Selected Professional Societies

• Arizona Imaging & Microanalysis Society (AIMS)
• Microscopy Society of America (MSA) see also: MSA Technologist's Forum
• Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS)
• National Society for Histotechnology (NSH)

Microscopy & Imaging Vendor Resources

These three sites are terrific resources for tracking down vendor web sites.

• Vendors and Suppliers Directory (MicroWorld Resources)
• Microscopy Vendors Database (Henrik Kaker)
• Microscopy On-line: Buyer's Guide

WWW Resources

These pages could best be described as "lists of links" covering a wide range of microscopy-related topics.

• Advanced imaging laboratory: web resources (University of Victoria)
• Links (House Ear Institute)
• Guide to Online Microscopy and Microanalysis Resources (MicroWorld Resources)
• Microscopy Vendor's Database (Henrik Kaker)
• Microscope Links (Light Microscopy Forum)
• Science: Methods and Techniques: Microscopy (Open Directory Project)
• WWW Links (ProSciTech)
• WWW Virtual Library: Microscopy
• Microscopy & Microanalysis WWW Site (Nestor Zaluzec, Argonne National Laboratory)
• Web Resources: Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer (Florida State University)

Email Listservers

Listservers are email discussion groups dedicated to a specific area of interest. Members of a listserv can be an invaluable resource for solving technical problems. For more information on how to join one of these lists, follow the link. (* - members of the SWEHSC can post questions to the starred lists by contacting the Cellular Imaging Shared Service)

• MICROSCOPY listserv* - topics typically cover specimen preparation for and/or instrumentation questions for both biological & materials sciences, some light microscopy, digital imaging & microanalysis related questions. The Microscopy Society of America maintains a searchable archive of the Microscopy listserv.
  
• CONFOCAL microscopy listserv* - topics typically cover specimen preparation for and/or instrumentation questions for biological confocal microscopy, some general light microscopy and digital imaging related questions.
  
• HISTONET listserv* - topics typically cover specimen preparation for and/or instrumentation questions for paraffin & frozen-section histology. A searchable archive of the HistoNet listserv is available.
  
• MICROBEAM ANALYSIS listserv - discussion of electron microprobe techniques (Microbeam Analysis Society)
  
• NIH IMAGE & IMAGE-J listservs - discussion regarding digital image analysis using these NIH developed freeware software programs and their "spin offs". NIH Image is for Macintosh computers, Scion PC Image is a "port" of the Macintosh software for the PC, and Image J is a JAVA-based program that runs cross-platform.