Saturday, July 21, 2007

MathWorld

MathWorld
Science & Technology: Mathematics

MathWorld
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
MathWorld is the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
Information about this site was taken directly from the MathWorld website. More information about this site can be found at http://mathworld.wolfram.com.

About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products

About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
Science & Technology: Health Sciences

About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm
This site provides objective information for oncologists and healthcare professionals, including a clinical summary for each agent and details about constituents, adverse effects, interactions, and potential benefits or problems. Evaluations of alternative or unproved cancer therapies, as well as products for sexual dysfunction are included. Our Integrative Medicine Service staff, led by an oncology-trained pharmacist and botanicals expert, manages this web site, which is continually updated as new information becomes available.
A consumer version of each monograph also is available to help you deal with the often confusing claims made for over-the-counter products and regimens. It is important to ask your doctor or another qualified professional about possible interactions with your specific medications before taking any supplements.

Information about this site was taken directly from the About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products website.

ClinicalTrials.gov

ClinicalTrials.gov
Science & Technology: Health Sciences

ClinicalTrials.gov
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/
ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. A clinical trial (also clinical research) is a research study in human volunteers to answer specific health questions. Interventional trials determine whether experimental treatments or new ways of using known therapies are safe and effective under controlled environments. Observational trials address health issues in large groups of people or populations in natural settings.

Information about this site was taken directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov website.

PlantFacts

PlantFacts
Science & Technology: Botany

PlantFacts
http://plantfacts.osu.edu/
PlantFacts has merged several digital collections developed at Ohio State University to become an international knowledge bank and multimedia learning center.

Web - Internet search engine - Most concentrated search engine dealing strictly with plants. Over 260,000 pages of information from every land-grant university in the U.S. and several government institutions across Canada. Also includes academic information about college degree programs, requirements, scholarships, career opportunities, research projects, and online courses.

Images - (formerly Plant Dictionary) - A searchable database of high quality images featuring Ornamental plants, Turf, Plant Diseases, and Insects.

Videos - Collection of 200 short gardening how-to videos, ranging from tips on basic landscaping to lessons on deadheading roses. Hosted by Tom McNutt, gardening expert for NBC4 in Columbus.

FAQ's - Illustrated answers to over 800 commonly asked Gardening Questions, ranging from when to plant annuals to watering large shade trees.

Glossary - Illustrated definitions of commonly used horticultural terms.

Information about this site was taken directly from the PlantFacts website.

Astrobiology Magazine

Astrobiology Magazine
Science & Technology: Astronautics & Astronomy

Astrobiology Magazine
http://www.astrobio.net/
The Mars Edition of the Astrobiology Magazine, (mars.astrobio.net) is now the leading referenced website on Life on Mars, based on the number of external websites linking into it (or Google Page Rank). The rankings on google directory rate the relative popularity based on incoming links from external, third-party sites. The magazine has integrated an extensive Astrobiology and Space Calendar, including more than 10,000 events categorized by interest and spanning 2001-2004.

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Imperial War Museum Collections On-line

Imperial War Museum Collections On-line
Reference: Social & Behavioral Sciences

Imperial War Museum Collections On-line
http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/
Collections Online offers access to material covering all aspects of twentieth century conflict. The site now includes detailed catalogue information for over 160,000 items from the Imperial War Museum's collecting departmentsYou can also view images of over 30,000 highlights from the collection, including photographs, works of art, aircraft, vehicles and objects, and listen to selected 'soundbites' from the Sound Archive.Collections Online is a valuable resource for all - commercial users, academics, researchers and people interested in learning more about their family history.

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HigherEdJobs.com

HigherEdJobs.com
Reference: Social & Behavioral Sciences

HigherEdJobs.com
http://www.higheredjobs.com/
HigherEdJobs.com was founded in 1996 to list open positions at colleges and universities. Today, HigherEdJobs.com has one of the largest job databases focused exclusively on college and university positions. While some employment web sites list open positions in every industry, HigherEdJobs.com concentrates on open positions in higher education. Our goal is to provide a recruitment tool that adds value to the job seeker and recruiter by providing cost-effective, innovative, useful, and timely services in all areas of the site.

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Digital Library of the Commons

Digital Library of the Commons
Reference: Social & Behavioral Sciences

Digital Library of the Commons
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/about.html
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) provides free access to an archive of international literature on the commons, common-pool resources and common property. Features for authors and readers include advanced searching; browsing by region, sector, and author name; an author submission portal for uploading a variety of document formats; and a service that uses email to alert subscribers to new documents in their area of interest.

Description provided by the Digital Library of the Commons website.

New York Metropolitan Flora Project

New York Metropolitan Flora Project
Reference: Science & Technology

New York Metropolitan Flora Project
http://www.bbg.org/sci/nymf/
In 1990 the Garden embarked on the New York Metropolitan Flora project (NYMF), a multi-year effort to document the flora in all counties within a 50-mile radius of New York City, including all of Long Island, southeastern New York State, northern New Jersey and Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Understanding the urban landscape is critical in our rapidly urbanizing world. Findings of BBG's Metropolitan Flora Project serve as vital references for those involved in environmental efforts, from preserving rare plants, to planning parks and greenways, to repairing degraded habitats, to designing home gardens in which native plant communities are preserved or restored.

Description provided by the New York Metropolitan Flora Project
website.

Medline Plus: Men’s Health Topics

Medline Plus: Men’s Health Topics
Reference: Science & Technology

Medline Plus: Men’s Health Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/menshealth.html
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/] - In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial staff, with the continued support of the association, spent five years transcribing and annotating Lincoln's papers. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln represented the first major scholarly effort to collect and publish the complete writings of Abraham Lincoln, and the edition has remained an invaluable resource to Lincoln scholars. Through the efforts of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the edition is now available in electronic form.

The Collection may be searched by simple words or phrases, Boolean searches, proximity searches, and word index to find the occurence of unique words.

The information in this post is provided by the hosting website of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Reference: General

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalogabt.html
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.

Description provided by the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog website.

Jewish Women's Archive

Jewish Women's Archive
Social & Behavioral Sciences: North America

Jewish Women’s Archive
http://www.jwa.org/
The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich history of American Jewish women.
Since its founding in 1995, the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) has been developing innovative formats and collaborative partnerships to transmit the rich history of American Jewish women and their accomplishments to a broad public. JWA seeks to make known the contributions of outstanding Jewish women of achievement as well as the profound, but often unacknowledged impact Jewish women have had within their local communities. One of the first organizations in the Jewish community to recognize and invest in the potential of the internet for academic, cultural, archival, and educational purposes, JWA continues to innovate in its use of technology to convey and provide access to Jewish women's stories on its website.
The Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is for scholars, for activists, for mothers and daughters, for fathers and sons, for researchers, historians, and for all who believe that everyone with a stake in history is a keeper of it and a partner in its transmission.
Description provided by the Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) website.

The Disability and Independent Living Movement

The Disability and Independent Living Movement
Social & Behavioral Sciences:

The Disability and Independent Living Movement
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/
The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Project was launched in 1996 to capture the history of a remarkable movement by people with disabilities to win legally defined civil rights and control over their own lives. Since then, more than 100 oral histories with leaders, participants, and observers of the movement in the 1960s and 1970s have preserved the living memory of the movement. A rich collection of personal papers and the records of key disability organizations join the oral histories in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, comprising an in-depth research resource for the study of a contemporary social movement which has changed the social, cultural, and legal landscape of the nation.
Information about this site was taken directly from the Disability and Independent Living Movement website. More information about this website can be found at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/

NOAA Paleoclimatology

NOAA Paleoclimatology
Science & Technology: Earth Science

NOAA Paleoclimatology
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
The National Climatic Data Center's Paleoclimatology Branch is the world's largest archive of climate and paleoclimate data. The Paleoclimatology Branch operates the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, an Applied Research Center for Paleoclimatology, and partners with national and international science initiatives around the world to expand the use of paleoclimatic data.

Information about this site was taken directly from the NOAA Paleoclimatology website. More information about this website can be found at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html.

Avibase

Avibase
Science & Technology: Zoology

Avibase
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp
Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 3.5 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more. This site is managed by Denis Lepage and hosted by Bird Studies Canada, the Canadian copartner of Birdlife International. Avibase has been a work in progress since 1992 and I am now pleased to offer it as a service to the bird-watching and scientific community. Information about this site was taken directly from the Avibase website. More information about this website can be found at http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp

Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Science

Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Science
Science & Technology: Botany

Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Science
http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/
The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the world's top botanical research and conservation institutions. The Garden's dozens of Ph.D. researchers work to strengthen scientific expertise in developing countries to protect and manage biodiversity before it's too late. With close to half the world's plants facing extinction, and less than one in six yet studied for potential benefits to humans, it's a race we must win.

Information about this site was taken directly from the Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Science website. More information about this website can be found at http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/.

Science.gov

Science.gov
Science & Technology:

Science.gov
http://www.science.gov/
Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results. Currently in its fourth generation, Science.gov provides search of more than 50 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 1,800 scientific Web sites.

Information about this site was taken directly from the Science.gov website. More information about this website can be found at http://www.science.gov/.

Digital Quaker Collection

Digital Quaker Collection
Humanities: Religion

Digital Quaker Collection
http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc
DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The proprietary software developed for Earlham School of Religion provides multiple search functions and an interface for viewing pages.

Information about this site was taken directly from the Digital Quaker Collection website. More information about this website can be found at http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc.

Counterbalance Interactive Library

Counterbalance Interactive Library
Humanities: Religion

Counterbalance Interactive Library
http://www.counterbalance.net/stdweb/home-body.html
The Counterbalance Interactive Library offers new views on complex issues from science, ethics, philosophy, and religion. You'll find extensive resources on the evolution/creation controversy, biomedical ethical challenges, and much more.

Information about this site was taken directly from the Counterbalance Interactive Library. More information about this website can be found at http://www.counterbalance.net/stdweb/home-body.html.

The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture

The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
Reference: Social & Behavioral Sciences

The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/
The on-line edition of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture is a joint project of the Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. This fully searchable version of the print edition, originally published in 1998, contains over 1,500 entries. The online version has updates to existing entries, new entries, more than five hundred additional images, plus audio and video files. This site is designed to supply general information about the state of Tennessee in a user-friendly format for students, teachers, researchers, and general information seekers.

Description provided by The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture website.

Forced Migration

Forced Migration
Reference: Social & Behavioral Sciences

Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org/
Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users. We have prepared an introductory guide to forced migration for visitors who are new to the subject.
FMO and the Digital Library Project were funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the European Commission between 1997 and 2004. Since January 2005, FMO has been funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).

Description provided by the Forced Migration Online website.