General Reference
(standard tools: dictionaries, encyclopedias, weather, quotations, travel, and consumer resources)
WWW Reference Resources - from Research Services and Collections, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University

People     Places     Facts     Data     Dictionaries     Tools

Various topically-oriented information resource guides are also available from the Yale libraries, for the most part, embedded within the above subject-specific web pages. These include: laboratory methods, natural history and zoology, botany, taxonomy and classification, chemical names, and patents (online only).

Science Reference Information Sources

BY CATEGORY:

PEOPLE, AUTHORS, OR BIOGRAPHY

Biographical information (degrees, position, awards, etc.)

Biography Resource Center - An international database of biographical information on living and deceased persons. Entries are: magazine articles, reference book entries (including Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists), related book reviews, and newspaper articles.

Biographical Resources page - Points to other biographical resources by science discipline or by country. Includes link to Biography Index.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index - Online tool that points to biographical entries in books.

American Men & Women of Science (sample entry only)

The Nobel Prize and its Laureates

Addresses, Email

U.S. White Pages

Yahoo People Search

Publication information (books, journal articles, dissertations)

Books: Orbis

Journal Articles: journal indexes and abstracts

Dissertations: Electronic Theses and Dissertations - International coverage, from ETD Digital Library.

PLACES, ORGANIZATIONS, OR INSTITUTIONS

Universities:

Peterson's "The Education Supersite", with descriptions, applications, etc. for colleges, universities, grad programs and more.

College and University Home Pages - Listing in alphabetical order.

Peterson's GradSearch - Descriptions of graduate academic departments.

Societies:

Scholarly Societies Project - From University of Waterloo Electronic Library.

Associations:

Associations Unlimited - Can be searched by name, acronym, location, or subject. From The Gale Group.

Journal Publishers:

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory - Can be searched by title, subject, ISSN, publisher, or keyword. Results can be limited in various ways.

FACTS

AccessScience, the online edition of the latest edition of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, and weekly science news.
Print editions and yearbooks are availble at Kline Science Library Q121 +M33 and some are also available at Sterling Memorial and Cross Campus libraries.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, from Grove's Dictionaries Inc./Macmillan Publishers, Ltd. This site provides access to the continuously revised/updated online edition.
Print edition is in the Kline Science Library Reference Collection QH302.5 E539 2002 (LC) +.

Anatomy of the Human Body, by Henry Gray, c1918, from Bartleby.com. Searchable version of the 20th edition of this classic work, including its detailed and labeled illustrations.
Print editions available at various Yale libraries, including:
Kline Science Library Reference Collection QM23.2 G73 and Medical, Cross Campus, and Sterling Memorial libraries.

Neurosciences on the Internet, from Neil Busis, M.D. at University of Pittsburgh.

Current Protocols (Molecular Biology, Protein Science, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Cell Biology, Immunology, Toxicology, Neuroscience, and other sections of the series.)

IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals - From World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Endangered Species Home Page - Includes species lists. From U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

DATA

NIST Chemistry WebBook - Includes thermochemical, thermophysical and ion energetics data. Search types include name, chemical formula, CAS Registry Number, molecular weight. From National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Physical Reference Data - Physical constants, units, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data, nuclear physics data, condensed matter physics data. From NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Physics Laboratory.

WebElements Periodic Table

Periodic table of the elements - Univ. of British Columbia

Periodic table of the elements - UC Santa Barbara gopher

Fundamental Physical Constants/Naturkonstanten (Berlin)

Constants and Equations for Calculations

Numerical Recipes Online, from Carnegie Mellon University.

Numerical Recipes Online, from Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library.

DICTIONARIES

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, published by Academic Press.
Available in print at: Kline Science Library Reference Q123 +A33X and Medical Library Reference Ref 24 Q123 +A33.
Some word pronunciations are available with the online edition of this comprehensive science dictionary defining over 130,000 terms from science.

language dictionaries and general encyclopedias

science dictionaries

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Acronyms and abbreviations:

WorldWide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Citation style guide/writing guidelines

How to Cite Sources

TOOLS

Calculators:

Scientific Calculators

Conversion factors:

online conversion tools

Units Conversion Program

Calendar

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