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January 2014

  1. Scirus

    Scirus searches over 450 million scientific items, and allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.


  2. Scitopia.org

    Scitopia.org is a free federated vertical search service which retrieves content provided by its twenty-one partner scholarly societies (Acoustical Society of America, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Vacuum Society, Audio Engineering Society, The Electrochemical Society, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Physics Publishing, International Union of Crystallography, Optical Society of America , Professional Engineering Publishing, The Royal Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SPIE, and The Society for Information Display).


  3. Science.gov

    A new version has just been launched. Science.gov is a free, integrated single-search gateway to reliable science and technology information from 17 organizations within 13 federal science agencies.


  4. Science Research

    A free search engine allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases.


  5. Scitation

    Searches more than one million documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and other special publications from prestigious scientific societies and technical publishers. In addition, through Scitation, members of Heriot-Watt University can access the full text of several journals published by the American Institute of Physics and other learned societies, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Optical Society of America.


  6. WorldWideScience.org

    WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases and portals.


  7. Science Accelerator

    Science Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.


  8. TechXtra

    A free service provided by Heriot-Watt University which can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing.


  9. Wastecare

    Wastecare specialise in the collection and recycling of waste from all industrial and business sectors, offering full environmental compliance.


  10. ATG Free software for research and teaching

    This little webspace holds links to selected free scientific programs for research, teaching or other potential usage running under MacOSX 10.3 or higher.


  11. Best 6 Sites to Get Free Ebooks

    You might be surprised by how many good free ebook sites there are out there.


  12. iBrain

    "The iBrain was developed in 2003 as a online resource to aid in searching the internet. Our researchers have created a database filled with links to the Web's best resources, for some of the most searched topics. Unlike many directories, all of our links are hand selected by members of our staff."


  13. Imprezzeo

    "Imprezzeo is an image-based search technology company. This technology allows users to search for images using other images as examples rather than textual search terms. Those images might be scenes, landmarks, objects, graphics, people or even personalities. Irrespective of the size of the collection, Imprezzeo Image Search helps you find the right image, fast."


  14. 100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites

    Even as the Web has become more entertaining and certainly better looking over the past 15 years, it has also become much more useful and practical, as the 100 sites in this feature will demonstrate.


  15. Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network: CKAN

    CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own.


  16. Demarco Digital Archive

    The digital archive comprises photographs plus documents, publications and other printed material either created or gathered by Richard Demarco. The digital records are drawn from the Demarco archives held by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Demarco European Art Foundation.


  17. fResource

    "fResource is a unique online community for researchers and fundraisers from around the world to come together and share their knowledge about all things research related. Our aim is to help develop fundraising research as a discipline in it's own right as well as ensuring the vast array of information and resources can be accessed by everyone in the search for funding."


  18. Big Science Read

    "The Big Science Read campaign invites you to explore, re-discover and get excited about science-themed books and hopes to stimulate public debate of current issues relating to scientific and technological advances. We've put together a suggested reading list of contemporary popular science and fiction titles to get you started and there are plenty more recommendations of seminal science reads and other resources to be found here."


  19. 280 Slides

    A nice web applicationfor create slide presentations.


  20. CompletePlanet

    Discover over 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines.


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