In 1906, the first edition of The Chicago Manual of Style was published by the University of Chicago. Over the past one hundred years, the Manual has been revised and edited fourteen times, and is now in its fifteenth edition. On this site, visitors may register for free and gain access to the search tool for this latest edition. While this feature is certainly helpful, there are a number of equally useful aspects of the site. The first is the area that gives a number of examples of Chicago-style documentation, such as the humanities style and the well-known author-date system. Equally helpful is the "Q&A" section where the editors answer such timely questions as "If someone has a PhD and is a professor at a university, is their title Doctor or Professor?"

This is a web site (still under construction) for young students - and anyone else - who are (like me) thrilled by the challenges posed by real science, and who are - like me - determined to use their brains to discover new things about the physical world that we are living in. In short, it is for all those who decided to study theoretical physics, in their own time.

AZoNano.com is a nanotechnology information source for the science, engineering and design community worldwide. It intends to provide user community with up-to-date information on Nanotechnology. It provides access to educational and informative articles, information about nano materials and applications, news about research and development, product information and an expert directory. It has an easy to use search interface. Access to the contents is free.

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is a multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources at Bielefeld University, provided and developed by the Bielefeld University Library, Germany. It provides integrated access to distributed digital collections of various type and formats such as digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals etc. The collection consists of selected scholarly academic online resources from all disciplines. It includes several internet resources of the "deep web", that are not indexed by commercial search engines. The search interface is easy to use and it has advanced refining options. The search results are displayed as bibliographic data and full text hits.

Titled 'How engineers create technology', this website supplements the book 'Engineering -- An Endless Frontier' by Sunny Auyang, published by Harvard University Press. It contains information about the characteristics of engineering and its relations to science and business. The site explains the underlying principles of engineering in a series of illustrated articles. The issues discussed include structures of engineering; history of engineering; meanings of technology; ten branches of engineering; engineers: profession and education; research and development; controversial concepts in technology. A bibliography of useful publications is also included.

"FreeMat is a free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB from Mathworks, and IDL from Research Systems, but is Open Source. FreeMat includes several novel features such as a codeless interface to external C/C++/FORTRAN code, parallel/distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and plotting and visualization capabilities. FreeMat is available under an MIT-type license. Supported platforms include Linux, Windows and Mac OS X". Documentation, help, download links are available at the website. A comparison with MATLAB has been included under the documentaion section.

FreePCB is a free, open-source printed circuit board layout editor for Microsoft Windows, released under the GNU General Public License. It has been designed with an easy to learn and easy to use approach with capability of professional-quality work. The details of its features, download links and user guide are available at this website.

This site contains a lists of online computer science books and lecture notes, all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet. The books listed here are grouped under broad subject headings. Popular books and new books are listed seperately. The site provides bibliographic details, book reveiw/book excerpts and link to view/download the fulltext.

IT Backbones is an innovative network of websites that spans the global IT industry to provide latest news and vital sourcing information. This resource provides white papers and news covering the IT sector. IT Backbones provides a range of dedicated websites to cover different aspects of the IT sector and offers advice and information on various aspects ranging from computer hardware, to repair and rentals, buying and selling. The site caters to the information needs of all levels of computer user from novice to expert.

Since its inception, the Microsoft Research has developed into a unique entity among corporate research labs, with an open academic model and an effective technology transfer for product development. Microsoft envisions a seamless computing environment wherein a "unified interface moves transparently between smart devices, software and systems that people use, forming a connected and unified system that works on their behalf and under their control". Working towards these goals, its current research projects range from inventing more intuitive and productive ways of interacting with computers to improving programming languages, enhancing software development tools and applying sophisticated mathematical theories to the computational challenges. This website gives details of the research activities, worldwide labs, news and publications.

The SCATMECH software has been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), US. As part of the research work on polarization of light, extensive amount of software was developed to evaluate different theoretical models for light scattering. NIST through this website, offers library of models so far developed for free use. "The SCATMECH library consists of a set of C++ object classes which allow programmers to manipulate polarimetric quantities. It adds to standard C code data types corresponding to polarimetric quantities and optical properties of materials. It further adds a base class which acts as a socket for light-scattering models, and includes a variety of specific models, e.g., particles, subsurface defects, and microroughness, which have appeared in our work. The classes are designed to be expandable, so that anyone can add new models and functionality to the library". The website includes examples, demonstrations and documentation.

Designed by Office of Scientific and Technical Information(OSTI) of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Science conferences portal provides access to conference papers and proceedings in various fields of science and technology. Coverage emphasis is on US conferences hosted and/or published by scientific and professional organizations whose areas of focus relate substantially to the Department of Energy's mission. Collections of about 16 such organizations are currently searchable. Some organisations included here are American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Institute of Physics (AIP), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The portal provides a platform to search for conference papers and proceedings on multiple web sites and databases simultaneously with a single query. It has both simple and advanced search interfaces. The search results displayed includes the bibliographic details, abstracts, links to fulltext or information about how to obtain the fulltext article, as the case may be. Information about the searchable collections of each participating organisation and help for searching are also included.

Sky View Cafe (SVC) presents a number of different ways to view the movements of the sun, moon, stars and planets through the sky. It is a Java applet that displays on the web browser many types of astronomical information, in both graphical and numerical form, based on the specified time and place. The Sky View Cafe includes star charts, a 3-D orrery, displays of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, an astronomical event calendar, an ephemeris generator, and many other features. The usage is free and the web version does not need any installations. Sample screenshots and help are available at the website.

Founded in 1986,Foresight Nanotech Institute was the first organization to educate society about the benefits and risks of nanotechnology. At that time the focus was on preparing society for nanotechnology, then a little known science and technology.

Today, with the basic framework of public understanding in place, the Institute is focusing on advancing beneficial nanotechnology. The efforts are turned to guiding nanotechnology research, public policy and education to address six major challenges that humanity faces.

The six Foresight Nanotechnology Challenges are the framework for our work. This work is accomplished by providing balanced, accurate and timely information to help society understand and prepare for nanotechnology through public policy activities, publications, guidelines, networking events, tutorials, conferences, roadmaps, and prizes.

Institute works closely with governments, multi-national organizations, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), environmental groups, the policy community, professional associations, and civic sector organizations to achieve our goal of broad based nanotechnology education and public policy improvement.

National Institute for Smart Government (NISG), Hyderabad is a not-for-profit company incorporated in 2002 with NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies), Central and State governments being the principal promoters.NISG is being shaped as an institution of excellence in the area of e-Governance with focus on developing appropriate architectures and standards, providing high-level consultancy services and capacity building at the national level. NISG is constituted under a Public Private Partnership model with a view to combine the immense potential and resources of the private sector with the principles of accountability and transparency of the public sector. The goal of NISG is to lead the nation to a preeminent position in providing integrated online services to the citizens and businesses.

The Government of India has approved the National E-Governance Action Plan for implementation during the year 2003-2007. The Plan seeks to lay the foundation and provide the impetus for long-term growth of e-Governance within the country. The plan seeks to create the right governance and institutional mechanisms, set up the core infrastructure and policies and implement a number of Mission Mode Projects at the center, state and integrated service levels to create a citizen-centric and business-centric environment for governance.

The National E-Governance Action Plan was presented to the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 6th November, 2003 . The Plan has been approved in-principle and endorsement has been given to the overall program content, implementation approach and Governance structures. However, for budgetary outlays separate approvals from Planning Commission/ Ministry of Finance are envisaged.

An EPSRC 'Designing for the 21st Century' Cluste. The objective of the cluster is to identify primary research aspects concerning the development of people-centred computational conceptual design environments that engender concept and knowledge discovery across diverse design domains.

Current computer-aided design tools support the later, well defined stages of design where the design product is physical, tangible, and comprehensible. However, more abstract concept formulation and development is poorly supported, especially where uncertainty is an inherent characteristic. Furthermore, computer-aided design is domain specific. There is little or no exploitation of cross-domain experience. This cluster will identify research issues that have the potential to redress both these imbalances.

The E-print Network is a: "vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels."

The creation of a sustainable nanotechnology industry requires meaningful and organized relationships among diverse stakeholders. The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) is the only global organization aimed at providing such interactions for a broad set of members. Managed by Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, ICON activities ensure effective nanotechnology stewardship through risk assessment, research and communication.

The Sakai Project is a community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for higher education. The Project began in January, 2004.