REFERENCE -- Science & Technology (P_Z)

Pat2PDF  Convert patent documents to PDF file format for easy viewing;                                 2 November 2005

Patent Cafe  subscription patent database; US$2750/yr                                                             12 May 2004

Patent Commons                                                                                                                       1 December 2005
catalogues patent commitments from companies & individuals who wish to retain ownership, & will provide information about different types of pledges & covenants & how they work; to include other legal solutions that benefit open source community, including open source licenses, indemnification programs & information for organizations & individuals who wish to contribute to the commons;

Patent Factor Index Report(PF/i)  patent analysis tool                                                                16 June 2005
evaluates legal, commercial & technological quality & valuation indicators of an issued patent; Latent Semantic Analysis patent search engine reports integrate with recently introduced ICO Patent Portfolio Manager, & ICO Patent Competitive Intelligence Alerts;

Patent info on 'Net free & subscription  See also Google Patent Search;                                      5 May 2003

Patent Information Users Group, Inc: PIUG                                                                               21 December 2002
not-for-profit International Society for Patent Information; individuals having a professional, scientific or technical interest

Patentmaps.com(3i Analytics)                                                                                                    25 April 2005
suite of patent mapping products & services giving insights into aerospace, biotechnology, defense sciences, electrical & electronics appliances, food & agriculture, information & communications, material design & development

Patents & Patent Searching                                                                                                        31 May 2003

Patent Searching                                                                                                                        6 July 2004

Patent searching without words - Why do it, how to do it?                                                         7 February 2003
(Free Pint, V.130; 6 February 2003; See also STN AnaVist(below)

Periodic Table Live!                                                                                                                  30 April 2005
elements, their reactions,  properties, structures & histories; videos of  reactions with air, water, acids, bases; glossary & images

Periodic Table of Videos(U of Nottingham)                                                                                28 March 2009
short video about each element, learn about some of the presenters, short videos about chemistry of tea, holiday specials, & blooper reels, some films have captions in different languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, & Indonesian;

Petroleum Journals Online                                                                                                        1 October 2005
petrophysics, production geology, drilling, production, reservoir engineering, petroleum management & economics; building now; 

Phylogeny of Life(U of California Museum of Paleontology)                                                     18 July 2002
ancestor/descendant relationships which connect all organisms; Bacteria, Archaea, Eukaryota, viruses; fossil record, life history & ecology, systematics or subgroups relations, anatomy & structure; introduction to phylogeny, systematics cladograms

physics@nature.com Nature Publishing Group portal                                                                15 November 2008

Physics Internet Resources(American Physical Society)                                                            6 June 2003

PhysMath Central open access publisher covering all areas of physics                                       28 August 2006

Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific & Medical Illustration                                            17 January 2009
1999 exhibition at New York Public Library's Gottesman Exhibition Hall, images of astronomy, chemistry, geology, medicine, & physics taken from engravings, lithographs, & manuscript illuminations from 16th to 19th centuries; browse 10 crucial texts in their entirety;

Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access                                                                        20 November 2003
interface to Planetary Image Archive(PIA) contained within Planetary Data System Imaging Node; photographic images from magazines or TV broadcasts & how they were created; free public use; Commercial users download an image release form for Caltech.

Plant Breeders Rights - Database(Australia)                                                                              17 June 2005

Plant Image Collection                                                                                                              24 March 2007
21000+ photographic images of plant species & habitats for public & professional use & non-commercial purposes, with attribution(Detailed Instructions). Higher resolution, unprocessed electronic images are available by submitting your Wish List to image custodian;

Plant List Database V.1: 1244871m scientific plant names, 298900 accepted species names     30 December 2010
Collaboration between Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden; library of plant names for conservationists, drug designers & agriculture researchers; 1.25m names for plants, ranging from essential food crops such as wheat, rice & corn to garden roses & exotic jungle ferns; links to published research; 1,040,426 scientific plant names of species rank, 298900 accepted species names; 620 plant families, 16167 plant genera; Version 1, released in December 2010, aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns & their allies) & Bryophytes (mosses & liverworts) but not algae or fungi; provides Accepted Latin name for most species, links to all Synonyms, & includes Unresolved names; Browse major plant groups to explore taxonomic hierarchy embedded within The Plant List: Angiosperms (Flowering plants); Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads & allies); Pteridophytes (Ferns & fern allies); Bryophytes (Mosses & liverworts); includes no vernacular or common plant names; See also Plants-Pedia comparison database of 50000 plant types allows plant-enthusiasts to find & compare plants based on factors including: common name, scientific name, category, duration, growth habit & sort & filter through thousands of plants, compare plants of interest in a side-by-side format, & check details of each plant;

Plant Pathology Internet Guidebook(U of Bonn) searchable, annotated resource guide               30 August 2002
plant pathology, applied entomology; bacteriology, entomology, mycology, nematology, virology, weeds, & parasitic plants; organizations, companies, departments & institutes, journals & books, glossaries & dictionaries, meetings & events; Institute for Plant Diseases,

Plastics search See Prospector

PLoS: Public Library of Science                                                                                                21 November 2003
non-profit organization of scientists & physicians committed to making world's scientific & medical literature a freely available public resource; PLoS Biology journal open access publication; read, download, redistribute, include in databases, & otherwise use; PLoS Pubget links to all journal sites, linking PLoS readers to fulltext when articles are OA, & when the articles are TA(toll access), either to the publisher site or to a special PubGet site where 200+ institutions support subsidized access;16 July 2011: PLoS ONE named as new SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) Innovator; 1 Nov 2011: How to use PLoS’s Advanced Search function by Michael Morris;

PolySearch Energy
search & retrieve effectively..free abstracts(some fulltext) for scholarly articles about energy science & technology, superior to PubSCIENCE

Popular Mechanics(PM) magazine Archives: Tools                                                                     7 August 2005
hand & power tool topics, including purchase & use of specific tools, product reviews, tool tests - circular saws, table saws, routers, tape measures, clamps, chisels, wire strippers, screwdrivers; photos;

Popular Science 137-year backfile free browsing                                                                      5 April 2010

Precision & recall of 5 search engines for retrieval of scholarly information in biotechnology          15 September 2005
Scirus is most comprehensive retrieving scholarly information followed by Google & HotBot; Bioweb performs better on unstructured queries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America                        26 May 2011
1915-recent: Issues in the official PNAS online issues archive are free to access 6 months after publication; 1915-1922: Hathi Trust has volumes 1-8 freely accessible as page images;

Prospector free search for 80000 plastics datasheets from 713 suppliers                                    12 April 2009
Search by keyword, product, generic family, manufacturer, application, forms & filler, & Green Pastics; Alternative Resins Search;

Protein 3-D Viewer (MIT's Software Tools for Academics & Researchers(STAR) initiative)        7 January 2012
learn key concepts about biology of proteins interactively; Video Tutorial of how viewer works; Screenshots & sample exercises; eight areas of online user manual include Loading a protein structure & Visualizing atoms & bonds; feedback section;

Protocol Online(Life Sciences Research)                                                                                       9 June 2004
database of research protocols for life scientists seeking comprehensive information on laboratory protocols & methods for bioinformatics, molecular biology, immunology, microbiology, proteomics, & cell biology; protocols contributed by worldwide researchers with links to web protocols; hosts discipline specific discussion forums; Searchable

PSIgate (PhysicalSciencesInformation Gateway)                                                                           12 September 2001
high quality Internet-based resources in physical sciences: astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, science history & policy, & aspects of material sciences for use within UK further & higher education for teaching, learning & research

PubChem                                                                                                                                     3 January 2008
biological activities of small molecules component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative; 38m substances, 18m compounds from ChemSpider, 710 bioassays;

Pubget: search engine for life-science PDFs                                                                                     5 April 2010
20m  life science research documents including those in PubMed®; free to scientific community, funded by marketing(ads) & intranet services to lab equipment, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, & other research industries & through premium services; PLoS Pubget links to all journal sites, linking PLoS readers to fulltext when articles are OA, & when the articles are TA(toll access), either to the publisher site or to a special PubGet site where more than 200+ institutions support subsidized access;

PubMed Central: An Archive of Life Science Journals                                                                   3 April 2004
free access to contents of 50 peer-reviewed journals with search engine integrate literature with information resources such as sequence databases & other databases available to scientists, clinicians

PubSCIENCE Discontinued                                                                                                        4 November  2002
Try Scientific & technical information; Specific links for journal literature

Quick Guide to Open-Access Eprint Archives in Science, Technology & Medicine                        15 July 2006  

QuickMath: Automatic Math Solutions                                                                                           15 March 2003
free online calculator solves equations & does algebra & calculus problems; functional sections..simplify expressions, evaluate symbolic integrals, plot equations; use basic or advanced controls; help features demonstrate how to use interface.

Radio Shack Catalogs Archive, 1939 to 2005 electronics & technology, computer catalogs from 1977 1 April 2010
page-flipping format, large & small format(Flash-based flip book); hi-fidelity stereos, amplifiers, radios, phonographs, speakers, TVs, CBs, communication equipment, computers, electronic components, antennas, electronic test equipment, educational kits, toys, gadgets, appliances, tools, batteries;

RAND: Science & Technology: Online Research Publications                                                          9 August 2003
nonprofit institution to improve policy & decision-making through research & analysis, disseminates results as broadly as possible; monograph/reports, documented briefings, conference proceedings, testimony, RAND Graduate School dissertations, issue papers, research briefs, white papers, etc free of charge

Raptor Information System(RIS)                                                                                                     21 July 2005
keyword catalog of 33000+ references about biology & management of birds of prey; books, articles, theses, government reports, gray literature; search by author, title, keyword, year of publication; search for articles on a particular raptor species by genus & species or browse 4000 keyword list;

Reaxys chemistry information search suite/platform                                                                           24 September 2009
easy-to-use, comprehensive, and in-depth information search capabilities for 3 chemistry information databases: Beilstein, Gmelin, & Patent Chemistry Database;
 
Recent Advances in Manufacturing(RAM)                                                                                       27 September 2003
bibliographic database, full-text ordered from British Library Document Supply Centre 

Rees's Cyclopædia(New Cyclopaedia, or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts & Sciences)   1 April 2012
(check links to digitised volumes) important C19th encyclopaedia regarded by some as subversive when it appeared edited by Revd. Abraham Rees(1743–1825); The acclaimed Cyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers published in 1728 (digitised by U of Wisonsin) was re-edited by Abraham Rees in 1778 with incorporation of a supplement & new matter, issued from 1779 to 1786(fol. 4 vols.); reprinted 1788-91(fol. 4 vols.) In recognition of his labour he was elected in 1786 a fellow of the Royal Society, & subsequently the Linnean Society & American Society. The favour shown to his work led him to project a similar but more comprehensive publication on an ampler scale. The first part of the New Cyclopeadia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts & Sciences together with the subjects of Biography, Geography, & History, was issued on 2 Jan. 1802, completed in August 1820 issued in parts at irregular intervals, two parts constituting a volume, published in London by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown;

World Repository of Manufactured Items(ROMFI)                                                                          14 January 2006
tracks artifacts so people involved in research, restoration, interest groups, clubs, archives can locate, price & view surviving examples; for Manufacturers, Artists, Creators, Museums, Collectors, Archivists, Organizations; free registration; Find an expert;

Research Finder                                                                                                                               27 September 2002
on-line gateway to researchers, research capability & emerging technologies in Australia's research organisations

ResearchIndex: NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library
[Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute]; free digital scientific literature to improve dissemination & feedback of scientific literature 300000+ computer science articles; search citations OR fulltext; browsable subject index

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library Catalogue                                                                               21 December 2002
world botanical reference sources unrivalled in range, depth, authority; 1/2m+ items - books, botanical illustrations, photographs, letters & manuscripts, periodicals, biographies & maps; 90+ languages; early books collection - Linnaeus & contemporaries, herbals & incunabula; illustrations & descriptions of early uses of plants C18 to C21 expeditions; papers of botanists, plant collectors & artists - Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Marianne North; botanical gateway; search other libraries from Catalogue; live connections to Library of Congress & Natural History Museum, London

Royal Society(London, GB)                                                                                                                23 July 2011
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, by Royal Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives, 1665-1886)New Online Books; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, by Royal Society(Great Britain) (partial serial archives, 1888-2001); Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, by Royal Society (Great Britain) (partial serial archives, 1887-1921)

Royal Society Library & Archives                                                                                                      24 September 2006
collections of international importance in history of science; manuscripts, printed books, paintings provide continuous record of scientific advances & achievements over 345+ years; contemporary journals & monographs in history of science & important Science Policy collection, maintained in support of Society's continuing role as an independent advisory body for all sciences; Royal Society Digital Journal Archive dating back to 1665; 60000+ articles FREE to access until Dec 2006 then free as part of Royal Society's new journal subscription packages; News articles on science, education, industry & environment from major daily newspapers; Library & Archives resources - Science Policy Collection, Digital Journal Archive, Biographical Information on Fellows, & Picture Library; Royal Society: Podcasts - history of science video & audio of scientific failure, apothecaries, taming of electricity;

Royal Society of Chemistry Builds a Virtual Library                                                                            21 May 2008
235 fulltext e-journals from Elsevier & Springer; 1445 e-books from Knovel, Springer, Elsevier, NetLibrary; fulltext articles from 3600+ journals in Ebsco's aggregated fulltext databases; 8 databases in chemistry, business, environment, general science, TOCs & news; Specific chemistry databanks & compilations; Pre-paid download tokens from Elsevier & Wiley supplement fulltext; RSC eBook Collection 700+ books spanning 40 years digitalised as pdf & searchable, comprehensive overview of research & opinion in chemical science;

SAE(Society of Automotive Engineers) Digital Library                                                                  4 February 2010
20000+ technical papers written between 1906 & 1979 downloadable PDF documents; SAE International’s entire library of 88000 documents available electronically; SAE Standards  & Technical Papers;

Scholarly & Academic Research: Finding Journal Articles                                                              21 April 2006

Scholarpedia.org searchable, peer-reviewed online scientific encyclopedia
contributors are respected authorities in their fields, including an impressive list of Nobel Laureates & Fields Medalists; areas covered include: Dynamical Systems, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Neuroscience, & Touch;

SciBase: TheScientificWorld                                                                                                         2 November 2001
free access, unique collection of databases of scientific, technical & medical research literature; 19m+ articles since 1965 in 30000+ journals; updated daily with 7000 new article records; fulltext from 400 current journals of participating publishers including Blackwell Science, Taylor & Francis, & Mary Ann Liebert.

Science Accelerator federated search gateway(OSTI)                                                                    18 January 2009
searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, via resources from Office of Scientific & Technical Information(OSTI), US Department of Energy; DOE R&D Accomplishments, DOE R&D Project Summaries, DOepatents, E-print Network, Energy Citations Database, Energy Science & Technology Software Center, EnergyFiles, Federal R&D Project Summaries, Information Bridge, Science Conference Proceedings; featured search archive & RSS feed; list of searchable resources; send SA search resultst by E-mail, Alert link or  share feature social media options; information from 13 key DOE databases of scientific & technical information; 31 Jan 2011: automatically generates a cluster field on  search results page, including date clusters;

Science & Engineering Encyclopaedia  standard data & formula books, historical events timeline   2 November 2005

Science & Industry Portal                                                                                                           6 October 2001
science, industry & innovation information & services to industry, investors, business & research communities; 2 main sections -science-oriented resources & resources devoted to technology; directories & databases, policy, intellectual property); brief annotations

Science & Technology Information Directories                                                                            28 December 2005

Science & Technology Resources on the Internet
Selected Internet Resources on Digital Research Data Curation(Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Fall 2010)

Science animations: movies & interactive tutorial Links                                                                11 November 2006
clearinghouse for science animations created by institutions including U of Hawaii & Cambridge U; scroll through list, or topical areas such as microbiology, geology, ecology, & physics; See also Biology - Animations, Movies & Interactive Links;

ScienceCinema multimedia search engine                                                                                    14 June 2011
OSTI partnered with Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing System(MAVIS) project; Introduced February 2011 with 1000 scientific videos from US DOE national laboratories, continues to grow with recent initial installment from multimedia collection of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research;

Science Commons                                                                                                                       27 September 2005
private agreement, technical standardization & 'some rights reserved' items of parent Creative Commons; aim to develop the worlds largest communication medium for freely accessible scientific knowledge; Nov '07 16m+ publications from 890+ repositories; Launching public discussion of Creative Commons patent tools;                 

ScienceDaily                                                                                                                               3 December 2004
breaking news site for science links back to original sources(mostly US university research institutes & government agencies)

Science Databases                                                                                                                        15 June 2002
global link to on-line resources including news feeds, archives, libraries, research databases, catalogs, & statistics; databases organized in 22 subjects including astronomy, chemistry, energy, geography, geology, oceanography, physics; 

ScienceDirect(Elsevier)                                                                                                                31 August 2001
8m articles; Individual users may print or save; Other areas accessed by subscription or licence; (5 May 2006) China Collection series of prestigious Chinese science, technology & medical journals never before disseminated outside of China; growing; Free for review until end of 2006; abstracts & bibliographic records are open access; pay for PDF fulltext; new release  reviewed, Aug. 2006; largest publisher of scholarly journals; freely available 'social bookmarking' site 2Collab; Elsevier metadata for SCOPUS & ScienceDirect(1800 journals, 150 book series & 1.3m+ records) collections from 2006 now indexed in WorldCat.org with content from GPO Monthly Catalog, ArticleFirst, Medline, ERIC & British Library Inside Serials; 22 July 2010: Starting with 2 Elsevier chemistry journals, authors are invited to submit structure(MOL) files of their key compounds alongside articles to add compound identifiers – International Chemical Identifier(InChI) keys* – & increase discoverability of article & key compounds on ScienceDirect & search engines; structure files are used to visually display all key compounds of article in a scrollable list with additional functionality such as links to Reaxys, Elsevier’s web-based chemistry database, & Google; Aug 2010: 10m articles, partnerships with NextBio & PubMed, FAST Enterprise Search Platform & QUOSA Document Download Platform, link to other publishers via CrossRef; Elsevier Image Search free extra for SciVerse ScienceDirect subscribers allows researchers to search across 15m+ images contained within SciVerse ScienceDirect: tables, photos, figures, graphs & videos from trusted peer-reviewed full text sources; Search results refined by image type contain links to location within original source article,  allowing researchers to verify image in context;  

ScienceEducation.gov (US Department of Energy Open Goverment Plan)                                     13 May 2010

Science.Gov (18 Oct 2011: Science.gov Mobile now available via m.science.gov web app)           5 December 2002
scitech information organizations from US science agencies(Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, National Science Foundation); browsable subject directory & keyword metasearch engine; 25+ databases include ERIC, PubMed, Agricola; no advanced search syntax; gateway; browse categories: Agriculture & Food, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Science Education; Annotation, keyword search; HTML, PDF documents; Science.gov 2.0 launched June 2004; no direct links to citations found via metasearch; Science.gov 3.0 introduces MetaRank ranking science queries by searching metadata, or bibliographic information such as title, author, date, abstract or other keyword identifiers; complements relevancy ranking capabilities of QuickRank introduced in version 2.0 & still deployed on every search; (25 March 2006) Science.gov 3.0 US government's federated searching & relevancy ranking of multiple government scientific databases; Sensitive but Unclassified Information & Other Controls: Policy & Options for Scientific & Technical Information [A CRS Report for Congress];  government information is disappearing or not publicly available - See also Pseudo-Secrets: A Freedom of Information Audit of the US Government's Policies on Sensitive Unclassified Information; 4th edition reviewed by Peter Jacso - scitech government document repositories & other science databases of 12 US government agencies supported & maintained by CENDI inter-agency working group, powered by Explorit software of Deep Web Technologies, Inc; search filters focus search & layer search results by disciplinary areas(environment, health, etc); results ranking; sort options by title, author, source & publication date. Date range search limiting; See also Technical Reports & Archive Image Library(TRAIL) for federal gov reports pre 1975; 18 Oct 2011: Science.gov Mobile now available via m.science.gov web app without download required & adds 3 new databases: Integrated Risk Information System(IRIS) (EPA) under Environment & Environmental Quality, DOE Data Explorer under Math, Physics, Chemistry(product of Science Accelerator), Energy Science & Technology Software Center(ESTSC) DOE (product of Science Accelerator);                 

Science.gov image search                                                                                                          21 December 2010
3 image databases now accessible for federated(meta search) of multiple science related databases: National Biological Information Infrastructure(NBII) Library of Images from Environment(LIFE) collection of high-quality photographs, illustrations, & graphics covering topics including images of plants, animals, fungi, microorganisms, habitats, wildlife management, environmental topics, & biological study/fieldwork; National Aeronautics & Space Administration(NASA) Image eXchange(NIX)  search engine of NASA’s multimedia collections including images of space flight wind tunnel, solar system, aircraft, & education initiatives; National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Photo Library collection spanning centuries of time & natural world from center of earth to surface of the sun; .

ScienceHack                                                                                                                               6 August 2007
search engine for science videos screened & approved for accuracy & quality; see also Scitalks;

Science Images on Web                                                                                                              31 May 2003

ScienceinEurope.NET                                                                                                                2 April 2005
search engine in Science, Technology and Innovation in the UE(Union Européenne)

Science IP subscription service of CAS division of American Chemical Society                           12 June 2006

Science magazine archive, 3/7/1880-(American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS))  23 May 2009

Science Media Centre                                                                                                                2 April 2005
for journalists; science information & interviews with scientists; database of contacts & information; proactive in putting scientists in touch with media; offer news desks a list of scientists available to comment on a given story, summary of main scientific points & details of where to look for further information; Centre aims to indirectly provide public with up-to-date scientific information

Science Oxford Online  making connections between science, enterprise & society                        16 January 2010
giving the general public a feel for new research & ideas about how science theories of today might create tomorrow's commercial products;

Science Photo Library                                                                                                               26 September 2001
quick search function; free registration; use light box, ordering functions, specialized search features; expert picture researchers can search for you; Email order

Science Portal                                                                                                                             5 October 2002
Australian government delivers science information & services to industry, investors, research community from Australia's research & research-related organization Web sites; search or browse by research topics including directories & databases, policy, research grants; 

Science Research Portal                                                                                                               17 June 2005
free access to scientific journals & 53 databases from Science.gov, Scirus, E-Print Network, American Chemical Society, Annual Reviews, Highwire Press;

Science Timelines(PSIGate)                                                                                                        27 September 2003

Science Watch: High Impact Journals Ranked by Citations per Page(ThomsonReuters)                26 June 2003
Covers 9 fields of science from 1992-2002 (Science Watch May/June 2003 )

Science.world: global science gateway                                                                                          28 February 2007                  
formed by US Department of Energy(DOE) & British Library to make science information resources of many nations accessible via a single internet portal;

Sciencia - A scientist’s social network with 1.2m articles                                                            19 October 2011
latest news headlines, references & resources from science journals, books & websites worldwide; 1.2m articles in 75 categories, 64000+ users & 8200 journals from all areas of sciences; 3000 articles shared /day; peer-reviewed scientific news & less scientific sources;

Scientific American archives(1845-1869)  & Scientific American online archive                               24 June 2001
for a general, scientifically-literate reader on issues & developments in science & technology; Scientific American Supplement(1881-1892,1898); Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific American online archive for institutional customers contains complete collection of Scientific American, May 1948- December 2005; Site license access purchased as 2 collections: Scientific American archive: 1948-1992(528 issues & approximately 15640 articles) & Scientific American archive: 1993-2005 (156 issues & approximately 4680 articles) with content from Scientific American, Scientific American Mind from premier issue in January 2004, & all Special Issues. The articles are available as PDFs; 16 June 2011: Site licence access to Scientific American’s online archive can be purchased as three collections: Scientific American archive: 1910-1947, Scientific American archive 1948-1992 & Scientific American archive: 1993-2005. Collections contain content from Scientific American & Scientific American Mind from its premier issue in January 2004, as well as all specialissues. The articles are available as PDFs; 26 Nov 2011: Site licence access to the online archive can be purchased as 4 collections: August 1845-December 1909(approximately 75000 articles); January 1910- December 1947(approximately 38300 articles); January 1948- December 1992(approximately 15800 articles); & January 1993- December 2005(approximately 4600 articles) available as PDFs.

Scientific American: 60 Second Science podcasts                                                                          20 November 2007
News, articles & daily 60-second podcasts; Search or browse the archive by category;

Scientific American Sci/Tech Web Awards 2002                                                                           2 July 2002

Scientific & Technical Information Network                                                                                  23 April 2003
Defense Technical Information Center(DTIC) of US Department of Defense maintains network; public access to unclassified citations, full-text of unclassified documents, search collection or browse Index of Specifications & Standards, Research & Development Descriptive Summaries; FullText Research & Development Descriptive Summaries for Fiscal Year 2003; free registration

Scientific Commons - OAI harvester for Open Access(OA) repositories worldwide;                     4 November 2006

Scientific evidence                                                                                                                19 May 2012
Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence(3rd edition; Washington: National Academies Press, 2011), by Federal Judicial Center & National Research Council Committee on Science, Technology, & Law;

Scientific publishing authoring tools                                                                                    28 November 2011
Annotum will build on WordPress platform providing following additional features: Rich, web-based authoring & editing; coauthoring: WYSIWYG authoring with rich toolset(equations, figures, tables, citations & references), comments, version tracking, & revision comparisons; Strict conformance to a subset of NLM journal article publishing tag set; Multiple import & export formats: Export to PDF & XML formats, Import XML & WXR formats for “round-tripping” of content, Articles can be cited, exported, imported across systems/sites; Simple editorial workflow for authoring & reviewer/editor approval; Features specific to scholarly publishing: Equations, figures, tables, References including citation search features, Auto-generation & registration of CrossRef DOIs;

Scientific research news for non-scientists See also ScienceDaily, EurekAlert!, Scientific American   23 February 2012

Scientists & the Franklin Institute: Making Their Cases                                                                  22 November 2007
Franklin Institute's Case Files - record of The Franklin Awards program which, since 1824, has recognized outstanding scientific achievement, across all scientific disciplines; commentary & primary documents for scientists in the areas of computing, transportation, cosmic inquiry, energy, & communications; audio clips & suggested reading;

Scientopica                                                                                                                                  10 August 2002
Scientopica is conduit to scientific information available on world wide web; to increase efficiency of information acquisition by increasing relevancy of results customize display categories; news service; keyword search or browse

SciFinder Scholar      14 April 2011: SciFinder goes mobile                                                      13 April 2011
national industry association for independent providers of post-compulsory education & training, for Australian & international students; Higher Education; Vocational Education & Training; English Language Courses; Senior Secondary Studies; Foundation Studies; 14 December 2004: American Chemical Society subscription database offers variety of pathways & powerful tools to explore CAS databases & MEDLINE too;  23 March 2011: Searching Inorganic Substances in SciFinder: Tips from the Experts - accurately & completely search Chemical Abstracts Service's(CAS) SciFinder web-based system for inorganic substances, excepting coordination compounds; salts, oxides, sulfides, minerals, alloys, metal clusters, tabular inorganics, indeterminate derivatives are reviewed; Inorganic searching: quick reference table; 14 Apr 2011: SciFinder Mobile is available to all SciFinder subscribers in commercial, academic, & government organizations & can be accessed at scifinder.cas.org/mobile with most mobile devices; 

SciNet Science Search Science, Engineering, & Medical Search Engine/Directory                          20 April 2002
browse categories, search by keyword(no advanced search); highest rated & 5-star sites links, news, picture post, unit conversions, periodic tables, photos

Scintilla(Nature Publishing Group)                                                                                                 22 June 2007                              
collects data from hundreds of news outlets, scientific blogs, journals & databases for you to organise, share & discover;

Scirus                                                                                                                                           26 February 2004
167m+ science pages; full-text NASA reports, CogPrints pre- & postprints, preprints from Chemistry & Mathematics Preprint Servers; 17m+ proprietary records; ranking & relevance with intelligent query rewrites via FAST's AlltheWeb; news feed of science headlines by Lexis Nexis Web Publisher News Database; access to fulltext from professional journals on pay-per-document basis; indexed data of 13m patents from US Patent & Trademark Office(USPTO), European Patent Office(EPO), Japanese Patent Office(JPO) & Patent Cooperation Treaty(PCT) of World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO); Scirus Repository Search free scitech search engine for repositories of digital data at universities & research institutions starting with T-Space(U of Toronto) - articles, datasets, preprints, presentations, technical reports branded for identification on Scirus; search by author, title & keyword; Library Partnership Programme(300 major libraries subscribe) links Scirus metadata to fulltext in partner library subscriptions through a link resolver;

Scitopia.org Search Portal  free federated vertical search                                                               20 April 2007
research most cited in scholarly work & patents; 3m+ items including peer-reviewed journal content & conference proceedings; Partners: American Geophysical Union(AGU), American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics(AIAA), American Institute of Physics(AIP), American Physical Society(APS), American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), The Electrochemical Society(ECS), IEEE Institute of Physics Publishing(IOP), Optical Society of America(OSA), SPIE, Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE), Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM); patents, government documents; 15 societies spanning 150 years of sci-tech scholarship; Electronic Resources Reviews;

SciVerse platform integrates ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciTopics & targeted Web content            19 January 2011
2500 journals & 11000 books with 1/2m additions/year; digitized versions of pre-1995 journal content; Goes as far back as 1823 issues of The Lancet; Combining Elsevier products with SciVerse Hub & community developed applications; SciVerse Hub searches across SciVerse ScienceDirect & SciVerse Scopus & WorldWideScience.org content;

Scopus abstracting & indexing database (Elsevier)                                                                         13 May 2010
17500 peer-reviewed titles from 5000+ international publishers; multidisciplinary records since mid 1960’s; Abstracts from 1966; fulltext links; 167m scientific web pages; annual institutional subscription for access to complete, unabridged database; Update on Coverage; Review(Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Winter 2006); citation searching for 1996+; 27m documents; Comparison of major features of the Web of Science,Scopus, & Google Scholar citation-based & citation-enhanced databases(28 November 2005); Scopus Journal Analyzer helps researchers, journal editors & librarians compare journals & assists optimizing resources, maximising return on investment; Elsevier metadata for SCOPUS & ScienceDirect(1800 journals, 150 book series & 1.3m+ records) collections from 2006 now indexed in WorldCat.org with content from GPO Monthly Catalog, ArticleFirst, Medline, ERIC & British Library Inside Serials;13 May 2010: Scopus Alerts(Lite) gives researchers mobile access to Search & Alert features of Scopus;

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library: Archival Collections                                                    11 July 2009
Scripps Institution of Oceanography was founded in 1903 as the Marine Biological Association of San Diego & became part of U of California in 1912; primary & secondary materials that relate history of this research institution; photographs in Still Image Collection; Quick Time movies of Scripps campus in 1916 & 1927, movie clips of sea spider & fangtooth deep-sea fish; audio & video clips; renowned scientists talk about their work at Scripps from 1950s to 1990s;

Searching for Scientific Evidence                                                                                                  14 January 2006
Librarian Paul Barron uses topic, scientific evidence, to illustrate efficient search techniques using Web-based tools

Searching Free Design Databases on the Web                                                                             4 September 2003

Searching Free Trade Mark Databases on the Web(FreePint  V.139; 26 Jun 2003)                 27 June 2003

Searching inorganic substances in SciFinder: tips from experts ; Inorganic searching: quick reference table 23 March 2011
accurately & completely search Chemical Abstracts Service's(CAS) SciFinder web-based system for inorganic substances, excepting coordination compounds; salts, oxides, sulfides, minerals, alloys, metal clusters, tabular inorganics, indeterminate derivatives are reviewed;

Searching patents on government databases on the web(Free Pint article by Ron Kaminecki)    6 February 2002

Searchmining.net launched in Australia in March 2008                                                                  4 September 2008
search through mining websites; list of suggested search terms; sub-search categories of coal, metals, minerals, precious materials, equipment, safety, & mine-appropriate subjects; products; search box downloadable to subscribers’ websites & web browsers; regularly updated headlines from MiningNews.net; currently has 15000+ users per month, 40000+ searches per month; See also MineWeb & Mining in Australia; 

SeaWeb email newsletter designed to raise awareness of the world oceans & life within                 19 October 2003

Selected Sources for Manufacturing                                                                                                12 October 2010

Silobreaker                                                                                                                                11 March 2008
global issues, science, technology & business from approximately 10000 news, blog, research & multimedia sources recognizes people, companies, topics, places & keywords; understands how they relate to each other, & puts them in context; review;

Sixty Symbols demystifies 60 prominent physics symbols via informative video segments                17October 2009
fun chats with men & women who live their subject and know a lot about it!; gamma includes a discussion of cricket balls, while rho paperclips in coffee cups; earler videos can be accessed; info about scientists & related sites;

Sky Chart                                                                                                                                  12 January 2003
Sky & Telescope Web site; choose from any location inputting city or latitude & longitude, then choose direction to view in sky

SkyView Virtual Observatory  (NASA)                                                                                      7 May 2011
generates images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray; Non-Astronomers Page; SkyView FAQ; SkyView Blog for happenings since April 2008; Image Gallery of 10000+ images submitted by users of SkyView; NASA materials on rockets & space travel, planets, stars, constellations, & homework help by a "high energy astronomer";

Smells Database                                                                                                                           9 January 2003

Smithsonian Physical Tables 9th Edition                                                                                        23 April 2003
901 tables for scientists & engineers; download tables of general physics constants, constants for temperature measurement, blackbody & its radiant energy, temperature characteristics by material, latent heat, thermal properties of gases, acoustics, geomagnetism; 

Smithsonian Wild: browse 200K+worldwide candid wild animal photos                                        7 March 2011

Social network sites for scientists                                                                                                  14 December 2009
Blog collections: Nature Network, ScienceBlogs, Scientific Blogging, Wordpress, Blogspot, (OpenWetWare); Blog aggregators: Postgenomic, ChemicalBlogspace, ResearchBlogging; Social Networks: Laboratree, Ologeez, Research Gate, Epernicus, LabMeeting, Graduate Junction (Nature Network), SciBog, SciMeet, SciSpace, WAYS; Protocol sharing: Scivee, Bioscreencast, OpenWetWare, YouTube, Protocolsonline, MyExperiment; Literature sharing: citeulike, connotea, delicious, Bibsonomy, 2collab, Zotero (upcoming 2.0 version); Others: Friendfeed, Twitter, GoogleDocs, GoogleGroups, Upcoming, Seesmic, eventseer.net;

SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive                                                                    4 October 2007
Fulltext ornithological journals. Browse or search: Auk(1884-1999); Condor(1899-2000); Journal of Field Ornithology(1930-1999); North American Bird Bander(1976-2000); Ornithological Monographs(1964-2005); Pacific Coast Avifauna(1900-1974); Studies in Avian Biology(1978-1999); Western Birds(1970-2004); Wilson Bulletin(1889-1999);

Space Science: European Space Agency(ESA)                                                                             11 June 2009
Space images, videos, animations, sounds, downloads

Spatial Information ServicesStack(SISS) for  exploration of Australia's geology, Reviews: 1 & 2     4 June 2011 
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation(CSIRO) collaboration with AuScope; open-access network of geospatial data & supporting infrastructure; SISS suite of tools for spatial data interoperability using OGC standards, GML application schema development & registries. AuScope deploying SISS in Australian Government agencies & research organisations has developed a Web portal to demonstrate the infrastructure, and to encourage the development of other third party client tools;

SPIN Web                                                                                                                                   23 April 2003
physics research; search across 80+ scientific journals indexed in SPIN Database, continually updated; 1m+ research records in physical sciences from 1975;  browse journals, physics news service, searchable directories of scientists; subscribe to view fulltext

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics(SCOAP3)                            26 September 2011

SpringerImages scientific images that span scientific, technical & medical fields                                 19 August 2009
1.5 m+ photos, graphs, histograms, figures, & tables, high-quality clinical images from images.MD available to libraries & patrons via online database searchable through captions, keywords, context, etc; create personalized image sets & export images; paid subscription;

Standards  BSI British Standards RSS feeds; ASTM International RSS feeds; Content Online      9 December 2008

STARnet, the NATO Science, Technology & Research Network                                                4 September 2004
science, technology & research network; emphasis on collective international security within NATO

STN AnaVist Summer 2005 release
analysis & visualisation(A&V) tool developed by Chemical Abstracts Service & FIZ Karlsruhe for insights into scientific literature & data extracted from STN databases: CAS' CAplus database of scientific literature & patent information, USPATFULL & PCTFULL patent databases containing fulltext US patents & Patent Cooperation Treaty(PCT) patents;

Strategian: the strategic guide to quality information in Biology, Chemistry,
Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, & Psychology                                               14 January 2003

Structurae: International Database & Gallery of Structures   Australia & Oceania page                        4 October 2010
structural engineering, architecture or construction through time worldwide from time of  pyramids in Egypt & Roman construction, to Romanesque & Gothic churches, Industrial Revolution & beyond; mostly with bridges, tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, stadiums, towers, etc;
Name; Structural type; Function; Construction method; Geographic location; Year of completion; browse Recently added, Recently modified & Recently illustrated;

Substance Registry System                                                                                                           23 May 2007
US Environmental Protection Agencies(EPA) identification information on 70000+ chemicals; provides common basis for identifying chemicals listed in EPA regulations & data systems, & chemicals of interest from other sources, such as publications.Search by name, chemical abstracts service(CAS) number, or keyword/ identifier. Results include ID information, listings of chemicals in regulations, listings of agency programs, sometimes providing molecular formula, molecular weight, & alternative identification information.

Sun or Moon Rise/Set Table for One Year(worldwide)                                                                 28 August 2003

SureChem gateway for SMILES chemical patent search on fulltext USPTO, EPO & WO            7 December 2008
structure & keyword searches on 9m+ compounds, including prophetic & excluded compounds & other structures not covered by manually constructed databases; Chemical structure searches via keywords, SMILES(Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) strings, or graphically drawn compound using java-based drawing tools performed against a normalized database of chemical names & structures; subscription SureChem Pro provides extra data and search capabilities - data export, alerts & saved searches, under a secure(SSL) web connection. StruSynthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science in October 2005. The product consists of over 30 subject series in many areas of engineering, primarily related to electrical engineering, computer science, and bioengineering. Each series consists of 50-250 page introductory reviews("lectures") on advanced topics in their fields. Since its launch, Synthesis has published over 150 lectures. The company spent over a year consulting with librarians on multiple issues before launching Synthesis, and the effort shows. Last year, the Synthesis Digital Library was awarded the 2008 Best Reference Work Award by the American Society of Engineering Education's Engineering Library Division.cture data is updated within 24 hours of new patents being published;

SurfIP Portal                                                                                                                              24 February 2003
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore(IPOS) first IP Portal to offer users comprehensive & integrated IP information; databases of European Patent Office(EPO), United Kingdom Patent Office(UKPO), United States Patent Office(USPTO), World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO); Features: Search multiple sources in a single operation; integrated & aggregated searches; Dispense with obscure syntax & filenames; Reduce search costs; Translate search results using multilingual tools; Conduct simple/ advanced/patent number searches; Search Directory of IP Professionals; new inventions, IP Events & highlights;

Surfwax Lookahead rapid patent discovery tool                                                                        17 November 2006

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering & Computer Science                                                      18 February 2009
30+ subject series in electrical engineering, computer science, & bioengineering each consists of 50-250 page introductory reviews ("lectures") on advanced topics; 150+ lectures; sold to academic institutions as Collections of 100-125 lectures across all series; Pricing; most Synthesis series are indexed by Compendex, INSPEC, & Google Scholar; 2008 Best Reference Work Award by American Society of Engineering Education's Engineering Library Division;

Taking the Wheel: Manufacturers’ Catalogs from the First Decade of American Automobiles      10 June 2006
well-illustrated,detailed car catalogs from 1909 provided by automobile manufacturers, some online, in New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery color plates & diagrams..keyword search entire collection or browse source list;

TechJournalContents (part of TechXtra service)                                                                         5 December 2009
search across current issues of 3600+ scholarly technology journals from multiple publishers; save results as rss feeds, keep up-to-date with new content via feedreader of your choice(Google Reader, Bloglines); takes advantage of RSS Tables of Contents feeds provided by publishers & incorporates journalTOCs API produced by journalTOCs Project based at ICBL, Heriot-Watt University; 

Technical Reports & Archive Image Library(TRAIL) US                                                               15 May 2011
20000+ at-risk US Gov Technical Reports digitized including documents by US Atomic Energy Commission(AEC) responsible for peacetime use of atomic science & technology from 1946 until 1974; U of Arizona in collaboration with Center for Research Libraries(CRL)  & other interested agencies to identify, digitize, archive, & provide access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975;

Technology in Australia 1788-1988                                                                                           29 September 2002
enhances 1988 print version; beginning with aborigines, moving to agricultural expansion, ending with large-scale research in science & technology; covers specific periods of Australian history & future prospects; cant be downloaded as a single file for offline viewing; .index to book acts as gateway to text & entries in Bright Sparcs (biographical & bibliographical database of Australian scientists) or Australian Science at Work (organisations which contributed to Australia's scientific, technological & medical heritage)

Techstreet                                                                                                                                 2 April 2005
free registration standards tracking for engineers, corporate librarians & technical professionals to monitior rules for product design, testing, safety, compliance & quality control; .150000 standards from worlds Standards Development Organizations incl. ASTM, ASME, API, ZBSI,DIN,ISO.IEC,NFPA, IEEE, UL & CSA

TechXtra                                                                                                                                  1 June 2006
free service for finding articles, books, industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, fulltext eprints, thesis & dissertations in engineering, mathematics & links to vendors pay-per-view options; 25 database Cross database searching(federated or metasearch), 4m+ records; Sources include: Australian Research Repositories Online to World, arXive(eprint archive in computer science, maths & related subjects), CiteSeer(research articles in computer science), Directory of Open Access Journals, ePrints UK(selected open archives in UK), COPAC(union catalogue from Consortium of University Research Libraries), National Engineering Education Delivery System(digital library of learning resources), NASA Technical Reports(12 NASA technical report series); Job Announcements; Industry News; Discovery Guides; Recent Advances in Manufacturing( database of bibliographic information for manufacturing & related areas, covering items in 500+ niche & mainstream journals & magazines, details of books, videos, & conference proceedings); harvests data using standard protocols such as Z39.50 & OAI-PMH; Some materials not available fulltext, or only if you, or your institution, subscribes to service, or via pay-per-view; OneStep News service; See TechJournalContentsabove; 

Telefocus - BT Archives media gallery  (British Telecom)                                                            20 November 2010
23 subject categories cover communications themes dating from late 1880s; browse categories or use search option; film & video titles will be added;

Textiles Collection                                                                                                                     12 March 2006
digital images of 3000 artifacts; Coptic textiles from 800-1000AD through to British woollen cloths, Kashmir shawls, African strip weaving & Scandinavian furnishing fabrics from 1950 -90; search results give thumbnail image & description; item record includes: creator, date, item type, function(e.g., scarf), description, subject term, type of material, visual information(e.g. geometric), technique(e.g. handwoven), process(e.g. batik), culture(e.g country, ethnic group), source(how obtained), rights; link to larger image; browse by object, type (e.g. blanket), country of origin, maker/designer, analysis - raw materials, cloth structure, process; advanced search for boolean operators, by different record fields & to search visual art collections elsewhere; register to store items  in your lightbox; See also Virtual Museum of Textile Arts website from an Italian lace making firm with peopled scenes from 1400s to 1900s highlighting lace-centric textiles listed below the scene with links to place in the scene navigated with 3 sets of arrows for 360-degree views & explanatory paragraph  giving context with relevant historical & political details; Technique link for short videos with history & use of each type of lace;

Textile Exchange                                                                                                                     1 March 2008
search engine & products directory with topical headings like Textile Products, Fibers, Yarns & Threads, Textile Chemicals; fiber & textile history, types of weaves; Textile Personalities; See also Textile World for textile industry professionals, manufacturers, investors;

ThomasNet formerly Thomas Register of American Manufacturers                                           15 February 2003
650000+ US industrial suppliers searched by product, company name, brand name; register free to save searches, company details, subscribe to newsletters & alerts, customize news feeds; newsletters by email, RSS feed, My Yahoo; International coverage in Thomas Global Register directory of 700000 manufacturers & distributors from 28 countries, classified by 11000 products & services categories. Search by product/service, company name, browsecategories free of charge; European suppliers in Thomas Global Register Europe  210000 industrial suppliers from 21 European countries. Search by company name, product/service free after rergistration; Thomas Register of American Manufacturers & Thomas Register Regional Buying Guides free at ThomasNet; print publication ceased; See also MacRae's Blue Book for North American industrial products; 

Thomson Patent Store                                                                                                              27 March 2003
patent document delivery service; PDF format; 32 patenting authorities including multi-country authorities, US, EP, WO, DE; same-day or 24-hour service for another 12 patenting authorities plus British B-documents.

Thomson Scientific                                                                                                                    25 February 2008
information based solutions for academic, government, corporate & pharma R&D professionals at forefront of markets; authoritative content with innovative technologies that assist with discovery, analysis, product development & distribution; ResearcherID.com web environment digital calling card for personal homepage, CV or institutional website links to personal workspace automatically updating citation data, user generated tags & keywords, professional info shared/kept for personal monitoring, personal profile management;

TopTenLinks.com                                                                                                                      8 February 2003
sponsored sites & chemistry, earth science, environment, news, physics, resources, space, biology, education, geography; reorganize by editors' picks, date added, popularity, votes, & site name.

U of California, Berkeley & Internet Resources by Academic Discipline                                       13 October 2003

Ulysses Search  Science related search engines & information directories                                     3 February 2003

UN & Google create climate change mapping resources                                                              4 August 2009

U of Lethbridge Herbarium database of herbs                                                                          7 February 2012
Photos of 21000 plant specimens being digitized to go online complete with scientific name, location, collection time, phenology & habitat;

U of Minnesota Insect Collection                                                                                             28 May 2005
national & international resource of 3400000 specimens available to researchers by request(Loan Conditions); information about holdings in pdf files; databases include UMSP Trichoptera Holdings Biota Database & Neotropical Trichoptera Literature EndNote Database

US Army Field Manuals, Training Circulars,
Technical Manuals, War Department/Department of the Army Pamphlets                                     11 June 2009
full text selected US Army Field Manuals(FMs), Training Circulars(TCs), Technical Manuals(TMs), War Department Pamphlets(WD PAMs) & Department of the Army Pamphlets(DA PAMs)  range in date from early C20 through early C21; intelligence interrogation, land warfare, prisoners of war; content added regularly;

[US]Compliance Resource Center Links bridge to safety & compliance resources                        23 May 2007

User manuals                                                                                                                              5 January 2009
Search for lost User Manuals with Diplodocs download user manuals, guides, instructions, & owner’s manuals to 5600+ brands & 1.4m user guides; Search Diplodocs by product, brand, or category; brands like Acer, Dell, JVC, Samsung, & Whirlpool.

US Geological Survey Photographic Library                                                                            29 April 2011
USGS Central Regional Library maintains a collection of 400000+ photographs taken during geologic studies of US& territories from 1868; free viewing & downloading;

US Geological Survey Planetary GIS Web Server                                                                       25 January 2003
Web-based, user-friendly interface aimed at planetary research community to support & integrate powerful Geographic Information Systems(GIS) graphical, statistical, & spatial relational tools for analyses of planetary datasets; online maps, data from Mars Exploration Rover Project, global GIS data, GIS tutorials;  datasets include vector & raster GIS data  from geologic age, faults, streams, springs, oil & gas fields, to elevation & climate data; Vivisimo Velocity Search will replace USGS’ National Biological Information Infrastructure’s (NBII) search solution with a single search interface for researchers, decision makers, government agencies, educators, & public in a collaborative program to increase access to data & information on the nation’s biological resources; works with federal, state, non-profit & educational institutions in support of its overall mission & objectives. Biological search is one key infrastructure component within the overall NBII distributed architecture;

US Government resources for science images                                                                            17 December 2009

US Patent & Trademark Office(USPTO)                                                                                   7 February 2003

US Patent & Trademark Office trade mark applications                                                      9 March 2005
Trademark Electronic Search System (Tess) accessible free of charge; decisions & reasons behind, made by trade mark examining attorneys.

US Patent Assignments recorded since August 1980                                                                    24 February 2004
search by patent number, assignor or assignee name; click link for an assignor's or assignee's name in any record to find history(from  mid-1980) 

Vascoda - a German portal to scientific information                                                                      15 August 2003
libraries, research centres & academic information providers; free & fee-based services; 23 subject based virtual libraries; Electronic Journals Library(EZB) & 4 German information alliances EconDoc(economy), GetInfo(scitech), infoconnex(education science, social science, psychology) & medical science

ViFaTec Engineering Subject Gateway(German/English)                                                               31 May 2003
Subject Guide list of freely accessible literature identification databases; GetInfo full text server; TIBORDER document delivery service; robot-based search service

Visible Body free interactive web animation tool                                                                            5 March 2008
3D human anatomy & its various systems detailed to degree necessary to teach college-level Anatomy & Physiology; models of all body systems; Dynamic search capability; Easy-to-use, 3D controls; Seamless compatibility with Internet Explorer

Visualisation tools for STM databases                                                                                    4 May 2006
Thomson Data Analyzer 2005 successor to Derwent Analytics analyses information from Thomson Scientific databases including patent databases, Web of Science/Web of Knowledge & can be adapted to analyse information from inhouse databases & Excel files. STN AnaVist - Chemical Abstracts Services(CAS) & FIZ(Fachinformationszentrum) Karlsruhe analyse information from CAS's CAplus database of scientific literature & patent information, USPATFULL & PCTFULL patent databases; interactive workspace diplays visualizations dynamically integrated, including cluster & contour maps, histograms, & co-occurrence matrices. Harmonization & standardisation of data prior to viualization using algorithms based on intellectual data analysis is included, & data grouping feature to minimise scattering of results by editing & customising data elements across databases

Weather Watcher 5.5e                                                                                                                  28 May 2005
weather information for 77000+ cities worldwide including Bangor, Maine, to Sheffield in UK. This version is compatible with Windows 98+

Web of Science                                                                                                                            20 November 2003
bibliographic data for most influential/highest impact C20 scientific research; journals selected by Thomson ISI editorial team based citation patterns, geographic origin, meaningful balance across scientific disciplines; key component of ISI Web of Knowledge; Peter Jaczo review (Jan 2007) - clusters results set by 8 criteria; instant calculation, informative & compact visualization of new citation measures, such as sum of times a paper was cited; insta-charts showing contour of publishing productivity & citedness pattern of chosen entities (authors, journals, organizations, topics) across time; & exporting details into spreadsheet &/or Endnote software; Comparison of major features of the Web of Science,Scopus, & Google Scholar citation-based & citation-enhanced databases(28 November 2005); 

Webopedia                                                                                                                                   2 August 2003
free online dictionary for words, phrases & abbreviations related to computer & Internet technology; Wireless LAN Standards compares specifications & performance of 8 wireless local area networking technologies; Did You Know articles on preventative computer maintenance & different DVD formats.

Webresearch Guide of ScienceDirect                                                                                            11 September 2003
expert tips to use search engines effectively, focus on quality STM information; hidden scientific information online; peer- reviewed, subject-specific directories;  subject-specific alerts that automatically e-mail latest news

Western Australian Museum: FaunaBase & WA FaunaList                                                           9 August 2003
vertebrate specimen records from Western Australian Museum collections, Queensland Museum & Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory organized by vertebrate class, provides collapsible taxonomic trees, excellent image galleries, search options. WA FaunaList provides comprehensive phylogenetically arranged checklist of scientific names for each vertebrate group(amphibians, birds, mammals, reptiles, fishes) recorded from WA & surrounding seas

Where to find material safety data sheets on the Internet(Interactive Learning Paradigms Incorporated)  2 November 2002
links to free MSDS categorized into general sites, government & nonprofit agencies, chemical manufacturers & suppliers, pesticides, miscellaneous sites with description; .regulations, suppliers, software, a quiz, MSDS facts, books; 

Wikispecies                                                                                                                                     5 March 2005
collaborative open directory of species covering plantae, animalia, bacteria, fungi for a scientific audience; naturalists, scientists, & taxonomists to develop centralized base for taxonomy; template includes: Taxonavigation, Morphology, Genetics, Vernacular Names, Distribution, Reference, Physiology; online forum; list of areas already covered, areas that need attention; recent changes

WildFinder where various species live around world                                                                     7 August 2005
World Wildlife Fund's 825 terrestrial ecoregions information for 4 large taxa, groups of species: birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians; search by country, US ZIP code, or city; interactive tools (pan or zoom); search by species name; thematic map gallery

Wildlife Finder(BBC)                                                                                                                1 October 2009
text & links, images, sounds & video(ONLY available in UK);

Wings Over Wetlands Critical Site Network (CSN) Tool                                                             25 June 2010
partnership among international conservation organizations & national governments to improve & conserve healthy & viable populations of African-Eurasian migratory waterbirds; comprehensive information on 294 waterbird species from 3020 sites & 4 databases used for international waterbird & wetland conservation; important sites for migratory waterbirds;

Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine launching 18 May 2009                                 2 May 2009
Mathematica tool for scientific computation (Version 1, 1988); Mathematica algorithms cover mathematical computation, logical, numerical, graphical, symbolic, & other computation; Show steps button gives step-by-step explanation of how to arrive at the answer;

World Academy of Science, Engineering & Technology                                                                     18 October 2009
promotes universal access with equal opportunities for international scientific community; to scientific knowledge, creation & dissemination of scientific & technical information; promotes academic science research initiatives to make scientific data & information accessible;

World Agricultural Information Centre Portal                                                                             19 November 2005
mandate from FAO of UN; WAICENT search engine; browse topics like agro-industry & forest management;

World Biodiversity Database(ETI BioInformatics)                                                                       13 October 2001
taxonomic database & information system aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7m); free access for noncommercial use: scientific & educational purposes; copyright protected by authors, artists & other contributors; 

World Bird Database(WBDB)                                                                                                    16 June 2005
relational database; 120 tables/1400+ data fields/250000+ records/10000 Species/8000+ Important Bird Areas (IBAs)/218 Endemic Bird Areas(EBAs); spatial data, multimedia files, documents & links;

World Meteorological Organization(WMO)                                                                                 1 September 2005
UN system's authoritative voice on state & behaviour of Earth's atmosphere, interaction with oceans, climate it produces & distribution of water resources; 187 countries & territories; National Weather Services sites, if available. Publications of World Meteorological Association 2005 links to fulltext; MeteoWorld, WMO's bi-monthly newsletter; WMO Technical Library; recent acquisitions(Agricultural Meteorology, Climatology, Education & Training, Environmental Studies, Hydrology, Marine Meteorology, Observations & Instruments, Tropical Meteorology, Weather Analysis & Forecasting, General Works)

World Register of Marine Species(WoRMS)                                                                              9 October 2010
202511 valid species; of which 167965 checked (83%); 316592 species names including synonyms; 388935 taxa(infraspecies to kingdoms); 12544 images; contributes to Catalogue of Life, Encyclopedia of Life, & taxonomic backbone of Ocean Biogeographic Information System(OBIS);

WorldWideScience.org global science federated search gateway(Deep Web Technologies)          6 August 2007
accelerating scientific discovery & progress through multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national & international scientific databases; Article@INIST(France);Australian Antartic Data Centre; Canada Institute for Scientific & Technical Information;   Defence Research & Development Canada; DEFF Global E Prints, DEFF Research Database(Denmark); Electronic Table of Contents(ETOC) (UK); J-EAST (Japan); J-STAGE(Japan); J-STORE (Japan); Journal@rchive(Japan); NARCIS(Netherlands); Science.gov (US); Scientific Electronic Library Online(Brazil); UK PubMed Central; Vascoda (Germany); (18 June 2008) developed & maintained by Office of Scientific & Technical Information(OSTI), an element of the Office of Science within US Department of Energy. When it debuted  in June 2007, it linked to 12 databases from 10 countries. Today, the portal links to 32 national, scientific databases & portals from 44 different countries; 200m+ documents not typically indexed by today's search engines; global science & technology search site, in partnerships with countries, some traditionally not open to share, like China & Korea; Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI); multilingual federated search in June 2010; Encomium, 27/2/2010: enables researchers to search 50+ national databases & freely access high quality, authoritative information on cutting-edge scientific research; 360m+ pages of information covering energy, medicine, agriculture & environment; Microsoft machine translation of documents in 9 languages: English, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, German, Arabic;

WWW Diamond & Fine Jewelry Virtual Library(Farlang Gem & Diamond Foundation)                    8 September 2007
& History of Gems, Gemology & Mining Library: 25000 pages, covering gems, diamonds, mining, gemology & gold rushes on 5 continents, including Herbert Hoover translation of Agricola's De re metallica;

WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology, Medicine, & Industry                        14 April 2005
catalogues, annotates, reviews sites on history of science, technology, & industry; browse 5000+ sites by topic, time period, publisher or content; 

Xeno-Canto: Bird Sounds From the Americas                                                                            14 August 2009
bird songs recorded by ornithologists & amateur birders; 4500 species worldwide divided into Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, & Australasia; English and Latin bird names; list of all species with recorded songs for region selected;

ZooBank                                                                                                                                       14 April 2006
free open access register for animal taxonomy - check animal names & register new species; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature; briefing;

ZOONIVERSE for citizen science projects developed by Citizen Science Alliance                         26 July 2011

Zoos worldwide                                                                                                                              14 June 2004