General Brown Learning Resources

Brown Courses on the Web

University Library

• hours - Brown Library hours (Rockefeller, Sciences, Orwig, etc.)
• Josiah - Brown Library's online catalog, includes course reserves lists
• electronic resources - Access JOSIAH, electronic journals, and other internet resources
• reference assistance - Information on reference services

Copyright- Guidelines for using copyrighted materials

Citing on-line references - How to reference web pages and other electronic information correctly

Writing Center/Writing Fellows - Writing requirements, help with writing

Registrar's Office - Course information, requirements, class and exam schedules

• BOCA-Brown Online Course Announcment
• Room schedule - Find out where and when a course is scheduled to meet

Computing and Information Services - Computing cluster hours and locations, computing services and help

• Cluster Services - Computing cluster hours, locations, and equipment
• Documentation - Information on installing and using Brown software and resources
• CIS training - Learn Word, Excel, Filemaker, etc.
• Help desk - Get help with your computer questions

Brown Bio Links
 

TB/HIV Research Lab - Dr. DeGroot's lab at Brown, concentrating on TB and HIV vaccine development

Vaccine Collaborative - A partnership to coordinate vaccine efforts underway at Brown

International Health Institute - Dedicated to improving the health status of the world's population living in developing countries
 

Commerical Links
 

Maxygen Inc. - Directed molecular evolution, the process by which novel genes are generated for commercial use

VaxGen Inc. - Carrying out Phase III trials of AIDSVAX B/B around the US, including here in Providence.

Vaccine Related Sites
 

Vaccine Ethics - The NIAID Division of AIDS

Vaccine Policy - Vaccines for the 21st Century: A Tool for Decisionmaking - National Academy Press

Web Coding Links
 

Netscape Communicator / Composer

Don't like Composer?  Other free editors are linked from here.  MS FrontPage is also available on cluster computers

Resources for creating websites - for Netscape Communicator users, from the folks at Netspace Communications

Intro to Creating pages with Composer - from MediaOne Internet Services

Learning Composer - from the University of Alabama

Mac & Windows specific guides from the University of West Michigan, one of the best sites I saw!

HTML - basics & advanced guides

Beginner's guide - from NCSA, the folks who developed one of the first Web Browsers

Developer.com Complete HTML/DHTML Tutorial - use only if you already have some knowledge of HTML

Yahoo has an exhaustive list of guides and tutorials for HTML

Barebones Guide to HTML - Great list of tags and how to use them

ClipArt / Design Ideas

Clipart.com - links to lots of great sites for free graphics

Mindquest.net is a resource for students and teachers including an extensive but not very inspiring bio-specific clipart section

ClipartConnection.com -  don't even think I'm going to explain this one