Science and Technology Resources on the Web

Free resources that contain searchable abstracts for multiple science/technology/engineering journals, magazines, and governmental publications. (Articles may not be free. Site registration is required in some cases)

US GOVERNMENT (OR GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED) PUBLICATIONS –

• DOD STINET - http://stinet.dtic.mil/ - Helps the DoD community access pertinent scientific and technical information to meet mission needs effectively.
• GPOAccess - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ - Many databases and webpages of congressional documents, executive agency announcements (i.e. Federal Register), some government publications (via the Bookstore), locator for federal repositories, and much more.
• NASA STI - http://www.sti.nasa.gov/ - Providea desktop access to the STI (scientific and technical information) produced by NASA and the world’s aerospace community.
• National Technical Information Service (OVID) or free site -- http://www.ntis.gov/ - Serves our nation as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Here you will find information on more than 600,000 information products covering over 350 subject areas from over 200 federal agencies. Free version of the catalog begins with items published since 1990.
• NIOSH TIC-2 - http://www2.cdc.gov/nioshtic-2/Nioshtic2.htm - NIOSHTIC-2 is a bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and other communication products supported in whole  or in part by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
• OSTI E-Prints - http://www.osti.gov/eprints/ - The E-print Network is a set of powerful tools that facilitate access to and use of scientific and technical e-prints communicating the results of a wide range of research activities of interest to the Department of Energy.  These e-prints reside on thousands of Web sites and data bases, both large and small, at remote locations worldwide, employing a wide variety of technologies, architectures, platforms, formats, software, and search engines to manage and retrieve data.
• Agency library OPACs – Many of the agency libraries have Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) that include many of their agency’s scientific and technical reports, or reports produced for their agency.

GENERAL PUBLICATIONS (MULTIPLE DISICPLINES) –

• (NEW) ConnectSciences - http://connectsciences.inist.fr/services/accueil/accueil_invite.php - The French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) provides free access to a full range of scientific and technical information resources and services: 1) Article Catalog: access to more than 9,8 million article references held in INIST collections [since 1990]: 2) New additions to the bibliographic database in Science, Technology and Medicine (current three months), and to the bibliographic database in Humanities and Social Sciences (current year); 3) 3600 web sites sorted by scientific field; and, 4) multilingual terminology resources (English, French and Spanish).
• Intute Ejournal Search - http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/ejournals.html - Search the content of over 250 freely available full-text ejournals, selected for relevance and quality. Academic journals, professional and trade publications, and Society journals are covered.
• TechXtra Search Engine - http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/index.html?action=advanced - TechXtra cross-searches 31 different collections relevant to engineering, mathematics and computing, including content from over 50 publishers and providers. These collections include Arxiv, CiteSeer, NASA Technical Reports, Directory of Open Access Journals, and DSpace MIT. The keyword search is simple and the results are displayed quickly and in a user-friendly manner.
• FindArticles - http://www.findarticles.com/ - Not as good as it used to be, but worth a look in computing, automotive, and some biology/botany.
• Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/ - Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
• HowStuffWorks - http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm - HowStuffWorks is widely recognized as the leading source for clear, reliable explanations of how everything around us actually works. Great site for normal English explanations of things, but beware of annoying pop-ups.

PUBLISHER WEBSITES

• IngentaConnect - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ - IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 17 million articles from 28,000 publications, including 6,100 online.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - http://www.ndltd.org/browse.en.html - Comprises several databases of theses and dissertations that can be freely searched. Access to documents requires a subscription and/or purchasing links are provided.
• OAIster - http://www.oaister.org/o/oaister/ - Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (what are digital resources?) that are easily searchable by anyone.
• Sirus - http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ - Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest FAST search engine technology (owned by Yahoo!), Scirus returns results from the whole Web, including access-controlled sites that other search engines don't index. Scirus currently covers over 167 million science-related Web pages, including: 58.5 million .edu sites, 18 million .org sites, 6.8 million .ac.uk sites, 18.6 million .com sites, 5 million .gov sites, Over 45 million other relevant STM and University sites from around the world. In addition to Web pages, Scirus indexes the following special sources: 14.6 million MEDLINE citations, 5.5 million ScienceDirect full-text articles, 1.2 million patents from the USPTO, 261,000 e-prints on ArXiv.org, 5,352 BioMed Central full-text articles, 10,600 NASA technical reports, 14,878 full text articles from Project Euclid, 56,000 full-text articles on Crystallography Journals Online, 230,000 full-text journal articles on Scitation.

DIRECTORIES, SEARCH ENGINES, OR WEB SITES WHICH MAY CONTAIN FINDING AIDS OR LINKS TO MAJOR REPOSITORIES OF STI INFO –

• ALA’s Machine Assisted Reference Section’s (MARS) Best Free Reference Websites - http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/publications.htm - A list of librarian-evaluated websites on all sorts of topics.
• (NEW) Article “Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources” by Marcus P. Zillman, released Feb 5, 2005 - http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/12/academic-and-scholar-search-engines.html. This Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation is dedicated to the latest and most competent academic and scholar search engines and sources.
• Article “Science and Technology Sources on the Internet There is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: Freely Accessible Databases for the Public,” Sandy Lewis, Iss Sci Tech Librarianship (29) Win 2001. - http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-winter/internet.html
• EEVL - http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ - EEVL is the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL's mission is to provide access to quality networked engineering, mathematics and computing resources.
• GreyNet - http://www.greynet.org/pages/1/index.htm - The goal of GreyNet is to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organisations in the field of grey literature. GreyNet further seeks to identify and distribute information on and about grey literature in networked environments.
• Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ - a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information.
• Librarian’s Index to the Internet - http://lii.org/ - The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world.
• Memorial University of Newfoundland Database List - http://www.library.mun.ca/eindex/index_nets.asp - You can search by subject or you can check the full alphabetic list. Free indexes all include the phrase "Internet access unrestricted" in the description.
• Pinake - http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html - A directory of subject directories including EEVL.
• Research and Documentation Online - http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/index.html - Provides an extensive annotated list of specialized sources for more than 25 disciplines. The resources are organized by type—databases and indexes, Web sites, and reference texts
• Resource Discovery Network - http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ - The RDN selects, catalogues and delivers high-quality Internet resources for further and higher education: the best of the Web.
• SciTechResources.gov - http://www.SciTechResources.gov - The government catalog that provides the scientist, engineer, and technologist with easy, one-stop access to key U.S. Government web resources. Thousands of web sites are being reviewed to select just those sites that will provide valuable links to government expertise, services, laboratories, information centers, and other important resources.
• University of Michigan Documents Center - http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/ - A central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international.
• University of Missouri-Rolla STI List - http://campus.umr.edu/library/gov/sti.html
• WWW Virtual Library - http://vlib.org/ - The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalog of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.

SITES THAT FOCUS ON ONE OR A FEW RELATED DISCIPLINES AND ARE NOT MENTIONED ABOVE ----

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE/ ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

• CiteSeer - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ - A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
• Energy Citation database -http://www.osti.gov/energycitations - abstracts and a lot of full-text.
• IEEE Xplore - Indexed by Google (Use IEEE as one search term)

PHYSICS/CHEMISTRY

• Chemweb - http://www.chemweb.com/ - in transition and requires registration but has been very useful and may be so again soon.
• Elemental Data Index - http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Elements/cover.html - Provides access to the holdings of NIST Physics Laboratory online data organized by element. It is intended to simplify the process of retrieving online scientific data for a specific element.
• WebElementsTM - http://www.webelements.com/ - aims to be a high quality source of information on the WWW relating to the periodic table.
• AGRICULTURAL/BIOLOGICAL/BIOMEDICAL/ENVIRONMENTAL
• Agricola - http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/ - For agriculture, plant science, veterinary science, some environmental toxicity and other various areas that relate to agriculture.
• AGRIS - http://www.fao.org/agris/ - The international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974
• Eric Weisstein's World of Science - http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/ - Contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics.
• Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey - http://usgspubs.georef.org/usgsns.htm - subset of the GeoRef database established by the American Geological Institute. This database provides access to the publications of the USGS and includes references to U.S. Geological Survey reports and maps published from 1880 to date, references to non-USGS publications with USGS authors published from 1983 to date, and 225 references to reports produced by the Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler surveys. The database contains more than 130,000 references.
• PubMed -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed - for biomedical articles: (sometimes includes other technology articles, e.g. ventilation, when in a fully-indexed journal)

MECHANICAL/AEROSPACE

• TRIS online - http://trisonline.bts.gov/search.cfm - From the Transportation Research Board

CIVIL

• ASCE Publications - http://www.pubs.asce.org/cedbsrch.html - Index to their publications (fairly substantial for the field of civil engineering)
• (NEW) ASCE Library - http://www.ascelibrary.org/ - A comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. The Research Library provides you with unprecedented access to more than 18,500 full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings published.
• Quakeline - http://mceer.buffalo.edu/utilities/quakeline.asp - A bibliographic database produced by the MCEER Information Service.  It covers earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics. It includes records for various publication types, such as journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, maps, and videotapes. QUAKELINE was launched in May 1987. 

OTHER (MISCELLANEOUS)

• ASSIST Quick Search - (http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/) - For current military specifications
• (NEW) High Tc Superconductivity - http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/htcu/ - The High-Tc Superconductivity Information Center and High-Tc Update newsletter were started in April 1987 as a short-term solution for a crisis situation: the need to communicate frequent--almost daily--breakthroughs in high-Tc superconductivity. Last updated December 31, 2003.
• Math Forum - http://mathforum.org/ - A leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet.
• ScienceDaily - http://www.sciencedaily.com/ - ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's leading online magazines and Web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine.