Advertising & public relations

Advertising Federation of Australia (ethics): links to information about the code of ethics for their members and other information about ethics and advertising.

PR Ethics Resource Center: the purpose of this site is to offer PR practitioners an overview of ethics and its applications to public relations.

Business (including business ethics)

CasePlace.org: this website provides hundreds of business case studies and supporting materials that incorporate social impact management into business education. CasePlace.org is a free service of the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program (BSP).

Architecture & urban development

Urban Development Values: this website has been established to foster and enrich a dialogue on the values, ethics, and normative standards associated with urban development in less developed and transitional countries.

Computing & information technology

Australian Institute of Computer Ethics: AiCE is a multi-disciplinary resource and research centre composed of a diverse group of people who care about the social effects of information and communications technology and seek to identify associated ethical problems and guidelines.

Computer Ethics Institute: provides a forum and resource for identifying, assessing and responding to ethical issues associated with the advancement of information technologies in society.

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility: helps to provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and problems of information technology.

DOLCE: developing on/off line computing ethics - the DOLCE project educates and supports computer science faculty who want to teach about computer ethics, professional ethics or computers and society issues.

Ethics in Computing: interestingly structured site providing resources and information for computer professionals regarding ethics.

Free Software Foundation Europe: The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable organisation largely based upon two visions. Firstly the vision of Free Software as a stable basis for freedom in a digital world. The second vision is that of a Europe united in the spirit of co-operation across cultural boundaries.

Copyright

Copyright in the Digital Age: a debate conducted by UK-based news outlet Spiked-Online about the issues currently surrounding copyright.

Ethical investment

Ethical Investing: a collection of articles published by the US-based media outlet, The Christian Science Monitor.

Ethical Investment Association: in recent years the number of ethical investment professionals has increased, but still, many are working in isolation. Based in Australia, EIA is a professional association formed to pool the efforts of those involved, and more efficiently promote the concept and practice of ethical investment to the public.

The Sustainable Investment Research Institute (SIRIS): based in Australia, SIRIS has been developed as a dedicated research group, providing social investment research to wholesale and retail investors, lenders and other users of financial analytical data.

Law & justice

Institute of Criminal Justice Ethics: the only non-profit, university-based centre of its kind in the United States, the Institute was established to foster greater concern for ethical issues among practitioners and scholars in the criminal justice field.

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics: seeks to provide educational information at the intersection of law, medicine, & ethics.

Management & leadership

Complete Guide to Ethics Managers: a toolkit for managers: this guide was written to be a straightforward and useful tool, written in 'manager speak'. It's designed to help leaders and managers with real-world advice to deal with real-world issues in the workplace.

Media & journalism

Journal of Mass Media Ethics: Emphasis is placed on materials dealing with principles and reasoning in ethics, rather than anecdotes, orthodoxy, dogma and enforcement of codes.

Journalism Ethics: list of interesting links to stories and sites relating to ethics in journalism.

Independent Press Councils: A site dedicated to media ethics. IPC's basic principle is that news media, in order to serve the public well, must be free.

Miscellaneous

Responsibility of the Artist: series of lectures given about ethics in relation to artists of all types.

Retail Ethics: an article providing an exploratory examination of consumer perceptions.

The Moral Dilemmas of Content Exploitation Online: an article examining the ethical and moral issues of adult websites using confronting content (nb: this article is written for those working in the adult/pornography industry and may contain concepts that may offend)

Public sector & not-for-profits

The Non-Profit Good Practice Guide: The Nonprofit Good Practice Guide captures and organises good practices to assist not-for-profit organisations in improving their efficiency and effectiveness. The free guide, with ten topic areas, is designed as a one-stop-shop for non profit leaders, foundation staff, and university faculty and students.

International Institute for Public Ethics: an international professional association for practitioners and scholars working in the field of Public Sector Ethics.

Religion

A True Word: Asking themselves, "What went wrong?" a group of Muslim writers living in America, Europe, and Australia have launched this web-based publication which they hope will be part of a solution to conflict between Islam and the West. Editors of the weekly publication say they aim to promote honest dialogue and understanding between cultures and religions.

Science & medical

Action Bioscience: an educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy by examining issues that will motivate the public to play an active role in bioscience education.

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics: seeks to provide educational information at the intersection of law, medicine, & ethics.

Australian Health Ethics Committecoline: a principal committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). AHEC's functions are to advise NHMRC on ethical issues relating to health and developing guidelines for the conduct of medical research involving humans. It also promotes community debate on health ethics issues, monitors the work of human research ethics committees (HRECs) and monitors and advises on international developments in health ethics.

Bioethics Portal: links all the key bioethics websites and issues in Australia. The site also provides some general information about hot topics in bioethics and directs users to further sites of information.

Bioscience Links: provides links relating to Bioscience, including a section for links about bio-ethics.

BMC Medical Ethics: publishes peer reviewed original research papers with open access. They welcome contributions.

Nursing Ethics Network: a non-profit organisations of professional nurses committed to the advancement of nursing ethics in clinical practice through research, education and consultation.

Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science: provides engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work.

Office of Public Policy & Ethics (OPPE): aims to undertake research and analysis on ethical and public policy issues raised by biotechnology and to use the knowledge gained to enhance public discussion of, and participation in, decisions about these developments.