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Charles Darwin's Collection

WELCOME to the largest collection of Darwin's writings ever assembled. This site contains every Darwin publication as well as many of his handwritten manuscripts. All told there are more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important works for understanding Darwin's context. Free audio mp3 versions of his works are also available.

Abebooks

"Abebooks is the world's largest online marketplace for books. Whether it's new, secondhand, rare, or out-of-print, you can find it here, through our community of over 13,500 independent booksellers selling 80 million books from around the globe."

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.

Development Gateway

"The Development Gateway puts the Internet to work for developing countries. We provide innovative Internet solutions for effective aid and e-government - increasing access to critical information, building local capacity and bringing partners together for positive change."

Digital Library of India

"The mission is to create a portal for the Digital Library of India which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet. This portal will also become an aggregator of all the knowledge and digital contents created by other digital library initiatives in India. Very soon we expect that this portal would provide a gateway to Indian Digital Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves and many more. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to socioeconomic background or nationality."

DRIVER: Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research

"DRIVER sets out to build the testbed for a future knowledge infrastructure of the European Research Area. Aimed to be complimentary to GEANT2, the successful infrastructure for computing resources, data storage and data transport, DRIVER will deliver the content resources, i.e. any form of scientific output, including scientific/technical reports, working papers, pre-prints, articles and original research data. The vision, to be accomplished in a second phase, is to establish the successful interoperation of both data network and knowledge repositories as integral parts of the E-infrastructure for research and education in Europe."

eeNewsFeed

An information & news portal for the semiconductor & electronics industries

EprintWeb

EprintWeb is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology, and consists of e-print records which can be browsed and searched.
" We have focused on your experience as a user, and have addressed issues of navigation, searching, personalization and presentation, in order to enhance that experience. We have also introduced reference linking across the entire content, and enhanced searching on all key fields, including institutional address."

FindGuru

"FindGuru, formerly known as ReedLink, is a vertical product search engine brought to you by Advantage Business Media, formerly Reed Business New Product Division, the world's premier provider of product information across various industries for more than 30 years. FindGuru is the premier search engine for locating products, product specifications, and companies, connecting buyers and suppliers in various vertical markets."

How WiFi Works

A nice introduction from howstuffworks.

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this very website, the home of MediaWiki

Listen: Making Sense of Sound [Macromedia Flash Player]

This very detailed and well-thought out set of online activities gives users the opportunity to listen closely to the particular sounds of the natural world. Based at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, this site was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The site is divided into three sections: “At the Museum”, “Listening Guides”, and “Online Activities”. While the first section is intended for those who will make a trip to the Exploratorium, far-distant (and not-so-distant) users will find the other two sections the most helpful. “Listening Guides” includes testimonies and suggestions about listening to wildlife, urban environments, and even to build new experimental musical instruments. Users can learn about Bart Hopkin, who makes such instruments, and also play a number of online games. Finally, the “Online Activities” area lets users watch and listen to a number of fun and interactive features, such as a listening memory game.

Analyze Math

Developed by Dr. Abdelkader Dendane, a lecturer at the United Arab Emirates University, the Analyze Math website is designed to provide curious minds with access to in-depth tutorials on such topics as logarithmic functions, systems of linear equations, and calculus. The site also covers materials from the fields of trigonometry and the sometimes vexing field of statistics. Utilizing Java applets, the different sections allow for interactive explorations of these areas of interest, and visitors just need to scroll down through the homepage to find the subject they are having difficulty understanding. The site’s layout is fairly self-explanatory, and with the use of a projection device, materials from this site could be put to good use in the classroom

Just-In-Time Teaching

The very notion of “just-in-time” (JiTT) teaching may seem to some to sound like a phrase adopted from the world of corporate culture, but in fact, it’s actually a “…teaching and learning strategy based on the interaction between web-based study assignments and an active learner classroom.” All told, it sounds pretty compelling, and this website, created by Professor Gregor and his colleagues at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has been designed to provide fellow educators with materials that will help them adopt such an educational stance and approach in the classroom. After reading the introductory section titled “What is JiTT?”, visitors may wish to proceed to look over the resources area, where they can look over JiTT resources that may be used with a variety of disciplines, including physics, psychology, and chemistry.

World Wide Web Consortium

Founded in 1994, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been primarily concerned with “…developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.” To do so, they draw on a set of international professionals and experts throughout the field of computer science and related fields. The W3C is led by Tim Berners-Lee, who directs the project and who was also responsible for inventing the World Wide Web. First-time visitors should take a look through the “New Visitors” area, which includes a basic overview of where to find certain materials, such as their technical reports and how to sign up for their mailing lists. Another way to look over some of their materials is by browsing their “A to Z” section on the homepage, which covers everything from accessibility to XML encryption.

Science Animations: Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links

Many students appreciate visuals in the classroom, but in some instances, practical demonstrations of various scientific principles may be difficult, if not impossible. Fortunately there is this nice site, provided by North Harris College. The site functions as a clearinghouse for science animations created by a wide range of institutions from the University of Hawaii to Cambridge University. There is no search engine offered here, but visitors can just scroll down through the entire list, or jump around to such topical areas as microbiology, geology, ecology, and physics. Additionally, visitors can also avail themselves of the “General Collections” area, which feature broad animation collections, such as the “General Collection in Biology” site, created at the University of California-Irvine.

European Bioinformatics Institute: EBI

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a non-profit academic organisation that forms part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
The EBI is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics. The Institute manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences and macromolecular structures.

Information Technologies and International Development: ITID

Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) has become the first journal published by The MIT Press to participate in the open access initiative. Now you can retrieve peer-reviewed full text PDF articles from the journal's website, free of charge.

PhDjobs

Search for jobs relevant to your academic discipline

Progress in Informatics

Serving as an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners of informatics.

Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2009

"Science and the National Science Foundation are pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The links on this page will take you to articles describing the accomplishments of the creative and gifted scientists, artists, and others who put the winning entries together, as well as an online slide presentation that showcases the competition's winners and honorable mentions. All material is freely available for all site visitors."

studybookshop.com

studybookshop.com is an online textbook exchange that provides students and graduates with an easy way to buy and sell secondhand student books.