Useful Web Sites in Science and Engineering

This section includes both NU and non-NU Internet resources in the fields of science and engineering. In addition, the section also includes links to the national laboratories and government agencies which might be of interest to you.

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• Engineering
• Government Agencies
• Industrial Standards
• National Laboratories
• Science
• Scientific and Engineering Organizations and Societies
• U. S. and International Patents

Engineering

General

• EELS-Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden (The Swedish Univ. of Technology Libraries)
• ICE: Internet Connections for Engineering (Cornell University)
• Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
• Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century
• National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
• National Research Council (NRC)
• NASA's List of Domain-specific Engineering Virtual Libraries
• Physical Reference Data (NIST)
• SciCentral: Gateway to the Best Science and Engineering Online Resources
• The Phase Diagram Web
• Thomas Register on the Internet

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Chemical Engineering

• ChemExpo
• Chemicalweb Information Resource
• Chemistry & Industry
• Fisher Scientific

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Civil & Environmental Engineering

• American Society of Civil Engineers Publications
• EPA Chemical Substance Factsheets (gopher)
• EnviroLink
• Internet Resources in Transportation (Northwestern University Transportation Library)
• National Library for the Environment (Committee for the National Institute of the Environment)
• NU Infrastructure Technology Institute WWW Home Page Transportation Resources (Princeton University)
• WWW Virtual Library -- Civil Engineering

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Computer Engineering Resources (University of Michigan)
• Electrical Engineering Circuits Archive (University of Washington)
• Programmer's Oasis

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Mechanical Engineering

 

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Government Agencies

• Department of Commerce
• Department of Energy
• Department of the Interior
• Department of Transportation
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Institute of Health (HIH)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
• U.S. Government Agencies Index

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Industrial Standards

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Home Page
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Home Page
• Document Center
• IEEE Standards Home Page
• IHS Industry/International Standards Services
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Home Page
• NIST WWW Home Page
• nderwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) Home Page

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ational Laboratories

• Ames Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• Argonne National Laboratory (OPAC)
• Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
• Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Environmental Research Labotories (ERL)
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
• Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL)
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder Labs
• National Renew Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratories
• U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories and Programs
  See U.S. Government Agenices Index for more national laboratoires

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Science

• BioChemNet
• Community of Science
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• Gordon Research Conferences
• History of Science (Northwestern University Library)
• Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
• Institute of Medicine (IOM)
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
• National Research Council (NRC)
• Nature--International Weekly Journal of Science Home Page
• Physical Reference Data (NIST)
• SciCentral: Gateway to the Best Science and Engineering Online Resources

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Biological and Biomedical Sciences

• Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
• Biotechnology Dictionary
• California State University BIOWEB
• Dictionary of Cell Biology
• EcoCyc: Encyclopedia of E. coli Genes and Metabolosim
• Human Genome Center; Baylor College of Medicine
• Links to Enzyme Resources
• Martindale's Health Sciences Guide
• Merck Manual
• Molecular Virology (University of Wisconsin)
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR)
• Neuroscience on the Internet
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
• WWW Virtual Library -- Biosciences

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Chemistry

• Aldrich Chemical Co. Catalog
• American Chemical Society Journal Supporting Information
• Beilstein's CrossFireplusReactions
• Chemcyclopedia'97 (American Chemical Society)
• ChemExpo
• Fisher Scientific
• Internet Resources in Chemistry
• Links to Materials Safety Data Sheets Sites
• NIST WebBook
• Particle Data
• Periodic Table on World Wide Web (University of Sheffield, England)
• Table of the Nuclides

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Geoscience

• GeoRef Preview Database
• Selected Web Sties for Geoscientists (Stanford University)
• US Geological Survey (USGS)
• The Virtual Geosciences Professor (University of Houston)
• VolcanoWorld

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Mathematics

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Physics and Astronomy

• Atomic & Molecular Data for Astronomy
• OPTICS.ORG: Photonics Resources for Scientists and Engineers
• Physics Around theWorld
• Astroweb
• WebStars
• Stanford Linear Accelerator

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Science Museums

• Hands-On Science Centers
• Yahoo List of Science Museums
• Chicago Academy of Sciences
• Field Museum
• Fermilab - Leon M. Lederman Science Education Center

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Scientific and Engineering Organizations and Societies

• ACM WWW Home Page
• American Geological Institute
• American Institute of Physics
• American Mathematical Society Home Page
• ASM International (The Materials Information Society)
• American Society for Engineering Education HomePage (ASEE)
• American Society of Civil Engineers Home Page (ASCE)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers Home Page (ASME)
• American Society for Microbiology Home Page
• Electronic Industries Association Home Page
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE WWW Home Page
• Illinois Society of Professional Engineers
• Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

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U. S. and International Patents

• Chemical Patents Plus (American Chemcial Society)
• European Patent Office
• IBM the Intellectual Property Network (IPN)
• MicroPatent's Patent Web
• Patent Databases Worldwide
• QPAT-US
• STO's Internet Patent Search System (University of North Carolina)
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Home Page
• U.S. Patent Citation Database (Community of Science)

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