Internet Gateways

Intute Health and Life Sciences (formerly BIOME) - A free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. Includes the sub-sections:

Intute: Health & Life Sciences : Agriculture, Food & Forestry (formerly AgriFor) covering agriculture, food and forestry
Intute: Health & Life Sciences: Bio Research (formerly BioRes) covering biological and biomedical sciences, genetics, biotechnology & biochemistry
Intute: Health & Life Sciences: Medicine (formerly OMNI) covering health and medicine
Intutue: Health & Life Sciences: MedHist covering the history of medicine and disease, and including folklore, witchcraft and quackery
Intute: Health & Life Sciences: Natural History (formerly Natural Selection) covering the natural world (with the Natural History Museum)
Intute: Health & Life Sciences: Veterinary (formerly VetGate) covering animal health

Intute also offers the Internet for the History and Philosophy of Science tutorial (part of the Intute Virtual Training Suite) - Compiled and maintained by Dr David Mossley, Leeds University.

Naked Scientists Online - Began as a weekly radio show, and online you can listen to broadcasts in RealMedia. There is also an archive of articles (e.g. GM plants, cloning, battle of the sexes) and interviews with famous scientists.

Natural Science - An online journal, and a gateway to scientific resources.

The Scientific World - includes:

SciBase - Search the world's scientific literature dating back to 1965 and purchase single articles online
MethodsBase - Search, browse and locate the most modern methods and protocols in the life sciences
The Scientific World Journal - A multidisciplinary journal for the life and environmental sciences
LabShelf - Search for and procure equipment and laboratory supplies online
Reference Shelf - Browse and search useful references and link

NSDL Scout Reports - Information from the National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library. The Internet Scout Project's NSDL Scout Reports offer high quality information about online resources, including:

NSDL Scout Report for Life Sciences - Biology, Zoology, Ecology, Botany, and other Life Science topics.
NSDL Scout Report for Physical Sciences - Geology, Chemistry, Astronomy, Physics, and other Physical Science topics.
NSDL Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology - Industrial Engineering, Calculus, Algebra, Geometry, Civil Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Environmental Engineering, Computer Sciences, Human Factors, Hardware, and Software, and related topics.

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