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New Sites Added Since April 14

• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Databases, available to the UK community, with access to Virology & AIDS Abstracts; Algology, Mycology & Protozoology Abstracts; Biological Sciences & Living Resources; Bacteriology Abstracts; Entomology Abstracts; Industrial & Applied Microbiology Abstracts; METADEX; Toxicology Abstracts; and Water Resources Abstracts.
• Chemical Abstracts
• Cogprints: Cognitive Sciences Electronic Archive offers hundreds of full-text scholarly papers related to the study of cognition, including works in such fields as Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, and Computer Science. Contents culled from current academic journals, conference proceedings, recent and forthcoming books and personal collections and are available in several formats (.pdf, HTML, plaint text, and postscript). An internal search engine is provided as is information on depositing work in the archive.
• Compendex (1970 - ), engineering abstracts database (online version of Engineering Index). Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.
• ECHO, Exploring and Collecting History Online: Science & Technology. Centralized guide for those looking for sites on the history of science and technology.
• Elsevier Science Tables of Contents Service
• E-Print Archive, from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• The Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
• Funding for Research
• Genamics JournalSeek, searchable and subject categorized access to free electronic journals.
• Government Information Sources in Science & Technology, from St. Mary's University.
• History and Philosophy of Science Resources
• International Council for Science: ICSU
• INSPEC database, from the Institute of Physics (IOP) via Engineering Village 2. Accessible off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.
• Journal Citation Reports, from ISI. Accessible off-campus
  for UK faculty, students and staff
  by following these
  proxy server access instructions.
• Junk Science, faulty scientific data and analysis used to used to further a special agenda.
• Kentucky EPSCoR, Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
• Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation, organization with the mission "to improve the capacity of people, organizations and firms to apply science and technology and effectively compete in the global marketplace."
• The Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Making of America, from the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative. A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
• MathSciNet, searchable Web database providing access to over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications from 1940 to the present. (Accessible from UK campus machines or off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.)
• NASA
• Science Inventory, from the EPA. Searchable, Agency-wide catalog of more than 4,000 science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products.
• Science.gov, "FirstGov for Science" web site. Gateway to information about science and technology from across Federal government organizations.
• Scirus: For Scientific Information Only. From Elsevier Science. Concentrates on scientific content only and by searching both web and journal sources.

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Association for Women in Science
• Association of Science-Technology Centers
• George C. Marshall Institute, organization that provides research and technical advice on scientific issues that have an impact on public policy. Topics include global warming, defense, and ozone depletion.
• Interactive Curriculum Institute
• International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
• National Academy of Sciences
• National Institute for Science Education
• The National Science and Technology Medals Foundation
• National Science Foundation

Miscellaneous Resources

• IBM's Patent Server, with access to the bibliographic data and text of all claims of all patents issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) from 1974 to present, plus some patents issued during 1971 to 1973. In addition, you can get the last ten years of images.
• Linux Software for Scientists
• Patent FAQ, patent links and information.
• Patent Searching Tutorial
• The U.S. Patent Citation Database
• U.S. Patents at CNIDR, every abstract approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1976. The free service is searchable and will be updated monthly. Users can link directly from one patent abstract to related documents in the database.

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This page was last updated 12 August 2004. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Tom Hecker at teheck01@uky.edu.

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