Science

Electronic Books from the Gale Virtual Reference Library -- Accessible from DOI Locations Only

• American Men and Women of Science
• Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Geology
• Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change
• Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences
• Gale Encyclopedia of Science
• Pollution A to Z

Ferruginous hawk chicks on nest, Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, Idaho; Larry Ridenhour, BLM Idaho State Office.

Web Sites -- Table of Contents

• Science News and Reports
• Reference Sources on Science
• Directories of Internet Sites on Science

Science News and Reports

• Discover magazine
• Earth news
• EurekAlert 
  News releases
• LiveScience
• National Science Foundation news
• Nature
• New scientist
• NSF Current newsletter 
  National Science Foundation monthly newsletter
• Popular science
• SciCentral
• Science daily
• Science in the headlines 
  National Academies of Science
• Science news
National Academies of Science
• ScienceNOW: the latest news headlines from the scientific world  
  The news section of Science magazine on the web
• Scientific American
• Scientist
• Talk of the nation 
  Science Friday with Ira Flatow, National Public Radio.

Reference Sources on Science

• AGRICOLA 
  Database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
• ATSDR's Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets
• Chemistry Central 
  Chemistry Central is a new service publishing peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry, from BioMed Central.
• Darwin Digital Library of Evolution 
  Sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History Library. The site includes sources from 17th century to the present and encompasses the history of evolution as a scientific theory with deep roots and broad cultural consequences. For more on Charles Darwin, see also the Complete Works of Charles Darwin, assembled by the University of Cambridge
• eFunda 
  Engineering fundamentals. Look up formulas and constants, and data on materials, processes and design.
• Encyclopedia of Earth 
  A fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work.
• Environmental Research Web  
  Created to provide an international forum for scholarly discussion and analysis of environmental issues and policy. News, opinion, and research highlights sections include links to related Web sources and open-access articles. Includes the open-access journal Environmental Research Letters.
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• GEOSCAN database 
  Earth Sciences Information Centre (ESIC) of Natural Resources Canada, which has also made available the RESORS  (REmote Sensing On-line Retrieval System) database of publications from 1950 to 1995.
  
• Hazardous Chemicals Database
• Kimball's Biology Pages 
  By John W. Kimball, a retired biology professor at Tufts University. The pages represent an online biology textbook.
• Life Science Dictionary
• Math.com 
  "The world of math online"
• National Academy of Sciences
• National Science Foundation
• NCBI Taxonomy Homepage 
  National Center for Biotechnology Information
• NIST chemistry webbook
• OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Periodic Table 
  Provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• PubMed Central 
  "Free online access to the full text of life science research articles"
• Quakeline database 
  Covers earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics
• The Science Accelerator 
  Enables searching of many of the U.S. Department of Energy's databases at once
• Science.gov 
  Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
• Scirus 
  Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
• Species 2000 
  Indexing the world's known species
• The Virtual Technical Reports Center eprints, preprints, & technical reports on the Web
  Produced by the University of Maryland, College Park's Technical Reports Center
• Timelinescience: One Thousand Years of Scientific Thought
• WebElements
• The Why files 
  The mission of The Why Files is to explore the science, math and technology behind the news of the day. The Why Files produces a new story each week, posts a biweekly column by science reporter Tom Siegfried, and offers other materials for educational use. It is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• WorldWideScience.org
  Global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources.

Directories of Internet Resources on Science

• Biology Browser 
  Produced by BIOSIS
• Biology online 
  Produced by Frontiers in Bioscience
• Earth Science Web Sites
• Geology Web Links
• Geophysics on the Internet
• Hydrology Web: Hydrology and Related Internet Resources
• Intute: Natural History 
  A directory of many of the best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.
• Links for Mineralogists
• Physics Web
• Science Reference Guides: Earth Day produced by the Library of Congress, Science, Technology and Business Division
• WINDandSEA: The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator
• WWW Virtual Library: Oceanography