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.

Copyright 2006-2010 Intute

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.