Towse: views from the hill

March 4, 2004

Computer Bits April 2004 — Web sites from AAAS in Seattle

Filed under: Uncategorized — Towse @ 3:30 am

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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