Favorite Science Writing Websites
The Quick List

compiled by Carol Cruzan Morton

 

Favorite web sites from nearly 50 science writers. (See the annotated list for fuller explanations):

SEARCH ENGINES

Alta Vista
http://altavista.digital.com/

Yahoo!,
http://www.yahoo.com

Hotbot
http://www.hotbot.com/

Excite
http://www.excite.com

Search-It-All
http://www.rockefeller.edu/search-it-all/

DIRECTORIES

College and University Home Pages
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html

Four-11: the internet white pages
http://www.four11.com/

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
http://www.mtpc.org/fedtek/fic/fbr-fpls.htm

National Institutes of Health phone book
gopher://gopher.nih.gov:70/77/gopherlib/indices/allphone/index

National Science Foundation phone book
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/phnorg/phnorg.txt

Phonebook Gateway at University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
http://www.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/ph/lookup

Science Sources
http://www.eurekalert.org/cgi/scisrc/query

Switchboard
http://www2.switchboard.com/

University Phone books
gopher://gopher.nd.edu:70/11/

Wajens International White and Yellow Pages
http://www.wajens.no/ -

West's Legal Directory
http://www.wld.com/

Yahoo People Search
http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/

GENERAL RESEARCH, REFERENCE

Comets and Meteor Showers
http://medicine.wustl.edu/~kronkg/index.html

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
http://www.eb.com:193/subscribe/index.htm

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/ref/

John Baez's Papers
www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/README.html

Local Times Around the World
http://www.hilink.com.au/times/

Medscape
http://www.medscape.com

MedsiteNavigator
http://www.MedsiteNavigator.com

Merck Manual
http://www.merck.com/!!qpRmU0yhYqpRmU2PGT/pubs/mmanual/

Nobel Foundation
http://www.nobel.se/

Origins of Expressions
http://www.cam.org/%7Ejennyb/origins.html#up

Patent databases
http://muscat.gdb.org/repos/pat/pat.html
http://www.sciencecoalition.org/library.htm

RxList - The Internet Drug Index
http://www.rxlist.com/

SciCentral
http://www.scicentral.co

Science Gems
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/SEP.html

DICTIONARIES

Dictionary of Cell Biology
http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
http://wagner.princeton.edu/foldoc/

Webster's Dictionary
http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster

UNIVERSITY INFORMATION

Community of Science
http://cos.gdb.org

National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
http://www.nasulgc.nche.edu/

University Research Magazine Association
http://www.sas.it.mtu.edu/urel/urma/urma.html

NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT ARCHIVES

Drudge Report
http://www.drudgereport.com

Editor & Publisher
http://www.mediainfo.com/

Elibrary
http://www.elibrary.com

Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/

Newspaper Association of America
http://www.naa.org/hot/

NewsWorks
http://search.newsworks.com/

Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

University of Virginia library link to newspapers
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/cataloging/vnp/paplist.html

Yahoo!'s New and Media
http://www.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/

RESEARCH PAPER, ABSTRACTS

BioMedNet
http://biomednet.com

EurekAlert! Research Journals
http://www.eurekalert.org/links/Journals_public.html

Medline
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/medline.html
http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/medline.html (for advanced searches)

Los Alamos xxx e-print archive
http://xxx.lanl.gov/

Stanford University's HighWire Press
http://www.highwire.edu

Stephen Hart's on-line journals and magazines
http://nasw.org/users/hart/

RESEARCH NEWS

Eurekalert!
http://www.eurekalert.org/

Newswise
http://www.newswise.com/

GOVERNMENT SITES

FedWorld
http://www.fedworld.gov/

Federal Web Locator
http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedwebloc.html

Library of Congress THOMAS system
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Index of Congressional Research Service Reports
http://www.cnie.org/nle/crs_toc.shtml#a3

RECREATION

Amazon.com bookstore
http://www.amazon.com

Bibliofind
http://www.bibliofind.com

SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes
http://godzilla.eecs.berkeley.edu/recipes/

Gourmet Guide
http://www.2way.com/food/egg/index.html

JOURNALISM SITES

European Union of Science Journalists' Associations
http://www.esf.org/eusja/

National Association of Science Writers
http://www.nasw.org

Northern California Science Writers Association
http://www.lbl.gov/NCSWA/

Society of Environmental Journalists
http://www.sej.org

 

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