“This site contains nearly 400 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 2500 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 3000 images, over 250 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy.
“The explosive story of chemistry is the story of the building blocks that make up our entire world — the elements. From fiery phosphorous to the pure untarnished lustre of gold and the dazzle of violent, violet potassium, everything is made of elements — the earth we walk on, the air we breathe, even us. Yet for centuries this world was largely unknown, and completely misunderstood.
About: “AccessEngineering delivers comprehensive authoritative information that accelerates research and innovation, and features content from a broad range of must-have McGraw-Hill engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more. AccessEngineering offers the widest and deepest repository of fully searchable engineering content available online — from the authors and industry-leading titles engineers have trusted and depended on for years.
Now you can access links spanning 80 years of seminal physics research
AIP is happy to let you know that live links are now in place for references in all AIP journal articles going back to the very first issue of each. This final stage of an ambitious initiative brings the total of linkable references to the backfiles of AIP journals (see list below) to nearly 4,000,000. The initiative incorporates reference links that extend as far back as 1930 — the year AIP published the debut issue of Review of Scientific Instruments.
Ridley, D. D. (2009). Information retrieval: SciFinder. 2nd ed. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.
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From eSchool News:
“Despite all the buzz about Apple’s iPad tablet and how it could be useful for reading electronic textbooks, a new software program on the way might hold even more promise for education.
Blio, a free eReader program that is expected to be available in February, reportedly will allow users to read more than a million electronic books on nearly any computer or portable device, with the ability to highlight and annotate text, hear the text read aloud, and more.
Blio was announced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and is the brainchild of education technology pioneer Ray Kurzweil, creator of Kurzweil Educational Systems and a range of assistive technology products.
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An excellent description of the resources available from the European Bioinformatics Institute is published in Nucleic Acids Research, 2010, Vol. 38, Database issue D17-D25.
The EBI site contains a wide array of databases and tools. It also is a site that contains 3D Rotatable Structures. Enter a substance name in the search box at the top of the page and get a summarized view of information available. To see 3D images, choose the Macromolecular Structures section of results. Select which record you want to see and then click on View in PDBsum. Visualization options and tools are on left side. See search example below on Taxol.
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The NIST Data Gateway provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data. These data cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. The Gateway includes links to selected free online NIST databases as well as to information on NIST databases available for purchase.
