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ECHO is a gateway to sites concerned with the history of science, technology, and industry. It can be browsed by broad subject field, historic period, or content, and there is a keyword search function.
The Physical Sciences Information Gateway is an annotated directory of Internet resources for the physical sciences, including science history. It is searchable and browsable.
This site provides access to U.S. government resources related to science and technology. Science.gov features simple search, advanced search, and browse capabilities. Since this site searches government agency online catalogs, the full text of some of the resources may not be accessible.
Expert volunteers compile quality links in biosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine and health sciences, physical sciences, and science activities
WorldWideScience is a search engine and gateway to global science and technology resources. It accesses national portals such as Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), DEFF Research Database (Denmark), J-STAGE (Japan), Science.gov, and Scientific Electronic Library Online (Brazil). WorldWideScience features both basic and advanced search options as well as direct access to the portals. Since it searches online catalogs, the full text of some of the resources may not be accessible.
An organized, comprehensive listing of Web sources for all areas of basic and applied sciences.
The site provides links to and descriptions of Internet searching tools in the following categories: individual search engines, meta search engines, and search engine collections.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of Science magazine. Its Web site includes information about the AAAS, programs, membership, publications, science news, and career resources.
Find activities & programs, leadership & career development, links to related sites, and publications including AWIS Magazine.
The Australian Academy of Science is a relative newcomer among national scientific societies, but its influence is growing as does the contributions of Australians to the international scientific enterprise.
Programs, reports, books, & focus areas from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, & National Research Council.
NSF mission & overview, grant opportunities, results of research, news, job vacancies, program deadlines, & publications like Frontiers which covers work funded by the NSF, including topics in math, science, engineering, public policy issues affecting the NSF, research, & education.
The third oldest scientific society in the United States, the New York Academy of Science's mission is "to advance understanding of science and technology" by focusing on science across disciplines and nations and by building bridges between society and science.
Access to Web sites & gophers maintained by or for scholarly science societies around the world.
The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the United Kingdom dedicated to promoting excellence in science.
The Maxwel Prize is funded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)and the Maxwel Foundation, has been established to provide international recognition to a mathematician who has demonatrated originality in applied mathematics.
Spanning the range of scientific disciplines to recognize outstanding achievements in science, this site lists the award winners and provides background information about the award.
The Nobel e-Museum is the official Web site of the Nobel Foundation and serves a virtual museum of science and technology. It contains information about the prize, the award winners, and the Nobel lectures.
Provides an annotated list of all Nobel laureates for all science and non-science categories.
An alphabetical listing of bibliographic databases and indexes for science accessible from the UA Libraries network.
This site was launched in December 2002, providing for the first time wide public access and a unified search of the government’s vast stores of scientific and technical information. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 17 U.S. government science organizations within 12 Federal agencies.
The OSTI offers access to several databases in disciplines relevant to the Department of Energy's Research and Development mission.
STAR is a biweekly electronic abstract journal, listing citations with abstracts for aerospace-related reports obtained from worldwide sources. Its coverage includes all aspects of aeronautics & space research & development, supporting basic and applied research, and applications.
Contains biographies, references, & photographs of women scientists.
From About.com, this site contains brief biographies of influential women scientists.
This site contains profiles of African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering, including chemists, biologists, inventors, physicists, computer scientists, engineers, meteorologists, and mathematicians.
National Academy of Sciences: Biographical Memoirs are biographies of deceased members, written by those who knew them or their work. Currently, there are over 900 biographies, however, all 1,400 memoirs will be available online in the near future.
Contains short biographies of Hall of Fame inductees that includes simple explanations of their work.
Biographies & pictures of famous scientists.
A program that automatically converts units of measurement.
A list of scientific constants.
Provides assistance in the use of the SI (the modern metric system).
An automatic converter implemented in JavaScript which provides measurement conversions for weight, capacity & volume, length, area, speed, pressure, temperature, circular measure, & time.
Arranged by subject field, find links over to 22,000 scientific calculators, from the basic to the complex.
Fora.tv contains video content on "ground breaking ideas from important thinkers." Fora.tv's Tech & Science section is divided into 8 subject sections: energy, engineering, environment, health & wellness, personal tech, science, technology, and the Internet. There is content overlap among the sections. The site is fully searchable, with basic and advanced search modes. Each video includes a written transcript of the program.
Launching with over 1,000 entries, SciTalks is a repository of science lectures and talks from all over the world. The lectures (talks) range in length from brief to lengthy, and from basic or humorous to complex and serious. SciTalks can be browsed by scientific fields, or the entire collection can be searched.
SciVee is operated as a partnership of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). It's similar to YouTube, but for science. The goal of SciVee is to enhance the "free and widespread dissemination and comprehension of science." Researchers are encouraged to post video presentations that will serve as quicker, more approachable guides to their work. SciVee also offers guidance on video production, and it allows scientists to make their recordings available as podcasts.
A listing of online courses in science and technology.
It translates between 12 European languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Provides not only definitions but also gives a taste of the history & politics behind the units of weights & measures.
With access to over 32 million documents, Medbioworld is the largest medical reference site, and provides links to online dictionaries in the sciences and medicine.
Oxford Reference Online provides access to several resources in its Physical Sciences & Mathematics section. They may be searched together at the link above or separately at the links below:
From Credo Reference, the Reader's Guide to the History of Science is an encyclopedia covering individuals, institutions, disciplines, and general themes and central concepts. Each entry includes a detailed bibliography to locate addition information. This resource may be searched or browsed.
Access is provided to preprint collections or preprints provided by individual authors for several scientific disciplines.
A component of Department of Energy’s EnergyFiles; it provides access to full-text DOE research & development reports in physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, environmental cleanup, energy technologies, & other topics.
This collection of MIT Theses in DSpace contains selected theses and dissertations from all MIT departments. Please note that this is not a complete collection of MIT theses.
Free access is provided to over 2,000 books, reports, and publications that deal with what's new and important in science, technology, and health.
Access the full text of science books.
Listings & full text of scientific papers presented at National Academy of Sciences colloquia beginning with 1996.
This University of California, San Diego site is a directory of directories for electronic journals.
This site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. The journals are listed by those that are free, free after a certain time limit, and those which have a free trial offer. The titles can also be browsed by specialty, alphabetically, or by language.
List of new journals and newsletters on the Internet, includes science and non-science sites.
Search the Minerva online catalog interface to access electronic journals.
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
Job & grant opportunities listed in the New Scientist.
An employment Web site from Nature magazine providing jobs listings for professional scienctists.
Career resources job listing section posts academic as well as industrial positions.
Published by Science magazine and the AAAS, the Next Wave offers information on scientific training, career development, and the science job market.
Comprehensive, searchable database of European science & technology vacancies; updated every Thursday.
Job & grant opportunities listed in the New Scientist.
The National Institute of Health's clearinghouse of bioethics resources on the Web.
Describes the ethical foundations of scientific practices and some of the personal and professional issues that researchers encounter in their work.
The current version of the CFDA is a regularly updated database of grants and other federal programs available to State and local governments; Indian tribal governments; domestic public, private, profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.
A grant-writing resource for those seeking federal funds. It includes an introduction, writing tips, program specifics, mock grant-writing activity, examples, forms, references, resources/contacts, and a glossary.
COS offers a searchable database of funding opportunities.
An Internet resources guide from College and Research Libraries News; provides a listing of searchable databases, electronic publications, foundations, government agencies, & newsgroups that should be of interest to the grant writer.
This database, a collaboration between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute & the AAAS, allows users to search for grants in the biomedical sciences.
The most recent criteria for grant proposals for 1998; also contains a section called Summary of Significant Changes as well as a table of contents & links to other NSF sites.
From the University of Pennsylvanian Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, this collection contains over 3,000 images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus, emphasizing the period before 1850. The collection may be searched or browsed.
This metasite contains links to documents and Web resources pertaining to the history of science.
From Credo Reference, the Reader's Guide to the History of Science is an encyclopedia covering individuals, institutions, disciplines, and general themes and central concepts. Each entry includes a detailed bibliography to locate addition information. This resource may be searched or browsed.
This site contains a selected list of over 100 books with brief descriptions. Most of the books were selected because they are good introductions to the subject.
Contains short biographies of Hall of Fame inductees that includes simple explanations of their work.
Learn about how things work in the world around you.
A registry of Web resources that lists or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.
Announcement lists of up-coming meetings and conferences for all subject areas from the University of Waterloo Scholarly Societies Project.
All Conferences is a directory that focuses on up-coming conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events, and meetings. It may be browsed by subject field or searched.
80beats is a science news aggregator from Discover Magazine. It can be viewed as a single blog or via subject: health & medicine, mind & brain, technology, space, human origins, living world, environment, and physics & math. Each subject is further divided into subcategories. 80beats is searchable and RSS feeds are available.
Daily selection of science headlines & feature articles with a European spin.
From the American Chemical Society (ACS), Bytesize Science is a series of podcasts created to be both educational and entertaining. Bytesize Science translates research from ACS peer-reviewed journals, along with content from the ACS newsmagazine, Chemical & Engineering News, into short podcasts about science, health, medicine, energy, food, and other scientific topics.
This site is a guide to research advances in science, medicine, health, and technology as published in news briefs, the science media, and peer-reviewed scientific journals.
From the U.S. National Science Foundation, this growing collection of videos highlights some of the latest scientific research findings. Although the videos are produced for children, its content is informative for all. The multimedia collection is searchable and RSS feeds are available.
The latest research news reported by Nature magazine's science writing team; continually updated.
The science section of the New York Times features topical and current reports on the latest developments in science and technology, written by some of the best science journalists in the field.
New Scientist magazine produces this site packed with science news, features, and commentary; be sure to check out Strange Science for simple explanations of seemingly inexplicable phenomena.
This site provides weekly coverage of the events & phenomena that affect the Earth and its residents in the areas of astronomy, biology, geology, & meteorology.
Science news items from today's headlines and links to other science sites.
From the American Chemical Society (ACS), Science Elements offers brief webcasts on cutting-edge discoveries described in ACS journals. In addition to chemistry, ACS journals cover topics in fields like medicine, health, nutrition, energy, and the environment.
This National Research Council site features brief summaries on a range of issues.
ScienceBlogs is a collection of blogs in science, health & medicine, brain & behavior, and technology, along with non-science blogs covering the humanities & social sciences, education & careers, and politics. The individual blogs can be browsed by channel (subject) or the entire collection can be searched. RSS feeds are available for the entire collection, the channels, selected best posts, or individual blogs.
An elctronic network from AAAS & Science magazine that offers information, services, and communication for scientists to navigate the rapidly changing scientific landscape.
Access science & technology breaking news, features, opinion and analysis, & reviews from several news sources.
DEPATISnet is a service of the the German Patent and Trademark Office. Available via a German or English interface, it provides access to the fulltext of all German patents from 1877 forward.
Links to patent, copyright, & intellectual property offices worldwide from the USPTO.
From the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, this site provides simultaneous access to several patent sources, including the European Patent Office, the UK Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the Japan IPDL, China Patent Infonet, and the USPTO.
Access the U.S. Patent Full-Text Database (a database of full-text content of U.S. patents issued from 1976 forward), the U.S. Patent Bibliographic Database (a database of front-page information from U.S. patents issued from 1976 forward), & the AIDS Patent Database (a database of full-text & images of selected AIDS-related patents issued by the U.S., Japanese, & European patent offices).
WikiPatents is a free U.S. patent database beginning with patent 3,930,271, and running through the most recent patents and patent applications. It includes a basic patent number search as well as an advanced search mode. In addition to providing both HTML and PDF versions of patents, WikiPatents features a wiki-like interface to review, rate, and discuss patents. Registration is required to access PDFs and use the wiki-like features.
This is a Web based "ask a scientist" forum; ask your question and a scientist will answer it.
An interactive Website that provides answers to science questions.
A question & answer forum from Scientific American.
A list of quotations from famous scientists.
The most comprehensive scientific "buyer's guide" on the Internet; the database consists of over 100,000 product categories from over 10,000 scientific vendors.
A search engine provides access to 10,000 technical standards ASTM has developed and published; full text is not available.
NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency that is part of the U.S. Commerce Department. The NIST Laboratories provide measurements and standards for U.S. industry.
NSSN is a partnership of ANSI, government agencies, and international and private sector standards organizations. Its Web site can be used to search for and purchase standards from over 600 global sources. NSSN is also useful for tracking the status of a new development project, or identifying an individual who can interpret a standard.
Published as NASA Technical Memorandum 105419, it is a guide for scientists and researchers. It explains the basics of writing technical reports that are accurate and easy to read. Each stage of report writing is discussed including preparation, style, composing introductions, describing experiments, summary and discussion of results, and compiling references and appendixes.