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Mathematics

Links to the Web sites on the History of Mathematics
This site, hosted by the British Society for the History of Mathematics, offers a large collection of links to sites related to the history of mathematics. The list of contents includes General Sites, Web Resources, Biographies, Regional Mathematics, Museums with Mathematics Exhibits, Special Exhibits, Books On-Line, Student Presentations, Miscellaneous, Bibliography, Societies, Journals, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Computing, Scholarly Articles and Education. The collection is very good, and from there one can probably eventually connect to a site where information one seeks can be found.

The Mathematical Atlas: a Gateway to Modern Mathematics
This site is organized according to the Mathematics Subject Classification devised by the American Mathematical Society and its German counterpart. A guide to mathematics that explains the various divisions of math and provides links to appropriate pages on the Web site, providing information generally easy to understand and a unique look at the entire field of mathematics.

S.O.S. MATHematics
Offers straightforward technical assistance primarily to high school and college students, although some of its sections will be useful to both adult learners and professionals. A healthy variety of subjects already appear-from simple fractions and algebra to calculus, different equations, and matrix algebra-with the promise of more to come. The organization is by topic, with numerous cross-links so that navigation is straightforward.

Professor Freedman’s Math Help
Freedman provides materials to accompany a basic algebra course. The site not only provides algebra problems and instruction, but also offers encouragement and specific suggestions for success to its audience, including strategies for note taking and test preparation. Although a few of the instructions are a bit cryptic, a good number provide thorough, step-by-step guides through algebra problems, in the students’ own words, which makes it a clear and easy-to-follow site.

Mathematical Functions
This site includes elementary and special functions that are significant not only in mathematics but also in the natural sciences, engineering, and other fields. This is the largest compilation of mathematical functions on the Web, and they are committed to maintaining and expanding it over time. The developers have created a citation format that will allow validity of a citation over time.

Medicine

BioMed Central
BioMed Central represents a new model for access to published results of research projects. Encompassing many medical subjects in about 50 journal titles, the site invites researchers to publish results online and have their full-text information linked to PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s premiere database of mechanical research. Registration is not required but takes only a few moments.

Cancer Mortality Maps & Graph Link
The Cancer Mortality Maps & Graph Web Site provides interactive maps, graphs (which are accessible to the blind and visually-impaired), text, tables and figures showing geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates for the time period 1950-1994 for more than 40 cancers.

Harvard World Health News
World Health News is an online news digest produced by the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. Covering critical public health issues, it is an excellent resource for readers who are interested in public health and related issues. The site uses a newspaper format with three columns with an excellent selection of information.

HighWire Press
HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth and is a division of the Stanford University Libraries. It hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1067 journals and 4,439,098 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,791,613 articles free. These articles cover areas in biological, medical, physical and social sciences and humanities.

HIV InSite
HIV insite is the only source of information on the Internet about HIV disease written and edited by researchers from a leading health science institution. This resource is a leading Web site, not only because of its user-friendly design and the depth, scope, and quality of content, but also because it effectively links together existing HIV resources on the Web. Recommended for all levels of the academic community.

Intute: Health & Life Sciences
This a Web site of a consortium led and hosted by the University of Nottingham and other UK partners. It offers free access to an extensive array of high-quality Internet resources in life and health sciences. Intute provides access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. There are over 31,000 resource descriptions listed here that are freely accessible for keyword searching or browsing. This site was previously called BIOME.

Lumen: Structure of the Human Body
This Web site provides significant resources for human anatomy students to review structural nomenclature and relationships using multimedia visual aids. Effective use of multimedia, frames, and links to supplementary study aids makes this site a superior learning tool. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students in medical and nursing curricula.

National Women's Health Information Center
This site is an outstanding resource for anyone interested in women's health issues. Sponsored by the US government, it targets many of the most popular health concerns and issues facing women today and offers up-to-date information. the home page highlights current educational campaigns, providing links to the primary Web sites representative of each topic. A particularly valuable resource is the Women's Health Indicators database. Overall, this well-designed, easy-to-navigate site provides a plethora of information.

NewScientist.com: Special Reports on Key Topics in Science and Technology
This resource is a commercial Web site tied closely to the well-established New Scientist magazine in Britain. It has a long list of free science and technology hot topic news and short articles from which to learn. Many general areas are updated weekly and some really hot topics are updated almost daily. Some of the hot topics covered recently are: Clone Zone, GM Food, Quantum World, Mobile Phones, Emerging Technologies, and Climate Change. Overall, this resource definitely keeps one posted on the latest important science and technology news with briefs and articles that are a joy to read.

Nutrition Source
Nutrition Source Web site is maintained by the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. The aim of the site is to provide timely information on diet and nutrition for clinicians, allied health professionals, and the public. The content covers nutrition news and healthy eating advice with access to the following topics: interpreting news about diet; fats and cholesterol; carbohydrates; protein; fiber; fruit and vegetables; calcium and milk; vitamins; healthy weight; food pyramids; and other general sources of reliable nutrition information from books, linkages to a few Web sites, and nutrition-related projects. Much of the nutrition information is related to relationships between diet and chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease.


 - Biology

BioNetbook
BNB consists of some 4,500 databases cross-listed into searchable combinations of categories in three headings: database types, organisms, and domain of science-or by specific words or country of origin. This is strictly a high-level index, not a “Web-crawler”. It is more broadly based than sites linked to it and gathers together access to a heterogeneous collection that should prove convenient for scientists, researchers, teachers, and students in all kinds of higher education institutions.

DOEgenomes.org
This site is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Energy and is a fantastic compilation of detailed information. The attractive main page contains abundant white space and simple graphics that load quickly. Organized under six major sections- About Education, Research, Medicine, Ethical, Legal and Social Issues and Media - the site allows users to focus quickly on the type of material wanted. Much research is written for those in the field, while the Education page has links for both teachers and students, in appropriate format and vocabulary.

Genetics Education Center
Everything anyone ever wanted to know about genetics and the Human Genome Project is included in this site. This is a rich source for educators, students from the secondary level to graduate programs, and the public interested in seeking information on genetic conditions, progress on the human genome project, and related topics.

Kimball's Biology Pages
Biology Pages is an online reference manual designed for introductory biology students but for higher levels too. It includes an alphabetical list of terms with brief definitions or, in some cases, a link to a brief essay on the subject. Most of the terms used are in the areas of cellular and molecular biology. The definitions are clearly written, and many provide simple graphics and links to related topics. The Web site is easy to navigate by clicking on the first letter of the term of interest, then scrolling through the terms to find the desired word. An excellent resource for biology instructors and students.

Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA
This site features a first-person history about the race to solve the structure of DNA, primarily from Pauling's perspective. The site is divided into three sections: the first is a narrative about the work that led to solving the structure of DNA; a second section consists of digitized documents, along with audio, and video clips relating to the DNA structure. The final section provides a day-by-day summary of Pauling's activities from 1952-1953. The site is easy to navigate, with many links between pages. The documents and images reproduced in the site are of very high quality and have the look of the original. This very focused site will be particularly useful to those wishing to know more about the history of molecular biology. The ability to view original documents opens the study of the history of science to a much broader group of researches and students.

Nature Online
The Natural History Museum in London has built a large virtual museum modeled after and supporting the physical entity. The educational, entertainment, and commercial aspects of a museum are represented throughout the site. Each area has a short topic page with a drop-down menu leading to more short pages and videos. The Life page offers the most information, including many streaming videos, with sets of links about birds, reptiles, insects, other invertebrates, dinosaurs, plants and fungi and human origins. Evolution features page's about the work and time lines of Darwin, Wallace, Owens, Huxley and Willberforce. The other topics offer similar introductions. This site is well worth exploring and using in this way.

Neurosciences on the Internet
This Web site is clear, organized, informative, more accessible and intelligent than most. An important quality is that it is visually simple. The subject matter is divided into such topics as neuroanatomy, biochemistry, medicine, and cognitive neurosciences. The site has been recently updated. Related sites of interest are Elsevier Science.


Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
This is the authoritative reference for information on the inheritance of human characteristics. Recommended for Genetics students, professionals, biology teachers and physicians.

The Tree of Life
One of the early Web projects on biodiversity and phylogeny, The Tree of Life, has continued to grow and change. It now includes over 4,000 Web pages and 526 scientist contributors worldwide. Each page within the tree presents information written by experts on a group of organisms. Most also provide images and extensive bibliographies. These pages are "linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life". Visitors may thus focus on a specific group, or travel up or down the tree to follow "the genetic connections between all living things".

Music

AMG allmusic
Now in its 10th year, this site has a new interface and added content and features. The designer’s commitment to accuracy, currency and comprehensiveness continues compensating for the site’s unrelenting advertisements. Contributors provide biographies, review, and essays on popular music and with the latest revision, classical music. Those wishing to access all features (e.g. advanced searching, music samples) must register. A basic search by name, album, song or classical work appears on all pages, a clunky advanced search allows specialized searches, including full text. Coverage is impressive: 786, 000 albums (263,000 reviews), 6 million samples, 265,000 classical compositions and 76,000 biographies. The site’s strengths continue to be the biographies, recording credits, and internal links to performers and reviews. Samples are often available for all of a recording’s songs at 30 second per song and for specific recordings or performers with three 10-second samples of limited usefulness. Discographies are updated quickly, sometimes just days after release.

Music, Theatre & Dance
This remarkable Web site consists of several databases that enable users not only to access different kinds of music, photographs, manuscripts, letters and other documents, but to come as close as possible to experiencing materials of the Library of Congress’s collections by exploring various kinds of digital media. Special Presentations exemplifies a fascinating coordination of texts, sound recordings, pictures, catalogs, supporting documentation, and searching and zooming capabilities. The Library of Congress plans to include new presentations and to add or incorporate more materials to some of the presentations already available.

Mutopia
Collection of several hundred classical music scores available in various text formats, some with MIDI audio files. Browse by composer, instrument, or musical style, or search by keywords.

Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923
Created and maintained by The New York Public Library for Performing Arts , this site makes available a sample of the library's extensive holdings in the history of performing arts. Wishing to "offer a glimpse inside" a society in which "entertainment for the masses became a thriving industry", the library selected for viewing and listening 16,000 primary documents and original resources - a unique and valuable collection of newspaper clippings, promotional and production photographs, sheet music, publicity posters and lobby cards, moving images, programs, and recorded sound. From the straightforward home page, one can go to About the Collection for a brief general overview and links to overviews of dance, music and theater. The database is rich with images, many with zoom and enlargement capabilities.

Passion for Jazz
Music and all art is an essential part of the "human experience." Today, Jazz music is played, studied and taught at private and public institutions around the globe. Whether you are a musician, or just someone who happens to like Jazz you may visit this site to see the wealth of material it contains. Read about the history of Jazz, its philosophy, interact with the virtual piano chords, learn about improvisation, or visit the photo gallery to see portraits of many great Jazz musicians.


  - Classical

Classical Composer Database
Offers basic biographical information about composers, both well known and obscure, and links to information about them on the Web. Includes chronologies and a composer's calendar.


Classical Music Navigator
Provides information on over 400 composers, with works listed by musical genre, a geographical roster, an index of forms and styles, and a glossary of musical terms.


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