| Physics_Today The flagship publication of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Provides feature articles, news stories, analyses, book and product reviews, a searchable job database, and obituaries. |
| Physics_org Searchable database of physics resources from the Institute of Physics which matches a person's question, age and knowledge profile to handpicked sites. Also includes the Physics Life animation. |
| PhysicsWeb Physics news, jobs, equipment buyer's guide, and events. |
| PhysLINK Links to physics departments, physical societies, journals, job information, and other physics related information. |
| Physnet___The_Physics_Departments_and_Documents_Network Serves information from physics departments and institutes worldwide: departmental information, locally stored documents, authoring tools, free access journals, jobs, conferences and education materi |
| PhysOrg_com Physics news, semiconductor technology news, space news and a scientific forum. |
| Usenet_Physics_FAQ sci.physics frequently asked questions with answers. |
| What_You_Want_To_Know_About_Physics Summarizes in simple language, without advanced mathematics, the foundations of physics. The index gives direct access to selected topics. |
| World_Year_of_Physics_2005 International effort to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Miraculous Year (1905) and raise public awareness of physics. |
| Scientific_American_-__Questions_That_Plague_Physics A conversation with Lawrence M. Krauss, chair of the physics department at Case Western Reserve University. [PDF] (August, 2004) |
| Physics_Today News, feature articles, reviews, obituaries, and other items from the monthly magazine for the physics community. [RSS] |
| About_Chemistry News articles, periodic tables, educational resources, newsletters, and annotated links. |
| Chemical_Forums Discussion boards for all areas of chemistry, at levels ranging from high school to graduate school and practicing chemists. Site also includes web directory, periodic table, articles, and reference t |
| CHEMINFO__Chemical_Information_Sources_from_Indiana_University Site designed to help people find and learn how to use chemical information resources on the Internet and elsewhere. Email discussion list available. |
| Molecule_of_the_Day Bloggish sort of site by a chemist who enjoys writing about the relationship between chemistry and real life to non-chemists. |
| Sci_Chem_FAQ A fairly comprehensive list of frequently asked questions and answers about chemistry and related topics. |
| Error_Analysis_in_the_Physical_Sciences A series of documents and exercises intended to discuss how an experimentalist in the physical sciences determines the errors in a measurement. The level is appropriate for beginning university stu |
| Expressing_Uncertainty_of_Measurement_Results From NIST website: Guidelines and perspectives (U.S. and international) on how to express uncertainties. |
| Lab_Notebooks How to record properly for easier reference. |
| A_J__Morris_Science_Review Reviews of published articles, books, and web sources for all fields of science. |
| Cambridge_Scientific_Abstracts Providing print and electronic research databases of citations and full text in the sciences. Site includes title list of databases, journals by subject, login scripts for webmasters, subscriber and g |
| Council_of_Science_Editors_(CSE) The Council of Science Editors (CSE) aims to improve communication in the sciences by educating authors, editors, and publishers. |
| E-print_Network An integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information. Included are pre-publication drafts of journal articles (preprints), scholarly papers, technical communications, |
| European_Association_of_Science_Editors_(EASE) An international organization providing science writers and editors with resources, links, newsletter, mailing lists, and networking. |
| European_Secretariat_for_Scientific_Publications SEPS operates as a link between universities, publishing houses and authors with the aim of promoting translation of scientific works in the various European languages to achieve a wide distribution o |
| Iasi_Politechnic_Magazine Features book and soft reviews covering a variety of topics, such as mathematics, biochemistry, food science, polymers and mechanical engineering. |
| Inspec Online database containing indexed abstracts for the published literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information |
| Open_Archives_Initiative Develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of e-prints and other electronic content, primarily in the sciences. |
| Scholars\'_Forum A New Model For Scholarly Communication - Caltech proposal for university-author-society run e-journal system for publishing science. With follow-up discussion. HTML/PDF. |
| The_Scientific_World Features SciBase, a fee-based database of 30 million articles published since 1965 in more than 30,000 journals. Also news, conferences, recent publications, and reference. |
| SpringerLink Information about scientific books and journals of the Springer publishing group, CD-ROM publications, software products, and catalogues, and online access (by subscription) to some contents. |
| Thomson_Scientific Maintains a large collection of bibliographic and indexing data for scientific literature and measures the impact and influence of published research. Most content requires an institutional subscripti |
| Virtual_Technical_Reports_Center A list of institutions providing full text or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports. |
| WSEAS_E-Library WSEAS conference papers from 1999 onwards. Index, abstracts free, payment required for full text (PDF). |
| Article_Sciences Scientific article search and order engine, a service provided by Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. |
| CiteSeer Search engine for computer science and related matters. For all results number of citations are given which allows to estimate the importance of a paper in a given context. Most of the papers are cach |
| ISI_Highly_Cited A search tool to identify individuals, departments and laboratories that have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology in recent decades. |
| iSpecies A species search engine from Rod Page of Glasgow University. Search on either the common or Latin name of a species. Results are generated by querying other data sources. |
| Online_Journals_Search_Engine A multi-search tool that permits queries of a number of scientific journals. |
| Scirus Search engine that fetches only scientific websites. |
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