Student Resources
These resources provide articles, information, and search aids.
Student Assigments (PDFs)
- http://www.eurekalert.org
- http://www.sciencedaily.com
- http://www.livescience.com
- http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/
Helpful Sites
- http://www.wolframalpha.com Amazing computational knowledge base
- http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/ All topics! Check it out!
- http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html Good statistics tutorial
- http://www.eol.org/ Encyclopedia of life
- www.sciencedictionary.org Dictionary
- www.thesciencedictionary.com/
- http://dictionary.reference.com/ http://www.hyperdictionary.com/ Includes a medical dictionary
- http://www.all-acronyms.com/ Acronym dictionary
- http://www.khanacademy.org/ Video tutorials about just about anything!
- http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Good resource for understanding how things work
Meta Search Engines
- http://www.dogpile.com
- http://www.metacrawler.com
- http://www.alltheweb.com
- http://www.mamma.com
- http://www.snap.com
- All Topics http://www.nyas.org Great resource from the New York Academy of Science
- http://www.pnas.org Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, free articles
- http://www.mendeley.com/ More than just a data base!
- www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb A number of free access full-text articles from e-journals
- http://academiccommons.columbia.edu Full-text articles by Columbia faculty and students
- http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/index Great resource
- http://www.scholar.google.com Good to search for scientific articles
- www.scitopia.org
- http://science-advisor.net/
- http://worldwidescience.org/ Global Science Gateway
- http://www.mynetresearch.com/ Research Network
- http://www.researchgate.net/ Join for free to get articles
- http://www.scirus.com?b Comprehensive science research tool (Highly recommended)
- http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/reference/borrowers/residents.htm Public Library, need to be 18 to gain access (ask your Mom or Dad to join!!)
- http://www.plos.org/ Free Online Journals
- http://ojose.com/ Online journal search engine
- http://highwire.Stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl Free articles http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ Science Library & Search Engine http://www.ipl.org/div/askus Ask questions get detailed answers from a research librarian http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/ Comprehensive Library of All Subjects
- Botany http://www.e-journals.org/botany/ http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=sciencelibraries&pageid=icb.page179035 http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.botany.org/
Medicine and Health
- http://freebooks4doctors.com Amazing resource!!
- freemedicaljournals.com flyingpublisher.com
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/ Environment related health issues - amedeo.com
- http://www.virologyj.com Open access virology articles
- http://www.pubmed.gov
- http://www.genome.gov/ The human genome project
- http://www.highwire.org
- http://pmj.bmj.com/ Make an account for access to articles prior to 2006
- www.sciencegenomics.org Genomics
- http://www.jneurosci.org/ Neuroscience
- http://www.biomedcentral.com/ Open access articles, Gateways, Links to Chemistry, Physics & Math open access articles http://www.nih.gov/ National Institute of Health http://www.croetweb.com/ Occupational & Environmental toxicology Biology
- http://www.nature.com/scitable Great source for info and some full-text articles
- http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ Genetics tutorial
Psychology and Social Sciences
- http://www.psycline.org/journals/infosearch.php3?searchstring=ejournal http://www.ispp.org/
- http://www.div12.org/ http://www.psychtests.com/
- http://www.organizedwisdom.com/WisdomCard_Directory
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/index_surveys.shtml Chemistry
- http://www.chemicalelements.com/show/mass.html
- http://www.med.wayne.edu/news_media/streamingmedia/curriculum/GradPrograms/PYC_7010
- IBS_7050/index.asp http://www.fightbac.org/
Space Science
- http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/ Great space research resource
Physics and Engineering
- http://www.arxiv.org/ Full text:physics, computer science, mathematics, etc.
- http://www.cra.org/ http://www.science-engineering.net/ http://www.globalspec.com/ http://www.delphion.com/simple