GENERAL SCIENCE WEB SITE LINKS

Advanced Scientific Inquiries (http://www.i-b-r.org/)
Conduct research on advanced open problems in mathematics, physics and biology with the assistance of experts. Publish research papers,review papers, theses, collection of articles, conference proceedings. Sponsored by the Institute for Basic Research.

Calculate Me (http://www.calculateme.com/)
Calculatiion utility page that does a large number of different types of conversions from currency exchange rates, weights, lengths, area, volume, temperatures, etc.

Calculators Online (http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html)
The site calculates it has more than 7,400 calculators available -- little programs to help you figure out about a million things. Subjects include: car and mortgage payment schedules, the cost of raising kids, poker odds, water and soil capacities, cooking measurements, navigation problems, astronomical predictions -- up to the most sophisticated engineering equations. You can, of course, plot your retirement income down to the amounts of the payments when you are 120 years old.

Equplus (http://equplus.net)
Site contains science and math equations. Equations available in TeX, MathML, png-image and MathType format.

Frank Potter's Science Gems (http://www.sciencegems.com/)

History of Science Museum in Florence, Italy (http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/)
In Italian and English.

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (http://www.inasp.info/)
The INASP Links section provides a quick-access guide to selected Web sites and Internet resources which will be of special interest to the library and information science communities, and to scientists and publishers in developing countries.

Measurements Converter (http://www.convert-me.com/en/) Does a fine job converting and comparing mathematical units with little confusion and no frames.

MegaConverter (http://www.megaconverter.com/Cv_start.htm)
Megaconverter is intended as a mathematical conversion resource. Options are disfigured by ill-functioning frames. If you have difficulty with this sight you might want to try the Measurements Converter mentioned above.

Metric and Imperial Converter Tool (http://www.theconvertersite.com/)
The metric and Imperial Conversion calculator.

Official Site of the Nobel Foundation (http://www.nobel.se)

Scientific Quotes (http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesScience.html)

U.S. Patent Office (http://www.uspto.gov/patft/)

Women-Related Web Sites in Science/Technology (http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_sci.html)

General Sciences Freely Available Databases

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (http://www.doaj.org) is hosted and maintained by Lund University Libraries and provides indexing and access to more than 4,000 open access journals, with 1,446 of those currently searchable at the article level. Content includes many areas of science, social sciences, and humanities, with medicine, biology, mathematics and ecology and environmental sciences are well represented.

Google Books (http://books.google.com) is a search engine tapping well beyond 7 million scholarly and popular books from all disciplines and time periods.

Google Scholar (http://scholar.goggle.com) is a search engine for scholarly literature, primarily peer-reviewed journal articles but also books, theses,abstracts, conference presentations, etc.

Highwire Press (http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl) is produces by the Stanford University Libraries, claims to be the largest archive of free full text science with almost 2 million articles available without subscription.

Ingenta Connect (http://http://www.ingentaconnect.com) is a large index of journal articles from more than 30,000 publications but also includes some books and the content is generally available from 1994 to the present. This provider chargers if you want to get the article through them but as a CSUN student or faculty you can always use the CSUN Interlibrary Loan system (https://illiad.csun.edu/illiad/login/login.asp) to get the article you want usually for free or at a much cheaper rate than Ingenta Connect can provide it to you for.

OAIster (http://www.oaister.org) is a union catalog of digital resources with more than 20 million records from almost 1,100 different contributors currently produces by the University of Michigan.

Science.gov (http://www.science.gov) is a gateway to government science information and research results. It seraches 38 scientific databases covering more than 1,950 scu=ientific websites identified by the U.S. government as having authoritative information.

Scirus (http://www.scirius.com) scientific search engine owned by Elsevier and has won a number of best of the web awards. Scirus has more than 450 million authoritative scientific items indexed to date and continues to grow rapidly. The advanced search feature offers many choices and limiters.

Scitopia.org (http://www.scitopia.org) searches the digital libraries of 21 leading science and technology professional societies. The large majority of the results are journal articles from journals published by the societies with a number of citations available full text. Results are clustered by topic, author and publication.

WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org) is a global catalog library holdings with more than 135 million bibliographic records representing more than 1.2 billion items from 10,000 plus libraries in 112 countries. It is produced by OCLC.

WorldWideScience.org (http://worldwidescience.org) is a global science gateway connecting users to national and international scientific databases and portals. The database includes information from 15 international member organizations.

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