Zeno Geradts is a forensic scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Institute of the Ministry of Justice at the Digital Evidence section in the area of forensic (video) image processing and pattern recognition. This comprehensive page is one of the most complete sites in the field. Zeno has links to an extensive collection of sites arranged by subspecialty, including but not limited to DNA, hair and fiber, firearms, handwriting, forensic entomology, and forensic anthropology.

Reddy P. Chamakura is a forensic scientist with the Police Laboratory, New York City Police Department. Links to sites include, but are not limited to, forensic science organizations, forensic science journals, colleges/universities with forensic programs, job opportunities, forensic science laboratories, law enforcement agencies, forensic home pages, forensic chemistry/narcotics, mass spectrometry, fingerprints, ballistics/firearms, microscopy, crime scene processing/investigation/photography, arson, DNA, toxicology, questioned documents, digital photography/imaging, image enhancing, Web publishing/Internet, and forensic mailing lists.

Created by Kim Kruglick, a criminal defense lawyer in Mill Valley, California, this site pulls together resources arranged by forensic subspecialty. To see the forensic science categories from the main page, click on “Links to Over 1,000 Forensic Sites.” The “Beginner’s Primer on the Investigation of Forensic Evidence” link on the main page leads to some useful primers in forensic sciences. Each of the subject pages provides a link to a bibliography in that area, although the bibliographies are sometimes out-of-date.

Resources in the Google Web Directory in Forensic Sciences are arranged in a similar manner to the Yahoo directory. Google is a true search engine in that it has a robot or a software program that searches and indexes the Web. The Google Web Directory integrates Google’s sophisticated search technology with Open Directory pages. Web Directory pages are enhanced with importance ranking. The Web pages in the Google directory have been selected by thousands of volunteer editors from the Netscape Open Directory Project, a large public directory managed by Netscape.

The NCSTL assembles the available scientific, technological, and relevant legal resources into a comprehensive “one-stop” searchable database with equal access for all. Resources included in the database range from cases, articles, books, conference proceedings, agency documents, and much more.

This is the main online job list for forensic scientists. Positions, covering the whole gamut of the forensic sciences, remain posted until the application deadline or, if no deadline is listed, for 60 days.

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences maintains a list of forensic sciences programs in the United States and abroad. Programs are arranged under the following categories: (1) Programs accredited by the AAFS Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC), (2) Undergraduate programs within the United States, (3) Undergraduate programs outside the United States, (4) Graduate programs within the United States, (5) Graduate programs outside the United States, (6) Doctoral programs, and (7) Undergraduate and graduate degrees in dentistry.

Job postings can be filtered by speciality (e.g. forensic anthropology) or by job type (e.g. full- or part-time, temporary, etc.).

Created by Anil Aggrawal (a professor of forensic medicine at the Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, India), this site lists job opportunities in forensic toxicology in India. The FAQs at the bottom of the page and links to practitioners working in particular specialties in forensics are also quite useful and are not limited to India.

Created by the Forensic Sciences Foundation, Inc. (American Academy of Forensic Sciences), this online guide provides an overview of what forensic scientists do, how to become a forensic scientist, and the different disciplines in the forensic sciences. There is also a resource list at the end of career information sites.

Although the association name implies medical examiner positions, there are several forensic pathologist positions included in this site. Click on the Jobs link.

A collection of Web site links maintained by Zeno Geradts, the creator of Zeno’s Forensic Site (see above), to sites with employment opportunities.

Norah Rudin, a forensic consultant and expert witness in forensic DNA, compiles this “work in progress”. It can also be found as an appendix in the book Principles and Practice of Forensic Science: The Profession of Forensic Science published by CRC Press in 2000 (Inman and Rudin 2000).

Created by Shaunderson Communications Inc. (SCInc.), publishers of the the International Journal of Document Examination, this collection of time lines by forensic science fields includes computer forensics, anthropology, chemistry, document examination, engineering, entomology, firearms and tool marks, impression evidence, medicine and pathology, odontology, profiling, serology and DNA, toxicology, trace evidence, and crime scene. Each time line includes a list of references.

A single page glossary of forensics terms maintained by the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine.

This work appears as Appendix A in An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, 2nd edition, by Keith Inman and Norah Rudin (Inman and Rudin 2002). There is an intermediate page where you will need to acknowledge the copyright agreement to proceed to the glossary.

Choose the glossary option from the menu bar at the top of the screen to access the extensive definitions of terms of interest to questioned document examiners. Created by CounterSpace.

Created by SWGFAST, a scientific working group of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to create consensus standards for fingerprint analysis and technology. This consolidated glossary (viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader) covers friction ridge automation, anatomy, identification, fingerprint classification, and latent print processing.

Created by the Terminology Committee of the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts, this list consists of basic terms taught and used by the majority of bloodstain analysts in the field.

Glossaries created by Promega Corporation, a reagent and reagent systems supply company. Both glossaries are arranged alphabetically with a hyperlinked alphabetic index at the top.

"OMD is a searchable dictionary created by Dr. Graham Dark and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science. It aims to provide a one-stop source of information about all medical and scientific terms and includes many useful cross-references and pointers to related resources elsewhere on the Internet, as well as bibliographical reference to paper publications. It lacks many entries which one can find in paper dictionaries but contains more encyclopedia-like entries and entries on various subjects. It also contains many definitions in related areas. The dictionary started in early 1997 and has grown, to contain over 46,000 definitions." (American Medical Publishing 2003) Entries are cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net.

Created by the Forensic Botany site as a project in the Web Literacy for the Natural Sciences class at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. All definitions are hyperlinked to their original source.

A glossary of forensic economics terms created and maintained by the University of Missouri-St. Louis Economics Department.

Criminal Poisoning is a discussion group hosted on Yahoo Groups. It was created by Anil Aggrawal, a professor of forensic medicine at the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India. Membership is open, but messages require approval from the listowner.

Forens is an unmoderated discussion list dealing with forensic aspects of anthropology, biology, chemistry, odontology, pathology, psychology, serology, toxicology, criminalistics, and expert witnessing and presentation of evidence in court. To subscribe to Forens, send an email to forens@statgen.ncsu.edu with the following message: “subscribe forens ”.

The Forens-Arch mailing list was set up to gather people in archaeology and anthropology who have an interest in applying their skills to forensic science. To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@lists.soton.ac.uk with the following message: “subscribe forens-arch ”.

FORENSICS is a moderated mailing list for the detailed discussion of computer security forensics. FORENSICS is hosted by SecurityFocus, a vendor-neutral site for all members of the security community. A Spanish version of the listserv is available at http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/128.

This Yahoo-based discussion group is for professional discussions related to the use of science in matters of law.

The International Crime Scene Investigators Association hosts this public forum on Yahoo for people interested in crime scene investigations. It is not restricted to law enforcement officers.

The National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE) sponsors a forum for its members to exchange ideas, information, and new developments in the field of forensic economics. Subscribers are also interested in expert and legal testimony by economists.

An open discussion list on the topic of forensic psychology.

American Medical Publishing. 2003. The On-line Medical Dictionary. http://www.cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/about.html

Inman, Keith, and Norah Rudin. 2000. Principles & Practice of Criminalistics: The Profession of Forensic Science. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.

Inman, Keith, and Norah Rudin. 2002. An Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis, 2nd edition. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.