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Science News and Online Journals
Life Sciences
Agripedia
Links (http://www.ca.uky.edu/agripedia)
Provides links to agriculture and horticulture sites,
by the University of Kentucky School of Agriculture.
BioEd
Online (http://www.bioedonline.org)
Contains biology teacher resources, slide sets,
biology news and more.
DOEGenomes.org (http://www.doegenomes.org)
Genome projects of the U.S. Department of Energy.
eNature (http://www.enature.com)
A searchable database for identifying more than
5,000 plant and animal species of North America.
Entomology
Index (http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list)
A portal of entomology sites.
Genetics Education Center (http://www.kumc.edu/gec)
Information on the Human Genome project, education
resources, and links to other genetic programs and
resources.
Integrated
Taxonomic Information System (http://www.itis.gov)
A searchable index of biological names focusing
on the biota of North America.
Learn.Genetics
(http://learn.genetics.utah.edu)
Contains information sources as well as teacher
resources and lesson plans.
Life Sciences Dictionary (http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html)
Contains over "8,300 terms which deal with biochemistry,
biotechnology, botany, cell biology, and genetics."
NAL
Catalog (Agricola) (http://agricola.nal.usda.gov)
Created by the National Agricultural Library, this
site is a bibliographic database relating to agricultural
literature and includes references to animal and
veterinary sciences. See the National Agricultural
Library Thesaurus (http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt/dne/search.shtml)
to find the correct terms to search the database
more effectively.
National Biological Information Infrastructure (http://www.nbii.gov)
Access to information on climate change in the northeast
United States, as well a wide range of regional
spatial data and interactive mapping tools.
Phylogeny of Life
(http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/phylogeny.html)
An online exhibit of phylogenetic systematics.
PLANTS
Database (http://plants.nrcs.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=about_adv_query.html)
Provides standardized information about the vascular
plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens
of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names,
plant symbols, checklists, distributional data,
species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant
links, references, crop information, and automated
tools.
Symphony
of Life: Genetics and Medicine (http://www.med.umich.edu/genetics/home.htm)
A site for the layperson on understanding genetics
and its relation to medicine.
Understanding Genetics (http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/ugenetics)
An excellent site to help get students up to speed
on the latest information on genetics.
Vascular
Plant Images (http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm)
With wonderful, colorful photographs of vascular
plants, this site includes a searchable database
and is arranged alphabetically by name.
Environment
Biodiversity
Hotspots (http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org)
Per the web site, this site highlights "the
25 richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant
and animal life on Earth." Searchable by name
of spot, and contains information on ecosystem,
biodiversity, human impacts, and conservation.
EarthTrends (http://earthtrends.wri.org)
An environmental information portal, offering searchable
databases, data tables, country profiles, maps,
and feature articles in ten topical sections.
EcoEarth
(http://www.ecoearth.info)
An Internet search tool that provides access to
reviewed environmental sustainability news, information
retrieval tools, and original analysis and action
opportunities.
EnviroLink Network (http://www.envirolink.org)
The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization
which has been providing access to thousands of
online environmental resources since 1991.
Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gov)
Guide to news, laws and databases. Provided by the
US Government. See also EPA:
National Environmental Publications Information (http://nepis.epa.gov)
to search in over 11,000 publications in the EPA's
NEPI database.
E-PRINT Network (http://www.osti.gov/eprints)
A searchable gateway to servers that deal with scientific
and technical disciplines of concern to DOE.
GEO Yearbook 2007 (http://www.unep.org/geo/yearbook/yb2007)
The fourth edition of a report by the United
Nations Environment Programme which includes global
and regional overviews of significant developments
over the past year.
GlobalChange.gov (http://globalchange.gov)
A US government site that provides links to corresponding
agencies, news, research, global change policies
and other related information.
Intute Health and Life Sciences Hot Topic: Endangered
Species (http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/hottopic_32.html)
Several great links to finding information on endangered
species from around the globe or locally.
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project (http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx)
This organization focuses on ecosystem services
(the benefits people obtain from ecosystems), how
changes in ecosystem services have affected human
wellbeing, how ecosystem changes may affect people
in future decades, and response options that might
be adopted at local, national, or global scales
to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute
to human well-being and poverty alleviation.
National Agricultural Statistics Service (http://www.nass.usda.gov)
Provides timely, accurate, and useful statistics
in service to U.S. agriculture.
National Environmental Directory (http://www.environmentaldirectory.net)
A searchable directory of over 13,000 organizations
in the US concerned with environmental issues and
environmental education.
National Library for the Environment (http://www.cnie.org/nle)
A portal to environmental information and data for
the use of all participants in the environmental
enterprise. Contains over 1,500 Congressional Research
Reports.
TOXMAP: Environmental Health E-maps (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp)
TOXMAP helps users create nationwide or local area
maps showing where TRI chemicals are released on-site
into the air, water, and ground. Maps can also show
locations of Superfund sites on the National Priority
List (NPL) (http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl),
listing all chemical contaminants present at these
sites.
Trends Online (http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm)
A compendium of data on global change.
World
Conservation Monitoring Centre (http://www.unep-wcmc.org)
This site contains links that allow searching the
World Conservation Monitoring Centre's database for
certain species and their threatened status for different
countries around the world.
World
Wildlife Organization (http://www.worldwildlife.org)
A great site that contains current information on
"hot" environmental topics, such as global warming
and endangered species. See also the Wildfinder
(http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildfinder)
for a map-driven, searchable database of more than
26,000 species worldwide, with a powerful search tool
that allows users to discover where species live or
explore wild places to find out what species live
there.
Local Resources
Grand River Partners (http://www.grandriverpartners.org)
The mission of this site is "o preserve the
water quality, open space, the natural, recreational,
agricultural and scenic resources of the Grand River
in Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, Portage, and Trumbull
Counties by uniting residents, landowners, businesses,
and communities in the stewardship and permanent protection
of the Grand River Watershed."
Lake
Metroparks System (http://lakemetroparks.com)
Find out current events, park hours, rental information,
education opportunities and more.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
(http://www.dnr.state.oh.us)
A guide to parks and recreation in Ohio, plus an index
to the ODNR's publications.
Ohio EPA (http://www.epa.state.oh.us)
According to the web site, its mission is "to protect
the environment and public health by ensuring compliance
with environmental laws and demonstrating leadership
in environmental stewardship.
Meteorology
Comprehensive
Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm Spotters
(http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/severewx/glossary.php)
Alphabetical listing of useful terms in the meteorology
realm; meant to help standardize the language used
by "storm spotters."
MetED
(http://meted.ucar.edu)
An informative site for meteorologist education
and training.
Monthly Climatic Data for the World
(http://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/MCDWPubs?action=getpublication)
Contains mean temperature, pressure, precipitation,
vapor pressure, and sunshine for approximately 2,000
surface data collection stations worldwide and monthly
mean upper air temperatures, dew point depressions,
and wind velocities for approximately 500 observing
sites.
National
Weather Service (http://www.nws.noaa.gov)
The authority for weather information. See also
sites such as Weather.com (http://www.weather.com)
for quick weather information.
World
Weather Information Service (http://www.worldweather.org)
This
global web site presents OFFICIAL weather observations,
weather forecasts and climatological information
for selected cities supplied by National Meteorological
& Hydrological Services (NMHSs) worldwide. Over
1,000 cities are represented through this service.
Geology/Earth Science
Athena
Mineralogy (http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/mineral.html)
A "gem" of a site containing mineral lists, pictures,
other links and a search engine.
Atlas
of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals and Textures
(http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/mainmenu.html)
Includes an index of minerals, plutonic microtextures,
volcanic microtextures and metamorphic microtextures
that contain links to information and photographs
for these particular rocks and minerals.
Cornell's Digital Earth (http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/digitalearth)
This extensive site has as one of its goals to "raise
the quality of instruction from graduate to K-12
levels by promoting discovery-based learning and
critical thinking skills with available tools, data
sets and information."
Current
World Seismicity : US Geological Survey
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww)
This series of world and national maps shows the
latest geologic activities from around the world.
Earth Science World (http://www.earthscienceworld.org)
Many great resources relating to earth science are
found on this site.
Geologic Time: The Story of a Changing Earth (http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/geotime/main/index.html)
An excellent site that looks at the various
geologic time periods, from the Department of Paleobiology
at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Geology: Plate Techtonics (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html)
Describes plate tectonics and includes animated
files demonstrating the positions of the continents
during various geologic time periods.
Image Gallery for Geology (http://www.geosci.unc.edu/faculty/glazner/Images/gallery.html)
Images of geological phenomena, from lava rocks
to sedimentary structures.
Intute: Earth Sciences (http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/earthsciences)
Browse by category for high quality Internet sources.
Links
for Mineralogists (http://www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/links.html)
A vast site with annotated links to resources, especially
for mineralogists, petrologists,crystallographers,
geologists.
Mineralogy
Database (http://webmineral.com)
Contains over 4,400 individual mineral species
descriptions with links.
National Geophysical Data Center (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov)
Provides scientific stewardship, products, and services
for geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and
Earth's sea floor and solid earth environment, including
Earth observations from space.
PaleoMap Project (http://www.scotese.com)
The mission of this project is "to illustrate
the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins
and continents, as well as the changing distribution
of land and sea during the past 1,100 million years."
Structural Geology on the Web (http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Geology/Structure_Resources)
This is a collection of hypertext links to assorted
structural geology and tectonics resources available
on the world wide web.
United
States Geological Survey (http://www.usgs.gov)
Contains news releases, information by state, a
glossary, a search engine and much more!
Health/Medical Sources
Please note that web sites
are for research and information purposes only and are
not meant to replace advice from a licensed physician.
AEGIS-AIDS
Education Global Information System (http://www.aegis.com)
Very informative site containing current news and
everything you need to know about AIDS.
All the Virology on the WWW (http://www.virology.net/garryfavweb.html)
According to the web site, this site "seeks to be
the best single site for Virology information on
the Internet", containing an index to virus pictures
on the web, course notes, virus news, and lots more.
The Body (AIDS Resource) (http://www.thebody.com/index.shtml)
With over 550 topic areas related to the AIDS and
HIV viruses, this site is considered one of the
most comprehensive on the web.
Drugs@FDA (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm)
Find the catalog of approved FDA drugs here.
E-skeletons.org (http://web.austin.utexas.edu/eskeletons)
Allows viewing of the bones of the human anatomy
from different angles and the ability to compare
those bones with the bones of a chimpanzee or a
baboon.
Gray's
Anatomy (http://www.bartleby.com/107)
The 20th edition (1918) of Henry Gray's Anatomy
of the Human Body containing 1,247 illustrations
rendered in multiple resolutions, and 13,000 entries
presented in an encyclopedic subject index with
hyperlinks to their respective pages and illustrations
in the text.
Guided
Tour: Visible Human (http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH)
This sites provides quicktime movies of cross sections
of the human anatomy.
Healthfinder (http://www.healthfinder.gov)
Browse by topic or special resources for hand-picked
information on health topics.
Intelihealth (http://www.intelihealth.com)
From Harvard's Medical School, a user-friendly
site for the lay person and professional.
MedHist (http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/medhist)
A guide to medical history sites on the web.
MedicineNet (http://www.medicinenet.com)
Organized by diseases and conditions, procedures
and tests, and medications, this site is produced
by doctors and useful for both professionals and
consumers. See Medterms.com (http://www.medterms.com/Script/Main/hp.asp)
for an encyclopedic dictionary of classic and contemporary
medical terms (over 16,000 of them!)
MedlinePlus (http://www.medlineplus.org)
An up-to-date, quality health care information site
for both professionals and consumers from the National
Library of Medicine.
Merck
Manual of Medical Information - Second Home Edition (http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html)
Available in both an interactive version or text
version, this edition of the Merck Manual is geared
for the lay person but still contains the same "vital
information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention,
and treatment."
MeSH
Browser (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html)
Contains subject headings for medical information
from the National Library of Medicine.
National Center for Health Statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm)
Obtain US national vital and health statistics here.
National
Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov)
The National Library of Medicine home page allows
for free searching of the NLM database via GratefulMed,
and also has a great deal of up-to-date medical information.
National Women's Health Information Center
(http://www.4woman.org)
A site that focuses on women's health and is searchable
by keyword.
PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi)
Integrates information from a number of databases
(nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular
structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE) and provides
access "to over 14 million citations dating back to
the 1950's."
State Health Facts Online (http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi)
An easy way to look at and compare data for each of
the 50 states.
Stedman's Medical Dictionaries (http://www.stedmans.com)
Basic, free medical dictionary, searchable by word
or browseable alphabetically.
WebMD Health (http://www.webmd.com)
The leading consumer-focused healthcare information
Web site.
World Health Report 2006 (http://www.who.int/whr/2006/en/index.html)
An expert assessment of the current crisis in the
global health workforce and ambitious proposals to
tackle it over the next ten years. See also the World
Health Organization's web site (http://www.who.int/en.)
Journals
Free
Medical Journals.com (http://www.freemedicaljournals.com)
Harvard Public Health Review (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/review)
JAMA (http://jama.ama-assn.org)
New
England Journal of Medicine (http://content.nejm.org)
PLoS Medicine (Open Access Journal) (http://www.plosmedicine.org)
Search Engines
Consumer Web Watch (http://www.consumerwebwatch.org)
FirstGov for Consumers: Health (http://www.consumer.gov/health.htm)
HONselect: Health on the Net Select Search (http://www.hon.ch/Mesh)
LII Health & Medicine (http://search.lii.org/index.jsp?more=SubTopic4)
MammaHealth (http://www.mammahealth.com)
SUMSearch (http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu)
Chemistry & Physics
Chemistry
ChemDex (http://www.chemdex.org)
An index to over 7,200 chemistry sites on the web.
Chemistry.org (http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html)
Compiled by the American Chemical Society, this outstanding
site has information for researchers, educators, students
and enthusiasts.
ChemGuide (http://www.chemguide.co.uk)
Divided into specific chemistry topics such as Physical
or Organic chemistry, this site's mission is to help
the average student understand chemistry.
ChemNetBase (http://www.chemnetbase.com)
Browse online resources such as the Combined Chemical
Dictionary, The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics,
and other online publications.
ChemSpy
(http://www.chemspy.com)
According to the web site, ChemSpy makes the most
important chemical and chemical engineering databases
readily available through their portal.
eMolecules
Chemical Search (http://www.emolecules.com)
The mission of this site is "to discover,
curate and index all of the public chemical information
in the world, and make it available to the public."
General Chemistry Online (http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml)
Resources for students and teachers of introductory
college chemistry, including lecture guides, a question
and answer board, a searchable glossary with audio,
resource database, and programmed learning tutorials.
IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology (Gold
Book)
(http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/goldbook/index.htm)
A collection of nearly 7,000 terms, with authoritative
definitions, spanning the whole range of chemistry.
Organic
Chemistry Resources Worldwide (http://www.organicworldwide.net)
The mission of this site is to collect and independently
annotate "all useful organic chemistry sites and
to present them in an intuitive way."
Reddy's
Forensic Page (http://www.forensicpage.com)
Links to working groups, labs, ethics sites, journals,
instrumentation, and other useful topics.
WebElements Periodic Table of Elements
(http://www.webelements.com)
An interactive periodic table.
Physics
American
Institute of Physics (http://www.aip.org/history)
This site has the mission "to preserve and make known
the history of modern physics and allied fields including
astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like."
CERN Document Server (CDS) (http://cdsweb.cern.ch)
Over 800,000 bibliographic records are included in
the database, covering physics-related literature.
College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry,
2d ed. (http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys.2ed/contents.html)
An online text to help aid students studying physics.
Elemental Data Index (http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Elements/cover.html)
According to the web site, this site, from the National
Institute of Standards and Technology, is intended
to "simplify the process of retrieving online
scientific data for a specific element."
Hands-On
CERN (http://hands-on-cern.physto.se)
An educational project at the scientific frontier
of physics, geared towards educators and students
at the basic levels.
Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope
(http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu)
This site contains hundreds of photomicrographs
(photos taken through a microscope) alongside brief
descriptions and includes Java tutorials on microscopy,
transistors, and QX3 computer virtual microscopes.
Physics Central (http://www.physicscentral.com)
Contains news, top picks of physics web sites, ask-a-physicist
section, essays, links and more.
Physics
Web (http://physicsweb.org)
From the web site, the world's most comprehensive
index to on-line physics resources.
PhysLink
(http://www.physlink.com)
According to the web site, the "ultimate physics
resource" in an easy to read format.
Physics
2000 (http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl)
Excellent site using interactive demos to explain
physics phenomena.
Astronomy
An Atlas of the Universe (http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe)
This site includes nine main maps of the universe,
ranging from the nearest stars to the sun, out to
the limits of the visible universe and an extensive
list of links.
Encyclopedia Astronautica (http://www.astronautix.com)
Widely considered to be the single most comprehensive
reference for the history of spaceflight.
Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight
(http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html)
For the use of the student, layperson or academic,
the goal of this web site "is to provide a
comprehensive source of information covering contemporary
astronomy, astrobiology, and astrophysics, SETI,
space missions, advanced propulsion concepts, historical
aspects, and biographies (past and present)."
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (http://origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/home)
See the latest images and read up about this
project.
Parallax Project (http://digital.library.pitt.edu/parallax)
The digitized versions of the ten volumes of Publications
of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of
Pittsburgh, which are useful to the scholar,
professional and amateur astronomer.
Planet Quest (http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov)
This site from NASA tracks the search for new
planets.
SIMBAD Astronomical Database (http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad)
Provides basic data, cross-identifications and
bibliography for astronomical objects outside the
solar system (currently containing over 3.7 million
objects.)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (http://www.sdss.org)
This project is an ongoing attempt to make a map
of the universe.
Solar
System Simulator (http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov)
A neat site by NASA that allows you to select views
using a solar system simulator, and also contains
maps, artwork and other links to space-related sites.
Sun-Earth Viewer (http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/viewer/flash/flash.html)
View different images, illustrations, and visualizations
of the sun and earth.
Views of the Solar System (http://www.solarviews.com)
From the web site, "discover the latest scientific
information, or study the history of space exploration,
rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft
through a vast archive of photographs, scientific
facts, text, graphics and videos."
YourSky
(http://fourmilab.to/yoursky)
An interactive planetarium of the Web that allows
the production of maps via sky maps, virtual telescope
or horizon views by time and date, viewpoint, and
observing location.
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