Suchen und Finden
Mentoring in Academia and Industry
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Getting the Most out of Your Mentoring Relationships
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Foreword
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Preface
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Acknowledgment
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Contents
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Introduction
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How to Use This Guide
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What Is Mentoring?
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Preparing to be Mentored
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3.1 Identifying Your Mentoring Needs
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3.1.1 Acquiring the Requisite Professional Credentials
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3.1.2 Recognizing when a Rich Opportunity Arises
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3.1.3 Learning from Mistakes or Missteps
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3.1.4 Dealing with Own Biases and Misconceptions
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3.1.5 Developing a Sense of One’s Career Directions and Timing
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3.1.6 Selecting Appropriate Role Models
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3.1.7 Meshing One’s Values with the Workplace
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3.1.8 Balancing the Pieces of One’s Life
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3.1.9 Creating Opportunities for Others
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3.1.10 Knowing When to Move On
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3.1.11 Calculated Risk Taking
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3.1.12 Points to Ponder
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3.2 Mentoring Models - The Right One at the Right Time
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3.2.1 Points to Ponder
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3.3 Techniques and Tools for Starting a Mentoring Relationship
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3.3.1 How Do I Pick a Mentor and Start the Process?
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3.3.2 What Questions Should I Ask?
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3.3.3 Are There Any ‘‘Rules’’ I Should Follow?
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3.3.4 Points to Ponder
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Mentoring Relationships
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4.1 What Makes a Relationship Work
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4.1.1 Be Yourself and Do Well by People in All Your Interactions
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4.1.2 Never Embarrass Your Mentor or Put Your Mentor in an Awkward Position
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4.1.3 Look for Patterns in Your Life and in Your Career
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4.1.4 Have a Sense of Humor
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4.1.5 Recognize that Your Actions, Whether Good or Bad, will Often have Consequences
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4.1.6 Seek the Hidden, Unwritten, and Inside Rules
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4.1.7 Points to Ponder
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4.2 Mentoring Impact: What Protégés Say
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4.2.1 What do Protégés Want?
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4.2.2 What do Protégés not Want?
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4.2.3 Points to Ponder
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4.3 From Protégé to Mentor: Voices From the Field
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4.3.1 Questions Posed to Mentors
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4.3.2 Many Mentors, Many Perspectives
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4.3.3 Never Too Busy to Help
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4.3.4 Finding a Positive Place
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4.3.5 E-Mentoring to Attain Workplace Success
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4.3.6 Tapping into the Pipeline
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4.3.7 Mentoring Is Colorblind
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4.3.8 Power Neutral Mentoring
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4.3.9 Age Doesn’t Matter
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4.3.10 Points to Ponder
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Changing Dynamics, Changing Needs
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5.1 Mentoring for Under-represented Groups
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5.1.1 MentorNet - The E-Mentoring Network Focused on Diversity in Engineering and Science
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5.1.2 Points to Ponder
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5.2 Mentoring in Cyberspace
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5.2.1 Mentoring in the New Era of Social Media (Web 2.0)
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5.2.1.1 Blogging
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5.2.1.2 Tagging and Social Bookmarking
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5.2.1.3 Audio Blogging/Podcasts
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5.2.1.4 Social Networking
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5.2.2 Using Web 2.0 Technology to Empower Specific Groups
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5.2.3 Science Careers Forum
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5.2.4 Ph.D. Career Clinic
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5.2.5 Points to Ponder
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5.3 Life-long Mentoring
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5.3.1 At the Student and Trainee Level
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5.3.2 At the Postdoctoral Level
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5.3.3 At all Post-training Career Levels
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5.3.4 Points to Ponder
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Career and Life Transitions
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6.1 Work-Life Balance
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6.1.1 Finding Time for the Other Things in Life
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6.1.2 Managing Your Employer’s Expectations and Your Own
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6.1.3 Strategies to Attain Balance
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6.1.4 Recognize That Balance Is Not Always Attainable
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6.1.5 Points to Ponder
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6.2 Coaching or Mentoring? What Do I Need Now?
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6.2.1 Embracing New Communication Paradigms and Developing Priorities
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6.2.2 Points to Ponder
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6.3 Transitioning into a Different Career Pathway
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6.3.1 Know Your Strengths, Your Thought Processes, and Your Values
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6.3.2 Let Go of What You ‘‘Should’’ Want
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6.3.3 Make Your Scientific Background Work for You
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6.3.4 Put a Price Tag on Procrastination
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6.3.5 Create Your Opportunities
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6.3.6 Points to Ponder
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Navigating Interpersonal Contexts
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7.1 Inappropriate Relationships with Mentors or Supervisors
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7.2 Identifying Problematic Behaviors
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7.3 Defining Issues
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7.4 Intervention Strategies
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Starting Out with the Right Education
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8.1 Compelling Voices
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8.2 Informal Education
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8.3 Precollege Education
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8.4 Undergraduate Education
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8.5 Graduate Education
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8.6 The Postdoctoral Years
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Moving Toward Career Success
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9.1 Making the Connections
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9.2 Leaping Barriers and Achieving Goals
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9.3 Timing and Choices
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9.4 Facing the Gender and Diversity Issues
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9.5 Staying the Course
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Voices of Experience
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10.1 Women Speakers: Make the Most of Your Moment
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10.1.1 Memorize Your Introduction and Conclusion
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10.1.2 Talk to Your Audience
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10.1.3 Watch the Clock
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10.1.4 Use Visual Aids Carefully
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10.1.5 Practice, Practice, Practice
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10.2 Things your Professor Should Have Told You
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10.2.1 Gaining Opportunity, Equality, and Power
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10.2.2 Learning the Academic Structure
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10.2.3 Starting off Right
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10.2.4 Avoid a Common Pitfall
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10.2.5 A Word about Extracurricular Activities
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10.2.6 Be a Good Mentor
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10.2.7 Make Your Work Visible, Known, and Valuable
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10.2.8 Once in Powerhellip
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10.3 Applying for Fellowships or Research Grants
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10.3.1 Graduate School and Postdoctoral Fellowships
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10.3.2 Research Grants
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10.3.2.1 Request Current Program Guidelines
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10.4 Keys to Success in Graduate School and Beyond
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10.4.1 Choosing an Advisor
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10.4.2 Joining a Lab
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10.4.3 Meeting With Your Thesis Committee
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10.4.4 Some Final Tips
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10.5 Building Confidence and Connection
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10.5.1 Sexism, Internalized Sexism, and Stereotypes about Scientists
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10.5.2 Claiming our Intelligence, Confidence and Femaleness
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10.5.3 Building Our Connections to Others
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10.5.4 Towards Gender Equality
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10.6 Helping Those Who Follow
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10.6.1 How Are Girls Being Guided?
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10.6.2 Opening Doors for Girls
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10.6.3 Thinking Globally
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10.6.4 How Well Are We Guiding?
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10.7 Professional Responsibility
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10.7.1 Literacy and Expertise
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10.7.2 Remembering the Big Picture
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10.7.3 Helping Women Entering Science
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10.7.4 Working With Our Colleagues
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10.7.5 Serving Society
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Provocative Thoughts for a Better Future
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11.1 The ‘Problem’ of Women in Science: Why is it So Difficult to Convince People that There is One?
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11.1.1 Patriarchy
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11.1.2 Upending Traditions
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11.1.3 Implications for Women in Science
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11.1.4 Youth and Genius
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11.1.5 The Third Gender
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11.1.6 In Pursuit of ‘‘Excellence’’
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11.1.7 The Purpose: To Change Scientific Dogma
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11.1.8 The Benefits for Humankind
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11.2 Tacit Discrimination and Overt Harassment: The Toll on Women, Minorities and the Nation
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11.2.1 Postsecondary Science for Women: What Welcomes and What Inhibits
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11.2.2 Results from the Literature Review
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11.2.3 Results from Three University of Michigan Research Projects
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11.2.4 The Stacked Deck Against Women in Science
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11.2.5 Addressing the Odds for a New Workforce
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11.2.6 A Mandate for Change
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11.3 The Red Shoe Dilemma
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11.3.1 Choices
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11.3.2 Having It All? Hardly!
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11.3.3 A Dangerous Myth
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11.3.4 One Woman’s Path
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Resources
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12.1 National Organizations for and of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
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12.2 Mentoring Resources
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12.3 Organizations with Special Focus on Equity in STEM
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12.4 Organizations with Focus on Equity for Women
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12.5 Field Specific Resources
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12.5.1 Aerospace
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12.5.2 Agronomy
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12.5.3 Anthropology
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12.5.4 Astronomy
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12.5.5 Biology
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12.5.6 Biomedical Sciences
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12.5.7 Chemistry
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12.5.8 Computer Sciences and Information Technology
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12.5.9 Education
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12.5.10 Engineering
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12.5.11 Geography
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12.5.12 Geosciences
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12.5.13 Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics
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12.5.14 Medicine and Health
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12.5.15 Meteorology
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12.5.16 Physics
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12.5.17 Psychology
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12.5.18 Sociology
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12.5.19 Toxicology
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12.5.20 Veterinary Medicine
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References
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Bibliography
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Index
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