SciTopics

SciTopics is a free online expert-generated knowledge sharing service for the research community to quickly offer scientific, technical and medical knowledge on a variety of subjects. It provides distilled, authoritative and up-to-date, information for researchers.

http://www.scitopics.com/

Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration

Brought together originally in 1999 for an exhibition held at the New York Public Library's Gottesman Exhibition Hall, this set of intriguing images covers the fields of astronomy, chemistry, geology, medicine, and physics taken from different engravings, lithographs, and manuscript illuminations. The images here range from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and they are culled from works such as the 1798 volume "Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton" and the important 1830 volume "Principles of Geology" written by geologist Sir Charles Lyell. All told, visitors can browse through ten crucial texts in their entirety, and they are all wonderful meditations on the skills and talents of unique scientists (and artists) throughout the ages. Finally, visitors looking for specific materials can also search through the entire collection, or even click on the "See all Images" button.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?collection=SeeingIsBelieving700&col_id=197

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Biology: Online Labs

Like many other academic publishers, McGraw Hill often creates supplementary online materials to be used in conjunction with their various publications. This particular collection of online materials is meant to be used with one of their recent biology textbooks, but they can certainly be used as stand-alone educational resources for persons interested in the biological sciences. This particular site contains 31 virtual labs that cover topics like evolution,  regulatory genes, iron stress in diatoms, and gene technology. These labs are recreations of actual scientific  experiments, and visitors are given background information on a topic, an explanation of the researcher's observation, and an overview of how they set up their experiment. The goal of these labs is to help make students  and others more comfortable working with primary sources. Finally, the site also includes interviews with principal investigators from the University of Michigan, the University of Albert, and Auburn University.

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/online_labs.html
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Climate change, water and food security

One of a series of technical background documents for the FAO High Level Conference on Food Security in 2008, this report provides an assessment of a report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. It includes information on climate change and water management; climate change impacts and mitigation measures in relation to food security. Possible national, regional and international technical and policy responses are given, as are the main findings and recommendations. Graphs, tables and diagrams are included as well as a list of references
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/meeting/013/ai783e.pdf
Copyright © 2006- 2009

Parasitology image library

This educational website provides images of parasitic protozoa and helminths (worms), the latter including nematodes (round worms), cestodes (tape worms), and termatodes (flukes). The images are arranged by species, and are either light microscope images (protozoa) or images of the whole organism, eggs or light microscope sections of the organism (helminths). The site has been produced by Dr Ian E. Crandall of the Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
http://microbiology.mtsinai.on.ca/pig/index.shtml
Copyright © 2006- 2009

The Paleobiology Database

The Paleobiology Database provides paleobiological literature and taxonomic and stratigraphic information about fossil plants and animals. The site archives 17 downloadable taxon-centered databases, ranging from protozoa to mammals. Users have access to data in separate categories such as collection records, classification, stratigraphy, and publications. Geographic distribution records for taxa and strata can be plotted on annotated maps that also show contemporary sea/land boundaries. The site is open to updating by users who join its contributors' group.
http://paleodb.org/c!gi-bin/bridge.pl

Plant Information Online

Use Plant Information Online to discover sources in 1063 North American nurseries for 107916 plants, find 378901 citations to 140596 plants in science and garden literature, link to selected websites for images and regional information about 14157 plants, and access information on 2463 North American seed and nursery firms. Plant Information Online is a free service of the University of Minnesota Libraries.

http://plantinfo.umn.edu/