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Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 "The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics, containing abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing 577,783 abstracts; 3) physics and geophysics, containing 877,721 abstracts; and 4) Los Alamos preprint server, containing 3,851 abstracts. Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words...In addition, we have extended the abstract service to include links to the full text of articles appearing in most of the major astronomical journals.
Largest collection of online articles and abstracts on the Internet.
- NASA

Beyond Discovery
The Path from Research to Human Benefit
"...is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted."
Subjects include: Agriculture ; Biology ; Chemistry ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental Issues ; Health ; Mathematics ; Physics ; Technology.

DAREnet - Digital Academic Repositories (English or Nederlands)
"...is a search service which gives free access to academic research output in the Netherlands. This is a broad collection which guarantees digital accessibility to the full text without any restrictions. DAREnet consists of 82210 digital objects...All Dutch universities, the National Library of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) participate."

Harvard Science Review (HSR)
"...is Harvard's oldest undergraduate science publication. HSR brings contemporary issues in science to readers at Harvard and MIT biannually."

HighWire Press
Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries
"One of the 2 largest free full-text science archives on earth!"

Library of Congress - Science Tracer Bullets Online (SCTB)
"...is comprised of bibliographic guides designed to help persons locate published materials on a particular subject in the field of science and technology about which they have only a general knowledge."
- Science Reading Room

The National Academies IN FOCUS
"...is a magazine featuring activities of the National Academies, which serve as independent advisers to the federal government on scientific and technical questions of national importance."

Science & Spirit Magazine
"...explores life's complexities through a rich, reflective conversation about how science and new technologies affect the human spirit. We seek to understand the conflicts and connections between science and religion in our daily life through the wisdom of a world of faiths. Regularly featured topics include technology, ethics, environment, human relationships, social and personal values, and the mind-body-health connection."

Science Magazine - Essays on Science and Society
"In monthly essays on Science and Society, Science features the views of individuals from inside or outside the scientific community as they explore the interface between science and the wider society. This series continues the weekly viewpoints on science and society that Science published in 1998 in honor of the 150th anniversary of AAAS."

SciILO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
"...Online is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as "lost science". In addition, the SciELO model comprises integrated procedures for the measurement of usage and impact of scientific journals.



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