The American Chemical Society holds 2 national meeting each years. This Web page provides access to the abstracts of the technical programs from 1998 forward. Each meeting is searchable by keywords, or may be browsed by division, committee, or event. This is also available in paper format in the Science Library: Books of Abstracts - ACS National Meeting [QD 1 A 513].
Produced by BIOSIS, BiologyBrowser provides links to a large collection of life sciences information. It can be browsed or searched by organism, subject, or geography; or the entire site can be searched.
This Web site presents news from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). News items are organized into several categories including bird flu, global health, emerging and recurring disease, food and agriculture, bioethics, genomics, stem cells, and regulation.
Beginning with a thorough overview that chronicles the transition of mathematics scholarly communications from paper to electronic, the bulk of this guide describes the most important resources for mathematics and statistics. The sources are grouped by type of material, covering bibliographic resources; finding tools; selected journals; dictionaries and encyclopedias; tables, handbooks, manuals, guides; directories and department guides; biographical and historical materials; mathematics books for science collections; collected and selected works, digital collections; monographic series; major societies and publishers; and additional resources for mathematics librarianship. Most of the cited resources are annotated; some have very detailed explanations. A combined author/title index provides access to the contents. This book is located in the Science Library at Science REF QA 41.7 T83 2004.
Xreferplus offers several online dictionaries in its Science and Technology sections.
The Technology section contains:
Collins Dictionary of Computing
Compact American Dictionary of Computer Words
Dictionary of Communications Technology: Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations
Dictionary of Multimedia and Internet Applications: A Guide for Developers and Users
Dictionary of Personal Computing and the Internet
Focal Dictionary of Telecommunications
Hargrave's Communications Dictionary
Webster's New World Computer Dictionary
The Science section contains:
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Collins Dictionary of Astronomy
Collins Dictionary of Biology
Dictionary of Astronomy
Dictionary of Developmental Biology and Embryology
Illustrated Dictionary of Science
The Macquarie Dictionary of Trees & Shrubs
The New Penguin Dictionary of Science
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics
The Penguin Dictionary of Physics
The dictionaries may be searched together or separately at the links above.
Covering cybernetics and systems theory, this dictionary is a combination of three dictionaries. Each dictionary may be viewed separately. Concise definitions and the contributor are provided.
Slashdot's landing page provides some of the latest technology news with links to comments. The news stories are also organized in several categories such as television, communications, security, math, Windows, Apple, BSD, games, developers, and hardware. There is also a book review section, and the site is fully searchable.
I came across this book the other day when I saw a blurb about a new edition. The first edition, published in 1997, is an excellent guide for writing papers, articles, and technical reports in computer science. It begins with the basics of good writing in general, and then deals with specifics of conventions used in computer science and mathematics. There are chapters on graphs, figures, and tables; algorithms, hypotheses and experiments; editing; refeeing; and presentation of short talks. It has a good index and a list of sources for additional help. It can be found in the Science Library circulating book collection: T 11 Z62 1997.
InfoTherm contains property data of nearly 7,000 pure compounds and over 26,000 mixtures, including over 171,000 tables of PVT properties, phase equilibria, transport and surface properties, caloric properties, and acoustic and optical properties.
This site is a directory for computer technology and related tutorials as well as other computing resources. It provides dynamic user ratings and hit counts to all of its links. The tutorials and resources are divided into the following categories: applications, basic/general, databases, e-commerce, hardware, Internet issues, IT management, networking, operating systems, programming, servers, and webmaster.
The Computer Technology Documentation Project contains tutorials from computer basics to advanced topics. Tutorials on Windows, Linux, Web programming, HTML, XML, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, networking, security, servers, computer hardware, UML, and extreme programming are included.
From the Caltech Library System, this Web page lists several resources for finding solubility information. (Please note that beginning with volume 66, publications in the IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series have been appearing in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data.)
This Web page, from the American Mathematical Society, lists and links to academic mathematics departments around the world. It is arranged by country and institution.
After detailing how engineers use information in Chapter 1, the author lists and describes over 1,600 key print and online resources for all engineering fields, including bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, and materials engineering. The resources are arranged by type of publication; information access tools, journals, grey literature, handbooks, buyer's guides, standards and specifications, and associations are among those that are covered. Access is provided by an author/title index. This book is available in the Science Library: REF T 10.7 l67 2000.
Published by the American Chemical Society, this searchable version of the Directory of Graduate Education is available online. Its upgraded interface and functionality allow advanced searches of both institutions and faculty. A printed version is available in the Science Library Reference collection [QD 40 D57X].
Want to know when the Fax machine was invented? This book can answer this and other questions. Subtitled, All the Milestones in Ingenuity--from the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven, the author lists and describes many important inventions, innovations, and discoveries. Arranged alphabetically within time periods, from the Ancient World to the 21st Century. A subject index makes it easy to use. It is available in in the Science Library; call number: Ref T 15 C378 2004. By the way, Fax was conceptualized by Alexander Bain in 1842 and invented in 1904 by Arthur Korn.
This Web site is an archive for the following Internet documents: RFCs (requests for comments), STD (standards), FYI (for your information), and BCP (best current practices). Searchable by keyword or document number, the archives may also be browsed by several indexes. All documents are freely available.
After defining standards, this Web site from Monash University Library goes on to list and describe some the most important international standardization organizations for computing, electronics, and information technologies. The descriptions include links to the organization’s Web site, and directions on locating and accessing their standards.
Techstreet provides access to standards and codes from over 350 standards organizations. Covering a wide range of industries, including electronics and information technology, this fee-based service delivers documents either by subscription or by individual document. Some of the standards organizations represented are the Electronics Industry Alliance, the IEEE, the International Organization for Standardization, and the International Committee for Information Technology Standards. Standards can be searched by keyword, title, ISBN, and document number.
Arranged taxonomically, Beacham's contains data, habitats, and ecosystems of more than 1,200 endangered species. Each entry includes introductory and summary information, an image, distribution, threats, conservation and recovery efforts, and references.
Semantics with Applications: A Formal Introduction was selected as the Electronic Book of the Month. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive was updated.
Each week FreshPatents.com lists the latest published U.S. patent applications under review by the USPTO. Innovative services include keyword monitoring, RSS/XML feeds, and browsing by location. This service is free, but registration is required.
This encyclopeida covers deserts and semideserts of the world. There are early 700 entries on topics from desert survival to the way deserts are formed.
This encyclopedia "presents current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical practices, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda, and osteopathy."
The Encyclopedia of Public Heath covers a range of topics such as "environmental health, drug abuse, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics, and diseases. Includes overviews, definitions, and biographical entries."
The dog genome, which was sequenced by the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, is available at this National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Web site and mirrored at other sites around the world. Other dog genetics resources are also available.
Submitted by Sue Kaczor.
The UA Science Library has established a "Popular Science Browsing Collection" in the library's first floor Current Periodicals Room. Keep up with new trends, controversies, and frontiers in the sciences. The browsing collection contains popular or semi-technical discussions of scientific and technological concepts so that you can get facts that you can use in language that is vivid and understandable. Titles include several works of such renowned and proflific writers as Isaac Asimov, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and others. There are special mini-displays on the works of Gould, Women in Science, and the "Science Wars." Suggestions for other books to include are welcome. All books circulate to UA library users.
Submitted by Gregg Sapp
EqWorld covers some the most important mathematical equations and solutions in science. It contains information on algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, integral equations, and functional equations.
The 286 signed articles are organized into four topic areas: foundations (ideas and people), software and hardware, social applications, and the electronic universe. This encyclopedia also includes illustrations, sidebars, definitions, cross-references, bibliographies, Internet resources, and timelines.
The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy contains over 250 illustrated articles, covering all topics in the field of energy. It also includes biographies.
Access the full text of the second edition (2004) of Grzimek's. This encyclopedia contains revised information as well as recent developments in the animal world.
The third edition (2003) of the Environmental Encyclopedia "provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues. The articles are written in a nontechnical style and furnish current status, analysis, and suggested solutions whenever possible."
This Web site provides access to free online books and technical tutorials. Cisco, Windows, Linux, HTML, XML, programming, Oracle, software engineering, and other topics are included.
The Journal of Medical Practice Management offers podcasts of some its content.
This Web site, developed by economists Theodore Bergstrom and R. Preston McAfee, rates the cost-effectiveness of journals by computing their price per article and price per citation.
This encyclopedic work covers the medicinal uses for plants from around the world. It includes illustrations and descriptions of each plant, all of which are cross-referenced. It also contains the plant's chemical constituents and usage. Medicinal Plants of the World is available online from NetLibrary.
Michael Knee