The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

"The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. Established in 1971, the Society is at the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programs."

http://www.xerces.org/

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

"The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) collaborates with a wide range of partners throughout the UN system and beyond to provide information on the state of the planet's natural resources and their contribution to sustainable development.

UNEP's work, a great portion being scientific and technical in nature, is used in support of decision making in environmental management and sustainable development."

http://www.unep.org/

Environmental SCENE

Chemical & Engineering News' Environmental SCENE is "an up-to-the-minute collection of news about environmental research, business, and policy, including coverage of climate change, pollution, toxic substances, and sustainability"

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/environment/

Carbon Offset Research & Education (CORE)

"An initiative of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). SEI is an independent, international research institute bridging science and policy for sustainable development.CORE's mission is to foster offset programs and policies that maximize their potential benefits, while minimizing their potential risks. The CORE team conducts cutting-edge research to inform policy makers and the general public."

http://www.co2offsetresearch.org/

AVoCet: Avian Vocalizations Center

From Michigan State University: "Project AVoCet aims to provide a global database of well-documented, downloadable bird sounds in aid of environmental and ornithological research, conservation, education, and the identification and appreciation of birds and their habitats."

http://avocet.zoology.msu.edu/

Ocean Conserve

Ocean Conserve is an ocean conservation portal and internet search tool that provides access to reviewed ocean conservation news and information. It includes news web links and a subject directory.

http://www.oceanconserve.org/

Boston Museum of Science Podcasts

The Boston Museum of Science has collected podcasts feature weekly interviews with guest researchers and their own staff members. The series started in May 2009, and currently there are over 65 podcasts available. Topics include "Energy Saving Technologies", "Wearable Electronic Fibers", and "Bonehenge: Assembling A Sperm Whale Skeleton".

http://www.mos.org/events_activities/podcasts

Geologic Time: The story of a changing earth

The Smithsonian Institute of Paleobiology has created an interactive annotated time line summary of the ages of the earth. Information includes dates and geological evidence for each era.

http://www.paleobiology.si.edu/geotime/index.htm

PhysOrg.com

"A leading web-based science, research and technology news service which covers a full range of topics. These include physics, earth science, medicine, nanotechnology, electronics, space, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, engineering, mathematics and other sciences and technologies. Launched in 2004, PhysOrg’s readership has grown steadily to include 1.75 million scientists, researchers, and engineers every month. PhysOrg publishes approximately 100 quality articles every day, offering some of the most comprehensive coverage of sci-tech developments world-wide. Quancast 2009 includes PhysOrg in its list of the Global Top 2,000 Websites. PhysOrg community members enjoy access to many personalized features such as social networking, a personal home page set-up, RSS/XML feeds, article comments and ranking, the ability to save favorite articles, a daily newsletter, and other options."

http://www.physorg.com/

BioMed Central

BioMed Central provides free access to original peer-reviewed research and some subscription services. Publications include full text journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts in the subject areas of medicine and the biological sciences.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/gateway/

MAA Online: Classroom Capsules and Notes

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) provides a range of high-quality educational resources for educators all across the United States and the world. Recently, they completed digitizing over 114 years of their short classroom materials, and they are now available right here. On the homepage, visitors can look over "Featured Items" to get started, and then they can
type in keywords to look for specific items. Recently featured items have included "Proof without Words: Geometric Series", "Museum Exhibits for the Conics", and "The Birthday Problem Revisited". Visitors should also check out the "Tips on Searching" area to help out with their exploration of this archive. Educators will find that the site is worthy of several visits, and this material can be used to illuminate a wide range of mathematical topics and concepts.

http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/20/

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Science360 Knowledge Network

http://www.science360.gov/files/

Science360 Knowledge Network immerses visitors in the latest wonders of science, engineering, technology and math. They gather the latest science videos provided by scientists, colleges and universities, science and engineering centers and the National Science Foundation. Videos can be embedded.

Patent database up and running

U.S. Patent data that once carried a high access fee is now available for free online.

"The system is now in full production including all the current feeds that were previously only available for big bucks by subscription. Also available for the first time is the Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) data, which is the full "wrapper" for a patent application. PAIR data was only available previously on a rate-limited query-only service"

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/patent-database-up-and-running.html

Evolution of Normal Fault Systems During Progressive Deformation

The Teaching Structural Geology in the 21st Century website from Carleton College brings together lesson plans, interactive modules, and in-class evaluations that help college professors work more effectively with their students. This recent addition to the site comes from H. Robert Burger of Smith College. This activity is based on a series of Quick Time movies and color digital photographs, and the students will first view movies to "gain awareness of the basic evolution of normal fault systems." After this, students are asked to investigate the formation and evolution of a fault system for a particular structural system. Users will find a bit of information on the audience for the activity, a set of goals, the movies, and a description of the activity.

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/structure04/activities/3861.html

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Impact: Earth!

http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth

The Impact: Earth! calculator was developed by a Purdue University research team. It calculates the damage an asteroid will cause when it hits Earth, based on user entered data such as size, density, the angle of entry and the location of its hit.

The Habitable Planet

http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/index.html

The Habitable Planet is a multimedia course created by Annenberg media for high school teachers and adult learners interested in studying environmental science. The Web site provides access to course content and activities developed by leading scientists and researchers in the field. Resources include an online textbook, videos, animations and interactive laboratory classes.

Environmental Contaminants Program

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, this site provides information on how wildlife and fish are affected by environmental contaminants

http://www.fws.gov/contaminants/index.cfm

SciVerse

Elsevier has created SciVerse - a new platform for science content to address the needs of researchers. SciVerse integrates the content from ScienceDirect and Scopus and targeted web content and features an increasing range of applications developed by the scientific community.

SciVerse allows a single-search using SciVerse Hub, and applications include:

• Methods section - search restricting inquiries to the methods/experimental procedures sections of full-text articles
• Matching sentences - a summary of sentences matching the search term
• Most prolific authors - locating the top ten most frequently occurring authors in a results list, with citations, article counts, and links to Scopus article profiles
  

There is also increased interoperability between SciVerse ScienceDirect and SciVerse Scopus, as well as Image searching in SciVerse ScienceDirect.

Sciverse can be accessed from the links to Scopus and Science Direct on the Library's databases page, or directly from http://www.hub.sciverse.com.elibrary.jcu.edu.au/action/home

Faculty of 1000

"The core service of Faculty of 1000 (F1000) identifies and evaluates the most important articles in biology and medical research publications. The selection process comprises a peer-nominated global 'Faculty' of the world's leading scientists and clinicians who rate the best of the articles they read and explain their importance.

Launched in 2002, F1000 was conceived as a collaboration of 1000 international Faculty Members. Although the name stuck, the remit of our service continues to grow and the Faculty now numbers more than 10,000 experts whose evaluations form a fully searchable resource identifying the best research available. Faculty Members and their evaluations are organized into over 40 Faculties (subjects), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections.

On average, 1500 new evaluations are published each month; this corresponds to approximately the top 2% of all published articles in the biological and medical sciences"

http://f1000.com/evaluations

Global Green

http://www.globalgreen.org/

The homepage provides a few basic overviews of relevant questions, including "What makes a product green?" and "Why build green?" There is also a "Planet
Green Game", developed by Global Green and Starbucks which seeks to educate individuals and organizations about making meaningful environmentally
sound decisions. Visitors can click on the "Green Building Resources" link to find a thematically organized set of websites, lesson plans, and other items
organized into topics like "Energy-Related Resources" and "Project Certifications and Guidelines".

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University of Minnesota Physics Demonstrations Page

What can the University of Minnesota's physics department do for you? Plenty, of course! This excellent website provides interested parties with
access to some of the fine demonstrations prepared for use by educators and students as of late. On the homepage, visitors will see a number of drop-
down menus that are divided into areas like "fluid mechanics", "optics", and "modern physics". Within each of these areas, the video demonstrations are
divided into additional areas, and visitors can click on each image to view the demonstration in question. Visitors can also use the "Additional Links"
area to look through other videos, take a look at the physics department homepage, and learn more about lab safety.

http://groups.physics.umn.edu/demo/

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Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures

"This site offers you information on works of structural engineering, architecture or construction through time, history and from around the world. Our documentation begins at the time of the pyramids in Egypt and Roman construction, continues to Romanesque and Gothic churches and through to the Industrial Revolution all the way to today and beyond. Structurae deals mostly with bridges, tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, stadiums, towers, etc. Explore this site to discover the marvelous works of structural engineering"

http://en.structurae.de/

Census of Marine Life

http://www.coml.org/

After 10 years, it would appear that the Census of Marine Life has an excellent idea of the species residing throughout the world's oceans and seas. The project was sponsored by a host of institutions, including the Rockefeller University in New York, and the initial findings of this magnificent undertaking were announced this Monday.The project reveals that there are almost 250,000 marine species in existence, and if microscopic life were included, that number could potentially land in the hundreds of millions. The site contains a summary report and statistics.

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Carnegie Institution for Science: Multimedia content

http://carnegiescience.edu/multimedia_content

Carnegie Institution for Science's Multimedia website contains video and audio files that tell the story of recent research projects and outreach efforts from various corners of the world and outer space. The materials are arranged chronologically, and they can be explored via iTunes and YouTube as well. Recent items profiled here include tropical forests, stem cells, metallic glass, and the history of silver. The materials here date back to May 2008, and there are also "Features" which include conversations with their staff scientists on mineral evolution and earthquake research.

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Journal TOCs

https://mail.jcu.edu.au/wm/mail/fetch.html?urlid=g6cd41f7edd523c4850d909335ca2101c4kihep9gel&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk%2Findex.php

As well as using Current Contents, you may be interested in Journal TOCs, which is a free resource featuring the table of contents (TOCs) for over 14,000
journals from more than 500 publishers, with more being added continuously. JournalTOCs features TOCs from publishers such as Elsevier, SAGE,
Oxford University Press, Wiley, Springer-Verlag, and the American Psychological Association. Users may search by journal title/ISSN, or look for articles
via keywords. Alternatively, browsing by Publishers or by Subjects is available. Subjects include scientific and engineering publications.

Environmental News Network

http://www.enn.com/

This site has aggregated environmental news for more than 16 years. It provides input from subject experts, offering current awareness tools and links to other environment-related Web sites as well as news. ENN covers environmental issues all over the globe, provides RSS feeds, and sends out a daily e-newsletter. Users can also follow ENN via Twitter.

Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences

"Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences discusses how some of the most important scientific and societal challenges can be addressed, at least in part, by collaborative research that lies at the intersection of traditional disciplines, including biology, chemistry, and physics. This book describes how some of the mysteries of the biological world are being addressed using tools and techniques developed in the physical sciences, and identifies five areas of potentially transformative research. Work in these areas would have significant impact in both research and society at large by expanding our understanding of the physical world and by revealing new opportunities for advancing public health, technology, and stewardship of the environment."

This book can be read free online

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12809

Endangered Species International

With a focus on interdisciplinary work, Endangered Species International has a set of core values that includes "passion for nature" and "optimism for
solving the species extinction crisis." On their homepage, visitors can learn about their latest actions, see their latest photos from the field,
and learn about their research projects. First-time visitors should click on the "Our Projects" area, to learn about their "Current Project" on saving
endangered animals from the bushmeat trade in the Congo and coral reef protection. Moving on, the "Endangered Species" area features some fact
sheets and overviews regarding extinct species, threatened species, and rediscovered species.

http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/

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Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey

Every ten years, the National Research Council (NRC) of The National Academy of Sciences produces a series of surveys related to their areas of
scientific inquiry. The public release of the Astro2010 survey of astronomy and astrophysics took place on August 13, 2010, and visitors to this site
can read the report and also watch the webcast from the release event.  The goal of this publication is to "recommend priorities for the most important
scientific and technical activities of the decade 2010-2020." Drawing on the expertise of scholars at Stanford University, Vassar College, the University
of Chicago, and other institutions, the report is a crucial piece of work on what should be done across the board in these two branches of the physical
sciences.

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/BPA/BPA_049810

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International Rivers

http://www.internationalrivers.org/

International Rivers is an organization that opposes the construction of destructive dams on rivers, and they also support communities affected by dams. Their aim is to "protect rivers and promote just and sustainable water and energy development." Along with each answer, there is most often an article, slideshow, video or other resource to explore further. Some of the pieces examine why there is opposition to large dams, the expense of hydroelectricity, the lack of local jobs produced when a dam is being built in a developing country, and the number of people displaced by dams. Under the "Get Involved" tab, there is a section called "Tools for Educators" that include lessons for introductory learners, intermediate learners, advanced learners, and a "River Educator's Toolkit", which contains lessons on the four major rivers in Asia, Africa, and South America.

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LiveScience

http://www.livescience.com/

LiveScience, launched in 2004, is a news source for accessible science, health and technology news targeting people who are curious about their minds, bodies, and the world around them. Themes include space, animals, health, environment, technology, culture and history. The site utilises a variety of media.

Liquid Journals

http://liquidjournal.org/

This beta site provides a platform for publishing scientific data assembled by individuals or groups of scientists and experts. It does not discriminate between peer reviewed and non peer reviewed papers, raw data sets and blog posts. The idea is that smart scientists can decide for themselves what belongs in their own liquid journal, and influential leaders and groups in the movement will organically accrue a readership to their journal according to the quality of the work they select.

Technology Review Copyright 2010

Global Climate Change: NASA's Eyes on the Earth

http://climate.nasa.gov/

Information and multimedia presentations about NASA's research into climate change

A Gallery of Ray Tracing for Geometers

http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/23/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3350

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has developed the Loci site to bring high-quality instructional materials to math educators everywhere. One of their more recent offerings is this article by Michael Grady of Southern Utah University on how to add animations to geometric constructions. The piece talks about how users might use computers and open source ray tracing software to add the dimension of time to their presentations and illustrations. The abstract for the article notes that "The web provides a viable medium for enhancing mathematical presentations with photo-realistic
graphics and video." Visitors will note that the piece includes six different sections, including "Projections", "Rotations", and "References".

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Dimensions

http://howbigreally.com/

This BBC website takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are, so you can judge scale. Topics include space, the ancient world and environmental disasters.

HERO - Health and Environmental Research Online

http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/hero/index.cfm?action=content.home

HERO contains the full text of key studies EPA uses to develop environmental risk assessments for the public. EPA uses risk assessments to characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and the ecosystem from pollutants and chemicals in the environment.

You can browse through the bibliographic references in HERO by topic or assessment, or search for articles by author, title, etc

Ingenia

http://www.ingenia.org.uk/

Ingenia magazine, is the informative quarterly of The Royal Academy of Engineering. It is aimed at all those with an interest in engineering, whether you work in business and industry, government, academia or the financial community. Complex or technical engineering issues are explained for the non-specialist and confusing jargon is kept to a minimum.

International Plant Science Center: The New York Botanical Garden

http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/

"Combining modern technologies with a century of field and laboratory research, the Garden’s International Plant Science Center is one of the few institutions worldwide with the resources, collections, and expertise to develop the information needed to understand and manage plant diversity. The International Plant Science Center makes vital contributions to scientific discovery and for the conservation and sustainable use of the world’s plant life."

Grasshoppers: Their Biology, Identification and Management

http://fs-sdy2.sidney.ars.usda.gov/grasshopper/

"This website provides one of the most comprehensive sources of information on the biology, ecology, identification and management of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets in North America. It also contains information on non-target effects, current survey information, and decision support software. "

National Geographic: In the Field

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field

From tigers to lions to unknown archaeological sites in Mongolia, field researchers working for National Geographic are working around the world on a variety of important expeditions. Their "In the Field" site includes a number of projects, which can be found under "Projects A-Z". Projects

include the Genographic Project and the work of Alexandra Cousteau, the noted environmental advocate, and each of these features photos, video clips, and descriptions. In the "Explorers" area, visitors can learn about explorers like Robert Ballard (of "Titanic" fame), Wade Davis, and Zahi Hawass. Aspiring scientists and the like will want to click on their "Grants and Programs" area to learn more about available opportunities offered via the National Geographic Society.

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Impact of a global temperature rise of 4C

http://www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk/en/ambition/evidence/4-degrees-map/

This website has been developed by the UK government as a result of the UN Climate Change Negotiations in Copenhagen (COP15). It presents a series of scenarios for the risks and results of a 4C climatic temperature rise worldwide, focussing on several key areas. From the agricultural perspective, climate change impacts on crops, water availability and forest fires are presented. Together with evidence of increased risks of cyclonic and drought conditions, this series of maps presents an uncomfortable picture for the future, and the site can be a useful starting point for studies on climatic variation.

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Water: Asia's Next Challenge

http://sites.asiasociety.org/taskforces/water/interactive/

The Asia Society has created this site to draw attention to the tremendous challenges facing Asia in terms of access to water for a myriad of uses. The homepage contains a short film and links to the main report. Here, visitors will find the executive summary, along with the complete 59-page document. The document includes chapters like "Water Security Challenges in India" and "Climate Change and Water". Visitors can also download and view specific briefings for each country in the region. The site also contains other video clips of various experts and officials discussing water-based challenges, along with links to other online resources.

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NASA news and features

http://www.nasa.gov/news/index.html

The news and features section of the NASA website contains current research information, satellite maps and feature articles relevant to a range of scientific issues.

Statistical and thermal physics

http://www.compadre.org/stp/

This website provides a collection of resources including student activities and simulations designed to assist in the teaching of undergraduate statistical and thermal physics. The material is linked to the textbook, Thermal and Statistical Physics by Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik, which is to be published by Princeton University Press. Topics covered include the thermal properties of matter, the first law of thermodynamics, the second and third laws, probability, ensembles, models, phase transitions, kinetics and dynamics, and statistical physics. The website is part of the ComPADRE Digital Library.

Copyright 2006-2010

World Development Report 2010

World Development Report 2010

The 2010 World Development Report considers the disproportionate implications of climate change for developing countries and examines the actions that developed countries must take to address the problems and help developing countries tackle the issues. The report, published by the World Bank, can be downloaded in its entirety or as individual chapters. The website also provides consultation documents, background papers, frequently asked questions, multimedia resources, maps and figures and a climate change blog.

Intute Copyright 2006-2010

European Southern Observatory

http://www.eso.org/public/

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is an intergovernmental organization comprised of 14 member countries.
Its headquarters are in Germany, but they have three observatories in Chile as well.  Their website contains many images and
videos as well as general information and virtual tours.

Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009

Article by Bo-Christer Björk1, Patrik Welling1, Mikael Laakso1*, Peter Majlender1, Turid Hedlund1, Guoni Guonason2

1) Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
2) Innovation Center Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

"The Internet has recently made possible the free global availability of scientific journal articles. Open Access (OA) can occur either via OA scientific journals, or via authors posting manuscripts of articles published in subscription journals in open web repositories. So far there have been few systematic studies showing how big the extent of OA is, in particular studies covering all fields of science.

The proportion of peer reviewed scholarly journal articles, which are available openly in full text on the web, was studied using a random sample of 1837 titles and a web search engine. Of articles published in 2008, 8,5% were freely available at the publishers’ sites. For an additional 11,9% free manuscript versions could be found using search engines, making the overall OA percentage 20,4%. Chemistry (13%) had the lowest overall share of OA, Earth Sciences (33%) the highest. In medicine, biochemistry and chemistry publishing in OA journals was more common. In all other fields author-posted manuscript copies dominated the picture."

Access the complete abstract and full text article

Kings of Camouflage

http://video.pbs.org/video/1150618835/program/979359664

With its interesting movements and sometimes bizarre appearance, the cuttlefish is one of the most fascinating creatures in the sea. This recent
documentary from NOVA explores the world of the cuttlefish and its behaviors. On the homepage, visitors can watch the 53-minute film in its
entirety. There are many extra features on the site, including a teacher's guide, a transcript, and a set of external links and related readings. There
are four additional sections, including "Anatomy of a Cuttlefish" and "Mating Trickery". In the "Mating Trickery" section, visitors can view a
slide show of how cuttlefish mate, along with comparisons from the rest of the animal world, including fish and reptiles. Additionally, the "Anatomy of
a Cuttlefish" area explores some of the animal's more unusual features, such as its blue-green blood and its three hearts.

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PaDIL - Pests and diseases image library

http://www.padil.gov.au/default.aspx

PaDIL is an Australian Commonwealth Government initiative providing high quality information and images of plant pests and diseases of concern to Australia. Since most of these are exotic to Australia, the library has wide global appeal. Each pest or disease entry in the library provides extensive illustrations with a full description and relevant scientific citations.

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Jabacus : online design tools

http://www.jabacus.com/

This site includes online calculator utilities for civil engineering including snow and wind load calculators and the properties of construction materials.

There is also a calculator for seismic loading on buildings.

Copyright 2006-2010

Transactions: A technical reference series from Omega Engineering

http://www.omega.co.uk/literature/transactions/

This site includes full text handbooks including diagrams and formulae covering measurement and control technologies.
Topics covered include infrared detectors, data acquisition, pressure measurement as well as flow and level measurement. The handbooks are available in html and pdf formats.

Copyright 2006-2010

Sense about science

http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php

Sense about Science is a UK based independent charitable trust whose work is designed to "respond to the misrepresentation of science and scientific evidence on issues that matter to society, from scares about plastic bottles, fluoride and the MMR vaccine to controversies about genetic modification, stem cell research and radiation." Features include presentations, briefing documents and slide shows. In the "Other Sections" area, visitors can browse their complete publications area and learn about their annual lecture series.

Inside black holes

http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/index.html

Andrew Hamilton of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has created this multimedia introduction to black holes and what happens inside them. It includes visualisations created using the author's Black Hole Flight Simulator, images, videos and lists of references. He describes Schwarzschild black holes, Reissner-Nordstrom black holes, black holes as waterfalls of space, the rules of four-dimensional perspective, Penrose diagrams and a journey into a "realistic" black hole.

Copyright 2006-2010

Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy Videos

"Sixty Symbols is a collection of videos about physics and astronomy presented by experts from The University of Nottingham. They aren't lessons or lectures - and this site has never tried to be an online reference book. The films are just fun chats with men and women who love their subject and know a lot about it!"

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

Multilingual WorldWideScience.org

http://worldwidescience.org/multi/index.html

WorldWideScience.org Goes Multilingual
"Now you can find non-English scientific literature from databases in China, Russia, France, and several Latin American countries and have your search results translated into one of nine languages. With the beta launch today of Multilingual WorldWideScience.org, real-time searching and translation of globally-dispersed collections of scientific literature is possible. This new capability is the result of an international public-private partnership between the WorldWideScience.org Alliance and Microsoft Research, whose translation technology has been paired with the federated searching technology of Deep Web Technologies"

The Ocean Portal

http://ocean.si.edu/

The Ocean Portal, created by the Smithsonian Institute, contains a large number of resources including essays, videos and interactive material relevant to marine life and systems.

NOAA Office of Response and Restoration

The mission of NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration) Office of Response and Restoration includes providing "scientific and technical support to prepare for and respond to oil and chemical releases", along with working to protect and restore marine and coastal ecosystems. Topics include "Emergency Response", "Pollutants in the Environment", "Serving Communities", and "Natural Resource Restoration". Within each area, visitors can read fact sheets and check out technical reports.

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/index.php
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Greendex: survey of sustainable consumption

National Graphic and GlobeScan have teamed up on a research project called the Greendex, and it
provides a multitude of useful ways for visitors to learn how well consumers are "going green".
The map in shades of green, yellow, and gray on the homepage allows visitors to see which of seventeen
different countries are the most environmentally sustainable in their practices and policies.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/greendex/index.html
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Ozcoasts: Australian online coastal information

OzCoasts is an online resource providing comprehensive information about Australia's coasts (including its estuaries and coastal waterways) for natural resource managers, marine scientists, planners, policy makers and the general public created by the collaborative efforts of more than 100 coastal scientists from a wide range of government agencies and universities. It includes a coastal landform and stability mapping tool, a database of coastal information, various conceptual models, coastal indicator factsheets, a habitat mapping toolkit and information on natural resources management.

http://www.ozcoasts.org.au/
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Animal research info

AnimalResearch.info is an international collaboration of scientists and researchers providing information about the use of animals in medical research. This website outlines the important contribution of animal research to medical advances and provides detailed information on drug development, medical advances, animal models, alternatives and the 3Rs, regulation and legislation, and experimental design and analysis. There is a document library and an A-Z listing of organisations (commercial, academic, and charities) that conduct research using animals, with links to each of their policy statements on animal research.

AnimalResearch.info

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Antarctic Data Series

The Antarctic Data Series are publications from the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University, New Zealand, containing compilations of data and analyses of fieldwork unsuitable for publication in academic journals but believed to be of value to the research community. Over thirty volumes are available full text from 1971 to date covering topics such as sedimentation and oceanography below the McMurdo ice shelf at Windless Bight, and mineral and rock analyses of lithospheric xenoliths from Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica.

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/antarctic/publications/ADS/ads.aspx
Copyright 2006-2010

Chemistry for Biologists

"Chemistry for Biologists" is a resource from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) which aims to help A-level students and first year undergraduates understand the chemical principles underlying much of biology. Seventeen chapters are provided, each with a short multiple-choice test. They cover: basic chemistry, inorganic ions, water and living organisms, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, cells, metabolism and energy, energy flow, gas exchange, transport of oxygen in the blood, respiration, photosynthesis, excretion and the liver, and nerves and hormones. The site has been designed for use with Internet Explorer and also requires Microsoft PowerPoint and the MDL Chime plug-in.

http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/learnnet/cfb/
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Resources for Earth Sciences and Geography Instruction

Dr. Mark Francek of Central Michigan University has created this helpful website for science educators and students interested in the fields of earth science and geography. This clearinghouse of useful educational resources is organized alphabetically around the sequence of topics that one might encounter in an introductory earth science or physical geography class. Some of these topics include "Atmospheric Moisture", "Glaciers", "Water Pollution", and "Population". Each topical area includes links to high-quality online resources, complete with a short description authored by Professor Francek. Visitors to the site can also sign up for Professor Francek's "Earth Science Site of the Week" email update. Finally, the site also has a slide show of compelling images drawn from the world of earth science.

http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi/

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Science News

Science News is the magazine of the American Society for Science and the Public. Articles are written with a general focus. Features include SN Bookshelf offering reviews of current scientific resources and the SN Multimedia section, offering videos and slide shows to explain scientific research.

http://www.sciencenews.org/

Nature Communications

Nature Communications is a new online-only, multidisciplinary journal from the Nature publishing group dedicated to publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical and chemical sciences.

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

Copyright 2010 Nature Publishing Group

100 best reference sites for science students

These 100 science reference sites from the US based Online Universities cover everything from the basics of the periodic table to the intricacies of human DNA.

http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/01/100-best-reference-sites-for-science-students/

© 2010 OnlineUniversities.com

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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State of the world's forests

This biennial publication from FAO reports on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. Each of the publications summarizes the outlook for forests and forestry in each region, based on FAO's sectoral studies, and includes statistical data and analysis on climatic change, demographic issues, international demand for timber and non-timber forest products, conservation of biodiversity, illegal forestry practices, international initiatives, and regional issues. All reports from No.1 (1995) onward are available at this site.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/49666/en/

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Leonardo Journal of Sciences

The Leonardo Journal of Sciences is an open access journal published by AcademicDirect Publishing House twice yearly covering all areas of science with an emphasis on algorithms and computer applications in the sciences. The journal's website provides access to full text papers, available as PDF files

http://ljs.academicdirect.org/

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Bridge Components

This tutorial site includes illustrations as well as text describing different components of bridges and also describes how to design bridges. There are design calculations and spreadsheets.

http://www.childs-ceng.demon.co.uk/parts/brdgbit.html

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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. The K-12 engineering curriculum uses engineering as a vehicle for the integration of hands-on science and mathematics through real-world designs and applications that inspire the creativity of youth.
Users may search over K-12 engineering lessons and activities, as well as other K-12 resources, by many criteria - including content focus area, grade level and educational standards. K-12 community resources include professional development opportunities and research findings. Higher education resources may be discovered by multiple criteria including discipline, audience, resource type, title, author/creator, special topics, or by selected collection. Higher education community resources include support for ABET accreditation, research and scholarship, curricula development and extracurricular activities for students."

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

Index to American Botanical Literature

"The Index to American Botanical Literature has provided a service to the American botanical community for over a century, published initially in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club and subsequently in Brittonia. Beginning in 1886, when Elizabeth Britton of The New York Botanical Garden was editor, the Index has provided bibliographic data both on books and articles in periodicals. In 1999, the Index went to an entirely electronic format.
The Index contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany (publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.). “America” is defined in the broadest possible sense, encompassing land and marine plants and fungi from Greenland to Antarctica. American territory outside this area, e.g., Hawaii, is not included.
The searchable database includes all those entries published in the Index since 1996, and thus includes botanical literature appearing since late 1995. We have made minimal progress in retrospective cataloging, and will continue to add older literature as time and manpower are available. If a bibliographic entry is not in the Index, it probably means either (1) the subject matter was considered inappropriate (e.g., physiology, genetics), or (2) the publication has not arrived at the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden."

http://sweetgum.nybg.org/iabl/

Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ Digitised and Now Available from National Library of Australia

In 2009, the NLA acquired a copy of the first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The digitisation of the entire copy has recently been completed, and is available online
Believed to be one of the earliest surviving copies of Darwin’s work to have arrived in Australia, the copy bears the inscription and annotations of its first owner, Dr William Woolls of Parramatta, NSW, dated 17 March 1860

http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.gen-vn4591931

Environment Yale

The Journal of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has a new website. The journal is published twice per year, and
exists in both print and online formats. Past issues go back to 2002. It covers research in forestry and environmental studies and research
is not just restricted to Yale.

http://environment.yale.edu/magazine/

International Year of Biodiversity

The United Nations has declared the year 2010 as the year of biodiversity. It is a celebration of life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives. Links include resources, a calender of celebrations and a detailed endangered species list.

http://www.cbd.int/2010/welcome/

Copyright 2010

The Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)

The Universities Space Research Association displays the Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD). The daily photo highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD collects and archives photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The community is invited to contribute digital imagery, short captions and relevant links.

http://epod.usra.edu/blog/

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Communicating Science - Tools for Scientists and Engineers

Scientists and engineers who foster information-sharing and respect between science and the public are essential for the public communication of and engagement with science. Funding agencies are increasingly encouraging researchers to extend beyond peer-reviewed publishing and communicate their results directly to the greater public. In response to this need in science communications, the AAS Centre for Engagement with Science has partnered with the National Science Foundation to provide resources for scientists and engineers, both online and through in-person workshops to help researchers communicate more broadly with the public. This site contains online resources include webinars, how-to tips for media interviews, strategies for identifying public communication and more.

http://communicatingscience.aaas.org/Pages/newmain.aspx

Copyright © 2008. American Association for the Advancement of Science.

American Mathematical Society Books Online

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) was founded in 1888 in order to further mathematical research and scholarship. Since that time, they have embarked on a number of outreach programs designed to educate the public about the importance of various mathematical endeavors. In the past several years, they have been developing the AMS Books Online website, and it's quite a resource. The works were all originally published by the AMS, and they can be browsed by author or subject. The subject headings include analysis, general interest, logic and foundations, and number theory. Users can download individual chapters from each book, and there are currently over thirty books available on the site. Visitors should make sure and check back, as there are plans to add books to the site periodically.

http://www.ams.org/online_bks/onbk_list.html

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Astronomy Media Player

From the planets to various interstellar bodies, learning about astronomy can be fun and engaging. One way to learn about such matters is via podcasts, and this website is committed to finding the best astronomy podcasts from various places around the world. Users can get started by looking at one the following sections: "General", "Observing", "Courses", "Your Questions", "Observations", and "Top Ten". Each section contains a host of current (and former) podcasts. Persons looking to find answers to specific astronomy queries will want to look over podcasts like "Ask an Astronomer" and "Brain Bites" in the "Your Questions" area. The "Observatories" area is equally delightful, and it contains links to podcasts such as "Gemini Observatory" and "W.M. Keck Observatory". Of
course, the social media options on the site are quite good, and it's easy to reference such treasures on Facebook, Digg, and so on

http://www.jodcast.net/amp/

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Wildlife Conservation Research Unit

Oxford University has a very important website dedicated to its Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), that hopes to solve the "conflict between peoples' futures and wildlife conservation."  There are several themes on the website, all of which can be found on the left hand menu. Visitors will find the following topics to explore: "Endangered Species", "Invasives", "Land Use & Biodiversity", "Fundamental Biology", "Wildlife Diseases", and "Wildlife as a Resource".  The "Publications" link at the top right side of the page contains "Books", "Papers", "Reports", and "Theses" available to read online or find in a physical library.  A multitude of animal issues are discussed in the documents here, including a paper called "The World Can't Have Wild Tigers and Eat Them, Too" and "State of Britain's Mammals 2008".  The "Research" link near the top of the page, includes the dozens of research projects WildCRU is involved in, such as "Badger Genetic Research", "Transfrontier Conservation of Andean Cats" and "Towards Reducing the Total Environmental Impacts of Agriculture."

http://www.wildcru.org/

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Earth Explorer

The EarthExplorer service from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) provides a search interface to a collection of datasets and images including aerial photography, Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images, IKONOS-2 images, digital elevations, digital line graphs, Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) images, forest carbon sites, Global Land Surveys (GLS), Landsat images and Spaceborne Imaging Radar C-band images. Results from some datasets can be downloaded free; some commercial satellite scenes of US sites are licensed solely for US users.
http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/

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Cloud atlas

This website provides images of types of cloud broken down under genera, species, variety, supplementary features and accessory clouds. The site is provided by Professor Dennis Lamb of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University. The images are taken from the Karlsruhe Wolkenatlas, used with permission from Berhard Muehr.

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~lno/Meteo437/atlas.html

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CVO list of online maps and graphics

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) provides this listing of volcano and hazard maps and graphics available from its website. The hazards covered include: ashfall and tephra, calderas, cinder cones, composite volcanoes, debris avalanches and volcanic landslides, earthquakes and seismicity, lava domes, mudflows, debris flows and lahars, plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading, shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes, and volcanic and hydrologic hazards.

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Graphics/

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Geobiology

The material for this course (12.007 Geobiology, Spring 2009) has been made available by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences as part of the OpenCourseWare initiative. "This course introduces parallel evolution of life and the environment. Life processes are influenced by chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and the solid earth. In turn, life can influence chemical and physical processes on our planet. This course introduces the concept of life as a geological agent and examines the interaction between biology and the earth system during the roughly four billion years since life first appeared." The website provides lecture notes, recommended readings and assignments. The notes are available as PDF files.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/12-007Spring-2009/CourseHome/index.htm

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Classical mechanics : a computational approach

The website for this course (12.620J Classical Mechanics: A Computational Approach, Fall 2008) has been made available by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences as part of the OpenCourseWare initiative. The course covers: the Lagrangian formulation; action, variational principles, and equations of motion; Hamilton's principle; conserved quantities; rigid bodies and tops; Hamiltonian formulation and canonical equations; surfaces of section; chaos; canonical transformations and generating functions; Liouville's theorem and Poincaré integral invariants; Poincaré-Birkhoff and KAM theorems; invariant curves and cantori; nonlinear resonances; resonance overlap and transition to chaos; properties of chaotic motion. The website provides an online version of the textbook for the course, Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, written by Professors Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, and problem sets.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/12-620JFall-2008/CourseHome/index.htm

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WorldWide Telescope

"The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope-bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe." Users can follow guided tours or explore on their own. The telescope is provided by Microsoft Research. It can be downloaded to a PC or viewed on a Mac or a PC using a Web client and Microsoft Silverlight. A high specification PC is needed, particularly for the downloaded version.

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

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Physics : spotlighting exceptional research

A free service from the American Physical Society (APS) which highlights exceptional papers from the "Physical Review" journals. It features expert commentaries written by active researchers who are asked to explain the results to physicists in other sub-fields. "Physics" includes essays (1000-1500 words) that focus on a single "Physical Review" paper or letter, concise review articles (3000-4000 words) that survey a particular area and look for interesting developments in that field, and synopses (200 words) which are staff-written distillations of interesting and important papers each week.

http://physics.aps.org/

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Numbers and number theory index

This section is part of the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It provides a collection of articles on the history of the study of numbers and number theory, covering number systems in various ancient civilisations, Fermat's last theorem, perfect numbers, prime numbers, the concept of zero, pi, the Golden ratio, the number e, Pell's equation and the concept of infinity. There are links to biographies of mathematicians who contributed to the theories, and also to references to further reading

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Indexes/Number_Theory.html

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Quantum field theory

The University of Nottingham has made available this set of 14 lecture notes on quantum field theory as part of their open courseware initiative (U-NOW). The notes are aimed at third and fourth level undergraduates or postgraduates. Topics covered include second quantisation, free quantum fields, the Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann (LSZ) reduction formula, free theory generating functionals, interacting theory, Feynman diagrams, momentum spaces, divergences, renormalisation and the on-shell renormalisation procedure, dimensional regularisation, coupling constants and asymptotic freedom. The notes were written by Dr Kirill Krasnov of the School of Mathematical Sciences and are licensed under a Creative Commons England and Wales Public License. They are available as PDF files and can be viewed online or downloaded

http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=15d27091-3d0b-f39d-928a-78eb359f90d5#

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Algebraic combinatorics

The website for this course (18.312 Algebraic Combinatorics, Spring 2009) is made available by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics as part of the OpenCourseWare initiative. It is an introductory course in algebraic combinatorics, assuming no prior knowledge of combinatorics but a familiarity with linear algebra and finite groups. The course website provides selected lecture notes, assignments and examinations. Notes are available as PDF files.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-312Spring-2009/CourseHome/index.htm

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Freshwater and Marine Image Bank

"The Freshwater and Marine Image Bank is an ongoing digital collection of images related to freshwater and marine topics, in all their diversity. It includes images of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals, pictures of fish hatcheries and dams and vessels, materials related to polar exploration, regional and traditional fisheries, and limnological (freshwater) subjects. Its scope is global.

The images included in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank were researched and scanned by the staff of the Fisheries-Oceanography Library of the University of Washington. The images were scanned in full color and saved (for the most part) in JPEG format."

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

World Database on Protected Areas

"The World Database on Protected Areas is a foundation dataset for conservation decision making. It contains crucial information from national governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, international biodiversity convention secretariats and many others. It is used for ecological gap analysis, environmental impact analysis and is increasingly used for private sector decision making."

http://www.wdpa.org/

Exploring Life's Origins

"The goal of this project is to use molecular illustration and animation to help describe origins of life research and theories to broad audiences. Illustrations and animations may be downloaded in the Resources for Educators section"

http://exploringorigins.org/

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse (Beta)

Over the past several years, the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Research sponsored a project at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to create an Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse (ESENCe). The Clearinghouse "uses state-of-the-art digital tools to preserve and widely disseminate a variety of materials on ethics and the responsible conduct of research in science and engineering disciplines." On the homepage, visitors can check out the scrolling news updates ("Research Ethics News") culled from around hundreds of different sources, or scroll down the homepage to view an interactive clickable map of related news items from around the world. On the left side of the page, visitors will notice the "Paper of the Day" feature and the "At a Glance" area, which includes the top 10 downloaded items and recent additions to the site. The site is a tremendous resource for scientists, philosophers, and students who wish to stay on top of cutting edge work in these subjects.

http://www.ethicslibrary.org/

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Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students

Penn State University provides a great web resource for all engineering and science students with the models, exercises, and advice that it gives for over a half dozen type of documents they will likely encounter in their schooling and eventual professions. On the left hand side of the homepage
visitors will find "Student Resources", "Instructor Resources", and links to the "Contributors", which include "Virginia Tech", "University of Illinois", and "Georgia Tech". The "Introduction" on the homepage, offers the following basics to consider when starting a paper: "Assessing the
Audience", "Selecting the Format", and "Crafting the Style". Also on the homepage the site gives links to guidance on "Presentations", "Correspondence", "Formal Reports", "Proposals", "Instructions", and "Journal Articles". The "Design of Presentation Slides", under the
"Presentations" link, demonstrates the use of the assertion-evidence structure for presentation slides, as opposed to the typical PowerPoint template, along with many resources on the left hand side of the page that tout the benefits of that structure.

http://writing.engr.psu.edu/

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International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Database

Leading open-access reference database for scientific literature published worldwide on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.

• Over 3 million bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, scientific and technical reports, conference papers, books, patents, theses, laws, regulations and standards, and web documents, covering publications in 63 languages; all records include keywords and most have an abstract in English
• Includes a unique online collection of over 200 000 full-text documents: scientific and technical reports, conference proceedings, patents, theses, and preprints. This “grey” non-conventional literature (NCL) is not easily available from other sources

http://inisdb2.iaea.org/

Linus Pauling Online

Pesented by the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections

http://pauling.library.oregonstate.edu/

National Science Foundation: Tour of the Cell

A cell happens to be the smallest unit of life, but there's a tremendous amount of activity going on within this very fascinating place. The talented people at the National Science Foundation (NSF) are well aware of this fact, and they have created this illuminating and interactive visual feature to
help people learn about the cell's different components. On the homepage, visitors are presented with a clickable illustration of the cell's primary components, including the nucleus, the cell membrane, and mitochondria. Clicking on any of these various items brings up a detailed illustration, complete with a brief description of its function. Finally, visitors can also view the complete illustration by clicking on the "Full Illustration" link.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/biology/interactive.jsp

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