BioChange : Biodiversity and environmental change

BioChange, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, is an integrated study encompassing a range of scales, taxa and habitats. The study is centred around County Clare (Ireland) including Galway Bay and the Aran Islands, and is conducted by a partnership of Irish universities. The study consists of four complementary work packages: Landscape conservation; Non-native species; Pollution; and Natural resource exploitation. The aims are to develop fundamental biodiversity research and capacity building in taxonomic skills, as well as development of biodiversity indicators and biomonitoring tools. The website gives details of each strand of the project, the personnel involved, and links to other related sites.

http://www.biochange.ie/

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Journal of ecology special feature : plant--soil interactions and the carbon cycle

This Special Feature published within an issue of the 'Journal of Ecology' (Volume 97 (5), September 2009) is aimed at researchers and undergraduates interested in the ways that plants influence soil carbon dynamics, and is available to all in full-text free of charge. It arose from the 2008 Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society, London and comprises an introduction and six peer reviewed articles by experts on ecosystem carbon dynamics. The papers consider global carbon cycle models, how plant traits and attributes of plant communities influence carbon input and cycling, and decomposition processes. The Journal of Ecology is published by the British Ecological Society and made available on the Web by Wiley InterScience.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122543439/issue

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Genetically Engineered organisms, wildlife, and habitat: a workshop summary

This book, published by the National Academies Press in 2008, represents the findings of a workshop held by the US Geological Survey and the National Research Council (NRC) to identify research needed into the ecological effects of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) on wildlife and habitats. The use of GEOs is established in agricultural crop production, and research is underway to develop a wider range of them (including fish, trees, microbes, and insects) that could transform aquaculture, biofuels production and pharmaceuticals. The hardcopy version can be purchased, but the full text can be read free online in both HTML and PDF formats.

http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12218

Copyright 2006-2009

Physics-Online.Ru

"Turpion Ltd in cooperation with Institute of Physics Publishing and editorial offices of the Russian Academy of Sciences presents an online community Physics-Online.Ru to attract a wide circle of scientists, scholars, students and post graduates to discussions of modern physics' problems.... Members of the community can submit their subjects for the discussion, download their materials on the web site, exchange comments, participate in news' section update, have open access to the most cited articles of Physics-Uspekhi, Quantum Electronics, and some other journals"

http://www.physics-online.ru/about_proj.phtml?option_lang=eng

Imaging Cell Biology

In November 2008, noted chemists Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Their work dealt with experiments that identified green fluorescent protein (GFP) and also showed that it can be used as a tool to study a wide range of cellular processes. The Trends of Cell Biology journal decided to commemorate the one year anniversary of this recognition by creating this special issue devoted to state-of-the-art imaging processes. Available online here, this issue provides "a snapshot of some of the most exciting work being done in cell biology using GFP, its relatives and derivatives, and other innovative tools and techniques." Here visitors can browse through the articles, and the introduction contains a narrative discussion of each article's main points and scientific processes.

http://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/special_issue

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TechJournalContents

Keyword search more than 3,500 scholarly technology journals to find new/recent content. You can also save your searches as RSS feeds and use an aggregator, place the feeds on web pages, etc. to monitor for new articles on your search terms.

About 400 of the journals are open access and the content is available for free. Most articles offer direct links to full text but you’ll need a personal or institutional subscriptions to access the material.

"TechJournalContents ingests Tables of Contents RSS feeds provided by numerous journal publishers such as Springer, Emerald, Inderscience, Wiley Interscience, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, IEEE, Sage, AIP, IMechE, etc"

http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/techtocs/

Climate Debate Daily

"Climate Debate Daily is intended to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change and the human contribution to it. The site links to scientific articles, news stories, economic studies, polemics, historical articles, PR releases, editorials, feature commentaries, and blog entries. The main column on the left includes arguments and evidence generally in support of the IPCC position on the reality of signficant anthropogenic global warming. The right-hand column includes material skeptical of the IPCC position and the notion that anthropogenic global warming represents a genuine threat to humanity.

Many sites on the Internet, including some of those listed at the far left of the page, take firm views for or against the threat of anthropogenic global warming. As a matter of editorial policy, Climate Debate Daily maintains a studied neutrality, allowing each side to present its most powerful and persuasive case. Our object is to allow readers to form their own judgments based on the best available information."

http://climatedebatedaily.com/

Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The mission of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is to advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to Department of Energy (DOE) researchers and the public

http://www.osti.gov/mission

The Swingle Plant Anatomy Reference Collection

Born in 1871 in Pennsylvania, Walter Tennyson Swingle grew up with little formal schooling, but he ended up working for well over half a century in
the fields of tropical botany and Chinese literature. Created by the University of Miami Libraries and Professor Barbara Whitlock, this digital
archive brings together primary documents, slides, and other items taken from the Swingle archives. On the homepage, visitors can look through four
primary sections, including the "Plant Anatomy Digital Archive" and "Plant Anatomy Animations". In the "Plant Anatomy Digital Archive", visitors can
browse over 1700 images from more than 250 species collected from all over the world. Also, visitors can learn about the challenges involved with
maintaining such a collection. Moving on, the "Plant Anatomy Animations" are utterly fascinating, as they consist of transforming images of consecutive
microtome sections, providing "a new perspective on how plants are constructed in three dimensions." The site is rounded out with a section on
Swingle himself, complete with a biography, articles about his work, and a link to some of his publications.

http://swingle.miami.edu/

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Time and Frequency Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

The Time and Frequency Division is an operating unit of the Physics Laboratory of the (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It maintains the primary frequency standard for the United States, develops and operates standards of time and frequency and co-ordinates US time and frequency standards with other world standards. The Division's website provides details of its services and research, frequently asked questions, a glossary, a database of full text, time and frequency publications written by NIST personnel since 1914, and links to related websites. Web exhibits include: a history of the measurement of time, a history of calendars, the invention of the quartz watch, the background to daylight saving time, and a short history of NIST time and frequency measurement.

http://tf.nist.gov/

Copyright 2006-2009

Radiation of sound

Notes are provided on the sources and radiation of sound, covering point sources, interaction of coherent point sources, radiation from cylinders, radiation from spheres, scattering by spheres and radiation from planar sources. A reference list and short bibliography are included. These notes were written by Finn Jacobsen, Technical University of Denmark, and Peter Juhl, University of Southern Denmark, for a course in advanced acoustics and are available as a PDF file.

http://server.oersted.dtu.dk/ftp/fja/Radiation.pdf

Copyright 2006-2009

NOAA's Aquarius : world's only undersea research station

Aquarius is an underwater laboratory situated adjacent to deep coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Scientists live underwater in Aquarius during ten-day missions to study the reef and surrounding ocean. Live webcams of the laboratory are available during missions. There are frequently asked questions; press releases; lessons about buoyancy, pressure, light and coral reefs; and summaries of past missions. Links to other websites about coral reefs and marine biology are listed. Aquarius is owned by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is operated by the NOAA Undersea Research Program's Undersea Research Center at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

http://www.uncw.edu/aquarius/

Copyright 2006-2009

Introduction to statistical analyses

Compiled by Barry Shepherd, Magnus Johnson and Ted Gaten, Department of Biology, University of Leicester, 'Introduction to statistical analyses' provides a comprehensive coverage of statistical techniques for field biologists. the site covers techniques used in descriptive statistics, diversity indices, comparisons, correlations/relationships/trends and predictions. Other sections include data categories and initial appraisal and overriding limitations of statistics. A glossary of terms is provided, as are references and web sites of interest. Made available on the Web by the University of Leicester.

http://www.le.ac.uk/biology/gat/virtualfc/Stats/start.html

Copyright 2006-2009

Carnivore Ecology & Conservation

Resources on carnivores (with sections on Felidae, Canidae, and Ursidae) for scientists and conservationists: news, searchable literature database, dissertations, meetings and conferences, action plans, jobs. This is the personal website of Guillaume Chapron, assistant professor at Grimso Wildlife Research Station, Swedish Agricultural University The site includes: automatically updated news, a searchable literature database with 15778 papers and 459 full theses to download, future meeting details and proceedings of past ones, action plans, automatic job watch, and ecological knowledge monitoring via RSS feeds from relevant journals.

http://www.carnivoreconservation.org/portal/index.php

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Engineering Pathway

"The Engineering Pathway is a portal to high-quality teaching and learning resources in engineering, applied science and math, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology and is designed for use by K-12 and university educators and students"

http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/index.jhtml

Qwiki

Qwiki is a quantum physics wiki including, but not limited to, quantum optics, quantum metrology, quantum control, quantum information and quantum computation. It was created by the Mabuchi Lab at Stanford University and aims to encourage collaboration amongst the quantum physics community. Registered users may post content.

http://qwiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Main_Page

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Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS)

The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission will be ESA's second Earth Explorer in orbit. Launched on 2 November 2009, with a minimum three year duration, SMOS will make global observations of soil moisture over land and of sea-surface salinity over the oceans to improve our understanding of the water cycle. Data from SMOS will be important for weather and climate modelling, water resource management, and agriculture, and will also contribute to the forecasting of hazardous events such as floods. This website from the European Space Agency (ESA) provides information about the mission, the satellite and the launch, together with a brief description of the underlying science. An image gallery, videos, animations and online resources are also provided.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/smos/

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Introduction to geology

This website for this course (12.001 Introduction to Geology, Spring 2008) is made available as part of the MIT OpenCourseWare project. It includes a syllabus, readings, lecture notes, laboratory practicals, assignments and handouts. The course introduces "major minerals and rock types, rock-forming processes, and time scales; temperatures, pressures, compositions, structure of the Earth, and measurement techniques; geologic structures and relationships observable in the field; sediment movement and landform development by moving water, wind, and ice; crustal processes and planetary evolution in terms of global plate tectonics with an emphasis on ductile and brittle processes." The notes are available as PDF files.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/12-001Spring-2008/CourseHome/

Copyright 2006-2009

Genetics Selection Evolution

The Genetics Selection Evolution journal was created by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in 1960, and this site offers scientists and others online access to its contents. The primary focus of the journal is to present "original research on all aspects of genetics and selection in both farm and experimental animals." The journal is part of the BioMedCentral network of open access journals, and the homepage offers easy access to its latest peer-reviewed articles. Visitors to the journal's homepage can view a list of its current editorial board members, sign up to receive the journal's RSS feed, and also review manuscript submission guidelines. A sidebar on the left-hand side of the homepage includes a list of the most accessed articles, promotional devices (such as posters and leaflets), and a FAQ section.

http://www.gsejournal.org/

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BioSciEdNet

This impressive portal (referred to in the shorthand as "BEN"), was created by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) in order to bring high-quality educational resources to science educators everywhere. The entire project is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the resources here total over 14,000, and they cover 77
discrete biological sciences topics. First-time visitors to the site will note that will they are not required to register to access these resources, however they may wish to do so in order to maintain a thorough list of the resources they find most useful here. The homepage is simple and to the point, and it features a "New Resources" area, and a collection of browsing options that allow users to pick out resources by type, audience, or subject. Persons who haven't used BEN before may wish to look at the "Using BEN" area for a bit of guidance.

http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/

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The Organic Center

The mission of the Organic Center is to "generate credible, peer reviewed scientific information and communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to society"

http://www.organic-center.org/

Credo

Formerly known as Xreferplus, this online, full text, reference library includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as subject specific titles.

JCU currently subscribes to 150 titles in Credo Reference, but we have managed a special deal which, from 2010, will give us access to about 410 titles. As well as general reference works, there will be additional science specific titles available.

http://www.credoreference.com.elibrary.jcu.edu.au/search.jsp

Math Vids

MathVids.com combines math education and video file sharing capabilities, bringing a fresh approach to the strategy of teaching to many different types of learners. The vision of MathVids.com is to provide every student in the country with an equal opportunity to access high quality lessons on math topics ranging from middle school through college to improve mathematical literacy in the 21st century.

http://www.mathvids.com/

Civil Engineering Database

ASCE's electronic information retrieval service to all of its publications. Provides Access to over 100,000 Bibliographic and Abstracted Records - Current Coverage: 1970 - Present

http://cedb.asce.org/

Portal to the universe

"Keeping up-to-date with cutting-edge astronomy and space science breakthroughs has just become that much easier, thanks to the Portal To The Universe, the latest Cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). As a high-tech website embracing Web 2.0 technologies, the Portal To The Universe aims to become a one-stop-shop for astronomy news."

http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/

Hubblesite

"HubbleSite is the home of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the renowned orbiting telescope whose discoveries have forever altered our knowledge of the universe."

http://hubblesite.org/

antimatter: does it matter?

This new site, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies "introduces the world of antimatter. Designed for everyone, this site explores the history and uses of antimatter and positrons in the everyday world. Along the way, we bust a few myths common to popular culture"

http://discover.positron.edu.au/

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

With academic partners located within universities from Tehran to Lamar, Texas, the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) sponsors a journal and numerous conferences. On their homepage, visitors can look through six primary sections, including Notices", "Events", "Programs", "Journals", and "FAQs". Scholars and others with a similar bent will want to take a close look at the "Journals" section. All told, the WASET publishes journals that range across the social, natural, and physical sciences, and visitors have access to various issues here. In the "Partners" area, visitors can learn about WASET's member institutions. Moving on, the "Indexes" area features an annotated selection of links to other relevant abstracting sources, like Creative Commons and the Electronic Journals Library.

http://www.waset.org/

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Nature Milestones

What were the most important advances in cutaneous biology of the past 100 years? The Nature Milestones website provides a detailed answer to that question, along with similar responses regarding light microscopy, cancer, and gene expression. All told there are ten special features on the site, and each feature includes an interactive timeline, scientific commentaries, and a selection of articles from Nature magazine and other peer-reviewed publications. Additionally, each feature includes a list of academic advisors, sponsors, and links to external resources on the subject. Visitors may wish to use these resources in the classroom setting, as they provide basic and advanced materials that can be used by a number of introductory courses. Finally, a number of the materials are also available in the pdf format for easy printing

http://www.nature.com/milestones/index.html

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ResearcherID

Anyone can search this site, and ResearcherID allows registered users to create their own unique ID, enter their publications, and thereafter to more easily communicate and collaborate with other authors.

Publication records can be added to ResearcherID from Web of Science (WOS), or from EndNote or EndNote web. An advantage of adding from WOS is that an author's citation data will automatically update as WOS updates.

Incidentally, references from ResearchOnline@JCU (was JCU ePrints) can be exported to Endnote and from there to ResearcherID. Also, WOS, EndNote Web and ResearcherID all share login details for registered users.

An article about this: Are you ready to become a number? was published in Science 27 March 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5922, pp. 1662 - 1664

http://www.researcherid.com/

Sixty symbols : videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy

The University of Nottingham has produced this collection of sixty videos narrated by scientists from the University explaining symbols used in physics and astronomy. The videos are also available on the University's YouTube channel. A further sixty videos are planned

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

Copyright 2006-2009

Academic Earth: Physics

"Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education." It aims to provide on its website video courses and lectures from leading scholars. The physics section of Academic Earth currently (October 2009) includes videos from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Yale University covering topics in astrophysics and general physics.

http://academicearth.org/subjects/physics

Copyright 2006-2009

Free Engineering Ebooks

This blog site includes links to books on engineering that can be downloaded for free in pdf format. It is divided into the following categories: Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Geodetic Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Mining Engineering and also Telecommunication Engineering.

There are tables of contents as well as information on related publications for each one. It is updated on average twice a month

http://www.onlinefreeebooks.net/engineering-ebooks/

Copyright 2006-2009

Sustainable Concrete

This site includes pdf format reports, guidance and white papers on the sustainability issues relating to the use of concrete.

There is a technical FAQ. A series of articles on sustainability and sustainable design principles for the use of concrete are provided. References are given.

http://www.sustainableconcrete.org.uk/

Copyright 2006-2009

The Mathematical Association of America: Podcast Center

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has done an excellent service by placing this collection of podcasts online. This diverse set of podcasts
consists of talks and presentations given at MAA-sponsored events, and visitors are welcome to use them in the classroom or for their own personal
edification. The podcasts here extend back to the spring of 2007, and the presentations include "Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?" and "The Joy of
Solving Equations". The speakers include experts from Brandeis University, the University of Montreal, and Macalester College. It's also worth noting
that for many of the lectures, an accompanying article is available for consultation.

http://www.maa.org/audio%20clips/podcast/podcast.html

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eigenfactor.org

From the faq on the website:

1. How do I interpret a journal's Eigenfactor score?
A journal's Eigenfactor score is our measure of the journal's total importance to the scientific community. With all else equal, a journal's Eigenfactor score doubles when it doubles in size. Thus a very large journal such as the Journal of Biological Chemistry which publishes more than 6,000 articles annually, will have extremely high Eigenfactor scores simply based upon its size.

2. How do I interpret a journal's Article Influence score?
A journal's Article Influence score is a measure of the average influence of each of its articles over the first five years after publication. Article Influence score measures the average influence, per article, of the papers in a journal. As such, it is comparable to Thomson Scientific's widely-used Impact Factor. Article Influence scores are normalized so that the mean article in the entire Thomson Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database has an article influence of 1.00. In 2006, the top journal by Article Influence score is Annual Reviews of Immunology, with an article influence of 27.454. This means that the average article in that journal has twenty seven times the influence of the mean journal in the JCR......

http://eigenfactor.org/

Endangered Species: Selected Internet Resources

A guide provided by the Library of Congress & including resources from:

• The Audubon Society
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
• Fish & Wildlife Service
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• World Wildlife Fund
  

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/selected-internet/endangeredspecies.html

AIP UniPHY

AIP UniPHY is an online network linking physical science professionals, academics, and serious enthusiasts worldwide. Anyone can join and explore the global connections they share through the commonality of publishing in the scholarly community. If you've published at least three topical papers, you have the beginnings of a customizable profile already set up on AIP UniPHY.
In fact, you're among more than a quarter of a million scientists, engineers, and other colleagues in an array of related disciplines who are all networked through AIP UniPHY.
Register for free and you'll discover who has published in areas that interest you, who has collaborated with these individuals, and who has collaborated with them. . .and on what. You'll also learn where your peers and potential colleagues are located in more than 100 countries across the globe.

• Analyze the profiles of more than 180,000 colleagues
• Explore your personal network –- starting with your direct co-authors and moving on to the co-authors of your co-authors
• Identify researchers with the expertise you need through easy-to-use search interfaces
• Connect with other researchers you have identified via AIP UniPHY

http://www.aipuniphy.org/Portal/About.aspx

Science Centric

Science Centric is an international news portal, specialised in delivering breaking news about the latest scientific discoveries. Main topics covered include physics, chemistry, geology and palaeontology, biology, environment, astronomy, health, and technology.

http://www.sciencecentric.com/

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

How did people raise pigs in the 19th century? What were people talking about in the journal of Agricultural History in 1965? These are but a few of the questions answered in the documents contained within The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture website. Created by staff members at the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University, the site contains important agricultural texts from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Visitors can learn more about the collection in the "About" section, and then move along to the "Browse" area. Here visitors can browse all of the titles alphabetically or chronologically. Also, visitors can find the recent additions here underneath the main browsing area. New visitors might want to peruse the 1827 volume "The Honey Bee: its natural history, physiology and management" or the 1921 work, "The Marketing of Whole Milk".

http://chla.mannlib.cornell.edu/

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Science Books Online

Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats.
http://www.sciencebooksonline.info/

Freshwater and Marine Image Bank

The University of Washington Libraries has digitized 21,000 images of freshwater and marine life taken from 1735-1924 that populated various publications about the topic.  Some of the publications include 18th and 19th century books with hand-colored images, stereographs, and publications of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and related agencies that contain a slew of illustrations. On the far right hand side of the homepage is a list of 24 sample subject areas that the images fall into, including "aquaculture", "mollusks", "polar subjects", and "water birds".  Visitors wishing to see the complete list of subjects should click on "Browse Subjects", in the top right of the homepage. The "Other Sources" link at the bottom right hand side of the page has links to over a dozen other websites that contain digitized freshwater and marine images, such as "Sea Lamprey Images", "Shoreline Aerial Photos", and "Reef Snapshots", just to name a few.

http://content.lib.washington.edu/fishweb/index.html

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YouTHERIA

YouTHERIA is an interactive web portal containing data on the life history, ecology. taxonomy and geography of mammals. The web portal allows contributors (You) to upload and download data on all mammalian species (THERIA).

from New Scientist :

"A new database that allows users to explore the factors that predispose different mammalian species to extinction – from human encroachment to slow reproductive rate – could be useful in planning conservation schemes, its developers say. Anyone can access the online system, YouTHERIA, which allows users to manipulate parameters including habitat ecology, litter size and diet, and test their own hypotheses.

It relies on a vast database of all known and recently extinct mammals, called PanTHERIA, which lists details of the species’ ecology, behaviour, diet, geographical range and habitat, based on more than two decades of published research. The database also records the extent to which each of the 5000-odd species is being impacted by humans and habitat degradation."

http://www.utheria.org/

Palaeontologica Electronica

The contents of the online Palaeontologia Electronica (PE), a journal of
paleontology supported by eight paleontological organizations from around the world, can be accessed by clicking anywhere on its colorful "cover". The journal features commentary, articles, technical articles, and reviews of books.  The text "(print)" appears next to the articles that can be
downloaded or printed in PDF form.  Visitors wishing to search back issues of the journal can click on "Back Issues", and see all the appealing covers that have appeared on the journal since its inception in 1998. The tab "Indexes" at the top of the page allows visitors to view the archives of the
journal by "Alphabetical list of articles", "Alphabetical list of authors", "Numerical list of articles", or "Keyword terms". Future authors should look at the "Resources" tab at the top of the page to learn about PE's submission guidelines, including their desire for graphical, colorful content in the
articles they publish.

http://palaeo-electronica.org/

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Energy Citations Database

The Energy Citations Database (ECD) provides free access to over 2.6 million science research citations with continued growth through regular updates. There are over 221,000 electronic documents, primarily from 1943 forward, available via the database. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science. It includes bibliographic citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.

http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/

ScienceResearch.com

ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available deep web search engine that uses advanced "federated search technology" to return high quality results by submitting your search query - in real-time - to other well respected search engines then collating, ranking and dropping duplicates of the results.

http://www.scienceresearch.com/scienceresearch/search.html

International Energy Agency

"The International Energy Agency (IEA) is an intergovernmental organisation which acts as energy policy advisor to 28 member countries in their effort to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for their citizens. Founded during the oil crisis of 1973-74, the IEA’s initial role was to co-ordinate measures in times of oil supply emergencies. As energy markets have changed, so has the IEA. Its mandate has broadened to incorporate the “Three E’s” of balanced energy policy making: energy security, economic development and environmental protection. Current work focuses on climate change policies, market reform, energy technology collaboration and outreach to the rest of the world, especially major consumers and producers of energy like China, India, Russia and the OPEC countries."

http://www.iea.org/

Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific Cosmology

From the American Institute of Physics. The history of cosmology from ancient Greek astronomy to -space telescopes. This Website, prepared by experts, mirrors the structure of the science, with cosmological theory and astronomical instruments side by side.

http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/

Learning from interactive failure

This tutorial site includes information on fracture analysis and fracture mechanics. There are some case studies of failures which occurred in wire ropes, aircraft undercarriages and tow bars. A discussion of how design structures to reduce the risk and impact of structural failure is provided. Tutorial questions are given.

http://www.fatiguefracture.com/

Copyright 2006-2009

World Commission on Protected Areas

The WCPA (World Commission on Protected Areas) is one of 6 commissions of the World Conservation Union (also known as the IUCN). WCPA works by helping governments and others plan protected areas and integrate them into all sectors by providing strategic advice to policy makers. The site includes details of the protected areas programme, WCPA's activities by regions, biomes, and World Heritage work. The site also includes sections on news, events and publications.

http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/wcpa/

Copyright 2006-2009

Fossils in Antarctica: British Antarctic Survey

Although marching penguins add to Antarctica's allure, The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has found fossil evidence that dinosaurs, marsupials, and forests inhabited the area long before penguins charmed the world with their trademark waddle.  Since 1940, when the fossil collection of the BAS was started, it has grown to 40,000 specimens. The "Fossils" section of the BAS
website can be found on the left side of the homepage in the "About Antarctica" area, and is divided into two explanatory sections: "Fossils from the Antarctic" and "Fossil Locations in Antarctica".  There are also links in each section, near the top right hand corner of the page, to "Type and Figured Fossil Collection" and "Fossils Picture Gallery". In the "Fossils from the Antarctic" section, the types of fossils found are explained and include: molluscs, arthropods, echinoderms and plants. The "Fossil Locations in Antarctica" section has a map of the three islands where a large amount of fossils have been found, along with descriptions of each island and what general types of fossils have been found on them.

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/geography/rock/fossils.php

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The Microbial World: The Nitrogen cycle and Nitrogen fixation

Part of the Microbial World website at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, this page provides an introduction to the role of nitrogen in the biosphere, and describes the mechanism of biological nitrogen fixation. The site is produced by Jim Deacon as a resource for university teaching and learning.

http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/microbes/nitrogen.htm

Copyright 2006-2009

Oral histories at the Niels Bohr Library and Archives

Interview transcripts are made available of several hundred tape-recorded interviews conducted by the staff of the American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics and other historians with physicists, astronomers and others. Selected voice clips are also available online. The Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics holds the recordings of more than 1000 of these interviews and the transcripts for most of them are available in the Library. The main subject areas are quantum physics, nuclear physics, modern astrophysics and astronomy, solid state physics, laser science, multi-institutional collaborations in high-energy physics, space science and geophysics, physicists in industry, science education, science societies and institutions, and science and society.

http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/oralhistory.html

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Geology and earth sciences : Washington State Department of Natural Resources

Washington State Department of Natural Resources provides this website with information, resources and publications on the geology of Washington State, USA. It includes geological GIS datasets; information on geothermal, oil and gas, and rock aggregate resources; the Washington State Geologic Information Portal containing interactive maps and geosciences data; TsuInfo alerts on tsunami research; reports and publications; and news.

http://www.dnr.wa.gov/ResearchScience/GeologyEarthSciences/Pages/Home.aspx

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SciDev.net practical guides

SciDev.Net, a not-for-profit organisation which provides reliable and authoritative information about science and technology for the developing world has compiled this archive of practical guides. The guides cover a wide subject matter including how researchers can engage with the media; how to report on science policy; how to publicise scientific research; communicating statistics and risk; how to set up science blogs; how to report science news for television and from science conferences; how to write science stories and report on scientific controversies, and how to communicate science to young people.

http://www.scidev.net/en/practical-guides/

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Cambridge Physics: Past, Present and Future

Opened in 1874, the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge is one of the oldest teaching laboratories in England. Researchers at the Laboratory have made key findings regarding the electron, positive rays, and the nucleus. This interactive site was created by staff members at the Cavendish (with the collaboration of the physics department) in order to
educate the public about their work and history. First-time visitors should scroll over the boxes on the homepage to learn more about some of their key discoveries as a way of becoming familiarized with their work. Moving on, the "Past, Present, Future" area provides a virtual tour of the Cavendish Laboratory, along with biographies of the key figures who've worked at the Laboratory since the 19th century.

http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/camphys/

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Waves, acoustics and vibration

Introductory notes on waves, acoustics and vibration are provided by Dr James B. Calvert, Associate Professor Emeritus of Engineering, University of Denver. The notes cover: simple harmonic motion, sound waves, acoustic radiation, pipes and resonators, anomalous sound propagation, diffraction, waves in three dimensions, vibrations of air columns and stretched strings, vibrations of flat things, waves in solids, surface waves on liquids and musical scales.

http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/waves/wavhom.htm

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IUCN : biodiversity

The Biodiversity section of the International Union for Conservation of Nature website, these pages outline the existing crisis in loss of biodiversity and the actions being taken by the IUCN to combat it. There is a newsfeed as well as links to other sections of the site on species, protected areas, marine problems, the wildlife trade monitoring network, and the Red List of Threatened Species.

http://www.iucn.org/what/biodiversity/

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Evolution Resources from the National Academies

The National Academies have redesigned its evolution resources Web page, a collection of books, reports, statements, papers, and articles about evolution. This new site organizes materials for groups such as educators and attorneys, but everyone with an interest in these issues should find the site useful and accessible

http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/

Nature Online Video Streaming Archive

For selected articles and letters Nature presents streaming videos that feature interviews with scientists behind the research and analysis from Nature editors.

http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/index.html

Discoveries from Mars: Using a Planetary Perspective to Enhance Undergraduate Geoscience Courses

As more and more data is returned from various missions to Mars, educators have unique opportunities to corral this data in the service of teaching young people about petrology, hydrology, and sedimentology. This set of teaching resources comes from The Cutting Edge website developed at Carleton College. Designed to provide information and teaching resources for geoscience faculty, this new section of the site includes a searchable collection of Internet resources, activities and assignments using Mars data, and a number of visualizations relating to Mars. Visitors may also want to view the presentations on this subject which originated from a workshop held by at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. Also, visitors with their own relevant resources can learn about how they can make their own contributions as well.

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mars/index.html

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National Science Foundation: Science Nation

Billed as "The Online Magazine That's All About Science for the People", the online magazine Science Nation reports on important science breakthroughs. Created by the National Science Foundation, the site reports on scientific and technological developments by using video clips, first-hand reporting, and well-written articles. On the homepage, visitors can take in their latest report, and then move on down to the "Science Nation Topics" area. Here they will find reports on tornadoes, new technologies for the visually handicapped, and the effect that climate change will have on Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica. Each topic is accompanied by related images and links to additional websites of note. Finally, visitors can also sign up to receive updates from the site via email and they are welcome to send along their feedback.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/index.jsp

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Jeff Weeks' topology and geometry software

This collection of free software includes torus games, Kali (art based upon 17 tiling patterns), polyhedra and tessellations, curved spaces, introductory geometry, games on hyperbolic surfaces, and 3D manifolds. The website and the software are available in various languages.

http://www.geometrygames.org/

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HiPER : laser science for our future

"HiPER is a proposed European High Power laser Energy Research facility dedicated to demonstrating the feasibility of laser driven fusion as a future energy source. HiPER is being designed to enable a broad array of new science including extreme material studies, astrophysics in the laboratory, miniaturised particle accelerators and a wide range of fundamental physics research." This project website provides an overview of the project, key facts, a description of the process of laser-driven fusion, planned science programmes, images and videos, presentations, news and links to project partners.

http://www.hiper-laser.org/

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Magnetic Resonance Online Texts

This well-organized and very thorough website was developed by the physicist Stanislav Sykora with the aim of providing free online texts, theses, and course materials on the subjects of magnetic resonance (MR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear-magnetic resonance (NMR) and other related topics. The amount of material on the site is impressive. At the top of the page are links to an "MR Blog", as well as to "MR Links" and the "Site Plan & SEARCH".  The NMR/MRI Extras section on the right side of the page is particularly useful for visitors interested in all things about MR. Itslinks to "Events" provides an up-to-date list of symposia, conferences, and meetings, along with links to the events' sites.  The "Societies" link offers at least 50 groups about MR, some of which are country-based, and others that are region- or application-based.

http://www.ebyte.it/library/refs/MROnlineTexts.html

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The most influential journals: Impact Factor and Eigenfactor

Bibliometricians have introduced various scales of ranking journals; some based on publications, some based on usage as well, including the internet, using social networking analysis. Bollen et al. (1) recently concluded that no single indicator adequately measures impact and the IF is at the periphery of 39 scales analyzed. But there is a new parameter, the Eigenfactor, which attempts to rate the influence of journals (www.eigenfactor.org). The Eigenfactor ranks journals in a manner similar to that used by Google for ranking the importance of Web sites in a search.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/17/6883.full

Archival Collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library

Known as one of the most important centers for oceanographic research in the world, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was founded in 1903 as the Marine Biological Association of San Diego. The Institution became part of the University of California in 1912, and this digital collection from the University of California-San Diego offers a wide range of primary and secondary materials that relate the history of this important research institution. On the site, visitors will find documents that detail the history of Scripps, such as the 1966 paper "SIO: First Fifty Years" by Helen Raitt and Beatrice Moulton, along with hundreds of photographs in the Still Image Collection area. Moving on down, the "Panoramas" area contains Quick Time movies of the Scripps campus in 1916 and 1927, along with movie clips of a sea spider and a fangtooth deep-sea fish. Visitors shouldn't miss the audio and video clips, as they can listen to a number of renowned scientists
talk about their work at Scripps from the 1950s to the 1990s.

http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sio/scripps-archives/resources/collections/index.html

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15 evolutionary gems

This resource, produced by the journal 'Nature', highlights 15 examples illustrating the principle of evolution by natural selection taken from papers that have been published by Nature over the past decade, and is available in PDF (requires free-to-download Adobe Acrobat Reader) free of charge. It is written by editors from the journal, Henry Gee, Rory Howlett and Philip Campbell, and is aimed at biologists and the general public wishing to spread awareness of evidence for evolution by natural selection. The examples are arranged in the sections: gems from the fossil record; gems from habitats; and gems from molecular processes. Each example gives links to the abstracts (and sometimes the full-text) of the original articles discussed and provides a list of additional references and websites. Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited and made available on the Web by the Nature Publishing Group.

http://www.nature.com/nature/newspdf/evolutiongems.pdf

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Canadian journal of pure and applied sciences

Canadian Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences is a peer reviewed multi-disciplinary journal with a worldwide coverage of research including the agricultural, biological and environmental sciences. Full text of issues is available online.

http://www.cjpas.net/

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ARBORtrack : advanced tree management

ARBORtrack is a geographic information software system for tree management, which was designed by and for vegetation managers. It integrates vegetation management information, allowing users to control groups or individual trees. The site gives details of the ARBORtrack products available. Users can download the user manual, technical documentation and an interactive demonstration of the software. There are also contact details for current users across Britain, details of how to register the software product and news items.

http://www.arbortrack.com

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National Science Foundation: Discoveries

Every day, research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) turns up a new discovery. NSF created this website to serve as a clearinghouse of information about the work they sponsor. The Discoveries site can be searched in its entirety, or visitors can just peruse the chronological list that is front and center on the homepage. NSF's public investment in science, engineering, education, and technology is prolific but most are unaware of the results. Here, visitors can learn about NSF projects that concern the "Internet, microbursts, Web browsers, extrasolar planets, and more... a panopoly of discoveries and innovations that began with NSF support." The Scout staff enjoys this site so much that most of us have subscribed to its RSS feed as well.

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/

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Encyclopedia of Life

A webpage for every organism on earth is the goal of this site, which was initially funded in 2007 by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.  To "learn how to navigate EOL, search for content, customize your experience, and explore pages..." visitors can start with the tab "Using the Site" at the top of the page.  Here, there is a video tour on general "Navigation" of the site and instructions on how specifically to use the "Species Pages".  Users can check out the FAQs section under the same tab for more help.  Visitors can select the "Language" tab at the top of the page to view the site in English, Spanish, Russian, Ukranian, German, or French. In the "About EOL" tab on the far upper right hand side of the page, visitors can check out the "Content Partners" link about halfway down the menu.  There are over two dozen partners and links to their websites listed,
including the Nearctic Spider Database, Mushroom Observer, FishBase, and AntWeb.

http://www.eol.org/

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ComPADRE

The ComPADRE digital library is a network of free online resource collections supporting faculty, students, and teachers in Physics and Astronomy Education.

http://www.compadre.org/

The State of Food and Agriculture 2008 - Biofuels: prospects, risks and opportunities

Surveys the current biofuels debate and discusses policies supporting biofuels production, along with what is still needed to address the effects and implications for the environment, food security, and poverty.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0100e/i0100e00.htm

EnergyFiles

EnergyFiles is a virtual library of over 500 science and technology databases and Web sites. Sponsored, developed, and maintained by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), EnergyFiles provides access to information, tools, and technologies relevant to the Department of Energy (DOE), with an emphasis on the physical sciences.

Energy Files is a DOE Science Accelerator Resource. The DOE Science Accelerator searches multiple science resources, including EnergyFiles. These resources, developed by OSTI, reside in the deep Web where popular search engines cannot go. The DOE Science Accelerator provides a "deeper" search that yields results ranked by relevancy. This search may take a little longer, but returns more comprehensive, higher quality science information.

http://www.osti.gov/energyfiles/index.html

WorldWideScience.org

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway - accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.

http://worldwidescience.org/index.html

Bioenergy, food security and sustainability - towards an international framework

One of the documents from FAO's 2008 High-level Conference on World Food Security, outlining the potential risks attached to the growth in bioenergy, where the production of biofuel crops may come at the expense of food crops, resulting in a rise in commodity prices and resultant problems with food security. The background paper outlines elements for discussion on the development of a consensus for action on sustainable biofuel production.

ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/meeting/013/k2498e.pdf

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Fossils in Antarctica : British Antarctic Survey

This collection of photographs is made available by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). It contains descriptions and colour images of fossils that are displayed in a 'Type and Figured Fossil Collection'. The collection comprises: annelida; arthropoda; brachiopoda; cnidaria; echinodermata; ichnotaxa; mollusca; plantae; protista; and vertebrata. The BAS fossil collection was started in the 1940s and now contains around 40,000 fossil specimens. There are also links that point to a section on the various fossil locations in Antarctica and a fossils picture gallery.

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/geography/rock/fossils.php

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Uniform convergence and pointwise convergence

This learning resource introduces uniform convergence and pointwise convergence for sequences of real-valued functions. It is part of the University of Nottingham open courseware initiative (U-NOW) and was written by Dr Joel Feinstein from the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nottingham. The resource is available under a Creative Commons England and Wales Public License as PDF and mp3 files, and can be viewed or downloaded.

http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=e29ada63-e1d3-7898-9afd-42692accd0be

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Introduction to compact operators

This learning resource provides the basic theory of compact linear operators on Banach spaces for postgraduate students or final year undergraduates. Topics covered include metric spaces; bounded operators and compact operators; spectra and eigenspaces. It is part of the University of Nottingham open courseware initiative (U-NOW) and was written by Dr Joel Feinstein from the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nottingham. The resource is available under a Creative Commons England and Wales Public License as a PDF and mp3 file, and can be viewed or downloaded

http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=cef3b657-d3d1-56c6-55c2-8c67b3c168e3

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Fungal planet

'Fungal planet' is an international project aiming to help the description of new fungal species, stabilize the nomenclature of known species and provide information on fungal diversity, useful for biologists and the general public. It is edited by the scientists Pedro Crous (one of the Directorate of the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands), K.A. Seifert, R.A. Samson and D.L. Hawksworth, and hosted by the CBS. This website gives free access to peer reviewed descriptions and illustrations of new species of fungi and species requiring further typification. All material submitted to Fungal Planet is reviewed by the editors and peer reviewers before publication. Each description consists of a technical page and a colour illustration page, with any supplementary information deposited in the online database 'MycoBank', administered by the International Mycological Association. The website also gives details of a book for non-specialists that the Fungal Planet project aim to produce from information in the database, details of the submission process and a link to MycoBank.

http://www.fungalplanet.org/

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Convention on Biological Diversity : forest biodiversity

This website focuses on the forest biodiversity programme of the international treaty 'Convention on Biological Diversity'. It provides news and reports of the various committees. Information is provided about forest biodiversity, why it matters and what needs to be done, as well as details of the programme itself and actions that have been taken and need to be taken to preserve biodiversity.

http://www.cbd.int/forest/

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Pesticide alternatives laboratory

The Pesticide Alternatives Laboratory is a unit of Michigan State University researching innovative pest control strategies, tactics and tools that help agricultural producers and land owners. Details of research projects and the staff involved can be found on the site, as well as a selection of documents and a newsletter. A link is also available to the Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database (APRD).

http://whalonlab.msu.edu/

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Agriculture and climate change

This report from the National Farmers' Union (NFU), issued in 2005, discusses the likely impact of climate change on farming and farmers in the UK over the next 50 years, looking at adaptations that will be required in crop and livestock production, and disease management. It also examines how agriculture can help mitigate the effects of climate change in such areas as biofuel production and carbon sequestration.It outlines the NFU view of what actions need to be taken. The 50-page report also contains useful tables illustrating projected trends in seasonal temperatures, estimated greenhouse gas emission levels, changes in soil moisture content and length of growing season.

http://www.nfuonline.com/documents/Policy%20Services/Environment/Climate%20Change/NFU%20Climate%20Change.pdf

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Basic studies in the field of high-temperature engineering

This online book (published in 2003) is available in full text with table of contents. It covers high-temperature engineering.
There are details of how to buy the book and links to libraries it can be borrowed from. Related books are listed. The site is provided by Google Books.

http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=hU0vSFjPUrYC

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Understanding uncertainty

This website is produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. Its "aim is to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society." It takes the form of a blog with stories accompanied by related mathematical and statistical explanations ranging from blogs aimed at a general readership through to full mathematical expositions at university level. Some featured contents including the prediction of murder, coincidence, and the National Lottery. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

http://understandinguncertainty.org/

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Linear differential operators in mathematical physics : MAGIC

This website was created to accompany the course "Linear differential operators in mathematical physics" given by Alexander Movchan from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, as part of the MAGIC project. MAGIC runs a wide range of postgraduate-level lecture courses in mathematics, using Access Grid videoconferencing technology. Topics covered in this course include: generalised derivatives; Sobolev spaces; Laplace's equation; generalised solutions of differential equations; singular solutions; the variational method; weak solutions; the energy space; Green's formula; the heat conduction equation; the maximum principle; the uniqueness theorem; wave propagation; and the characteristic cone. All the materials are available as PDF files (Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

http://www.maths.dept.shef.ac.uk/magic/course.php?id=18

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Herschel Science Centre

The Herschel Science Centre (HSC) website is designed for astronomers and scientists associated with the Herschel space telescope launched on 14th May 2009 by the European Space Agency (ESA). Herschel is the fourth 'cornerstone' mission in the ESA science programme and will perform photometry and spectroscopy in approximately the 55-672 micrometre range, bridging the gap between earlier infrared space missions and groundbased facilities. It will study the origins of the Universe. The HSC website contains the latest mission news, as well as information on the various scientific instruments on board the telescope. Various community tools are also available including details of conferences, press releases and other related links. Details of data gathered by Herschel, as well as processing schemes/tools are also available to users.

http://herschel.esac.esa.int/

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Engineering for sustainable development: guiding principles

This full text report is available in pdf format and covers principles for sustainable development.

It is provided by the Royal Academy of Engineering. There are abbreviations of technical terms as well as diagrams, tables and references.

http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/pdf/Engineering_for_Sustainable_Development.pdf

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NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) is a Designated Data Centre of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and as such it is tasked with the acquisition, archiving and provision of access to remotely sensed data of the surface of the earth acquired by satellite and airborne sensors. There are links to datasets and data services and also includes self-help tutorials on remote sensing. It aims to meet the needs of NERC Science and Survey with the Observation Data and Information and is part of the same group that runs the British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC). It shares a common user database with BADC.

http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk/

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Principles of adsorption cycles for refrigeration and heat pumping

This tutorial site covers adsorption cycles for refrigeration and heat pumping.

There are diagrams of the process as well as links to related sites. It is provided by the Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences in Paris.

http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/mpons/pricyc.htm

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Plant physiology online

This resource is designed to accompany the textbook 'Plant Physiology, Fourth Edition' by Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger, published by Sinauer Associates Inc., 2006, but is useful on its own for both college and undergraduate students. The subjects covered include essential concepts in plant physiology, transport and translocation of water and solutes, biochemistry and metabolism, and growth and development. The learning materials may be accessed by chapter or by categories as follows: topics (subject material relevant to the chapter); essays (individual papers written by researchers for the site and/or published elsewhere, available in full-text); study questions (short questions for each chapter); and readings (recommended readings for each chapter). The site also gives access to two chapters of the textbook that are provided online only: Chapter 2: Energy and Enzymes, and Chapter 14: Gene Expression and Signal Transduction; these chapters are available in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader (which may be downloaded freely from the link provided). Please note that this resource does not provide access to the full-text of the actual book.

http://4e.plantphys.net/

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Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences

The Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, one of a number of journals published online by the International Network for Scientific Information, covers all aspects of agricultural and biological sciences including: agronomy, botany, crop sciences, cytology, ecology, forestry, genetics, microbiology, plant breeding and soil sciences. The journal is covered by major indexing and abstracting services and is published bimonthly. Full text and abstracts are freely available at this site.

http://www.insinet.net/rjabs.html

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Research Journal of Fisheries and Hydrobiology

The Research Journal of Fisheries and Hydrobiology is one of a number of journals published online by the International Network for Scientific Information. Research is published on a variety of topics related to fisheries and hydrobiology, including: aquaculture, biodiversity, reproduction, taxonomy, biology and conservation. The journal is covered by major indexing and abstracting services and is published yearly. Full text and abstracts are freely available at this site.

http://www.insinet.net/rjfh.html

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Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP)

The Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) is an initiative of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, and aims to provide objective and independent scientific assessments of key issues. The first expert panel to be created is the Expert Panel on Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change. At this website, access is provided to the first major publication of this panel "Adaptation of Forests and People to Climate Change – A Global Assessment Report" - a 224-page report, published in 2009 by IUFRO - as well as the policy brief for this panel.

http://www.iufro.org/science/gfep/

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Open systems biology journal

The 'Open Systems Biology Journal' is an open access, peer reviewed online journal made available through the Bentham Open initiative of Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. The journal publishes original research articles, reviews and letters in all areas of systems biology, also encompassing the related topics of synthetic biology, computational biology, metabolomics, cell signalling and proteomics. Full-text articles are free to download in PDF format from Volume 1 (2008) to the present, whilst abstracts and tables of contents may be viewed online. The website also provides information on the Editorial Board, manuscript submission and how to order reprints

http://www.bentham.org/open/tosysbj/

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Botany : an introduction to plant biology

This resource is designed to accompany the textbook 'Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology, Third Edition' by James D. Mauseth, published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2003, but is useful on its own for both college and undergraduate students. It provides a searchable glossary of important terminology in botany, a directory of botanical organisations, and a series of animated flashcards enabling online self-testing of key definitions in botany; the flashcards require Adobe Flash Player, which can be downloaded free of charge from the link provided. For each chapter, links to other relevant websites are given with suggested activities to complete on the sites. Made available on the Web by Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Please note that this resource does not provide access to the full-text of the actual book.

http://www.biology.jbpub.com/Botany/

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Plant transformation

This resource provides a photographic tour of the process of creating a genetically modified plant, from initial seeds to a greenhouse of transgenic plants. Using tomato plants as an example, a stage-by-stage description of the plant transformation method is given, with photographs accompanying each stage. The resource is produced by the Partnership for Plant Genomics Education (PPGE) and is of interest to college and undergraduate students. The PPGE aims to develop educational programmes and materials concerning plant genomics and biotechnology for college students and teachers, and is funded by the University of California at Davis and the US National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education and the Plant Genome Venture Fund. The tour is written by Brad Hall of the University of California, Davis, with photographs provided by the author and by Calgene, Inc., Davis, CA, and the University of California Davis Biotechnology Program, Meyer Hall.

http://ppge.ucdavis.edu/Transformation/transform1.cfm

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AgrowKnowledge : the national resource center for agriscience & technology education

AgrowKowledge is partially funded by the US National Science Foundation with the aim to "strengthen math, science and technology skills of college agriculture students". It does this through professional development activities for educators which incorporate new and emerging technologies into agriculture, food and natural resources learning programmes. The website includes a resources clearinghouse with publications, case studies, laboratory activities, multimedia programmes and online links on all aspects of agricultural education. An extensive list of useful resources is available here, although there may be some US bias in the programmes. Access to most material requires (free) registration.

http://www.agrowknow.org/

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Australian Society For Fish Biology (ASFB)

ASFB was founded in 1971 to promote research, education and management of fish and fisheries in Australia and to provide a forum for the exchange of information. The website provides information on the history, constitution and management of ASFB, how to become a member, details of its scholarships, awards and bursaries, forthcoming events, and news items. Users can download a large number of publications (some of which are large files, which are slow to load) and book reviews. There are also links to other internet sites of interest.

http://www.asfb.org.au/

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Physics for Humanists

Modern physics can be a curious beast indeed, and it is "full of ideas that are weird, counterintuitive and wondrous." So goes the introduction to this most engaging online course site provided by the Tufts University OpenCourseWare initiative. The materials come from the course "Physics forHumanists", which was taught by Professor Gary R. Goldstein. As the course notes remark, "Physics for Humanists is intended for those who are intellectually and emotionally curious but do not intend to specialize in the natural sciences." The course site includes a syllabus, calendar,lectures, exams and quizzes, assignments, and lecture handouts. It's a real treat for anyone with a passion for the subject, and even those who might be intimidated by the subject matter may leave with a newfound interest. To find this resource and more high-quality online resources in math and science visit Scout's sister site - AMSER, the Applied Math and ScienceEducational Repository at http://amser.org/.

http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/30

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Images: The Best NASA Satellite Photos from the Last 50 Years

The best NASA satellite photos from the last 50 years include solar storms, choking cities, and glories in the sky, captured on film.

Direct to Compilation

Source: Discover Magazine

Environmental History Resources

Professor Jan Oosthoek at the University of Edinburgh has maintained a webpresence since 1999, and his most recent website was relaunched in March2008. The purpose of the site is to provide a range of resources andinformation on environmental history for the general public and scholars.Some of these resources include topical bibliographies, essays, annotatedguides to other web resources, and a news feed. Visitors who click on the"Bibliography" area will find links to detailed thematic bibliographies thatcover El Nino, climate history, Scottish forest history, and other topics.Moving on, the "Essays" area contains twelve different essays, including"The role of wood in world history", "What is environmental history?", and"Dutch river defences in historical perspective". The "Podcast" area is a real treat, and features interviews and discussions about topics such asurban air pollution in historical perspective and the environmental legacyof apartheid in South Africa.
http://www.eh-resources.org/index.html

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Citation Briefs

Computer Science & Engineering: Most Prolific U.S. Institutions, 2003-07

Journals Ranked by Impact: Environmental Studies


Source: Thomson Reuters

Comparison of Pub Med, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses

The evolution of the electronic age has led to the development of numerous medical databases on the World Wide Web, offering search facilities on a particular subject and the ability to perform citation analysis. We compared the content coverage and practical utility of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The official Web pages of the databases were used to extract information on the range of journals covered, search facilities and restrictions, and update frequency. We used the example of a keyword search to evaluate the usefulness of these databases in biomedical information retrieval and a specific published article to evaluate their utility in performing citation analysis. All databases were practical in use and offered numerous search facilities. PubMed and Google Scholar are accessed for free. The keyword search with PubMed offers optimal update frequency and includes online early articles; other databases can rate articles by number of citations, as an index of importance. For citation analysis, Scopus offers about 20% more coverage than Web of Science, whereas Google Scholar offers results of inconsistent accuracy. PubMed remains an optimal tool in biomedical electronic research. Scopus covers a wider journal range, of help both in keyword searching and citation analysis, but it is currently limited to recent articles (published after 1995) compared with Web of Science. Google Scholar, as for the Web in general, can help in the retrieval of even the most obscure information but its use is marred by inadequate, less often updated, citation information.—Falagas, M. E., Pitsouni, E I., Malietzis, G. A., and Pappas, G. Comparison of Pub Med, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses.
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Research Front Maps from Thomson Reuters

Research fronts are clusters of highly cited papers and research front maps are diagrammatic representations of the co-citation links among the highly cited papers that comprise the cluster. Fronts are selected from the Research Fronts section of Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters which is updated every two months. Some maps also link to author commentaries for specific papers.

Each circle represents a highly cited paper whose bibliographic information is displayed when the user clicks on the circle. The solid lines between circles represent the strongest co-citation links for each paper (that is, indicating that the papers are frequently cited together); weaker links are indicated by dashed lines. Papers close to each other on the map are generally more highly co-cited. The most recent paper(s) are indicated in pink.

http://sciencewatch.com/dr/rfm/

Scientific Societies

The Scientific Societies Page provides access to websites of scientific societies and professional associations whose focus is in the natural sciences as well as other related disciplines of interest to the Department of Energy research and development programs, projects, and initiatives.

http://www.osti.gov/eprints/societies/

The Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecules

The Virtual Museum of Minerals and Molecule is a web-based focal point and resource for 3-D visualizations of molecules and minerals. The visualizations utilize the Jmol applet in a web browser, which allows them to be interactively zoomed and rotated so they can be viewed from all angles, much as with a real molecule. They can also be programmed with highlighting features that allow identification of specific atoms, structural sub-components, and mineralogical planes.
The 3-D visualizations are incorporated into stand-alone HTML (WWW) instructional modules that combine text, graphics, molecular formulae, highlighting features, electron micrographs, and other appropriate instructional aids and materials.

http://virtual-museum.soils.wisc.edu/_museum.html

USDA Animal Welfare Information Center

Provides information for improved animal care and use in research, testing, teaching, and exhibition

http://awic.nal.usda.gov/

Macaulay Library: Online archive of animal sounds & video

The "world's largest archive of animal sounds and video"

http://macaulaylibrary.org/index.do

Seashells: the Plainness and Beauty of Their Mathematical Descriptions

How do plants and animals grow, one might ask? Jorge Picado of the Universidade de Coimbra recently looked into the question of how seashells grow, and has produced this lovely article which is offered as part of the Mathematical Association of America's (MAA) Digital Library collection. As Picado suggests in the abstract for this paper, "Many aspects of the growth of plants and animals may be described by remarkably simple mathematical laws." Utilizing the LiveGraphics3D Java applet, Picado elaborates on how seashells grow, along with offering some commentary on additional examples and a bibliography.

http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/23/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3294

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http://scout.wisc.edu/

International Year of Astronomy 2009

The International Year of Astronomy, 2009, will be a year-long, worldwide, public celebration of astronomy, held to mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo turning a telescope to the sky. The Year has been endorsed by UNESCO.

IYA2009 is being coordinated by the International Astronomical Union, the international body that represesents the world’s professional astronomers. However, almost all activities will be organised at the level of a country or region. Australia is one of the 63 countries signed up to participate.

http://www.astronomy2009.org.au/

Special issue : harnessing plant biomass for biofuels and biomaterials

This Special Issue of the Plant Journal (Volume 54 (4) May 2008) is devoted to the biochemical processes that plants can or could use to produce biofuels and other useful biomaterials, and is available in full-text free of charge. Useful for researchers, students, teachers and other interested individuals, it comprises 17 peer reviewed articles written by invited experts, along with an editorial introducing the topic and discussing some of the papers. The reviews aim to be accessible to the general public and to provide a scientific backdrop to discussions on alternative sources of carbon, such as ethanol and biodiesel, and on other important chemicals derived from plants. Also available from the site is an accompanying podcast (17 minutes 14 seconds) featuring an interview with Professor Christoph Benning, a Co-Editor of the special issue. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd in association with the Society for Experimental Biology, and made available on Web by Wiley InterScience.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120090038/issue
Copyright © 2006-2009

The American Journal of Science

Started in 1818, the American Journal of Science (originally called The American Journal of Science and Arts) is the oldest scientific journal published without interruption in the United States. Today the Journal deals only with geology and related earth science, but for many years it covered a wider range of scientific and artistic endeavors. Recently, staff members at Carnegie Mellon University's library decided to create an online collection, which contains over 140 volumes of the Journal. Visitors can search the entire contents of the collection at their leisure, or they can just browse around for a bit. For historians of science and those with a curiosity about what scientists and others found of importance in the 19th century, this collection will be invaluable.  The site is rounded out by a FAQ area and a
link to other digital collections created by Carnegie Mellon University.

http://ajs.library.cmu.edu/

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Internet Bird Collection

The Internet Bird Collection (IBC) is a non-profit endeavour with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna. It is an on-line audiovisual library of the world's birds that is available to the general public free of charge. While the initial aim is to post at least one video or photo per species, the long-term objective is to eventually include material showing a variety of biological aspects (e.g. feeding, breeding, etc.) for every species.

http://ibc.lynxeds.com/

The Conus Biodiversity Website

This web site is part of a National Science Foundation-sponsored project aimed at expanding knowledge of systematics of the unusually diverse marine gastropod genus Conus. The project goals are to integrate species-level revisionary systematics of the major regional faunas, contribute to molecular-based phylogenetic hypotheses, expand predictive classifications, and promulgate the results in both electronic and print media.

http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/