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The Encyclopedia of Life, No Bookshelf Required

by Carl Zimmer, New York Times, February 26, 2008. "On Thursday its authors, an international team of scientists, will introduce the first 30,000 pages, and within a decade, they predict, they will have the other 1.77 million." The Encyclopedia of Life is an effort to document all species of life on Earth. The project is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. You can hear E.O. Wilson talk about the Encyclopedia of Life project at the March 2007 TED Conference (22:35 minutes).

Looking for recent science news? Here are some starting places: New Scientist, EurekAlert!, Science News Online, Nature: Science News, Science Now, ScienceDaily, Scientific American News, SciTech Daily and National Geographic News

Académie des sciences - French Academy of Sciences
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Rome. Provides a list of Fellows. In the Historical Archives is Edizione elettronica dei Rendiconti e delle Memorie from 1849 to 1857.
Academy of Natural Sciences - Philadelphia.
Ewell Sale Stewart Library - With online catalog
Sample Greenfield Imaging Projects
American Natural Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Digital Collections from the Ewell Sale Stewart Library
Joseph Leidy (1823-1891): Encyclopedist of the Natural World - Known as the "Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology"
Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection - With index
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers - Library of Congress collection of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research.
Alliance for Taxpayer Access - "Diverse and growing alliance of organizations representing taxpayers, patients, physicians, researchers, and institutions that support open public access to taxpayer-funded research."

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - "International non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world." Site highlights:
Science Magazine - Has the "largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million."
AAAS Science Journalism Awards
EurekAlert! - Science news

American Institute of Physics - The Niels Bohr Library has a collection of Oral History Interviews "particularly strong in the areas of quantum physics, nuclear physics, modern astrophysics, solid state physics, laser science, modern multi-institutional collaborations in high-energy physics, space science and geophysics, and physicists in industry. The majority of persons interviewed are Americans but many Europeans and some others are included." You can browse a "an extensive, but not comprehensive, alphabetical list of interviewees" or search the catalog.
American Museum of Natural History - Located in New York, this is a rich resource for science information.
American Scientist: Scientists' Bookshelf - Comprehensive book-review section. Each issue of American Scientist contains reviews of more than 20 of the latest science books. 100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science by Philip and Phylis Morrison appeared in the November-December 1999 issue.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
arXiv.org e-Print archive - Research paper archive, (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) for preprints and published papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer science.
Bad Science - Alistair B. Fraser's site is an "attempt to sensitize teachers and students to examples of the bad science often taught in schools, universities, and offered in popular articles and even textbooks."
BEN (BioSciEdNet) - National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathway for biological sciences education. Contains "over 4,701 reviewed resources covering 77 biological sciences topics."
Big Picture Book of Viruses - David M. Sander's site is "intended to serve as both a catalog of virus pictures on the WWW and as an educational resource to those seeking more information about viruses."
Biodiversity and Biocollections

Biodiversity Heritage Library - "Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project." On 8 March 2008 the library contained: "2,993 titles, 7,564 volumes, 2,907,485 pages". You can browse by Title, Authors, Subjects, Names, Map, Year
The ferns of Great Britain and Ireland - by Thomas Moore, London, 1855.
Siphonophores provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse-Alice Par Albert I, Prince Souverain de Monaco - Monaco, 1904.
Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, ou Descriptions et figures des plantes les plus rares et les plus meritantes - Gand :Louis van Houtte,1845-1880. With color plates. See, for example, plate before page 277: pansies and before p. 275: Camellia Japonica Pozzi Vera.
Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar - Paris, 1885.
Orchidaceae :illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae, issuing from the Ames Botanical Laboratory, North Easton, Massachusetts

Biosphere 2 Center - "Non-profit education and research affiliate of Columbia University" located in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.
BioTech Life Science Dictionary - Illustrated glossary contains over 8300 life science terms. (BioTech Resources Web Project Indiana Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology.)
Brain Eater - Nova Online explores Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (also known as Mad Cow Disease). Includes further resources.
The British Society for the History of Science - The Ivan Slade Prize is "awarded biennially to the writer of an essay (published or unpublished) that makes the best critical study of an episode in the history of science focused on conceptual innovation or scientific methodology", the Dingle Prize is "is awarded to the best book in the history of science (broadly construed) published in English and which is accessible to a wide audience of non- specialists" and the Singer Prize is awarded "every two years to the writer of an unpublished essay based on original research into any aspect of the history of science, technology or medicine, and is intended for recent entrants into the profession."
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
Cells alive! - James A. Sullivan
Chicago Academy of Sciences
CIESIN - Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) .
CiteSeer - Dr. C. Lee Giles. Computer and Information Science Papers Publications Research Index. "CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness."
Clusius Project - Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) "is one of the most important European botanists of the sixteenth century." The Correspondence Database consists of "1,300 letters written to and by Carolus Clusius, most of which are kept in the Leiden University Library."
Community of Science Expertise - Professional information for more than 480,000 scientists and scholars worldwide.
Cornell Chronicle - With archive back to 1995. Other searchable University sites include:
Columbia University News
Harvard News
Johns Hopkins News And Publications
MIT News
Princeton
Stanford News Service
Yale University Scientific Research
Crafoord Prize - "The Crafoord Prize in astronomy and mathematics, biosciences, geosciences or polyarthritis research is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences annually according to a rotating scheme. The prize sum of USD 500,000 makes the Crafoord one of the world´s largest scientific prizes."

Darwin Correspondence Project - "Complete, searchable, texts of around 5,000 letters written by and to Charles Darwin up to the year 1865. This includes all the surviving letters from the Beagle voyage - online for the first time - and all the letters from the years around the publication of Origin of species in 1859." See also The complete work of Charles Darwin, "the largest collection of Darwin's writings ever assembled," containing "Darwin's complete publications and many of his handwritten manuscripts. There are over 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images." (University of Cambridge). There is a webcast (1:44:41) of Re:Design: A Dramatization of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin and Asa Gray , "a one-act play based on the correspondence between Charles Darwin and his American ‘theological sparring partner’ Harvard botanist Asa Gray" performed at the MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14, 2008. There is Dramatisation script of the playt.

Darwin - Online exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History.
Digitale Bibliothek Braunschweig - Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig. Includes Botanische und zoologische Bücher.
Discover Magazine
Discovery OnLine
E-STREAMS: Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science - "Collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services."
ECHO: Exploring & Collecting History Online - "Cataloguing, Annotating, and Reviewing Sites on the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine."
Ecology WWW Page - Anthony R. Brach's list of sites of interest to ecologists.
Edgar Fahs Smith Collection of Images Images of scientists, laboratories, and scientific apparatus from the University of Pennsylvania Library Center for Electronic Text & Image.
The Edge - The Edge Foundation's goal is "to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues" and features "the work and ideas of physicists, evolutionary biologists, philosophers, biologists, computer scientists, psychologists, social, behavioral, and anthropological scientists, and science journalists." Site highlights include Digerati, Third Culture, and Reality Club.
Edison National Historic Site - With Sound Collection, Historic Photographs, and a small collection of early Edison Kinetoscope films.. See also the Thomas A. Edison Papers which has just made available Parts I-III (1850-1898) as an edited, searchable collection of images.
EEVL: Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing - "Provides quick and reliable access to the best engineering, mathematics, and computing information available on the Internet. It is created and run by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK for students, staff and researchers in higher and further education..." Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) is a database of bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. It covers items in well over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings.
EEVL Xtra - "Articles, key websites, books, the latest industry news,job announcements, ejournals, eprints, technical reports, and the latest research in engineering, mathematics, and computing."
Einstein Online - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (in German). Includes a number of Einstein's letters and documents, primarily in German. There is a March 9, 1954 letter, in English, from Norman Thomas in which he declines an invitation to a conference and luncheon at the Nassau Tavern to be held in Einstein's honor because the arrangers of the celebration, the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee "have shown through the years anything but a consistent love of liberty."
Embassy of France: Office of Science and Technology - One of their English-language publications is FAST, a review of mainstream French press on issues of science and technology in France. Provides access to currentand archived issues.
Encyclopedia of Life - "Unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth." See Press Release, May 9, 2007. Partners include the Field Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, and Biodiversity Heritage Library, and the Missouri Botanical Garden. The project is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. You can hear E.O. Wilson talk about the Encyclopedia of Life project at the March 2007 TED Conference (22:35 minutes). See also The Encyclopedia of Life, No Bookshelf Required by Carl Zimmer, New York Times, February 26, 2008. "On Thursday its authors, an international team of scientists, will introduce the first 30,000 pages, and within a decade, they predict, they will have the other 1.77 million."
Engineering News-Record (ENR) - Offers cover story from current issue and some information (names only) from its sourcebooks: Top 500 Design Firms and Top 400 Contractors.
Engines of our Ingenuity - Over 1600 episodes from the NPR series written and hosted by John Lienhard and KUHF-FM, Houston, with topics that range "from cable cars to Civil War submarines, from the connection between Romantic poets and Victorian science to the invention of the bar code." The site is searchable and includes an Index to the Episodes. Comparable sites include Complete Computer Solutions' How Things Work, Louis A Bloomfield's How Things Work and Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works.
E-STREAMS: Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science - "Collaborative venture between H. Robert Malinowsky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and YBP Library Services."
EurekAlert! - Science, medicine and technology news produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), much of the site is available to subscribers only.
European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) - They provide links to EASAC Member Academies
European Scientific Archives on the Internet
Exploratorium: the Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception - San Francisco.
Federation of American Scientists - "Engaged in analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy for global security."
FindArticles.com - Free online article-search service allows you to search for (and read) articles published over the last 1 to 2 years in more than 300 reputable magazines and journals. You can view publications by subject or by name.
FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology - National robotics and engineering competition for high school students.
Francis Crick Profiles in Science Digital Archive - Collaboration between the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine and the United States National Library of Medicine. " The Crick papers can be searched in the Western Manuscripts and Archives Catalogue and browsed at the site of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. One of the letters, dated August 11, 1953, is from James D. Watson to Francis and Odile Crick. It describes Watson's stay in the Italian Alps in a small village north of Sondrio. "Considering my degenerate condition in Cambridge, I feel very healthy and do not find a climb at 1000 m at all strenuous." Watson also describes a meeting he attended [International Phage Colloquium at the Abbey of Royaumont outside Paris]. "There was also a garden party at the Baron de Rothschilds house which allowed us to appreciate Rubens while eating smoked salmon and drinking champagne. As a whole I'm afraid I created the only non-serious note by wearing shorts and my shirt outside on all occasions. Despite my recent haircut most of my friends thought my hair very long and as a practical joke succeeded in putting a large amount of Visconti perfumed (highly) brillantine in my hair, and thus as a Latin I went to the garden party. Linus Pauling and his wife visited the Abbey one afternoon for a short while. From Mrs. Paulings 'small talk' I gather that Peter [Pauling] has not yet calmed down and so we shall not have another quiet youth like Green in our midst...I have heard a little of Freddie's [Sanger?] Caltech visit. Apparently he spent much of his time libelling me by saying that I have no respect for authority and the wisdom of experience - in fact no respect for Freddie's higher qualities. However fortunately no one ever takes Freddie seriously."
Franklin Institute Science Museum - Philadelphia
Galileo Project - Rice University's project on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time
Genome Database - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Glacier - Rice University site explores weather, oceans, space and land of Antarctica.
GlobalSpec Engineering Search Engine
GLOBE Visualization - Images of environmental data worldwide; NASA/Goddard
Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body - "Features 1,247 engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries. (From Bartleby.com.)
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century - National Academy of Engineering
Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology - Links
HighWire Press - "One of the two largest archives of free full-text science on Earth!" As of 3/18/02: "11,802,613 articles in over 4,500 Medline journals, 407,343 free full text articles from 323 HighWire-based journals."
Human Genome Project Information - Oak Ridge National Laboratory. There are also Genome Webcasts.
Human Radiation Experiments - The U.S. Department of Energy, in order to "tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects" has undertaken "to identify and catalog relevant historical documents from DOE's 3.2 million cubic feet of records ..." Site has an index, an Experiments List, transcripts of Oral Histories , Historical Photographs, Multimedia and links to Related Sites.
IgNobel Prize - Webcast in ReadlAudio, produced by the Annals of Improbable Research. "The annual Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony honors individuals whose achievements cannot or should not be reproduced. Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy things by genuinely bemused genuine Nobel Laureates."
Information Bridge - A joint offering of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Government Printing Office, the site "provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, energy technologies, and other topics."
Institut Mittag-Leffler (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) - Stockholm. Has a Center for History of science with various collections including
Institut Pasteur - Located in Paris, the library has holdings in "microbiologie, virologie, immunologie, biologie moléculaire et biochimie."Provides access to its online catalog.
Institute and Museum of History of Science - Florence, Italy; site provides a useful Biography Index
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza / Institute and Museum of the History of Science - Firenze / Florence. The Digital Library (Biblioteca Digitale) has a number of full-texts including John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune's The life of Galileo Galilei , London,W. Clowes, 1829. Leonardo and the Engineers of the Renaissance includes videos, slideshows and manuscripts.
Institute for Genomic Research - Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, TIGR is "a not-for profit research institute founded in 1992 ... interested in structural, functional, and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products in viruses, eubacteria, pathogenic bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, both plant and animal, including humans".
Integrity in Science Watch - We scrutinize more than 200 science-based federal advisory committees for undisclosed conflicts of interest, monitor the media and scientific literature for failure to disclose, and encourage the adoption of strong disclosure policies." Publication of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Interactive Frog Dissection
Internet History of Science Sourcebook - Part of Paul Halsall's extensive Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience - "Interactive page on matter, electricity, magnetism, energy and fusion." Virtual Tokamak "allows you to study how magnetic fields are used to confine a plasma and to operate your own fusion experiment using a tokamak." (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.)
Invention Dimension - Lemelson-MIT Prize Program. Has an Inventor of the Week Archives.
ISIHighlyCited.com - Data on researchers who are most frequently cited in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences from 1981 to present.
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship - "Quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries."
Johns Hopkins Magazine - Other university magazines include Harvard Magazine
Joseph Henry Papers Project - Smithsonian Institution project documenting the life of Joseph Henry (1797-1878) whose "pioneering work in electricity and magnetism helped bring about the invention of the telegraph, the electric motor, and the telephone."
Journal of Biology - "New journal edited by Martin Raff and an internationally renowned editorial board. The journal aims to publish outstanding research articles from all areas of biology and make them immediately accessible to all, free of charge."

Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation - Part of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Video & Audio
Invention stories: archives, articles, audio, and video
Innovative Lives
Mind Database - Modern Inventors Documentation database "identifies the locations and contents of invention-related archival materials in the United States." A search for Edison, for example, retrieves 44 matches.

Library of Congress Online Catalog
Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History - Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections "more than 800 original letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio-clips and video excerpts." See also their Linus Pauling Centenary Webpage which includes Pauling's Research Notebooks.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library Newsletter - With archives.
Marine Biological Laboratory - Woods Hole, Massachusetts research laboratory is "independent, and proud of it. Geographically isolated, yet in the mainstream of biomedical research. Unusual, in that research efforts are focused on marine organisms but improve human health. Global, with ecosystems research on diverse environments addressing large environmental issues. Rich in history with 37 Nobel laureates having worked or studied here and convinced that the most exciting work still lies ahead." Offers transcripts and videos of Friday Evening Lectures (including Keith Campbell's lecture Cloning Dolly: How & Why).
Mechanical Engineering Technical Reports - Provides access to over 350 technical reports, mainly produced between 1949 and 1977, by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University. (Physical Science and Engineering Library.)
Mistletoe Center - "Although the broad scope of this effort includes information on mistletoes of both the Loranthaceae and Viscaceae around the world, our own experience is with the ecology and pathology of Arceuthobium and Phoradendron in western North America." (Brian Geils and Dan Huebner, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff Lab.)
MIT Museum - Provides access to podcasts, Archived videos of Soap Box talks and online exhibitions including: Flashes of Inspiration: The Work of Harold Edgerton, Gestural Engineering: The Sculpture of Arthur Ganson and Deep Frontiers: Ocean Engineering at MIT.
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Paris
Museum of Science, Boston
Museum of Science and Technology - Ottawa
Museum of the History of Science - Oxford
National Academies - Provides access to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

National Academies Press - Has more than 3,700 free online books. Searchable and indexed by subject. Recent science-related titles include
Science for All Children: A Guide to Improving Elementary Science Education in Your School District
Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (2002)
Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine (2002)
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time (2000) by Marcia Bartusiak. Winner of 2001 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Journalist category and several other awards.
One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos (1999) by Neil de Grasse Tyson, Charles Tsun-Chu Liu, and Robert Irion. Winner of 2000 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Scientist category.
Reefscape: Reflections on the Great Barrier Reef (2001) by Rosaleen Love
In National Academies of Science - InterViews "distinguished scientists talk about their research, why they became scientists and other aspects of their careers." With Archived Interviews listed by subject area and member. Scientists include:
Freeman Dyson
Paul R. Ehrlich
Roger N. Beachy
Dr. Claude M. Steele

National Agricultural Library - United States Department of Agriculture. The NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) provides citations to agricultural literature.
National Air & Space Museum - Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Provides access to Air & Space Magazine which has a list of Articles Online.
National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists - University of Bath Library
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - "National resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information." NCBI builds, maintains, and distributes the GenBank Sequence Database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. There are other sophisticated Tools for Data Mining which include the Entrez Browser and BLAST. Coffee Break is a collection of short reports (with archives) on recent biological discoveries. The November 10th column is on PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act and is accompanied by live PubMed searches, tutorials and links to further resources.
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) -
National Genetic Resources Program Germplasm Resources Information Network (NGRP/GRIN) - Plants, animals, microbes, invertebrates.
National Museum of Science and Industry - London
National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Golden, Colorado. Offers information on sustainable energy initiatives. Has a Photo Library where a search for wind turbines 355 images.
National Research Council of Canada - Has links to for researchers.
National Science Digital Library - National Science Foundation.
National Science Education Standards
National Science Foundation
National Science Teachers Association
Natural History Museum - London
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) - Supports Canadian science and technology research. With Site Map, an Awards Search Engine and Links to Related Sites.
NatureServe Explorer - "An authoritative source for information on more than 65,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. Explorer includes particularly in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species."
NCBI Taxonomy Homepage - National Center for Biotechnology Information provides genetic codes, searchable by common name or scientific name.
New Scientist - U.K. weekly science and technology magazine. Provides Special Reports on Key Topics.
New York Times - Has a Science section. Provides free access to its archives from 1987 to the present, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There may be charges for some material between 1923 to 1986.
New Yorker Magazine - Provides abstracts and full-text access to selected articles. Try a search for Annals of Science. Science writers include Elizabeth Kolbert, Horace Judson and Michael Specter.
Newton Project - "Complete edition of Newton's manuscript and print legacy, including his extraordinary (and until recently largely neglected) 'non-scientific' writings." Hosted by the Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London, in collaboration with institutions at Cambridge University.
Nobel Prize - Official web site of the Nobel Foundation, "the site presents Nobel Lectures, biographies, interviews, photos, articles, video clips, press releases, educational games and a great deal more information about the Nobel Laureates and their work."
North American Benthological Society - "International scientific organization whose purpose is to promote better understanding of the biotic communities of lake and stream bottoms and their role in aquatic ecosystems." A search in the NABS Bibliography (1959-1992) for zebra mussel retrieved 63 references. You can also search NABStracts 1997-2002 (47 results for zebra mussel).
Nova - PBS science programming. With Archive and Podcasts.
Nye Labs Online
Odyssey of Life - Companion web site to the mini-series, a co-production between WGBH/NOVA and SVT, Swedish Television
Online Library of Historic Biological Books - Kurt Stüber, of the Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, has assembled a full-text collection of historic biology books, many "currently out of print and hard to obtain from public libraries or book sellers." Titles include Japanese Book on Tree peonies (1854), Die Naturwunder der Tropenwelt Ceylon und Insulinde (1904) by Ernst Haeckels Wanderbilder and the four volume Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz with 572 botanical plates.
On-line Medical Dictionary - CancerWeb offers over 46,000 terms relating to biology, chemistry, medicine, science or technology.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) - "This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere..."
Online Microscopes - Images and descriptions of over 40 microscopes, ranging from the 1760s through the 1920s from the Moody Medical Library, University of Texas.
Peabody Museum of Natural History - Yale University.
Periodic Table - Provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Comparable sites include David D. Hsu's Chemicool Periodic Table, Mark Winter's WebElements and Julie Jensen's Periodic Table of the Elements.
Physical Sciences Information Gateway (PSIgate) - "free service that offers access to high quality Web resources in the physical sciences; there are currently [in May 2004] 10914 resources in astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, materials sciences, physics, and science history and policy ."
Popular Science Magazine
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
PNAS in the News
50 Most-Frequently Read Articles
Profiles in Science - National Library of Medicine site " focuses on the major scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The project is making the archival collections of prominent biomedical scientists available to the public through modern digital technology." There are profiles with biographical material, research, photographs, and interviews on Christian Anfinsen, Oswald T. Avery, Julius Axelrod, Francis Crick, Donald S. Fredrickson, Joshua Lederberg, Barbara McClintock, Marshall Nirenberg, Linus Pauling, Martin Rodbell, and Florence R. Sabin.
Public Library of Science - "Non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible" was launched in 2003. It provides open access to a variety of resouces including journal articles. See, for example, Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur by Sereno PC, Wilson JA, Witmer LM, Whitlock JA, Maga A, et al. (2007) Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur. PLoS ONE 2(11): e1230. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001230.
RaceSci History of Race in Science - Sponsored by the History Department, University of Toronto and described as a "resource for scholars and students interested in the history of "race" in science, medicine, and technology."
ResearchIndex: NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library - NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey. "Scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness." Search documents or citations.
Roslin Institute - "One of the world's leading centres for research on farm and other animals. It has internationally recognised programmes on molecular and quantitative genetics, genomics, early development, reproduction, animal behaviour and welfare and has pioneered methods for the genetic modification and cloning of farm animals."
Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
Royal Society - UK's national academy of science, they manage the Aventis Prizes for Science Books.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS)
Salk Institute for Biological Studies - "Private, non-profit, research organization located in La Jolla , California...dedicated to fundamental research in biology and its relation to health, studying such challenging problems as the organization and operation of the brain, the control of gene activity, and the molecular origins of cancer, AIDS, and other disease." Provides News Releases and Useful Links & Molecular Biology Sites.
SB&F Online (Science Books and Films Online) - Critical review journal s
Santa Fe Institute - "Creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging science."
Science at Berkeley Lab - Ernest Orlando Lawrence National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. See also their News Releases and Today's Breaking Science News which is searchable and links to stories in the New York Times, USA Today, the National Research Council, San Francisco Chronicle, Science Now, EurekaAlert, Unisci, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury, CNN, MSNBC and ABC.
Science Education Gateway (SEGway) - Created by the Center for Science Education at Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley SEGway is a "collaborative NASA project which brings together the expertise of NASA scientists, science museums, and K-12 educators to produce NASA science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom and public use via the World Wide Web."
Science Fair Project Resource Guide - Internet Public Library
Science Friday - National Public Radio.
ScienceDaily Magazine
Science.gov - "Searches authoritative science information from 30 federal scientific databases and more than 1,800 science Web sites." (Tom Lahr, Deputy Associate Chief Biologist for Information, U.S. Geological Survey, and co-chair of the Science.gov Alliance. "Science.gov is made possible by members of the Science.gov Alliance: the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Government Printing Office, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation, with support from the National Archives and Records Administration." Cathey Daniels, Press Release, February 16, 2007.)
Science News Online - Site is Searchable.
Science Magazine - Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the site offers some articles in full-text and will post all its content, free, online a year after its original publication. With Quarterly Author Index.
Scientific American (19th Century) - Electronic Historical Publications. Full-text of 1845 edition.
Scientific American - Provides access to selectedd full-text from the current issue. There are podcasts of Science Talk with Steve Mirsky and 60-Second Science
Scientific and Medical Antiques Collecting Guide - Thomas E. Jones provides information on scientific and medical antiques which include "telescopes, astronomy, microscopes, scales, electrical and magnetic items, calculating, drawing, surveying, navigation, meteorology, maps, globes, slide rules, astronomy, surgical instruments, bloodletting, pharmaceuticals and medical chests, electrotherapy devices, and more. He has also written a History of the Light Microscope.
SciTech Daily Review - Collection of links to "intelligent, informed science and technology coverage."
Scientist Solutions - " 24 categories of scientific disciplines that are further divided into discussion forums. It is here in these forums that scientists may interact with other scientists submitting questions, answers, comments, ideas, conducting polls and developing collaborative relationships."
SciTechResources.gov - Gateway to U.S. Government science and technology resources.
Smithsonian Institution - See also their Science & Technology page.
Smithsonian Magazine - Has Archives of Past Issues and a Science & Nature section.
Stanford Genomic Resources
Swedish Museum of Natural History - Stockholm
Talk Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy - "Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins. Most discussions in the newsgroup center on the creation/evolution controversy, but other topics of discussion include the origin of life, geology, biology, catastrophism, cosmology and theology." Provides access to the full-text of Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
Thomas A. Edison Papers - Documentary editing project sponsored by Rutgers University, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and the New Jersey Historical Commission.
Today@NASA
Transistorized! The History of the Invention of the Transistor - PBS. Created by SciCentral and the American Institute of Physics.
Tree of Life - Traces the branching classification that shows the relationships between all living organisms; David R. Maddison and Wayne P. Maddison, University of Arizona
U.S. Department of Commerce Boulder Laboratories Library - Provides a list of Electronic Journals which, although including many sites available only to on-site employees, is a valuable resource for locating journals in the sciences
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Geological Survey
Virtual Frog Dissection Kit - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Virtual Library: Science
Virus Databases Online - Australian National University has developed a Universal Virus Database with "searchable descriptions of all virus orders, families, genera and type species, images of many viruses, and links to GenBank, EBI and soon to SWISS-PROT."
Visible Embryo Project - Detailed pictorial account of normal and abnormal development, from comception to birthdesigned for both medical student and interested lay people.
Visible Human Project - U.S. National Library of Medicine
Why Files: Science Behind the News - National Institute for Science Education site features current topics in science
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
World-Wide Earthquake Locator - Bruce Gittings, Department of Geography at the University of Edinburgh.