Have you ever needed information on the ethics surrounding scientific conduct or issues such as animal research, genetic engineering, and the use and abuse of computer networks? The hypertext pages of Ethics in Science on the World Wide Web link to a fascinating collection of essays, bibliographies, case studies, discussion lists, and articles that explore these issues.

An extensive bibliography of print publications covers plagiarism, ethics in scientific course work, and scientific fraud as well as ethical issues in chemistry, biology, engineering, computing, and biomedicine. From the bibliography you can link to online professional codes of conduct including the American Chemical Society's "Chemists' Creed," the American Society of Civil Engineers' "Engineering Code of Ethics" and the American Psychological Association's "Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Animals."

Other online resources include Science magazine's special report on "Conduct in Science," the 1994 edition of the National Academy of Science's booklet, "On Being a Scientist," and "Diving into the Gene Pool," a series of interactive case studies relating to genetic testing.

And after you've searched the Internet, you may want to search the BioethicsLine database that is loaded locally on HUBNET, the Hospitals and University at Buffalo Library Resource Network. BioethicsLine contains references and abstracts to English-language materials, including journals, newspaper articles, books, court decisions, bills, laws, and audiovisuals, on bioethics selected from the literature of medicine, nursing, biology, philosophy, religion, law, and the behavioral sciences, from 1973 to the present.

Ethics in Science is at http://www.chem.vt.edu/ethics/ethics.html. HUBNET can be searched on-site in the Health Sciences Library and the Science and Engineering Library, at any of the sponsoring hospitals, or remotely. For more information on HUBNET, contact Sharon Murphy, Health Sciences Library, 829-2409, hslscm@ubvm.

-Loss Pequeno Glazier and Nancy Schiller, University Libraries