Just sent off the April 2004 column for Computer Bits which goes into long and gory (but less long and gory than it had been) detail on kewl-ish Web sites I came across at AAAS in Seattle over the Presidents' Day weekend.

Amazing stuff out there.

OSTI, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information: http://www.osti.gov -- deep Web stuff
Science.gov: http://www.science.gov - access to over 1,700 government information resources
National Academies: http://www.nationalacademies.org) - publications and Web pages produced by the academies
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): http://www.nist.gov
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at Hanford: http://www.pnl.gov
EurekAlert: http://www.eurekalert.org - cutting edge science news
SCIRUS: http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ a science-specific search engine
Public Library of Science: http://plos.org - an interesting concept. Hope it works.
the Sheffield Chemdex: http://www.chemdex.org - over 7K chemistry links
ChemWeb.com: http://www.chemweb.com - "the largest online chemical community in the world"
US Geological Survey (USGS)' "Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources": http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/index.htm - used to be available as two thick volumes of data. Now? ... it's all there on the Web. Download as PDF files.
USGS: http://www.usgs.gov/ - all hail the USGS
USGS' publications warehouse: http://infotrek.er.usgs.gov/pubs/ - to buy or download for free
USGS' national map: http://nationalmap.usgs.gov - more cool technology
USGS' earthquake info: http://earthquake.usgs.gov - real time earthshaking info
USGS' Advanced National Seismic Survey: http://www.anss.org/
Earthquakes in Oregon: http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/oregon/
National Library of Medicine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi - awash with useful information
PubMedCentral: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ - an archive of life sciences journal articles provided free online
MedLinePlus's drug information online: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
UC's BioTech programs: http://ucbiotech.org
Genome information: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/posters/chromosome
DOE's Genome programs: http://doegenomes.org
Human Gene Therapy, the magazine: http://www.liebertpub.com/hum/default1.asp
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, the magazine: http://www.biosecurityjournal.com/
Annals of Improbable Research: http://improbable.com

More info available when the April column goes up at the Computer Bits site, sometime after the beginning of April.



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