Science

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

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

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

Web Sites -- Table of Contents

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

Science News and Reports

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

Reference Sources on Science

• AGRICOLA 
  Database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
• ATSDR's ToxFAQs: Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets
• Chemistry Central 
  Chemistry Central is a new service publishing peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry, from BioMed Central.
• Darwin Digital Library of Evolution 
  Sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History Library. The site includes sources from 17th century to the present and encompasses the history of evolution as a scientific theory with deep roots and broad cultural consequences. For more on Charles Darwin, see also the Complete Works of Charles Darwin, assembled by the University of Cambridge
• Earth Trends 
  Maintained by the World Resources Institute, Earth Trends focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
• Encyclopedia of Earth 
  A fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work.
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• GEOSCAN database 
  Earth Sciences Information Centre (ESIC) of Natural Resources Canada, which has also made available the RESORS  (REmote Sensing On-line Retrieval System) database of publications from 1950 to 1995.
• Hazardous Chemicals Database
• Kimball's Biology Pages 
  By John W. Kimball, a retired biology professor at Tufts University. The pages represent an online biology textbook.
• The Mathematical Atlas: A Gateway to Mathematics
• National Academy of Sciences
• National Science Foundation
• NCBI Taxonomy Homepage 
  National Center for Biotechnology Information
• NIST chemistry webbook
• OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Periodic Table 
  Provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Physics World
• Public Library of Science 
  PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
• PubMed Central 
  "Free online access to the full text of life science research articles"
• Quakeline database 
  Covers earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics
• Species 2000 
  Indexing the world's known species
• UNEP: Atlas of Our Changing Environment 
  This interactive atlas from the United Nations Environment Programme describes natural and human-made changes over the last 30-40 years. The US Geological Survey, NASA, and the University of Maryland collaborated on the design and content, in partnership with Google.
• The Virtual Technical Reports Center eprints, preprints, & technical reports on the Web
  Produced by the University of Maryland, College Park's Technical Reports Center
• WebElements
• The Why files 
  The mission of The Why Files is to explore the science, math and technology behind the news of the day. The Why Files produces a new story each week, posts a biweekly column by science reporter Tom Siegfried, and offers other materials for educational use. It is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Directories of Internet Resources on Science

• Biology Browser 
  Produced by BIOSIS
• Earth Science Web Sites
• EnviroLink 
  Links to thousands of environmental resources on the Internet.
• Environmental Research Web
  Created to provide an international forum for scholarly discussion and analysis of environmental issues and policy. News, opinion, and research highlights sections include links to related Web sources and open-access articles. Includes the open-access journal Environmental Research Letters.
• Geology Web Links
• Geophysics on the Internet
• Intute: Biological Sciences 
  A directory of many of the best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.
• The Science Accelerator 
  Enables searching of many of the U.S. Department of Energy's databases at once
• Science.gov 
  Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
• Science Reference Guides: Earth Day 
  Produced by the Library of Congress, Science, Technology and Business Division
• ScienceResearch.com 
  This Web search engine is designed to search more than 300 science-related Web collections, including Directory of Open Access Journals, E-Print Network, OAIster, NTIS, PubMed, Scholarpedia, ScienceDirect, Science.gov, and many science journals.
• Scirus
• Scitopia
  This portal currently searches the content libraries of 21 affiliated societies in the fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, and geosciences. Scitopia.org serves as an online gateway to these societies' published scholarly research, patents, and government documents.
• WINDandSEA: The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator
• WorldWideScience.org
  Global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources.