BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an "open access publisher" dedicated to providing free access worldwide for researchers and the public to peer reviewed articles in over 100 journals, ranging from general biology to specialized biomedical science. BioMed Central represents a "new wave" of in science publication, in which publication is the final cost of the funding of a project. Also see PubMed Central, and PLoS.
EurekAlert
A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, EurekAlert publishes breaking news of and about the sciences online, organized by subject. Click on one of the subject areas, then one the headline to access full articles.
Medline
Published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Medline is "a bibliographic database containing over 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine." The Web site also features information on health, research programs, and other medical news.
PLoS
"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. The internet and electronic publishing enable the creation of public libraries of science containing the full text and data of any published research article, available free of charge to anyone, anywhere in the world." PLoS launched its own journal in 2003.
PubMed Central
"PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature. Access to PMC is free and unrestricted."
ScienceFinder
ScienceFinder is a collection of notes and links on basic information in several areas of science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and General) for teachers and students, maintained by Hollingworth High School in Rochdale, England.
UniSci UniSci, International Science News, published news of scientific research online. Due to the unexpected death of founder Dan Radler, UniSci ceased publication in April 2003. However, archived articles from 1995 to 2003 are available.
Web of Science
Published by Thomson ISI, the Web of Science "provides...access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500...journals in the world. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching....[U]sers can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles." Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, as well as major indexes in the social sciences and the humanities.
