Gateway to websites

Science and technology - specialist sources

Scirus
Search engine listing exclusively scientific resources, from international science publishers Elsevier. Includes some subscriber-only data sources.

The Constants and Equations Pages
Information on scientific constants, tables, units and conversions, and related topics.

Scientific Calculator
A fully functional scientific calculator you can operate via the web.

Arkive
"A Noah's Ark for the Internet era": information, images and multimedia concerning the world's endangered wildlife.

Postcode Plants Database
Records of plants that are native to local areas throughout the UK, describing and illustrating many. Also includes useful information about fauna native to the UK.

Plants for a Future
Major database of plants having medicinal, culinary, horticultural, or other uses. Includes detailed information on propogation and cultivation, and links to other sources of information on the web.

Internet Chemist and Internet Physicist
'Teach-yourself' tutorials on Internet information skills for those studying chemistry or physics. Part of a wide range of subject-specific tutorials from the Virtual Training Suite.

Links for Chemists
Gateway to links for chemists in both academic and industrial spheres, including profiles of organisations, colleges and companies; jobs and careers; and professional encyclopedias and journals. Part of the WWW Virtual Library project originated by Tim Berners-Lee.

Chemical Elements.com
Interactive periodic table, which can be configured to display the different characteristics of elements, or different elements by group.

Physics Web
Gateway to Internet resources compiled by the Institute of Physics.

Internet Mathematician
A 'teach-yourself' tutorial on Internet information skills for those studying maths. Part of a wide range of subject-specific tutorials from the Virtual Training Suite.

Intute mathematics
Internet resource catalogue for mathematics [formerly known as EEVL Mathematics].

NASA
Comprehensive web of information from the official North American Space Agency.

MyStarsLive
An interactive star chart allowing you to view the night sky from any location in the world.

Intute Engineering
UK Gateway to Quality Engineering Information on the Internet.

MatWeb
Database about materials used in manufacturing, including information about properties, trade names and manufacturers.

How Products Are Made
Detailed descriptions of how manufactured products work, and how they are made, with an alphabetical index and a search box.

Computers & the Internet

Environment & geography

Home & garden for garden plants

Statistics, figures & conversion tables