Mathematics & Science Ready Reference

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***** E-Ref - Has over 880 free electronic reference titles appropriate for undergraduates.

Best Online Reference Sites - Has over 500 links on biography & history, books & literature, business & finance, countries & government, consumers & household, dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, entertainment & recreation, facts, health & science, magazines & news, maps & travel, measures, New York State & local, quotations & writing.

Brain Facts and Figures - Has estimated, averaged data from various textbooks. Covers neurons, the spinal cord, sensory apparatus, blood supply.

ChemIDplus Lite - Includes over 352,000 chemical records & 117,000 structures, links to other databases.

ChemIndustry.com - Has over 66,000 links (suppliers, etc.), experts in 30,000 areas, 171,000 chemical names, jobs.

Cybercafe Search Engine, The - Has links to over 5,700 cybercafes, public internet access points, kiosks in 161 countries.

Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers - Has links to over 80 servers.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Can search, browse over 2,300 links to scientific & scholarly journals in 17 categories (health sciences, etc.). Can search over 670 journals at the article level.

Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books - Has reviews of books on computer software, hardware, development, networking, etc., back to 1990.

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases - Has search forms for several plant & ecological databases.

EquationSheet.com - Can create a personal Equation Sheet from a large database of science & math equations (constants, symbols, SI units, etc.) available in LaTeX & MathML, PNG image, MathType 5.0 format.

Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools - Has links in over 140 categories. Focus is U.S. & Canada.

LivRe - Has links to over 2,700 ejournals in the biological, health & medicine, agricultural, exact & earth, engineering, applied social (management, accounting, economy, etc.), human sciences (education, psychology, etc.); linguistics, literature & arts.

Martindale's The Reference Desk - Quick, easy to use, access to difficult to find data. Updated weekly. Covers language & translation, cyberinfrastructure & Internet, education, electronic media, entertainment & arts, food & cooking, international (overview, countries, travel, business), science, over 20,000 calculators, astronomy/space, bioscience/biotech, chemistry, geoscience, mathematics, physics, etc.

National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) - Can search, browse links to databases created by U.K. government departments (health, law & order, transport, demography, etc.) back to 1963.

NatureServe Explorer - An online encyclopedia on plants, animals, ecological communities of the U.S. & Canada. Includes over 65,000 species & ecosystems, in-depth coverage for rare & endangered species.

PhysNet - Can search, browse PhysDep - Physics Departments Worldwide, over 60 ejournals (not all free), conferences, jobs, education, links, etc.

Reference Collection - Has links to 21 academic (meta sites; acronyms & abbreviations; almanacs; associations; biography; books, book reviews; publishers; colleges & universities; countries; dictionaries; thesauri & grammars; encyclopedias; flags & anthems; government information, the Internet, journal directories, local & regional information, maps & map services, quotations, speeches & transcripts, statistical sources, style guides, U.S. facts & locations) & 19 general information (audo prices; awards & prize winners; calculators; career resources; consumer information; currencies; email addresses; films; financial aid & grants; genealogy; medicine & health; news; phone books; recipes; September 11th terrorist attacks; time, date & calendars; travel; weather; weights & measures) sites.

Scholarly Societies Project - Has links to over 4,100 major international societies & 3,700 conferences, standards, 150 enewsletters, etc.

Virtual Reference Shelf - Has links in 30 categories (abbreviations, almanacs, associations, awards/prizes, calculators, calendars, clocks/times, consumer information, current events, dictionaries/thesauri, directories, encyclopedias, genealogy, biography & archaeology, government, grant resources, libraries, maps/driving directions, quotations, statistics, etc.).

VLMP (Virtual Library museums pages) - Has links to online art, science, natural history museums worldwide.

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