Science
Research Data

• Academic Info-Botany and Plant Biology
• Amphibia Web--Clearinghouse of data concerning amphibians and their population deteriorations worldwide from University of California, Berkeley.  Includes color photographs, literature references, links to other resources, species summaries.  Searchable.
• Bad Science--Examples here of bad chemistry, physics, meteorology.
• 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.
• Community of Science WebServer--info about scientists, funding possibilities, plus free Medline, patent searching.
• Digital Libraries Initiative
• DOE Information Bridge--used to be a searchable index and full text database of all research done by and for the Department of Energy since 1996, with projects in biology, environment, physics, chemistry, and engineering, but the Bush administration severely curtailed it. There may be some useful links to agencies.
• eNature -- derived from the Audubon Field Guide books, includes color photos and information about plants, animals, shells, etc.
• Eric's Treasure Trove of Science--Includes glossaries of several different branches of science, a bibliography of science books, and scientific biography.
• Extreme Weather Sourcebook -- information on all kinds of extreme weather, like hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.
• Genome Gateway--The full sequence, plus lots of surrounding data, including analysis and news..
• Global Change: The Scientific Basis-- Climate data and much more. Searchable.
• Graduate Students and Post-doctorates in Science and Engineering--NSF
• History of Science
• Impact of Information Technology on Undergraduate Education--a report from the National Science Foundation. 
• Mad Scientist Network--scientists stand ready to answer your science questions and an answer archive
• National Academy Press Reading Room--the publisher of studies done by government science institutes here offers samples from over 200 books and research reports online. Many full-text .pdf books here too.
• National Institute for Science Education
• National Library for the Environment--a huge repository of research reports, environmental laws and treaties, news, career information, climate data
• National Science Teachers Association--includes news, online resources, programs and projects, legislative updates, conference info, awards
• National Standards Systems Network--provided by the American National Standards Institute. International here.
• On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
• PSIGate Physical Sciences Information Gateway -- provides access to high quality internet resources in the physical sciences, including research, statistical data, news, articles, etc.  Searchable.
• SciCentral--maintained by scientists for scientists, for central access to the most valuable science sites online.
• Science Accelerator-- "makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily accessible over the Internet. It taps into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user to find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency."
• Science and Engineering Statistics -- "Publications, data, and analyses about the nation's science and engineering resources"
• Science Dictionaries
• Science Fair Idea Central
• Science.gov --a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
• Science in the National Parks--a review of all the research projects going on within the National Park system.
• Science ReferenceDesk
• Science Report Card for the Nation and the States--executive summary, plus full text downloadable in Adobe Acrobat format.
• Science Research Portal -- "a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases." Search through the resources for specific disciplines or through all. Also provides links to other free science portals.
• ScienceStorm -- provides a free searchable database of National Science Foundation grants.
• Scientific Imaging Software: NIH Image for Macintosh
• Scirus -- "Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages." It filters out non-scientific sites. It finds peer-reviewed articles in .pdf & PostScript files, which are often invisible to other search engines. It now indexes 13 million patents from all over the world.
• Scout Report for Science -- web sites reviewed by the Scout Report in the field of Science.
• Shaping the Future, part II--the National Science Foundation's report on undergraduate science and math education.
• Statistical Reports on US Science and Engineering, from NSF
• StatServe--your basic starting point for info on statistical analysis. Links to software resources, data mining, career opportunities, conferences; more importantly, a huge set of links to data sets (scroll down menu on left to Online -- Datasets).
• TERRA -- data and images from a NASA satellite used to collect information about earth.  Includes global pollution measurements, ocean data, and images and visualizations of earth.
• Union of Concerned Scientists-- details about their projects on biodiversity, climate change, ozone depletion, and population growth, including FAQ files and links to related sites.
• Yahoo's Science Dictionaries