Science in the News & Current Research

SpaceWeather.Com

Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment

The WHY files: Science Behind the News

Information on science topics currently in the news.

Gateways to Extensive Science Web Sites

CASI Technical Report Server

NASA Center for AeroSpace Information Technical Report Server. A citation server of NASA and NACA documents.

DOE Information Bridge

"Over 60,000 searchable "full-text and bibliographic records of [the United States] Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics."

InfoMine - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

Virtual libraries on broad topics.

Measure 4 Measure -- Science and Math

"a collection of interactive sites on the web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc.; i.e., it is a collection of links to sites that actually perform calculations, doing the work for you."

Measure 4 Measure -- Miscellaneous

"a collection of interactive sites on the web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc.; i.e., it is a collection of links to sites that actually perform calculations, doing the work for you."

National Science Foundation Science Computational Highlights

"This multimedia collection contains descriptions of some of the 10,000 scientific research projects that have used the resources of National Science Foundation supercomputing centers."

Nobel e-Museum

Online information on Nobel Laureates.

onlineethics.org

The online ethics center for engineering and science.

SciCentral

A "Metadirectory aimed at researchers covers more than 120 specialties in science, engineering, and medicine, and constitutes a gateway to over 50,000 sites." Searchable. Includes links to journals, databases, funding, and conference.

SCIRUS

From Elsevier, a search engine for scientific information

Science and Technology Pocket Databook, 1996

National R & D statistics from the National Science Foundation

Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2000

Full-text in pdf format. This edition focuses on globalization and the knowledge economy. From the AAAS.

SciTechResources.gov

An annotated directory of almost 700 science and technology resources on U.S. government web sites. Searchable by subject agency, and resource type.

The Scout Report for Science and Engineering

"offers a selective collection of Internet resources covering topics in the sciences, and related fields such as math and engineering, that have been chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given field of study. "

Smithsonian: Science Service Historical Image Collection, 1926-1976

"The Science Service Historical Image Collection represents twentieth-century scientific research consisting of images and original captions as they appeared in period publications. "

WebCASPAR

"The WebCASPAR database provides easy access to a large body of statistical data resources dealing with science and engineering (S&E) at U.S. academic institutions."

Questions Answered and How Things Work

How Stuff Works

"Explains simply, with excellent diagrams or pictures, how many common appliances, machines, and technologies work."

How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life

Searchable and browsable

Scientific American: Ask the Experts

"Sponsored by Scientific American magazine, readers may submit questions to scientific experts and the most interesting questions are archived by topic: astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, environment, geology, mathematics, medicine, and physics."

Sports Science

Sport science questions answered at this site created by the the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Sites for Science Librarians

E-STREAMS:Electronic reviews of Science & Technology References covering Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and Science

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship

Lii.org: Librarians' Index to the Internet