Science On The Web

Science on the Web

Science Search Engines

Scitalks : Includes links to science videos, blogs, and upcoming events

SCIRUS: Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine enabling anyone searching for scientific information to locate university sites and find reports and articles quickly and easily.

ScientificCommons.org: Provides access to scientific knowledge on the internet.

Science Portals

Science.gov: Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.

NIST (National Institute of Science & Technology): From automated teller machines and atomic clocks to mammograms and semiconductors, innumerable products and services rely in some way on technology, measurement, and standards provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

NTIS (National Technical Information Service): The National Technical Information Service serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information.

Open Access Science Journals

PLoS (Public Library of Science): A nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

www.plos.org

BioMed Central: An independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research

www.biomedcentral.com

Open Access Science Journals

PubMed Central: PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/index.html

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in numerous subjects and languages.

www.doaj.org

Science Journals

Google Scholar: A simple way to search for scholarly literature

This is a broad, keyword search.

Search diverse sources from one convenient place

Find papers, abstracts and citations

Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web

Learn about key papers in any area of research

And there’s something else it does…

Did You Know? That several databases available through the Federal Government are available for free online? That’s right! AGRICOLA, PubMed, PubChem, Genome, OMIM, and NCBI Bookshelf are available for free-though not necessarily full text.

Free Books! (most of the time)

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

Google Books

http://books.google.com/

NCBI Bookshelf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=books

US GPO Access

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

Images

Images from the History of Medicine http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

Wellcome Images http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/

SciencePhotoLibrary http://www.sciencephoto.com/galleries/royaltyfree.html

Earth Science World Image Bank http://www.earthscienceworld.org/imagebank/

NASA Image Gallery http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/

Science Blogs

Nature Blogs: One of the most respected journals in the sciences, has a series of blogs on technology and the sciences.

http://www.nature.com/blogs/index.html

AAAS News Blog: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of Science (the other heavy-hitter of science publications) has a news blog.