Science: Websites

The American Chemical Society represents professionals at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry and sciences that involve chemistry.

Directory of select science websites.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature, representing tens of thousands titles and nearly 100,000 volumes.

BAMONA provides images of and information about butterflies and moths of North America. Search by scientific or common name or browse the taxonomy.

Comprehensive source for chemical and physical property data for chemical compounds. From the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology provides information ranging from birding basics to ornithological research and conservation efforts. The section, "All About Birds" is a searchable database that includes identification, life history, range maps, conservation status plus sounds and videos for 585 species of birds.

Free web site of the U.S. Dept. of Energy provides bibliographic citations to DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

Includes bibliographic records for energy and energy-related information from the U.S. Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies from 1948 to the present. Includes report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. Designed and developed by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Includes publicly available full-text for chemistry, physics, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and comp

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on plants and animals that have been globally evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. The main purpose of the IUCN Red List is to catalogue and highlight those plants and animals that are facing a higher risk of global extinction (i.e. those listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable).

A collection of seed and nursery catalogs which offers beautiful artwork and an introduction to specific plants

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. The NASA web site has current news, information on current and past missions, images and videos.

The nation's online portal for education and research on learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

A gateway to online resources grouped by science area-biological, health, physical and chemical, policy and ethics, space and engineering. Some links may lead to fee-based services.

One of the Internet's most popular sites for science news. Updated several times a day with breaking news and feature articles, seven days a week, the site covers discoveries in all fields of the physical, biological, earth and applied sciences.

Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results

A portal to science blogs related to life science, physical science, environment, humanities, education, politics, medicine, brain & behavior, technology and information science.

Provides "global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, culture, and communication. It is the most comprehensive database for world education statistics, containing everything from primary school enrollment to higher level graduation rates. UNESCO Institute for Statistics

This "global science gateway" allows searching for articles and presentations by keyword. It searches national and international databases and retrieves articles available full-text and citations or abstracts of articles available for purchase. Subjects covered by WorldWideScience are energy, medicine, agriculture, environment, and basic science.