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[Xyo II]

Good Info:
Wikipedia
How Stuff Works
Conversions
Reference Desk
e-prints
MIT OpenCourseWare
Citeseer- Scientific Literature Digital Library
Firstgov.gov- Government web portal
Science Glossary
ISCID Encyclopedia of Science and Philosophy (beta)

Search Engines
Scirus -I recommend this one the most
Alltheweb.com
Many A Scientific Search Engine
Google or Google Scholar

Biology/Biotech
Biocrawler
PlOS Biology
NCBI
Biology Workbench
Biology Ebooks
Life Science dictionary

Chemistry
Chemie.IDE
Polymer-Search
Chemfinder
Chemmy Bear
Chemicool- Chemistry Dictionary

Engineering
Engineering Tips
Materials Info
eFunda
Toolbox
Engineering Calculators
US Patents or Google search for patents
Engineering Product and Supplies search

Mathematics
http://www.mathwords.com/e.htm
<this section could use some friendly math tutorials>

Physics
PhysicsForums
Physics Dictionaries

For Fun
Dream Symbols Dictionary

Feel free to suggest any new resources, and critique a resource listed!

 

[DrPizza]

excellent. I tried scirus for articles on wormholes. I was able to read enough during lunch to make my brain hurt.
That's good.

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
excellent. I tried scirus for articles on wormholes. I was able to read enough during lunch to make my brain hurt.
That's good.

yes, scirus is the best for scientific info, although some of the sources, especially the medical ones, require membership to view the journals.

 

[Gibsons]

Nuclear bombs tend to come up on this forum a lot
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/ is a great reference, mostly in lay terms.

 

[patentman]

Chemfinder is a good site for anyone looking for chemical structures and/or physical properties.

 

[RossGr]

Physicsforums for good Physics and Math disscussions/ help

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

http://www.eng-tips.com/ for general engineering forums

edit: sticky this. great idea

 

[Xyo II]

It's been updated. :beer: for everyone

 

[Xyo II]

Any suggestions are welcome. :thumbsup:

 

[Vegitto]

Poll FTW!

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: Vegitto
Poll FTW!

:beer:

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

If you have access to IEEE documents through whatever school or company you are a part of, IEEE Xplore is a goldmine of information. The archive contains pretty much anything published under any of the IEEE societies for the past 40 or 50 years at least.

Another useful site is Google scholar

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
If you have access to IEEE documents through whatever school or company you are a part of, IEEE Xplore is a goldmine of information. The archive contains pretty much anything published under any of the IEEE societies for the past 40 or 50 years at least.

Another useful site is Google scholar

:beer: For the google scholar! I can't believe I've never seen that before. But there are a lot of quality pay-for info services, and I don't like to pay money for information. Thanks for the help. :thumbsup:

 

[Rastus]

This is worth a bump.

 

[jakedeez]

ttt

 

[lyssword]

+1 for sticky

 

[Xyo II]

Never too late for quality information.

 

[CycloWizard]

Might want to add MatWeb to the list. Sticky++

edit: Also add eFunda.com and OnlineConversion.com.

 

[EmMayEx]

Here are a couple I ran across at the Cooking for Engineers website:

The Engineering Toolbox
Martindale's The Reference Desk

Max L.

 

[TheRyuu]

Chemmy Bear

Good chemistry info.

 

[iamaelephant]

+1 sticky

 

[Xyo II]

Good links. It has been updated.

 

[OSX]

bugmenot.com might have a registration account for any registration required, at least if it's free.

 

[python023]

Sticky!

 

[Gigantopithecus]

For Biology:

EvoWiki. Information about evolution.

SDSC Biology Workbench (requires free registration). Online tools for finding, aligning, and analyzing molecular (DNA & protein) sequence data.

National Center for Biotechnology Information. Gateway to various sites, such as OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man), OMIA (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals), Entrez (database of hundreds of journals), and PubMed.

Public Library of Science - Biology. Online, 'open-source', peer-reviewed biology journal.

Project Gutenberg. Ebooks of lots of classic texts in biology, including the (nearly) complete major works of Darwin.