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SciCentral, a gateway to the best scientific research news sources.

Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community.

Chemistry/Physics

Technical Tutoring – Links explain basic measurements, chemical reactions, chemical equilibrium, solutions, etc.

General Chemistry Online – tutorials and web links for every area of college chemistry—includes a forum for asking for help online

WebElements.com, source of information on the WWW about the periodic table for students.

Chemtutor begins with the fundamentals and gives expert help with the most difficult phases of understanding your first course in chemistry.

Betha Chemisty Tutorials from Ohio State University designed to reinforce basic concepts of chemistry.

Physics Tutorials from University of Guleph.

Fizzics Fizzle covers the physics curriculum generally taught in introductory college physics classes.

Biology

The Biology Project: Cell Biology website offers tutorials and online quizzes covering basic cellular biology, mitosis, meiosis, the cell cycle, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and viruses.

DNA from the Beginning is organized around key concepts, explained by animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem, biographies, and links. Sections include classical genetics, molecules of genetics, and genetic organization and control.

Online Biology Textbook is a collection of lecture outlines developed from a college-level introductory biology course.

CellsAlive.com is a free service that provides graphics, animation and information on cells.

Plants Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

AnimalSearch Engine

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Earth Science

Minerals Gallery gives information such as physical characteristics, chemistry, uses, etc., and is indexed by name, grouping, and class.

Water Resources of the United States provides access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites throughout the Nation.

U.S. Geographical Survey, a source for science about the Earth, its natural and
living resources, natural hazards, and the environment.

Ocean Planet, an archival online version of the traveling exhibition by the Smithsonian Institute.

Helping You Understand Weather, a site developed by USAToday.

Engineering

Building Big, explore large structures and what it takes to build them.

Built in America, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present

IEEE History Center, Preserving, Researching and Promoting the Legacy of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

MouseSite, a resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction.

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century. Explore the list of the top 20 achievements, and learn how engineering shaped a century and changed the world. Includes timelines.

History of Materials Research, includes six aspects of the general history of materials research from the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technolgy.

VIVA/VCCS Resources

The Virginia Community College System and the Virtual Library of Virginia have excellent resources available to SWCC students. Click this link to access the list of Math and Science resources and/or this link for Computer sciences/Electronics/Engineering resources. Most of these require password access.

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