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

Copyright 2006-2010

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/

Copyright 2006-2010

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/

Copyright 2006-2010

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

Copyright 2006-2010

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