Electronic Resources
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  | Agricola Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science. |
| Biology Digest Abstracts articles in about 190 biology-related journals. |
| MEDLINE The premier medical index covering over 9,600 journals in all areas of medicine. Some citations include abstracts. |
 | Original Sources - Science and Mathematics Full-text of major works in the areas of general science, physical science, life science, applied science, and mathematics. |
| Amusement Park Physics Answers questions on how the laws of physics are used to make the thrill and safety of amusement park rides. Allows a user to design their own roller coaster ride. |
| Bentham Open Peer-reviewed journals in the science disciplines. All articles can accessed for free and are searchable through Google Scholar. |
| Bioethics Research and education on ethical issues in health care and life sciences. |
|  CELD: Creation-Evolution Literature Database"CELD is a database of articles relating to the Creation/Evolution controversy. Here you will find a searchable database with articles from the CRSQ, Origins, Transactions of the Victoria Institute, as well as many other journals and magazines. Some full text links are available." |
| Cosmic Journey History of Scientific Cosmology |
| Encyclopedia of Life (EoL) "The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth." EoL aims to create over a million species pages in the next five years and have them authenticated by experts. |
| Exploring Data Support for introductory statistics. Provided as curriculum support for instructors. |
| Geometry Online Resources Links to websites with all sorts of helps and examples of Geometry. American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges. |
| Interactive Human Brain Map BBC's interactive tour of the brain based either on structure or function |
| Interactive Periodic Table Shockwave version by the American Chemical Society (ACS) with the arrangement of the electrons and plot data. |
| Interactives: Periodic Table Designed for high school students to "explore the basics of the atom and how scientists came to understand its structure, learn how the number of protons in an atom determines what element it is." |
| Little Shop of Physics - Online Experiments Fun, easy experiments that can be done with readily available materials or just your computer. Courtesy of the Little Shop of Physics Colorado State University's Hands-On Science Outreach Program. |
| MedTerm Medical Dictionary 16,000+ medical term defined |
| National Library for the Environment Resource for "environmental information and data for the use of all participants in the environmental enterprise." Maintained by the National Council for Science and Environment. |
| NSTA Learning Center Science Objects to review concepts of physical sciences, life sciences, and earth and space sciences. |
| Online Papers on Consciousness "This is a directory of free online papers on consciousness in philosophy and in science, and of related topics in the philosophy of mind. The papers in this directory are drawn from MindPapers, a database of both online and offline works on these topics." |
| Physics Demonstration Videos Wake Forest University Physics department makes available online a number of videos of physics experiments on heat, motion, energy, sound, and much more. |
| Physics Question of the Week A new question each week to challenge and generate a discussion of ideas. The answer is posted to the previous week's question. |
| Plants Database U.S. Department of Agriculture provides descriptions of plants, where they are found, and pictures. |
| PSIgate Physical Sciences Information Gateway - A search engine for locating high quality Web resources in the physical sciences. |
| Public Library of Science Organization making scientific articles and research available for free under Open Access license. |
| Science.gov Directory listing of science information provided by the U.S. government |
| ScienceNOW "All the latest news for the scientific community, including daily news from ScienceNOW and weekly news from Science magazine." News on current scientific events and announcements. Recent articles are available for free. |
| Virtual Body Explore the human brain, skeleton, heart, and digestive tract. |
| WT Virtual Math Lab "If you need help in College Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Beginning Algebra, or preparing for the math part of the THEA, ACCUPLACER or general GRE test, you have come to the right place." Dozens of tutorials cover distinct concepts with practice problems for each tutorial and practice tests for groups of tutorials. |
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