Friday, September 12, 2008

other useful sources

MethodsBASE
http://www.methodsbase.com

Chemical structures, reactions, & publications
http://www.beilstein/com/products/xfire

Chemical literature.

http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR
Mathematics literature
http://zb.msri.org/ ZMATH/
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet

Free Information Tools for Chemists, Physicists, and Mathematicians

PubSCIENCE
http://pubsci.osti.gov/
Bibliographic database with abstracts (and some full text) from peer-reviewed journal articles in physics and chemistry. Provided by the DOE.
PrePRINT Network
http://www.osti.gov/ preprints/
Gateway to hundreds of preprint sites and servers, most of which are located on university web sites. The PrePRINT Network allows the user to search for full text math, chemistry, physics, biology, and environmental and materials science articles before they have been published. Provided by the DOE.
DOE Information Bridge
http://www.osti.gov/ bridge/
Full-text access to reports from the DOE from 1995 forward.
Energy Citations Database
http://www.osti.gov/ energycitations/
In addition to environmental science (see Table 4), this database covers mathematics, chemistry, physics, materials science, engineering, and computer science. Provided by the DOE.
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/
A preprint archive that resides at Cornell University and is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. ArXiv contains pre-publication full text of articles in the areas of physics, mathematics, and computer science.
NASA Technical Report Servers
http://techreports.larc. nasa.gov/cgi-bin/NTRS
Citations, abstracts, and in some cases full text of unclassified technical reports from NASA programs (Johnson, Golden, & Norrisey, 2000).

Free Resources for Agricultural and Environmental Studies

Database URL Description
AGRICOLA
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ ag98/
Database of journal articles about plant biology, animal sciences, nutrition, agriculture, and environmental studies provided by the National Agricultural Library (2001).
Plants National Database
http://plants.usda.gov/
Database of information about plant research, classification, phylogeny, as well as many plant images from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Johnson, Golden, & Norrisey, 2000).
National Climatic Data Center
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/ oa/ncdc.html
A repository of global and historical climatic information provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Energy Citations Database
http://www.osti.gov/ energycitations/
Bibliographic citations for reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, patents, books, and dissertations of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE) as well as scientific and technical information from the DOE and its predecessor agencies from 1948 to present. The database covers environmental science, geology, climatology, oceanography, mathematics, chemistry, physics, materials science, engineering, and computer science.

Free databases biology

Researchers Database URL Description BLAST
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ BLAST/
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. BLAST allows scientist to search all available sequence databases to find genes similar to any given DNA or protein sequence.
Entrez Nucleotide
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ entrez/query.fcgi?db=Nucleotide
Database of genetic sequences from GenBank, RefSeq, and the Protein Databank.
Entrez Protein
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ entrez/query.fcgi?db=Protein
Database of protein sequences compiled from several databases.
Entrez Structure
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ entrez/query.fcgi?db=Structure
Database of three-dimensional structures of proteins, DNA, and RNA.
Entrez Genome
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ entrez/query.fcgi?db=Genome
Database containing the sequences of all of the genes of over 800 organisms.