Browse All Collections
Listed below, in alphabetical order, are all of the collections that participate in NSDL by sharing information about their individual resources.
To browse a list of collections focusing on a particular subject area, or subject area and audience, or new collections, choose from the navigation menu to the left.
Collections in bold are NSDL Pathways or their contributing collections.
Academy of Natural Sciences' Ewell Sale Stewart Library: American Naturalists in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
http://www.ansp.org/library/
The Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences--the oldest continuously operating natural sciences institution in the Western hemisphere--houses many rare and important books and papers. It has digitized works documenting the establishment of a distinctly American approach to natural science during ... Full Description
ACM Portal: The ACM Digital Library
http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has full text of every article published by the ACM for the last 50 years. Requires a login. Full Description
ACM Women in Computing
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/view.jhtml?&id=AD0699F5-F85D-4E74-8F49-50...
The mission of ACM's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) is to engage in activities and projects that aim to improve working and learning environments for women in computing. This includes promoting activities that result in more equal representation of women in computer science, such as mentori... Full Description
Advances in Engineering Education: A Journal of Engineering Education Applications
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=F2ADF80...
The mission of the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Engineering Education (AEE), which participates in the NEEDS Pathway, is to disseminate proven innovations in engineering education practice, especially those best presented through the creative use of multimedia. The journal includes descriptions... Full Description
Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
http://alsos.wlu.edu/
The Alsos Digital Library is an annotated bibliography describing over 2,000 books, articles, films, CDs, and web sites that together offer a broad, balanced perspective on current and historical nuclear issues. The references trace the development of nuclear science, the Manhattan Project, the Cold... Full Description
American Mathematical Society Books Online
http://www.ams.org/online_bks/online_subject.html
The American Mathematical Society's Books Online makes available full text of over 30 scholarly monographs published by the AMS, covering a range of subjects including algebra and algebraic geometry, analysis, applications, differential equations, geometry and topology, logic and foundations, mathem... Full Description
American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is one of the world's preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. The Museum advances its mission to explore and interpret human cultures and the natural world through a wide-reaching program of scientific research, education... Full Description
AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository
http://amser.org/
AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for those in community and technical colleges, but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Libra... Full Description
Analytical Sciences Digital Library (ASDL)
http://www.asdlib.org/
The ASDL collects, catalogs, annotates, and links peer-reviewed web-based educational resources and information pertinent to innovations in curricular development in the analytical sciences, and supporting technical resources. JASDL, the online journal of the ASDL, publishes peer-reviewed online art... Full Description
Animal Diversity Web
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology hosted by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. It provides descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in som... Full Description
Atmospheric Visualization Collection (AVC)
http://education.arm.gov/nsdl/education.shtml
The intent of the Atmospheric Visualization Collection (AVC) is to enhance physical science education and research through visualization of atmospheric data. This collection includes an archive of atmospheric data images and educational material based on these images. By utilizing collaborative digi... Full Description
Atomic Archive
http://www.atomicarchive.com/
This site explores the science, history, and consequences of the invention of the atomic bomb. It offers information about the events and decisions that led to the development of the bomb and the events and decisions that followed, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to today's post-Cold War era. For users ... Full Description
Best of the Bugs
http://pests.ifas.ufl.edu/bestbugs/
This list of outstanding insect- or nematode-related web sites has been developed by a committee of professional entomologists and nematologists. The site is sponsored by the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida (UF/IFAS). Full Description
Biological Sciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/biological-sciences/
The Biological Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the biological and life sciences, including agriculture, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, natural history, marine biology, zoology, and others. ... Full Description
BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. All original research articles in the 187 journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to... Full Description
BioOne
http://www.bioone.org/
BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private sector. BioOne brings to the web a valuable aggregation of the full texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and nonc... Full Description
BiosciEdNet (BEN): Digital Library Portal for Teaching and Learning in the Biological Sciences
http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/
BiosciEdNet(BEN) is a catalyst for individual undergraduate biology educators to improve their teaching through resources, collaboration, and network building. However, it is also a catalyst for participating biology research-based and education-based organizations to build collaborations in terms o... Full Description
Blackwell Synergy
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/
Blackwell Synergy is the online journals service from Blackwell Publishing. It holds the content for most of Blackwell's journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Blackwell Synergy helps improve the quality of research time by enab... Full Description
Bridge-NOAA Collection
http://www2.vims.edu/bridge/noaa/
The Bridge-NOAA Collection is a selection of exemplary resources from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that have been reviewed by educators and found to be well-suited for educational purposes. The collection also emphasizes professional-development opportunities for teache... Full Description
Bridge: Sea Grant Ocean Sciences Resources Center
http://www.vims.edu/bridge/
The Bridge Ocean Sciences Resource Center provides access to ocean sciences education materials, with particular emphasis on K-12 audiences and instructional materials. The Bridge Collection also includes links to information about professional-development opportunities for teachers. There is a stro... Full Description
Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=436A848...
The aim of BPC, a NEEDS Pathway participant, is to enable educators at all levels and in both formal and informal settings to easily identify, select, and use educational resources shown by research to be effective for increasing the participation of members of underrepresented groups in information... Full Description
Caltech Computer Science Technical Reports
http://caltechcstr.library.caltech.edu/
CaltechCSTR is a repository of technical reports, managed by the Caltech Library System on behalf of the Caltech Computer Science Department. Materials deposited in the e-print archive have been reviewed and certified by at least one faculty member of the Computer Science Department. The repository ... Full Description
Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory Technical Reports
http://caltecheerl.library.caltech.edu/
The Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory at Caltech was founded in the 1960s and began publishing results of its research in a technical report series in 1970. The series includes some of the earliest published work on strong-motion earthquake accelerograms and considerable research springing ... Full Description
Caltech Electronic Theses and Dissertations Database
http://etd.caltech.edu/ETD-db/ETD-search/search
The Caltech ETD database offers boolean search and alphabetical browsing by author's last name or by subject area (identified as "Option"). It uses software developed by Virginia Tech and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, in which it participates. Full Description
Cambridge Journals Online
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/login;jsessionid=60888E81CAC6B393B357B...
The Cambridge University Press online journals collection includes hundreds of peer-reviewed academic publications for the global market--both journals owned by the Press and journals published on behalf of learned and professional societies. The Journals home page offers browsing of journals by jou... Full Description
Cambridge University Press: Science, Technology, and Medicine
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/browse/default.asp?subjectid=1006144
Cambridge University Press is one of the world's largest and most prestigious publishers of academic books. NSDL incorporates information from their UK catalogue of textbooks and monographs in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. From this Catalogue Browse page, search capabi... Full Description
Center for Sustainable Engineering (CSE)
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=80E8F78...
The Center for Sustainable Engineering, a participant in the NEEDS Pathway, is developing and implementing activities to enhance education in sustainable engineering at colleges and universities around the world. Sustainable engineering is engineering for human development that meets the needs of th... Full Description
Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE)
http://www.cosee.net/
The Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) site provides access to ocean sciences education materials from all 10 regional centers, with particular emphasis on K-12 audiences and instructional materials. The COSEE collection also includes links to information about professional-deve... Full Description
ChemCases: General Chemistry Case Studies
http://www.chemcases.com/
ChemCases.com offers curriculum supplements appropriate for teaching the second semester of an undergraduate general chemistry course. The supplements are twelve case studies of the chemistry of products often encountered by the general public, such as sports drinks, refrigerants, automotive fuels, ... Full Description
Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL))
http://www.chemeddl.org/
ChemEd DL aims to provide exemplary digital resources, tools, and online services to aid in teaching and learning chemistry. This means ChemEd DL offers access to multiple collections and services from the the Journal of Chemical Education, the American Chemical Society Education Division and the Ch... Full Description
CHEMINFO: Chemical Information Sources
http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/
CHEMINFO from Indiana University is designed to help people find and learn how to use chemical information resources on the internet and elsewhere. It provides two main Resource Guides: SIRCh (Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry), which links to factual sources on the web, and CCIIM (Clearingh... Full Description
Chemistry Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/chemistry/
The Chemistry Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of chemistry-related web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources pertaining to many areas of the discipline—-general chemistry, organic and inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, and others—-and intended for a wide range... Full Description
Choosing and Using DLESE
http://www.dlese.org/library/query.do?q=&s=0&ky=00v&ky=06&ky=01e&ky=01f&ky=...
Choosing and Using DLESE highlights resources from DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) that have some pedagogical content knowledge associated with them. This knowledge may include formal and informal reviews, annotations, educational standards (national, state, and local), comments, ... Full Description
COMET Program Collection
http://www.meted.ucar.edu/
The COMET Program Collection and its MetEd (Meteorology Education and Training) web site provide education and training resources to benefit the operational forecaster community, university atmospheric scientists and students, and anyone interested in learning more about meteorology and weather fore... Full Description
ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education
http://www.compadre.org/
ComPADRE is a set of communities of teachers and students in physics and astronomy and web-based collections of resources to support their needs. The communities supported by ComPADRE are groups that can benefit from the sharing of materials, information, and experiences in a web environment. Exampl... Full Description
Computer Science and Information Technology Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/computer-science/
The Computer Science and Information Technology Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and resources in many areas including algorithms and data structures, operating systems and programming languages, software engineering, artificial intelligence, information scie... Full Description
Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE)
http://www.causeweb.org/
CAUSE is a national organization with the mission of supporting and advancing undergraduate statistics education in four target areas: 1) resources, 2) professional development, 3) outreach, and 4) research. The overarching goals in each area are: 1) Collect, review, develop, and disseminate resourc... Full Description
CSERD: Computational Science Education Reference Desk
http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/
The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) features resources to help students learn about computational science and to help teachers incorporate it into the classroom. Computational science involves the appropriate use of a computational architecture or computing environment (a comp... Full Description
Curricular Resource Library (cURL): Earth and Environmental Sciences
http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/projects/curl/simulation.html
The cURL Earth and Environmental Sciences collection provides access to educational materials emphasizing the origin, evolution, and current state of the Earth. The collection is targeted toward undergraduate students and offers access to information about solid-earth geological processes, surficial... Full Description
Digital Library of Indigenous Science Resources (DLISR )
http://www.dlisr.org/index.html
The Digital Library for Indigenous Science Resources (DLISR) is a collection of online text, video, audio, and image files concerning Indigenous science--both knowledge about the natural world and ways of teaching and learning about it. All DLISR resources are authored and/or produced by Indigenous ... Full Description
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST )
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
The Digital Library of Information Science and Technology is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open-access digital archive for the Information Sciences, with content relevant to Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other c... Full Description
Digital Water Education Library (DWEL)
http://www.csmate.colostate.edu/dwel/
The DWEL collection offers K-12 and informal-education digital resources of high quality that are related to the science, policy, and economics of water. The collection is designed to facilitate learning about all aspects of water in the Earth system. The DWEL collection supports science-education s... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Agriculture and Food Sciences
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=115
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Agriculture and Food Sciences indexes open-access journals devoted to general agriculture, animal sciences, aquaculture and fisheries, forestry, plant sciences, and nutrition and food sciences. DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of all ... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Biology and Life Sciences
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=67
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Biology and Life Sciences indexes open-access journals devoted to anatomy, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cytology, genetics, microbiology, physiology, and zoology. DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of all open-access scientific ... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Chemistry
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=60
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Chemistry indexes open-access journals in analytical chemistry, chemical engineering, general chemistry, and organic chemistry. DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of all open-access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality-c... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Earth and Environmental Science
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=78
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Earth and Environmental Sciences indexes open-access journals devoted to ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geology, geophysics and geomagnetism, meteorology and climatology, and oceanography. DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Health Sciences
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=20
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Health Sciences indexes journals covering many areas of medicine (allergy and immunology, cardiovascular medicine, dermatology, gastroenterology, gynecology and obstetrics, internal medicine, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, patho... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Mathematics and Statistics
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=57
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Mathematics and Statistics indexes 123 journals devoted to mathematics and 27 journals devoted to statistics. DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of all open-access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality-control system, wor... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Physics and Astronomy
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=48
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Physics and Astronomy indexes 13 journals devoted to astronomy, and 48 devoted to physics, including journals devoted to acoustics, electricity, heat, mechanics, nuclear physics, and optics and light. DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use ... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Social Sciences
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=87
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Social Sciences indexes open-access journals devoted to anthropology, education, ethnology, gender studies, library and information science, media and communication, psychology, social sciences, sociology, and sports science. DOAJ aims to increase the vi... Full Description
Directory of Open Access Journals: Technology and Engineering
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=99
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Technology and Engineering indexes journals devoted to chemical technology, computer science, construction, electrical and nuclear engineering, environmental engineering, environmental technology, general and civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, ind... Full Description
Discover Our Earth
http://discoverourearth.org/index.html
The Discover Our Earth collection offers Java-based, interactive mapping and information-extraction tools allowing customized access to a variety of Earth science data sets, plus virtual experiments, 3D visualizations, learning exercises, and a wide range of information related to the Earth sciences... Full Description
DLESE Collections
http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject
DLESE Collections showcase the different collections within the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). DLESE collections can be quickly and easily browsed by subject topic, grade level, resource type, or educational standard. Full Description
DLESE News and Opportunities
http://www.dlese.org/news_opportunities/index.jsp
DLESE News and Opportunities makes time-sensitive news, events and opportunities (workshops, conferences, grant funding, job announcements, calls for participation, learning opportunities, and scholarship information) available to the geoscience and Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)... Full Description
DLESE: Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/
DLESE's mission is to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth System, by developing, managing, and providing access to high-quality educational resources and supporting services through a community-based, distributed digital library. Intended users incl... Full Description
DSpace at MIT
http://dspace.mit.edu/
DSpace at MIT is MIT's online institutional repository. It contains MIT research in digital form, including preprints, technical reports, working papers, MIT theses, conference papers, images, and more. MIT schools, departments, and centers, as well as individual faculty and researchers, are encoura... Full Description
E-LIS: E-prints in Library and Information Science
http://eprints.rclis.org/
E-LIS is an international open-access digital archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in librarianship, information science and technology, and related application activities. E-LIS eprints must be relevant to research in LIS fields and have the form of a finished do... Full Description
Earth Exploration Toolbook: Step-by-Step Guides for Investigating Earth System Data
http://serc.carleton.edu/eet
The Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) is a collection of step-by-step examples, called chapters, of the use of Earth system science resources in an educational context for the educational community. The resources include datasets, analysis tools, visualization tools, and other educational products. E... Full Description
Earth System Science Informal Education Network (ESSIEN)
http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject&key=ien
The Earth System Science Informal Education Network (ESSIEN) is dedicated to improving Earth system literacy through increased communication and collaboration among providers of informal Earth system education. The collection is designed for museum professionals (educators, exhibits designers, devel... Full Description
Earthquake Education Environment (E3)
http://sceccore.usc.edu/e3/index.php
The Earthquake Education Environment (E3) supports high-quality K-12 and undergraduate education by providing up-to-date earthquake information, authoritative technical sources, and educational resources for the classroom. Full Description
EconPort
http://www.econport.org/econport/request?page=web_home
EconPort is an economics digital library specializing in content that emphasizes the use of experiments in teaching and research. Content includes teaching modules, a handbook of economic and game theoretic principles and concepts, a glossary of economics terms, and an extensive collection of educat... Full Description
Education Place: Houghton Mifflin Science
http://www.eduplace.com/science/hmsc/index.html
Education Place presents Houghton Mifflin's K-6 science textbook support resources, organized by grade level. Each of the seven modules offers broad coverage of concepts in physical science, Earth science, and life science through a series of topic units. Each unit includes engaging activities such ... Full Description
Educational Benchmarks Collection
http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/AAAS-Collection/index.jsp
The Educational Benchmarks Collection provides interactive access to the educational standards developed by Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The benchmarks--often referred to as learning goals--describe what students should know or be able to do by the ... Full Description
Educational Multimedia Visualization Center
http://piru.alexandria.ucsb.edu/collections/atwater/emvc/index.htm
The Educational Multimedia Visualization Center (EMVC) collection uses multimedia technology to bring geology education alive through audio-visual animations. The collection emphasizes plate tectonics but includes all aspects of Earth science. The goal is to make tacit geological knowledge explicit.... Full Description
Electronic Environmental Resources Library (eERL)
http://www.eerl.org/
The Environmental Education Resources Library (eERL) provides a comprehensive library of online environmental and sustainability resources for educators, students, practitioners, and the public. eERL provides resources pertaining to environmental technology which includes these occupational categori... Full Description
Elsevier Books
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/books_browse.cws_home
Elsevier is one of the world's leading publishers of monographs, textbooks, and reference works in the health, life, physical, and social sciences. NSDL incorporates information from their books catalogue. From their catalogue browse page, users can browse subject areas or the entire catalogue alpha... Full Description
Engineering and Technology Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/engineering-technology/
The Engineering and Technology Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and resources in many areas of engineering and technology, including mechanical, civil, chemical, electrical, industrial, environmental, and nuclear engineering; biotechnology and nanotechnology;... Full Description
Environmental Information Management System (EIMS)
http://www.epa.gov/eims
Developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development (ORD), this scientific environmental information management system (EIMS) stores, manages, and delivers descriptive information (metadata) for datasets, databases, documents, models, multimedia, projects, and ... Full Description
Environmental Science Activities for the 21st Century
http://esa21.kennesaw.edu/activities/activities.htm
The Environmental Science Activities for the 21st Century collection provides multi-week activity modules around major topics in environmental science. The modules are designed to supplement environmental science courses with existing laboratory components or provide course activities for traditiona... Full Description
Everglades Digital Library
http://cwis.fcla.edu/edl/SPT--Home.php
The Everglades Digital Library (EDL) is a comprehensive portal to high-quality digital resources relating to the south Florida environment. These resources include online texts, articles, reports, photographs, maps, datasets, educational materials, and historical records, as well as links to organiz... Full Description
Exploratorium Digital Library: Learning Resources Collection
http://nsdl.exploratorium.edu/nsdl/
The Exploratorium Digital Library provides access to high-quality teaching resources and learning activities that reflect the museum's foundation of playful exhibit-based inquiry in science, art, and human perception. The Learning Resources Collection includes teaching tips and related resources. Th... Full Description
ExploreLearning: Interactive Math and Science Simulations
http://www.explorelearning.com/
ExploreLearning offers a catalog of hundreds of modular, interactive science simulations for grades 3-12 and math simulations for grades 6-12, intended to make difficult science and math topics easier to teach and learn. These interactives, which the company calls "Gizmos," are designed as supplemen... Full Description
Exploring Earth Investigations
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/navigation/investigation....
Exploring Earth Investigations are Internet-based activities that use animations, interactive graphics, and unique imagery to help students gather information about a particular Earth science theme, issue, or concept. Exploring Earth Investigations were created by Houghton-Mifflin/McDougal-Littell i... Full Description
Florida Environments Online
http://palmm.fcla.edu/feol/
Florida Environments Online contains both digital full text materials and research bibliographies about the ecology and environment of Florida. Digitized materials include more than 200 seminal texts on species and ecosystems selected by scientific experts throughout the state of Florida and digitiz... Full Description
Gender and Science Digital Library (GSDL)
http://eecgsdl.edc.org/index.php
The GSDL offers resources and services to help educators promote and implement gender-equitable science education for both male and female students in formal and informal settings and assist in increasing female involvement in the sciences. In addition, it provides resources to researchers and other... Full Description
General Science and STEM Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/general-science/
The General Science and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources. The collection includes portals and sites offering material on three or more scientific disciplines or the enti... Full Description
Geosciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/geosciences/
The Geosciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the geosciences, including atmospheric sciences, environmental sciences, geology, geophysics, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, soil science, and oth... Full Description
Geotechnical, Rock and Water Digital Library (GROW)
http://www.grow.arizona.edu/
GROW is the first development project towards the creation of a National Civil Engineering Resource Library (NCERL). The mission of NCERL is to encourage and promote interest, exploration, and learning in Civil Engineering through the development, collection, and dissemination of reviewed and ranked... Full Description
GLOBE Teacher's Guide
http://archive.globe.gov/tctg/globetg.jsp
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) collection is an environmental science collection supporting an authentic scientifically rigorous program of Earth observations and measurements taken by students in partnership with scientists. Currently, the collection is comp... Full Description
Harvard-Smithsonian Digital Video Library
http://hsdvl.org/
This extensive collection of digital video materials supporting K-12 STEM education reform has been developed by the Science Media Group, part of the Science Education Department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The collection features clinical interviews with students exploring h... Full Description
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp
HEAL is a digital library of freely accessible, web-based multimedia teaching materials that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners. HEAL currently contains collections of multimedia resources for undergraduate and professional health sciences education, as well as resource... Full Description
Health Sciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/health-sciences/
The Health Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the health sciences, including aging, biostatistics, body systems and senses, consumer health, diseases, environmental health, epidemiology, human sexuality... Full Description
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered
http://www.hiroshima-remembered.com/
In 2005, the world commemorated the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This web site was created to provide an easy-to-use collection of resources to help students, educators, and the general public better understand that milestone of human history. It brings together... Full Description
History of Science and Technology Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/history-science-technology/
The History of Science and Technology Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources devoted to many eras of the history of science and the history of technology. Here may be found materials for educators and learners (early childhood throu... Full Description
Illinois Historic Aerial Photo Imagebase
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/aerial_photos/
This project makes available scanned aerial photographs of Illinois taken between 1935 and 1955. Users can view JPG image surrogates resized from archival TIFFs that were produced by scanning the photographs at approximately 720 dpi. The aerial photographs were the focus of a collaborative pilot pro... Full Description
iLumina Digital Library
http://www.ilumina-dlib.org/
iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects su... Full Description
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, direc... Full Description
International Journal of Engineering Education
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=4ACDBEF...
This journal, a NEEDS Pathway participant, serves as an international interdisciplinary forum of reference for engineering education. It aims to achieve a balance between papers on developments in educational methods technology, case studies, laboratory applications, new theoretical approaches, educ... Full Description
Internet Scout Project
http://scout.wisc.edu/
The Internet Scout Report provides evaluation and annotation of high-quality online resources, particularly those that will be of value to the education community. Each resource is selected, researched, and annotated by a team of professional librarians and subject-matter experts, who evaluate sites... Full Description
Intute: Virtual Training Suite
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
The Intute: Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials, in over 65 subject areas, designed to help students, educators, and researchers improve their internet search and research skills. The tutorials are written and updated by a team of subject specialists based in universities, colleges, ... Full Description
Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research
http://www.auburn.edu/research/litee/jstem/index.php
This peer-reviewed, web-only publication explores innovations and emerging topics in undergraduate teaching and learning in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. It emphasizes real-world case studies that cut across the different STEM areas and that cover nontechnical issues such as fin... Full Description
MAA Online: Classroom Capsules and Notes
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/20/
Classroom Capsules brings together the best of 112 years of the short classroom materials from the MAA print publications. MAA membership or subscription required. Full Description
Macaulay Library
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/macaulaylibrary/
The Macaulay Library is a principal source of sound recordings for basic research, education, conservation, habitat assessment, media, and commercial projects. The collection is strongest in New World species but also has substantial holdings from Africa and Madagascar, Europe, the former Soviet Uni... Full Description
MatDL: Materials Digital Library Pathway
http://matdl.org/
The Materials Digital Library Pathway (MatDL) is building an information infrastructure to support materials science (MS) education and research--and interactions between the two--as well as to disseminate resources generated by government-funded MS collaborations. The long-term target community of ... Full Description
Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/
The Math Forum is the comprehensive resource for math education on the Internet. Some features include a K-12 math expert service (Ask Dr. Math), an extensive database of math sites and math tools, online resources for teaching and learning math, a discussion forum, information on professional devel... Full Description
MathDL: Loci
http://www.mathdl.org/mathDL/23/
Loci is the publication of the Mathematical Association of America and part of the Mathematical Sciences Digital Library. It features peer-reviewed articles and learning materials focused on teaching and learning undergraduate mathematics, including articles, mathlets, modules, reviews, and a develo... Full Description
MathDL: MAA Writing Awards
http://www.mathdl.org/mathDL/22/
MAA Writing Awards is part of the site Mathematical Sciences Digital Library. Writing Awards provides access to pdf files of the articles that have won MAA journal writing awards over the years together with short biographical sketches of the authors. Full Description
Mathematics Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/mathematics/
The Mathematics Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of mathematics-related web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the discipline, including algebra, applied math, arithmetic, calculus, functions, geometry, measurement, number sense, probability and stati... Full Description
Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE)
http://mel.org/mer/
Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE) provides thousands of quality educational web sites and resources for K-12 educators, including professional development, practical information, and curriculum-related resources in specific disciplines. The sites and resources are tied to Michigan's cur... Full Description
Microbial Life Educational Resources
http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/
MLER aims to provide a contemporary and expanding collection of resources of expert information about the ecology, diversity and evolution of micro-organisms for students, K-12 teachers, university faculty, as well as for the general public. These resources are built around themes: microbial life in... Full Description
Middle School Portal: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2)
http://msteacher.org/
The Middle School Portal: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2) identifies digital resources that support reform-based middle school math and science teaching and learning. Its Mathematics Pathway and Science Pathway present standards-based publications that take an in-depth look at teachable concepts in... Full Description
Monarch Watch
http://www.monarchwatch.org/
Monarch Watch is a cooperative network of students, teachers, volunteers and researchers dedicated to the study of the Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus and its spectacular fall migration. Full Description
MY NASA DATA: Mentoring and Inquiry using NASA Data on Atmospheric and Earth Science for Teachers and Amateurs
http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/
The MY NASA DATA collection showcases NASA Earth science data through lesson plans, data microsets, computer tools, data information pages and a science glossary. Resources are geared towards K-12 educators, students and citizen scientists. Resources generally cover clouds, aerosols, the radiation b... Full Description
NASA Earth and Space Science Education Collection
http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject&key=edmall
The collection provides teachers and students with a wide variety of curriculum enhancement materials geared for Earth science classroom use. Full Description
NASA Earth Science Reviewed Collection
http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject&key=eserev
The NASA Earth Science Reviewed Collection provides educators and students with a direct line of access to quality products reviewed through the NASA product review. The resources have been rigorously reviewed by an independent peer review of teachers, curriculum and design specialists, teacher trai... Full Description
National Academies Press
http://www.nap.edu/
National Academies Press. The Joseph Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press, was created with the goal of making books on science, technology, and health more widely available to professionals and the public. The new imprint responds to rising public interest in science issues. As t... Full Description
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Learning Center
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/
The NSTA Learning Center offers print and online resources for science teachers, including a wealth of journal articles, books, book chapters, and electronic professional development resources, such as SciGuides, SciPacks, and Web Seminars. Designed for both schools and individual teachers, the NSTA... Full Description
NEEDS: National Engineering Education System - Engineering Pathway
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=7A93330...
A digital library and learning community for engineering education, NEEDS catalogs courseware and other instructional software developed nationally and internationally to provide a resource where both instructors and learners can search, access, and download educational materials over the World Wide... Full Description
New York State Earth Science Instructional Collection
http://stevekluge.com/geoscience/projects/nysic/
The New York State Earth Science Instructional Collection (NYSESIC) is a thematic collection focusing on instructional materials that support teaching and learning in relation to the New York Earth Science Regents exam. The topics covered by the collection include solid Earth forms and processes, at... Full Description
NOAA Environmental Visualization Program
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/
The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Environmental Visualization Program provides enhanced-resolution imagery and animations of atmospheric and natural-hazards phenomena captured daily by satellite and other remote-sensing technologies. The range of phenomena includes storm eve... Full Description
NSDL Collaborative Wiki
http://wiki.nsdl.org/
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Wiki provides a collaborative online environment where users can organize, create, and annotate resources. Vetted articles and referenced resources can then be added to the library for search and discovery on nsdl.org. Full Description
NSDL Expert Voices
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/
Expert Voices uses weblog technology to support collaborative conversations among STEM content experts, scientists, educators, and students from key NSDL audience groups: K-12 teachers, higher-education faculty, librarians, and library builders. Moderated conversations are designed to tie NSDL resou... Full Description
NSDL Web Seminars
http://nsdl.org/resources_for/k12_teachers/?pager=professional_development
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) collaborated with NSTA focusing on a variety of science topics and targeting K-12 grade level educators. The seminars included information and resources for educators available on the NSDL website. Presenters are well-respected, veteran educators from NSDL... Full Description
NSDL Whiteboard Report
http://whiteboard.comm.nsdl.org/
Research news and notes from the National Science Digital Library Project. Full Description
On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/
The Cutting Edge collection is a set of thematic strands on pedagogical and content topics of interest to geoscience education, broadly construed. Current strands cover teaching biocomplexity, early-career faculty development, petrology, and designing effective courses in the geosciences. The collec... Full Description
Online Psychology Laboratory (OPL)
http://opl.apa.org/
The Online Psychology Laboratory (OPL) consists of (1) highly interactive, web-deliverable psychology experiments and demonstrations, (2) a cumulative data archive from which students can retrieve datasets for analysis, and (3) user-controlled data extraction and analysis tools designed for the dive... Full Description
OSTI: Office of Scientific and Technical Information
http://www.osti.gov/
As one of the largest sponsors of research and development for the Nation, DOE supports thousands of research projects annually. OSTI's mission is to collect, preserve, and disseminate the scientific and technical information (STI) of the Department of Energy for use by DOE, the scientific research ... Full Description
Physics Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/physics/
The Physics Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of physics-related web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas of the discipline, including electromagnetism, classical mechanics, optics, oscillations and waves, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and other areas.... Full Description
PlanetMath.org: Math for the People, by the People
http://planetmath.org/
PlanetMath.org is a collaborative online encyclopedia of mathematics, intended for high-school level and up. The stress is on peer review, rigor, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and community-drivenness. PlanetMath entries are written in LaTeX, the lingua franca of the wo... Full Description
Pr2ove-It
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=3183266...
PR2OVE-IT (Peer Reviewed Research Offering Validation of Effective and Innovative Teaching) is a dynamic and evolving digital clearinghouse that summarizes the available research on educational interventions designed to enhance student learning, retention, and professional success in postsecondary e... Full Description
PRISMS: Phenomena and Representations for the Instruction of Science in Middle School
http://prisms.mmsa.org/
PRISMS provides annotated reviews describing a resource's phenomenon or representation content alignment and quality of instructional support. The focus is on resources useful to science instruction in middle school. Resources are evaluated for how well they support learning goals in Science for All... Full Description
Project Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Resources Online
http://projecteuclid.org/
Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. It provides access to information from more than 50 independent and society journals publishing in these areas. Through the site users can view tables of contents and ar... Full Description
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
http://www.plos.org/journals/index.html
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) publishes eight peer-reviewed, open-access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles. The journals are: 1) PLoS Biology, which features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, f... Full Description
PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/index.html
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Full Description
Rapid Prototyping Instructional Delivery Support
http://rpids.csc.tntech.edu/
Rapid Prototyping is an additive manufacturing technology. This site helps new and existing users of Rapid Prototyping develop a better understanding of the technology. Materials include: guidance in the development of distance learning materials, technology transfer approaches, marketing materials,... Full Description
Reciprocal Net: A Distributed Crystallography Network for Researchers, Students, and the General Public
http://www.reciprocalnet.org/
The Reciprocal Net project constructs and deploys a distributed, open, extensible digital collection of molecular structures. Associated with the collection are software tools for visualizing, interacting with, and rendering printable images of the contents; software for the automated conversion of ... Full Description
Resources for Educational Benchmarks
http://strandmaps.nsdl.org/
The Resources for Educational Benchmarks connects learning resources to the NSDL Science Literacy Maps. The Science Literacy Maps illustrate connections between science concepts and show how they build upon one another across grade levels. Science Literacy Maps are intended to serve as a browsing in... Full Description
Scientific American: Issue Archive
http://www.sciam.com/issues_directory.cfm
Science and Technology from Scientific American: daily science news and technology news, science trivia, science experts, science newsletters, science shop, science books and more Full Description
Scientific Visualization Studio
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scientific Visualization Studio collection contains visualizations produced from satellite data or from computer simulations of geophysical phenomena using such satellite data. The visualizations show physical phenomena that occur on Earth, ot... Full Description
Simplified Image Management and Processing Learning Environment for Science (SIMPLE Science)
http://www.simplescience.org/
The Simplified Image Management and Processing Learning Environment for Science (SIMPLE Science) collection aims to create resources for middle school that emphasize image processing and analysis techniques while at the same time meet educational standards. The collection features tutorials that gui... Full Description
Social Sciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/social-sciences/
The Social Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources devoted to the interplay of science and the social realm, as well as social-science materials that draw heavily upon or are closely related to the life sciences, physical sc... Full Description
Space Sciences Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/space-sciences/
The Space Sciences Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources in many areas pertinent to the study of space including astrochemistry, astrophysics, cosmology, the solar system, extrasolar planets, amateur astronomy, information about ob... Full Description
SpringerLink Online Journals
http://www.springer.com/east/home/librarians?SGWID=5-117-6-169728-0
The SpringerLink Online Journal collection includes more than 1,250 peer-reviewed journals published by Springer Science+Business Media. Through the Online Archives Collection almost every journal is available online from Volume I, Issue I. Springer organizes the Online Journals into fully indexed, ... Full Description
Starting Point: Teaching Entry Level Geoscience
http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/
The Starting Point collection consists of resources found within the Starting Point website to support teaching entry-level undergraduate geoscience of all types. The collection includes modules on instructional methods that make up the Starting Point site. Examples demonstrate ways of using these m... Full Description
STEM Education and Educational Technology Gateways and Resources
http://www.nsdl.org/collection/stem-education/
The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Education and Educational Technology Gateways and Resources collection is comprised of web portals, web sites, and individual digital resources devoted to educational theory and practice, particularly ideas and practices in the teaching of... Full Description
Taylor and Francis Group
http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/
The international academic publisher Taylor and Francis Group publishes over 1000 journals and around 1,800 new books each year. Its mission is to provide reliable, value-added information, knowledge, and distilled data to researchers, students, educators, and professionals, enabling them to succeed... Full Description
Teach the Earth
http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html
The Teach the Earth collection from the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) contains a broad range of resources supporting effective geoscience education. The collection spans middle school through graduate level with a special emphasis on undergraduate education. It includes thematic foci such... Full Description
TeachEngineering: Resources for K-12
http://www.teachengineering.com/
The TeachEngineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms. Mapped to educational content stand... Full Description
Teachers' Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Teachers Domain is a multimedia library for K-12 science educators, developed by WGBH through funding from the National Science Foundation as part of its National Science Digital Library initiative. The site offers a wealth of classroom-ready instructional resources, as well as online professional d... Full Description
The Teaching Company: Science and Mathematics Courses
http://www.teach12.com/store/courses.asp?DCSext.subjlandsplit=1&s=910&sbj=S...
The website provides access a range of online courses in the fields of math and science, in particular Algebra, Physics, Astronomy, Biology and Chemistry. Students must pay for the courses. The courses tend to be lecture-driven but are given by some of the nation's leading faculty. Courses are avail... Full Description
Tom Snyder Productions Educational Software
http://www.tomsnyder.com/
Educational software products for K-12 students in the areas of science and math, developed and published by Tom Snyder Productions. Some titles have Spanish language versions available. Full Description
Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=E5AEC01...
Bi-weekly posting of news articles and a place for discussion on teaching and learning in engineering education. Topics include career information, teaching and learning, research, and a graduate and postdocs. The site also contains links to articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education on-line Ca... Full Description
Tool Factory, Inc. K-13+ Educational Software in Science and Math
http://www.toolfactory.com/
Award-winning interactive educational software in all areas of science and math including health, life science, physical science, earth science, weather, and astronomy. Full Description
Trinity Remembered. The Trinity Test: Historic Documents, Photos, and Videos
http://www.trinityremembered.com/
60 years ago, the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert. Trinityremembered.com, brings together a large collection of information about the turning point of human history. It contains eyewitness accounts, photographs, video and maps Full Description
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections: Ecology and Natural Resources
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EcoNatRes
The Ecology and Natural Resources Collection brings together in digital form two categories of primary and secondary publications: writings about research in ecology and natural resources conducted by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable titles in these fields held by th... Full Description
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections: The Science Collection
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Science
The Science Collection brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary publications: writings about scientific research conducted by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to science held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. Sub... Full Description
VaNTH-ERC for Bioengineering Educational Technologies
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?&id=5DE1D8C...
VaNTH-ERC, an Engineering Research Center formed by a consortium of Vanderbilt and Northwestern universities, the University of Texas-Austin, and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, focuses on the design, development, and dissemination of bioengineering and biomedical engineering courseware.... Full Description
Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations
http://www.physicsdemos.com/
The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations is a comprehensive series of physics material produced under the auspices of the National Science Foundation for use by high school, university and middle school students. The series, designed for interactive use, now available online and still availa... Full Description
Virginia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection (VT-ETD)
http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/vtetd/vtetd.html
A collection of electronic theses and dissertations available from Virginia Tech. Full Description
Visionlearning
http://visionlearning.com/
Visionlearning is an innovative educational resource designed for students, teachers, parents or anyone interested in learning science. Visionlearning provides peer-reviewed teaching modules in chemistry, biology, earth science and other disciplines within a fully customizable online classroom manag... Full Description
Visual Materials from the Tissandier Collection
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?pp/ils:@FILREQ(@OR(@field(AUTHOR+@od1...
Pictures documenting the early history of aeronautics, with emphasis on balloon flight. Subjects range from the first balloon ascent in 1783 through some late 19th-century design concepts for heavier-than-air vehicles. Images depict balloons, airships, flying machines, portraits of famous balloonist... Full Description
W. M. Keck Laboratory of Hydraulics and Water Resources Technical Reports
http://caltechkhr.library.caltech.edu/information.html
Caltech Library System manages CaltechKHR, a repository of technical reports, on behalf of the W. M. Keck Laboratory of Hydraulics and Water Resources at Caltech. Full Description
Wolfram Functions Site
http://functions.wolfram.com/
The Wolfram Functions Site is an encyclopedic collection of information about mathematical functions. The site details the interrelationships between the special functions of mathematical physics and the elementary functions of mathematical analysis. Containing more than 87,000 formulas and more tha... Full Description
Wolfram MathWorld
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
MathWorld is a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for educators, students, engineers, researchers, and math enthusiasts. It contains more than 11,000 detailed entries covering virtually all areas of mathematics. MathWorld is a free service for the mathematical community ... Full Description