Mathematics & Science Metasites, Portals & Gateways

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• Anatomy Atlases - Has 6 textbooks & links to 8 digital libraries.



• Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC), The - Has information for improved care (lab, farm, zoo, circus, etc.) in research, teaching, testing), links (databases, etc.).



• Atomic Archive - Covers the science (nuclear fission, etc.) & history (Mahattan Project, etc.) surrounding the discovery of the atomic bomb. Has a library (38 biographies, documents, glossary, teacher's guide, etc.), media, almanac.



• BEN - A portal with searchable access to the digital library collections of professional societies & coalitions for biology education. Currently provides access to 4,100 reviewed resources from AAAS/Science's STKE, ABLE, APS Archives, ASM Microbelibrary, ESA's EcoEdNet, the Society of Toxicology.



• BioExchange - A portal for biotechnology & the life sciences. A feature-rich network community with advanced features in e-commerce & wireless technologies. Has a career center for finding & sourcing human resources, news & information, resources & tools about the industry. Supports seeing-impaired & handicapped accessibility services via voice-synthesis support & a Web design compatible with third-party systems.



• Biology Online - Has tutorials, a 2,000 term dictionary, over 250 links, a site search.



• Biology Project, The - Has problem sets & tutorials on biochemistry; cell, developmental, human, molecular biology; chemicals & human health; immunology; Mendelian genetics.



• BioTech - Has a life science dictionary with 8,300 definitions, an introduction to glycolysis, information on bioinformatics, links, etc., site search.



• BitLaw - A comprehensive site with over 1,800 pages on technology law (patent, copyright, trademark, Internet).



• Cambridge Relativity Public Home Page - Has detailed information & movies (QuickTime) on cosmology, black holes, cosmic strings, inflation, quantum gravity.



• Canada's Digital Collections - Has 600 collections on Canada's history, geography, science, technology, culture. Includes Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People; Toronto's First Synagogues; etc.



• Center for History of Physics - Has Center information, exhibits on discoveries, a library (700 finding aids, etc.), 22 syllabi, etc. Can search 25,000 photo, slides, lithographs, engravings.



• ChemSpy.com - A portal to databases (search engines, physical properties, structures, dictionaires, MSDS/safety data, etc.), links, tutorials.



• ChemWeb.com - A comprehensive site with access to databases of chemical structures, patents, sites. Requires free registration.



• CITIDEL (Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library) - A large digital library of 488,000 computer science materials culled from 15 main source collections. Includes papers, bibliographies, course materials, instructional activities, archives. Searchable, with browse indexes for source collection and subject.



• Community of Science (COS) - Promote Your Research in 170 countries, access 500,000 experts, etc.



• Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections - Can download photos of over 100 species of mammals (including humans) representing 17 mammalian orders. Has links.



• Cover Pages - Has resources (news, standards, Cover Pages Technology Reports supporting SGML/XML (meta) markup language standards & their application.



• DASL (Data and Story Library) - Has datasets & stories that illustrate the use of basic statistical methods.



• DBGET Search - A simple database retrieval system to search & extract entries from a number of biochemistry/genetics/protein databases. Included are GenBank (nucleic acid sequence database); EMBL (nucleic acid sequence database); SWISS-PROT (protein sequence database); PIR (protein sequence database); PRF (protein sequence database); LITDB (PRF protein/peptide literature database); PDB (Brookhaven Protein Data Bank); PDBSTR (Re-organized Protein Data Bank); PROSITE (Dictionary of protein sites and patterns); LIGAND (Ligand chemical database for enzyme reactions); PMD (Protein Mutant Database); AA-Index (Amino Acid index database); OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man).



• Earth Trends - An environmental information portal with databases, tables, country profiles, maps, etc., on environmental, social, economic trends in 10 categories.



• Edison Papers, The - Can search 113,000 document records & 16,000 names, 180,000 document images.



• ESA EcoEdNet - A portal for college level ecology education resources (papers, lessons, articles). Covers ecology, biological diversity, evolution, energy transfer & continuity in ecosystems. Requires free registration.



• Free Downloads Center - Has 30,000 downloadable IZArc software in 12 categories (business, information management, multimedia & graphics, network & Internet, programming, Web authoring, etc.).



• Garbo - An extensive collection of programs & utilities for the MS-DOS operating system.



• History of Mathematics - A gateway to resources on the history of math. Has book bibliographies & Internet sources by geographic region & subject (algebra, probability & statistics), chronological list of mathematicians.



• In the First Person - Includes 3,350 personal narrative collections in English worldwide, over 650,000 pages of full-text by over 15,000 people, 3,500 audio & video files & 30,000 bibliographic records, 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, 17,000 oral history entries.



• internetnews.com - Has news articles in 11 categories (business, developer, ecommerce, enterprise, networking, security, stats, storage, wireless, xSP) with archives back to 1998.



• Jumbo - An archive of shareware & freeware. Includes business applications, games, graphics, utilities, educational software & programming tools, decompression & anti-virus programs, etc.



• Linux Online - Has general information on the Linux Operating system, common references & utilities.



• LUMEN Dissector - Has images of the back, upper & lower extremities, head & neck, thorax, abdomen, pelvis/perineum.



• Maryland Earthcast - A virtual library of information, maps, links on the Earth, weather, climate.



• Microbes.info - The microbiology information portal. A collection of news articles, Web resources, forums, 2,200 links (environmental, food, industrial, medical, veterinary, etc.) o organizations, companies, publications. Has FAQs, a site search.



• Molecular Expressions - Has a color photo gallery, virtual microscopy, primer with tutorials (Secret Worlds: The Universe Within; etc.).



• NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - Has a multimedia gallery, TV programming, NASA Education Program, links to over 20 NASA sites (Astronomy Picture of the Day, NASA Learning Technologies Project (LTP), etc.), a site search.



• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - Has Center information, tools (teaching resources, tutorials), the NCBI bookshelf, downloadable data & software, etc., site search.



• National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) - Has satellite, climate, paleoclimate, radar data; etc., a site search.



• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Includes the Information Technology Laboratory, Physics Laboratory, etc.



• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Has information on weather, ocean, satellites, fisheries, climate, coasts, charting & navigation, etc., a site search. Includes &/or sponsors the Climate Diagnostics Center, National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service, etc.



• National Science Foundation (NSF) - Has Foundation & funding information, statistical reports, etc., a site search.



• NBII (National Biological Information Infrastructure) - Has information on issues & disciplines, etc.; teacher resources; data & information resources, etc.; a site search.



• Nerd's Heaven - An archive of shareware, freeware, etc. Covers the Internet, operating systems, mathematical, Windows, MacIntosh, user groups, commercial vendors.



• net.TUTOR - Has 15 interactive tutorials (Citing Net Sources, Evaluating Web Sites, Using Web Search Tools, etc.), resource guides (business, education, health, humanities, math & science, social sciences, etc.), etc.



• NSDL (National Science Digital Library) - A digital library with several hundred collections (research eprint collections to virtual libraries of expert selected links to important science resources to curriculum materials to key bibliographic & other databases in important scientific fields).



• Nuclear Weapon Archive, The - A comprehensive resource with information about nuclear energy & weapons. Has documents & reports about atomic bombs, nuclear testing, the Nevada test site, stories from survivors of Nagasaki & Hiroshima, a glossary, images of nuclear detonations, links.



• Official String Theory Web Site, The - Has information on cosmology, black holes, etc.; a timeline, forum, etc.; links (emagazines, courses, eprints, etc.).



• Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science - Has information on engineering, research, leaders, workplace, computers & software; a bibliography; a glossary with 100 definitions; codes of ethics & conduct.



• OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information) - Has Office information.



• PhysicsWeb - Has news, jobs, a buyer's guide, events, etc., site search.



• PhysLink.com - A comprehensive physics & astronomy virtual library with education (ask the experts, history, essays, etc.), reference (calculators, constants, data, etc.), directories (labs, societies, companies, etc.), community, etc., a site search.



• Recording Technology History - Covers 20 topics, from cylinder versus disc through tape to cassette to CD. Has links.



• Search Engine Guide - Has links to over 3,200 tools (search engines, subject directories, databases [company, education, government, health & medicine, law, science, etc.]), news back to 1999, a vendor directory, etc., Web search.



• Shareware.com - Has downloadable software programs in 12 categories (audio & video, Internet, business, IS/IT, mobile, design, Web developer, software developer, utilities & drivers, desktop enhancements, home & dducation, etc.).



• SitePoint - Has information & links on building & maintaining Web resources.



• Sparknotes - Has over 300 study guides in 15 categories (literature, history, philosophy, etc.), charts (math, science, etc.), etc., a site search.



• Spire Project, The - Has information & links on how to evaluate & find information on the Web (country profiles, patents, company information, imports & exports, United Nations information, government resources, industry research, theses & dissertations, news & news databases, etc.].



• Stony Brook Algorithm Repository, The - Based on The Algorithm Design Manual by S.S. Skiena. Has over 70 of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms.



• TechWeb - Has business technology news & articles, a TechEncyclopedia with 20,000 IT definitions, etc., & site search.



• TelecomWeb - A portal with business news, market research & competitive analysis on the global communications industry. Has links (broadband, wireless data, satellite, pricing, enterprise, policy, fiber optics)



• TerraServer - The world's online imagery portal. Can view & browse imagery at no charge; purchase satellite imagery, aerial photos, prints, etc.



• Threat Explorer - Can search over 60,000 security-related threats. Entries describe viruses, how to treat them if possible, etc.



• Tree of Life Web Project, The - Has over 3,000 peer-reviewed, hyperlinked pages on phylogeny & biodiversity; images & bibliographies; a site search.



• tucows - Has over 40,000 rated software downloads (PDA, security, development & authoring, games, audio & video, desktop enhancements, mobile, Internet, IS/IT, business, design tools, home & education).



• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Has Agency information, educational & informational resources, a site search. Covers laws, regulations, dockets. Includes &/or sponsors the Chemicals On Reporting Rules (CORR) Database, ECOTOX Database, Envirofacts Data Warehouse, IRIS Database for Risk Assessment.



• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - Includes &/or sponsors the GEO-DATA Explorer (GEODE); Geographic Names Information System (GNIS); The Learning Web; National Geologic Map Database; topographic map symbols; a volcano hazards program; a site search; etc.



• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) - Has Organization, UNESCO Documents & Publications, etc., a site search.



• Views of the Solar System - Has over 220 pages of information, 950 high-resolution images & animationsmm a glossary of terms, a dictionary of famous astronomers.



• Virtual Training Suite - Has over 60 tutorials to help improve Internet information literacy & IT skills. Subjects covered include anthropology, bioresearch, business manager, chemist, allied health, education, English, government, health & social care, history, history & philosophy of science, information & communication technology, social statistics, women's studies, lawyers, modern languages, social policy, social science research methods, geographer, Internet instructor, mathematician, philosopher, physicist, psychologist, social worker, sociologist, etc.



• Visible Human Project, The - Has cross-sectional female & male images, links. Must file with NLM to use images.



• Web Text - A guide to Internet resources. Covers orientation, guides, reference materials, browsing & exploring tools, subject & word-oriented searching tools, information about connecting with people, etc.



• WebReference - Has information on the Web & Webmastery, from browsing to authoring, HTML to advanced site design.



• Where to Find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet - Has links to over 85 to government & non-profit agencies, chemical manufacturers & suppliers; a hyperglossary with 400 definitions; information about material safety data sheets; etc.



• WinSite - An archive of freely distributable Windows software packages.



• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - Has Organization & intellectual property information (patents, trademarks, copyright, etc.), news & resources, activities & services.

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