Scientific/Research

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• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

• American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM) - technical standards for industries worldwide with links to training courses, quality assurance programs, Lab Directory, Consultants Directory and more.

• Becoming a Scientist - from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, prominent biomedical researchers discuss qualtities they believe are needed for success in the biomedical research field.

• The British Library's "Turning the Pages" Project - Visit the Online Gallery to "Turn" the pages of virtual books on world cultures, science, and history in this interactive display system. Titles include Jane Austen's early work; William Blake's Notebook; Lewis Carroll's Original Alice; Leonardo da Vinci's personal notebook, c1508; Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, 1737.

• Community of Science (COS) Expertise Database | About - detailed professional information including affiliation, area of expertise, publications, and contact information for over 480,000 researchers worldwide. COS registration is required for use. From the menu bar at the top of the COS main page, click on "Join," then the "Join" button on the following page. Type in required information, being sure to select "National Institutes of Health (NIH)" as your institution, then "Continue". (NIH/NCIF)

• CRISP System - As of September 1, 2009, the CRISP system has been replaced by the RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool. See NIH RePORTER link below.

• Decades of Discovery - describes 100 important discoveries in biological & environmental research, energy sciences, nuclear and plasma physics, & advanced physics research. Discoveries selected from work supported during the past 25 years by the Office of Science at the U.S. Dept. of Energy.

• Einstein Archives Online - features writings, scholarship, thoughts of Albert Einstein.

• "Electronic, Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications" - a Symposium Report from the National Research Council, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, exploring implications of changes in all aspects of research publishing.

• The Globus Alliance - their goal: to "revolutionize the way we think about computation, and the applications that could be constructed if access to supercomputers, live satellite imagery, and mass storage were as straightforward as access to the Web." Activities include research, testbeds software tools, and applications.

• Knowing How to Practice Safe Science - from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's laboratory-safety office, useful as an orientation for new employees, the site covers topics such as proper washing of laboratory glassware and handling of blood products.

• Landolt-Bornstein Substance and Physical Property Indexes - lists substances and properties reported on in the indexed Landolt-Bornstein volumes. 160,000 organic and inorganic compounds are described.

• NIH RePORTER- As of September 1, 2009, the CRISP system has been replaced by the RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool. This new tool retains all of the features of CRISP while providing additional query fields, hit lists that can be sorted and downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). RePORTER also provides links to PubMed Central, PubMed, and the US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database for more information on research results. New features will be added to RePORTER in several releases throughout fiscal year 2010.

• National Academy of Sciences' InterViews - features 60 min long, first-person acounts of the lives and work of NAS members.

• National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) - supported by the National Science Foundation, this partnership of nanotechnology user facilities provides opportunities for nanoscience and nanotechnology research.

• National Science Digital Library - supported by the National Science Foundation, a source for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Portal designed to be a digital library of science resource collections and services, with over 250,000 records.

• NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty

• Nobel Prizes - Nobel Prize winners. Press releases are available in several languages including English, French, Swedish and German.

• NOVA: Secret of Photo 51 - profiles scientist Rosalind Franklin, whose scientific work enabled Watson & Crick to discover the structure of DNA.

• Office of NIH History - The Office of NIH History works with all NIH components to foster documentation, preservation, and interpretation of the history of NIH.

• Peer Review Policies & Procedures - from NIH; also, NIH Center for Scientific Review and Nature's Peer Review Debate articles.

• Population Reference Bureau - U.S. population issues, trends, and statistics.

• Profiles in Science - from the National Library of Medicine, major achievements of the twentieth century in the form of donated archival collections of prominent biomedical scientists. Current collections include Joshua Lederberg, Oswald Avery, Barbara McClintock, and Linus Pauling.

• Research & Development Budget and Policy Program - U.S. federal investment in R&D information with up-to-date information on budget debates. See also State R&D profiles of the impact of federal R& D funding on states.

• Resources for the Development of Early-Career Scientists - from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, lab management resources to help new scientists "make the right moves".

• Science.gov - from an alliance of 14 scientific and technical information organizations from 10 major federal science agencies, a one-stop gateway to information about science and technology.

• Science & Technology Timelines - From Galileo to the Human Genome Project, this site provides an interesting look at a chronology of historical events.

• Science Careers - from the journal, Science, connections to clinical trials; open forums for discussion of career topics; Science Professional Network; features on alternative science careers, grants information, and others. Some sections free, others require subscription fee.

• Scientific, Medical, General Proofreading, and Editing - free newsletter from San Francisco Edit contains tips and techniques for improving medical and scientific writing. Features list of links to Tips.

• SCIRUS - from Elsevier Science, information search engine for searching scientific, technical, and medical information sources.

• Sense About Science - independent charitable trust promoting science and evidence in public debates, using an evidence-based approach to scientific issues. Includes the misrepresentation of science and scientific evidence on societal issues, from scares about plastic bottles, fluoride and the MMR vaccine to controversies about genetic modification, stem cell research and radiation. Of Note: section on Peer Review.

• spectroscopyNOW - from Wiley Publishing, a spectroscopy portal designed to be an interactive community forum. Free, but requires individual registration.

• Unwinding DNA: Life at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - learn about genetics research.

• WorldWide Scientific Meetings - the Scientific Library's resource page of scientific meetings and conferences held in the U.S. and throughout the world with links to meetings of other scientific organizations.