University of South Carolina NanoScience and Technology Studies
- Aims to provide scholarship and commentary on issues of nanotechnology to raise ethical, legal, political and societal issues, risks and benefits, and public and private sector approaches on its development.
- http://www.cla.sc.edu/cpecs/nirt/

Ethical Issues in Nanotechnology
- A starting point for exploring ethical, social, and environmental implications of nanotechnology.
- http://www.ethicsweb.ca/nanotechnology/

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
- CRN investigates the societal implications, long-range risks, and effective use of nanotechnology, and educates those who will influence its use, or be affected by it.
- http://crnano.org/

Nanosocialism
- Seminal paper which argues that nanotechnology projections need to be tempered by realism about what it will be used for in the hands of corporations and governments - but that nanotechnology also offers enormous opportunities for the liberation of humani
- http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/nanosoc.htm

Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Report from an interdisplinary workshop held at the National Science Foundation (U.S.), covering a range of topics in the area of ethical, legal, social, cultural, medical, political, and environmental implications.
- http://itri.loyola.edu/nano/NSET.Societal.Implications/

Nanotechnology: The Coming Molecular Revolution
- Student report on the potential for nanotechnology from a management point of view.
- http://nanotech.about.com/science/nanotech/library/weekly/aa122400a.htm

Nanotechnology Without Genies
- Critique of the belief system associated with nanotechnology.
- http://www.geniebusters.org/

The Foresight Institute
- Foresight's goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition - it focuses on nanotechnology and "systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions".
- http://www.foresight.org