Title: SCINTILLATING SCIENCE WEB SITES
1SCINTILLATING SCIENCE WEB SITES
- Presented at Internet Librarian 11/10/99
- Doris Small Helfer
- Science Librarian Chair Technical Services.
- Calif. State Univ. Northridge
2Introduction
- Identify useful science and technology web sites
in the following disciplines - Agriculture
- Atmospheric Science
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Chemistry
3Introduction continued
- Computer Science Engineering
- Environmental Sciences Ecology
- Geology
- General
- Mathematics
- Nutrition and Food Science
- Physics
- Textiles
4Finding Good Science Web Sites
- Argus Clearinghouse http//www.clearinghouse.net
- Auburn University Library Science and
- Berkeley Digital Library SunSite
http//sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
5Finding Science Web Sites
- Choice Magazine (http//www.ala.org/acrl/choice/ho
me.html) - Database Advisor (http//scilib.ucsd.edu)
- Internet Public Library (http//www.ipl.org)
- Metacrawler (http//www.go2net.com/search.html)
6Finding Good Science Web Sites
- Librarians Index to the Internet
(http//sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/) - MagellanMcKinleys Internet Directory
(http//www.mckinley.com) - Univ. of Calif., Riversides Infomine
(http//lib-www.ucr.edu/Main.txt.html) - Yahoo (http//yahoo.com)
7Agricultural Web Sites
- Agri Links (http//www.agrilinks.com)
- Agricultural genome information system
(http//ars-genome.cornell.edu)
8Agricultural Web Sites Continued
- Agriculture journals (http//www.museum.state.il.u
s/isas/agjrnls.html) - Agriculture Links (http//www.museum.state.il.us/i
sas/aglinks.html)
9Agricultural Web Sites Continued
- AgriMarkting Ltd. (http//www.agrimark.com)
- Five of Agricultures Best Search Engines
(http//www.agfind.com)
10Agricultural Web Sites Continued
- Gardening Links (http//www.geocities.com/RainFo
rest/1329/links.html) - General Internet Resources for Agriculture
(http//www.aglib.vt.edu/lbmhp/interag.html)
11Agricultural Web Sites Continued
- Hungarian Agribusiness Centre (http//www.agrinet.
hu) - Infomine - BioAgMed (http//infomine.ucr.edu/sea
rch/bioagsearch.phtml)
12Agricultural Web Sites Continued
- National Agricultural Library
(http//www.nal.usda.gov) - Not Just Cows A Guide to Agriculture and
Agricultural Resources on the Internet
(http//www1.morrisville.edu/drewwe/njc/)
13Astronomy Web Sites
- Astronomy Course for students using the Internet
(http//www.cnde.iastate.edu/staff/jtroeger/astron
omy.html) - Astronomy Lecture Notes (http//lsnt7.lightspeed.n
et/astronomy/lecturenotes.html)
14Astronomy Web Sites Continued
- Astronomy What's Up This Month(http//www1.tmisnet
.com/7Eabdale/Astronomy/Astronomy.html) - Catalog of Infrared Observations 4.0 Update--NASA
GSFC (http//iuewww.gsfc.nasa.gov/cio/cio_homepage
.html)
15Astronomy Web Sites Continued
- College Level Astronomy Courses on the Web
(http//www.eckerd.edu/academics/nas/chn/sitescol.
html) - ESA's Hipparcos (http//astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparc
os)
16Astronomy Web Sites Continued
- Exploring the Moon (http//www.space.edu/moon/1.In
tro/ExplMoon-Intro.html) - Galileo Solid State Imaging Full Data Releases
(http//www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/fulldata.htm
l)
17Astronomy Web Sites Continued
- Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
(http//wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/n
omen.html) - Hubble Witnesses The Final Blaze Of Glory Of
Sun-Like Stars--STSCI QuickTime
(http//oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/38.html)
18Astronomy Web Sites Continued
- Millennium Star Atlas (http//www.skypub.com/msa/
msa.html) - NASA Technical Reports Server
(http//techreports.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS) - NIX NASA Image Exchange (http//nix.nasa.gov/)
19Astronomy Web Sites Continued
- Nine Planets A Multimedia Tour of the Solar
System (http//www.seds.org/billa/tnp/)
20Atmospheric Science Web Sites
- Artificial Reefs, Coral, Diving, Fishing and
Conservation Ecology Links (http//www.reefball.
org/links.htm) - BioChemNet (http//schmidel.com/bionet.cfm)
- Daily Planet (http//www.atmos.uiuc.edu/)
21Atmospheric Science Web Sites Continued
- DKRZ German Climate Computer Center
(http//www.dkrz.de/index-eng.html) - Global Energy Marketplace (http//gem.crest.org)
- National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
(http//www.nws.mbay.net/)
22Atmospheric Science Web Sites Continued
- Oceanography (http//www.mth.uea.ac.uk/ocean/vl/)
- SKB's Virtual Cave (http//stommel.tamu.edu/baum/
climatology.html)
23Atmospheric Science Web Sites Continued
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
(http//www.epa.gov) - Virtual Library of Ecology, Biodiversity and the
Environment (http//conbio.rice.edu/vl/) - Vortex 100 Storm Chase Page (http//hometown.aol
.com/vortex100/)
24Atmospheric Science Web Sites Continued
- Weather World (http//members.aol.com/Accustiver/w
xworld.html) - WINDandSEA The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Internet Locator (http//www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/w
indandsea.html)
25Atmospheric Science Web Sites Continued
- WWW Virtual Library - Environment
(http//earthsystems.org/Environment.shtml) - WWW Virtual Library - Forestry (http//www.metla.f
i/info/vlib/Forestry) - WWW Virtual Library - Meteorology
(http//www.meteo.psu.edu/owens/WWW_Virtual_Libra
ry/)
26Biology Web Sites
- Advanced Scientific Inquiries (http//home1.gte.ne
t/ibr) - All the Virology on the WWW
(http//www.tulane.edu/dmsander/garryfavweb.html)
- Atlas of the Human Body (http//www.ama-assn.org
/insight/gen_hlth/atlas/atlas.htm)
27Biology Web Sites Continued
- Biomedical Science Links (http//web.ukonline.co.u
k/Members/charles.houston/tecnical.htm) - Cyanosite A Webserver for Cyanobacterial
Research (http//www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/inde
x.html) - Developmental Biology - WWW Virtual
Library (http//sdb.bio.purdue.edu/Other/
VL_DB.html
28Biology Web Sites Continued
- Dolphins The Oracles of the Sea
(http//hyperion.advanced.org/17963/index-1.shtml)
- Entomology Index of Internet Resources
(http//www.public.iastate.edu/entomology/Resourc
eList.html) - Fish - WWW Virtual Library (http//www.actwin.com/
WWWVL-Fish.html)
29Biology Web Sites Continued
- Foodsafe Program (http//foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/home
page.html) - Guide to Scientific Information on the Web
(http//bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/hotmolecbase
/webscience.htm) - Herpscope Herp Home Page (http//www.herpscope.com
)
30Biology Web Sites Continued
- INFOMINE BioAgMed (http//lib-www.ucr.edu/bioag
) - The Interactive frog Dissection
(http//curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/) - Internet Resources for the Biologist
(http//www.nfrcg.gov/fieldguide.html)
31Biology Web Sites Continued
- Marine biology Web (http//life.bio.sunsb.edu/mari
nebio/mbweb.html) - Mick's Software Links Biology Software
(http//www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1957/softw
are.html
32Biology Web Sites Continued
- Monarch Watch (http//www.MonarchWatch.org/)
- Mycological Resources on the Internet aka WWW
Virtual Library Mycology (http//www.keil.ukans.ed
u/fungi/)
33Biology Web Sites Continued
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
(http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) - Neural Networks at Pacific Northwest Laboratory
(http//www.emsl.pnl.gov2080/docs/cie/neural/neur
al.homepage.html)
34Biology Web Sites Continued
- Neurosciences on the Internet (http//www.neurogui
de.com) - Oceanography on the Net Scripps Institution of
Oceanography Library (http//scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/)
- Physiology Biophysics - WWW Virtual Library
(http//physiology.med.cornell.edu/WWWVL/PhysioWeb
.html)
35Biology Web Sites Continued
- San Diego Zoo (http//www.sandiegozoo.org)
- Scott's Botanical Links (http//www.ou.edu/cas/bot
any-micro/bot-linx/) - Virtual Library Microbiology Virology
(http//microbiol.org/vl_micro/index.htm)
36Biology Web Sites Continued
- Writing and Editing Resources for Biology and
Medicine (http//www.mindspring.com/jmacke/JM.BIO
.html) - Yeast (Budding, Fission, and
Candida) - WWW Virtual Library (http//genome-www.
stanford.edu/VL-yeast.html)
37Chemistry Web Sites
- Analytical Chemistry Springboard
(http//www.anachem.umu.se/jumpstation.htm) - BioChemNet (http//schmidel.com/bionet.htm )
- The Catalyst (http//www.TheCatalyst.org/)
38Chemistry Web Sites Continued
- ChemFinder WebServer (http//chemfinder.camsoft
.com/siteslist.html) - ChemicalAnalysis.com (http//www.ChemicalAnalysis.
com/Default.htm) - Chemical Information Sources from Indiana
University CIS-IU (http//www.indiana.edu/chem
info)
39Chemistry Web sites Continued
- Composite Materials Guide (http//composite.abou
t.com) - Soaring Bear's Chemistry (http//ellington.pharm.a
rizona.edu/bear/chem.html) - WWW Virtual Library Ceramics (http//www.ikts.fhg
.de/vl/)
40Computer Science Web Sites
- BotSpot The Spot for all Bots on the Net
(http//www.botspot.com/) - Complex Systems - Virtual Library
(http//life.csu.edu.au/vl_complex/library.html)
41Computer Science Web Sites Continued
- Computer Museum Network (http//www.mos.org/tcm/
tcm.html) - Computer Science (http//www.albany.edu/library/vi
rtual/subject/csci.htm)
42Computer Science Web Sites Continued
- Computer Science Technical Reports Archives Sites
(http//www.rdt.monash.edu.au/tr/siteslist.html) - Computer Vision Homepage (http//www.cs.cmu.edu/c
il/vision.html)
43Computer Science Web Sites Continued
- The Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
(http//xxx.lanl.gov/archive/cs/intro.html) - Davids Programming Page (http//www.geocities.com
/SiliconValley/3086/prog/index.html)
44Computer Science Web Sites Continued
- Genetic Programming Notebook (http//geneticprogra
mming.com/) - Index of Killer Links (http//www.weiercom.com/mw1
/links.html) - Infomine - Physical Sciences, Engineering,
Computing Math (http//lib-www.ucr.edu/pslinfo.h
tml)
45Computer Science Web Sites Continued
- Instructional Technology Support Centers
(http//www.public.iastate.edu/mikealbr/links/cen
ters/) - Intelligent Software Agents (http//www.cs.umbc.ed
u/agents/) - Java Programming Language Virtual Library
(http//www.siliceo.com/java.html)
46Computer Science Web Sites Continued
- Multimedia authoring (http//www.mcli.dist.maricop
a.edu/authoring/) - Online Electronic Publishing Collection
(http//hoganbooks.com/epublish.html) - PC Webopaedia (http//www.pcwebopaedia.com)
47Computer Science Web Sites Continued
- Spatial Reasoning Resources (http//www.cs.albany.
edu/amit/spatsites. html) - UWI/UI Collaborative Spatial Decision Making Home
Page (http//weber.u.washington.edu/tjmoore/
csdm.html)
48Computer Science Web Sites Continued
- Virtual Library - Computing (http//www.vlib.org/C
omputing.html)
49Engineering Web Sites
- Aerospace Cruise (http//www.cranfield.ac.uk/libra
ry/subjects/airmenu.htm) - Aerospace Internet Resources (http//www.cranfiel
d.ac.uk/cils/library/subjects/aerosubs.htm)
50Engineering Web Sites Continued
- Aerospace - WWW Virtual Library
(http//macwww.db.erau.edu/www_virtual_lib/aerospa
ce.html) - Aviation (http//macwww.db.erau.edu/www_virtual_
lib/aviation.html)
51Engineering Web Sites Continued
- Building Web Internet Centre for the
Construction industry (http//www.buildingweb.com)
- Composites Corner (http//www.advmat.com/links.htm
l) - 700 Civil Engineering Resources
(http//www.ldc.lu.se/lthvbibl/civ-www.htm)
52Engineering Web Sites Continued
- Energy/Marine/Shipping/Offshore/ Transport
Related Sites (http//www.barges.com/list.htm) - National Technology Transfer Center
(http//www.nttc.edu/gov/other/tech.html) - Nick Nacks Telecollaborate (http//home.talkcity.
com/academydr/nicknacks/)
53Engineering Web Sites Continued
- Patents (http//scilib.ucsd.edu/subjectdir/paten
ts.html) - RailServe The Internet Railroad Directory
(http//www.railserve.com)
54Engineering Web Sites Continued
- Remote Sensing - WWW Virtual Library
(http//www.vtt.fi/aut/rs/virtual/) - Standards and Standardization Bodies
(http//www.iso.ch/VL/Standards.html) - Telecom Information Resources on the Internet
(http//china.si.umich.edu/telecom/telecom-info.ht
ml)
55Engineering Web Sites Continued
- Thirty Thousand Feet (http//extra.newsguy.com/er
icmax) - Transportation Infrastructures and Civil
Engineering (http//space.tin.it/scienza/gbenetta)
56Engineering Web Sites Continued
- WWW Virtual Library - Trucking (http//www.logisti
csworld.com/trucking/)
57Environmental Sciences and Ecology Web Sites
- Ask Noah About Environmental Health
(http//www.noah.cuny.edu/environment/environ.html
) - Best Environmental Directories
(http//www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html) - Cyber Sierras Natural Resource Job Search
(http//www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/index.html)
58Environmental Sciences and Ecology Web Sites
Continued
- Ducks Unlimited and More Great Internet
Connections (http//www.jcave.com/utahdu/other.ht
ml) - EnviroLink Library (http//library.envirolink.org)
- Environmental Ethics (http//ww.cep.unt.edu)
59Environmental Sciences and Ecology Web Sites
Continued
- Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators
(ENTRI) (http//sedac.ciesin.org/entri/) - Environmental Studies (http//www.stjohns.edu/libr
ary/staugustine/ EnviroStudies.html) - Great Lakes Information Network
(http//www.great-lakes.net)
60Environmental Sciences and Ecology Web Sites
Continued
- Micrococosm USA Inc. (http//www.macronet.org)
- Park Rangers on the Web (http//www.geocities.com/
parkranger) - WWW Virtual Library Environment
(http//earthsystems.org/Environment.shtml) - WWW Virtual Library Roadkill (http//www.rru.com/
rru/roadkill.html)
61General Science Sites
- Measure 4 Measure (http//www.wolinskyweb.com/me
asure.htm)
62Geology Web Sites
- Alphabetical Mineral Reference
(http//www.geology.wisc.edu/jill/glossary2.html)
- Earth and Planetary Sciences for High School
(http//www.ismennt.is/vefir/earth/)
63Geology Web Sites Continued
- Earth Sciences - WWW Virtual Library
(http//www.geo.ucalgary.ca/VL-EarthSciences.html)
- Favorite Internet Resources of an Underemployed
Geologist (http//www.groupz.net/hoppy/links.htm)
- Gemology and Lapidary Pages (http//www.tradesho
p.com/gems/index.html)
64Geology Web Sites Continued
- Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC)
(http//wwwghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/ghrc.html) - Hydrology Web (http//etd.pnl.gov2080/hydroweb.ht
ml) - Infomine - Maps and GIS (http//lib-www.ucr.edu/ma
psinfo.html)
65Geology Web Sites Continued
- Internet Resources for Geomorphologists
(http//hum.amu.edu.pl/sgp/hot.htm) - Links to Great Earth Science Resources
(http//www.unige.ch/sciences/terre/esr/contents.h
tm) - Mining Co. Guide to Geography (http//geography.mi
ningco.com/education/scilife/geography/)
66Geology Web Sites Continued
- Mining Co. Guide to Geology (http//geology.mining
co.com) - NSCSS Soil Science Links ( http//www.nscss.org/so
il.html) - Other Internet Sites Connected with Fossils,
Minerals and Geology Index (http//www.fossil-co
mpany.com/sites/index.html)
67Geology Web Sites Continued
- Sci.Geo.Petroleum Internet Resources
(http//www.slb.com/petr.dir/index.html) - Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology on
the WWW (http//craton.geol.BrockU.CA/guest/jurgen
/struct.htm)
68Geology Web Sites Continued
- U.S. Geological Survey Pasadena Office Earthquake
Info (http//www-socal.wr.usgs.gov/) - The Virtual Earth A Tour of the World Wide Web
for Earth Scientists (http//atlas.es.mq.edu.au/us
ers/pingram/v_earth.html) - Volcanoes Online (http//library.advanced.org/174
57/)
69Mathematics Web Sites
- Bibliography for Optimization with Sensitivity
Analysis (http//ubmail.ubalt.edu/harsham/refop/R
efop.htm) - Euclids Elements (http//aleph0.clarku.edu/djoyc
e/java/elements/elements.html)
70Mathematics Web Sites Continued
- Florida State Univ. Dept. of Mathematics.
Mathematics WWW Virtual Library
(http//math.fsu.edu/Science/math.html) - Front for the XXX Mathematics Archive
(http//front.math.ucdavis.edu/math) - History of Mathematics (http//aleph0.clarku.edu/
djoyce/mathhist/mathhist.html)
71Mathematics Web Sites Continued
- Math Archives (http//archives.math.utk.edu)
- Math Knots on the Web (http//www.earlham.edu/pet
ers/knotlink.htm) - Math Preprints (http//xxx.lanl.gov/archive/math)
72Mathematics Web Sites Continued
- Mathematics Web Sites Around the World
(http//www.math.psu.edu/MathLists/Contents.html) - Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium for
Mathematics and Science Education
(http//www2.rbs.org/)
73Mathematics Web Sites Continued
- NIST GAMS - Guide to Available Mathematical
Software (http//gams.nist.gov80) - SCORE Mathematics (http//score.kings.k12.ca.us/)
74Mathematics Web Sites Continued
- Simulation Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis
Resources (http//ubmail.ubalt.edu/harsham/ref/Re
fSim.htm) - Statistics WWW Virtual Library (http//www.stat.uf
l.edu/vlib/statistics.html)
75Medical and Life Science Web Sites
- Actinomycetes-Streptomyces Internet Resource
Center (http//www.cbs.umn.edu/asirc/ ) - American hospital directory (http//www.ahd.com/)
- Biotechnology and Gene Therapy Web
(http//www.natx.com)
76Medical and Life Science Web Sites Continued
- Biotechnology - WWW Virtual Library
(http//www.cato.com/biotech/ ) - DNA Vaccine Web (http//www.genweb.com/Dnavax/dnav
ax.html ) - Medical World Search (http//www.mwsearch.com/)
77Medical and Life Science Web Sites Continued
- MedHunt (http//www.hon.ch/cgi-bin/find?1)
- Medscout (http//www.medscout.com/)
- National Biotechnology Information Facility
(http//www.nbif.org) - National Institutes of Health (www.nih.gov)
78Medical and Life Science Web Sites Continued
- Neuroanatomy Neuropathology on the Internet
(http//www.neuropat.dote.hu/ ) - Neuroscience (http//neuroscience.about.com/)
- Pharmacy (Medicine , Biosciences) - WWW Virtual
Library (http//www.pharmacy.org/)
79Medical and Life Science Web Sites Continued
- Neurosciences on the Internet (http//www.lm.com/
nab) - Pharmacy (Medicine , Biosciences) - WWW Virtual
Library (http//www.pharmacy.org/) - WebMD Health has a Homepage (http//www.webmd.com/
)
80Nutrition and Food Science Web Sites
- Arbor Nutrition Guide (http//www.arborcom.com)
- Blonz Guide to Nutrition and Food Science
(http//eye.hooked.net/blonz/) - Food Resource (http//www.orst.edu/food-resource/f
ood.html) - Food Safety and Nutrition Sources
(http//www.mothernature.com/)
81Nutrition and Food Science Web Sites Continued
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Fruit Loop
(http//www.caf.wvu.edu/Kearneysville/fruitloop.ht
ml) - Mycological Resources on the Internet aka WWW
Virtual Library Mycology (http//biodiversity.bio.
uno.edu/fungi/) - Northwest Berry and Grape Info Net
(http//osu.orst.edu/dept/infonet/)
82Physics Web Sites
- Atomic Physics on the Web (http//plasma-gate.weiz
mann.ac.il/API.html) - College Physics for students of biology and
chemistry (http//www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/t
ext.html)
83Physics Web Sites Continued
- Contributions of 20th Century Women To Physics
(http//www.physics.ucla.edu/cwp) - Dateline Los Alamos (http//lib-www.lanl.gov/pubs/
dateline.htm) - Daily Planet (http//www.atmos.uiuc.edu/)
- Internet Pilot to Physics (http//physicsweb.org
/TIPTOP)
84Physics Web Sites Continued
- Learn Physics Today(http//library.advanced.org/10
796/) - Los Alamos National Laboratory e-Print archive
(http//xxx.lanl.gov) - Physics Departments Worldwide (http//www.physik.u
ni-oldenburg.de/EPS/PhysNet/)
85Physics Web Sites Continued
- Official String Theory Web Site
(http//www.superstringtheory.com/) - Physics Modules and Simulations
(http//suhep.phy.syr.edu/courses/modsim.html) - PhysicsWeb (http//physicsweb.org)
86Physics Web Sites Continued
- Table of New Nuclear Moments (Preprint)
(http//www.nndc.bnl.gov/nndc/stone_moments/moment
s.html) - This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
(http//math.ucr.edu/home/baez/) - Latest edition of This Week's Finds in
Mathematical Physics (http//math.ucr.edu/home/bae
z/this.week.html)
87Physics Web Sites Continued
- Old issues of This Week's Finds in Mathematical
Physics(http//math.ucr.edu/home/baez/twfshort.htm
l) - PAM Division of SLA Astronomy Homepage
(http//pantheon.yale.edu/dstern/astro.html)
88Physics Web Sites Continued
- Table of Contents of all old issues of This
Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
(http//math.ucr.edu/home/baez/twf.html) - Virtual Laboratory-University of Oregon
(http//jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/) - Wester's World--An Online Guide to Physics
(http//www.msms.doe.k12.ms.us/ap_physics/index.ht
ml)
89Textiles Web Sites
- Apparel.Net The Online Guide for the Apparel
Industry (http//www.apparel.net) - Costume Page (http//members.aol.com/nebula5/cos
tume.html) - Davisons Textile Gold Book (http//www.davisongol
dbook.com/)
90Textiles Web Sites Continued
- Milieux The Costme Site The Costume Source
(http//www.milieux.com/costume/source.html) - Textile Information Center (http//www.texinfo.com
/)
91Textiles Web Sites Continued
- Wool WWW Virtual Library (http//www.dpie.gov.au/a
gfor/wool_vl/whome.html)