bioethics
Description
The International Association of Bioethics supports organisations and people in developing networks of scholars in specific areas of bioethics. Besides some general information its website provides a list of exisiting networks together with information about its goal, projects and activities as well as personal information about the coordinator. Several networks about different topics exist.
Languages
English
Keywords
Bioethics; Organisations;
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URL
http://www.scangrants.com/
Provider
Samaratarian Health Services(SHS), Center fro Health Research and Quality
Description
ScanGrants is a public service listing of grants and other funding types to support health research, programs and scholarship. It is designed to facilitate the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health. Funding sources most frequently listed here include those of private foundations, corporations, businesses, and not-for profit organizations. Finding and listing less traditional funding opportunities is also a priority. Federal and state funding sources are typically not included on ScanGrants™ because they are readily available on other sites (e.g. www.grants.gov).
Languages
English
Keywords
Sciences; Ethics; Research funding; United States; Europe; Asia and The Pacific; Africa