Archive for Search Engines
January 10, 2010 · Filed under General Science, Science Databases, Search Engines
I came across these excellent 2010 calendars mentioned by Kevin Lindstrom on the SciEng@UBC Blog.
1. Every year the Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society publishes a wonderful calendar – the Colors of Chemistry. Starting in 2010 this calendar is now available either as a free download or as an online interactive calendar.
Go to 2010 Colors of Chemistry Calendar and choose your option.
2. Ron Simmer Patent and IP Expert has issued this Patex Bizarre Patents Calendar. Ron’s site of patent and intellectual property links available at the Patex website.
January 1, 2010 · Filed under General Science, Search Engines
From Wired magazine
Videos on: Climate Science, Physics, Anatomy & Physiology
January 1, 2010 · Filed under E-Books, Search Engines
CourseSmart, a new mobile application, offers over 7000 e-textbooks; each is fully searchable and available via mobile or online.
OpenCourseWare Finder helps students find free online courses, known as OpenCourseWares, or OCWs.
February 17, 2009 · Filed under Kinesiology, Neuroscience, Science Databases, Search Engines
Yale Image Finder
Search the actual image content of over 34,000 Open Access articles from PubMed Central.
December 27, 2008 · Filed under Kinesiology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Science Databases, Search Engines, Sports, Statistics
Every week for 9 years, Science’s NetWatch scoured the Internet for interesting scientific Web sites. You can look up reviews of the more than 1000 sites that have been highlighted between April 1998 and November 2007. The last regular NetWatch review was published on 2 November 2007, but occasional reviews continue to appear in the Random Samples section.
Science Podcasts: Science’s weekly podcast takes you on a tour of some interesting stories in the journal and on its sister sites. You can listen to these audiocasts on your own computer simply by clicking on the “Listen to MP3″ links on the podcast announcements. If you use a podcast aggregator like iTunes or Juice, you can subscribe to podcast feeds to automatically download the files for syncing to portable audio devices.
December 25, 2008 · Filed under Mathematics, Neuroscience, Science Databases, Search Engines, Sports, Statistics
The OpenCourseWare initiative is an effort to format course materials created by faculty and make them available on the internet to anyone who wants to use them – self-learners or educators.
Other Open Courses compiled on the Steacie Library home page.
December 25, 2008 · Filed under Science Databases, Search Engines
ibiblio is an Internet library, an archive, or depository of materials that are freely available for reuse. The material is contributed by anyone and is usable by anyone. ibiblio is a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
December 21, 2008 · Filed under Search Engines
Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 2 million digital items.
- Images – paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
- Texts – books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
- Sounds – music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
- Videos – films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe’s
- museums and galleries
- archives
- libraries
- audio-visual collections
The content comes from Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library in London and the Louvre in Paris. The complete list of organizations is also available.
