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/

MIT OpenCourseWare: Introduction to Geology

If you are having difficulty remembering the details of the Earth's geological structure or the nature of major minerals and rock types, you can consult this excellent introductory course offered as part of MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative. The materials are drawn from Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton's Spring 2008 "Introduction to Geology" course, and they include a syllabus, a course calendar, readings, lecture notes, and assignments. The course is designed for undergraduates, though anyone can benefit from examining the materials. Visitors can make their way through lecture notes that cover metamorphic rocks, rock deformation, earthquakes, and the formation of continents. The site also contains some great handouts which cover time scales, New England geology, and oxygen isotopes. Finally, visitors can also send feedback about the course.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/12-001Spring-2008/CourseHome/index.htm

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ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service

The ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents service makes it easy for academics, researchers, students and anyone else to keep up-to-date with newly published scholarly material by enabling them to find, display, store, combine and reuse thousands of journal tables of contents from multiple publishers. With ticTOCs, it only takes a or two to keep up to date.
The ticTOCs Consortium consists of: the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University, CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University, Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

Measurements of atmospheric composition in the ultraviolet and visible

This site, offered by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), provides “the results and ongoing data studies for the study of ozone and other gases, aerosols, radiances, and ultraviolet radiation, and what has been learned about atmospheric pollution and air quality from the international science missions making these measurements.” More specifically users can access tropospheric composition data, obtained using ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy, for total ozone concentrations, aerosol index, radiative cloud fraction, surface UV flux, cloud fraction, as well as the atmospheric concentrations of pollutant gases such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, bromine monoxide and chlorine dioxide. Active dates for the available atmospheric composition records depend on the instrument used to collect the data, with some datasets dating back to 1978. The site also provides information about the specific instruments used to collect these measurements and documentation on how to download and interpret the available datasets.
http://macuv.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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Tropical cyclones : SciDev.Net

The Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) is a non-profit organisation which provides authoritative information on developments in science and technology for the developing world. This section of the SciDev.net provides a collection of news, articles, opinions, analyses and background information on tropical cyclones and their associated impacts. Specific emphasis is given on the effects of global warming on the occurrence and intensity of tropical cyclones as well as the expected costs of cyclones in the affected regions. Users can also express their own views on published articles and respond to other comments.
http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/tropical-cyclones-1/
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Structure and properties of condensed matter

This page contains a series of lecture notes on the structure and properties of condensed matter, presented by Professor Athene M. Donald of the University of Cambridge. The notes are presented in both HTML and PDF formats and cover a wide range of topics in materials and soft matter science. These include: liquid crystals, amorphous solids (glasses), crystalline solids, polymers, rubbers, and a variety of materials with biological origins such as starch and cellulose.
http://www.bss.phy.cam.ac.uk/~amd3/teaching/A_Donald/
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