General Resources
- Best starting point I've found yet...
- The Natural History Caucus of The Special Libraries Association lists e-Journals & Newsletters, Libraries, Museums & Collections, Bibliographies, & Reference Sources.
- INFOMINE, Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- Bless the librarians of the University of California (Riverside) who attempt to bring order to the internet. Natural History links are here along with so VERY much more!
- Natural History on the WWW
- The UK's national Natural History Museum's nicely organized collection of links segregated into the following categories: Reference, General Natural History, Mineralogy, Palaeontology, Botany, Entomology, and Zoology.
Astronomy
- John Walker's Astronomy & Space Links.
- Astronomy lovers: there's Your Sky, Solar System Live, Moon Viewer, & Earth Viewer. The co-creator of AutoCAD has other amazing stuff here as well. Check it out.
Biology
- Harvard University's Biological Links (Cambridge, MA)
- Picks of interest by those Harvard scholars.
- BioMedNet "an evaluated and annotated database of internet resources for bio. & med. researchers."
- Free registration required. Links to journals. News articles.
- Tree of Life (20 computers in 4 countries!)
- The ultimate biological family tree, laid out to reflect current knowledge of evolutionary relationships.
- BioChemNet "...the best biology and chemistry educational resources in the field."
- Features News & Reviews, Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Journals, and Clip Art links.
- Nature.Net
- See Albrecht Durer's bunny rabbit, read John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra, check out Audubon paintings...
- Human Evolution
- Just love the graphics at this site!
Physics
- It's about [NIST] time!
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology knows what time it [Really] is and is willing to share.
Geography
- USGS Geographic Names Information System
- Want to play "Where's the post office?" -- a wonderful map site here (no street names, though).
- The National Atlas of the United States
- This site has remarkable info on the distribution of butterflies and moths, + data on minerals, quakes, volcanoes, and demography.
- TerraServer
- Elevate your point of view and get the big picture with over 4 terrabytes of aerial photo info (US & Europe, mostly).
Museums
- Adam Schiff's "Natural History Museums and Collections"
- Huge listing of museums organized geographically by a member of the Natural History Caucus of the Special Libraries Association.
- The University of California Museum of Paleontology (Berkeley, CA)
- One of the Great Ones with over a half dozen on line exhibits.
- National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.)
- Eight online Exhibits in the "National Closet"
- The Natural History Museum (London, England)
- Another half dozen virtual Galleries to explore
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburg, PA)
- Amerindians, Feathered Dinosaurs, Paleoanthropology, Minerals & Gems, Ancient Egypt, & more. Wow!
- American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
- Robins, Dinosaurs, and Giant Squid -- who could ask for more?
- Florida Museum of Natural History (Gainesville, FL)
- Listen to bird songs, identify land snails, investigate Carribean archaeology.... Go for it!
- The Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, PA)
- Dinosaur & Butterfly exhibits, Ozone hole research, Audubon's paintings, & Library section w/8 pages of links.
- Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa, Canada)
- Take an Arctic odessy, learn about Dinosaurs, there's even a Trading Post for Canadian naturalists.
News
- SciTech Daily Review
- Looking for news of recent developments in the world of science? Even though it's far from a "Daily" SciTech Review still has much to recommend it.
- "A" Little Bit of Science News
- Thanks to a lovely young Texas lass named Karen, we've access here to excellent news articles concerning Anthropology, Archaeology, and Astronomy -- three of *my* favorite subjects. Try it; you'll like it, I'm sure.
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