Scitopia.org - Thirteen scholarly society publishers are working together to create a free federated, vertical search portal capable of accessing some 3 million articles spanning as far back as 150 years, as well as some patents.
PLoS - Public Library of Science - is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
arXiv.org - Open access to 467,937 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics
CiteSeerX - is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - his service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
ThermoDex - contains records for selected printed and web-based compilations of thermochemical and thermophysical data for chemical compounds and other substances.
NIST Chemistry WebBook - This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.
MSDS and Chemical Information - Material Safety Data Sheets are extremely important in the safe handling of hazardous substances
PubMed - is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.
OAIster - OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
INIS Database - International Atomic Energy Agency: Established in 1970, INIS represents the world's largest database of scientific and technical literature on a wide range of subjects from nuclear engineering, safeguards and non-proliferation to applications in agriculture, health and industry.
Virtual Journals in Science and Technology -The Virtual Journals in the Physical Sciences series has been jointly developed by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS). Each Virtual Journal presents an online collection of relevant papers from a broad range of source journals in the physical sciences.
Selected Government Sites
Science Accelerator - searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.
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
Science and Engineering Statistics - National Science Foundation - publications, data, and analyses about the nation's science and engineering resources.
FedStats - "Celebrating 10 years of making statistics from more than 100 agencies available to citizens everywhere."
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)- The NTRS collects scientific and technical information from NASA's technical report servers and non-NASA sites. Some full text is available.
Department of Energy (DOE) Information Bridge- provides access to full-text DOE research and development reports produced by the DOE and the DOE contractor research and development community in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species—that provide the entry points to this vast array of knowledge.
Science & Society Picture Library - represents the collections of the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television - as well as a variety of related collections
Image and Meaning - The Image and Meaning events are part of the Envisioning Science Project in the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
iLumina - is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses.
cogito.org - Webcast lectures and educational programs available on demand
NASA Images - is a service of Internet Archive, a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.
TED: Ideas worth spreading - TED is devoted to giving millions of knowledge-seekers around the globe direct access to the world's greatest thinkers and teachers.
